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Tal Kafri is affiliated with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the United States. Their research contributions span fields primarily within Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, as well as Medicine. These areas are further refined into subfields such as Molecular Biology, Genetics, Immunology, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine.

The topics of Kafri's research encompass various specialized areas including:

  • Virus-based gene therapy research
  • CRISPR and Genetic Engineering
  • Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals
  • Mast cells and histamine
  • Viral Infectious Diseases and Gene Expression in Insects
  • CAR-T cell therapy research
  • Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology

Kafri has contributed scholarly articles to multiple publication venues, frequently publishing in:

  • UNC Libraries (27 publications)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (8 publications)
  • Frontiers in Oncology (2 publications)
  • Genetics (1 publication)
  • Blood Advances (1 publication)

Some recent papers authored by or including Tal Kafri include:

  • Content and Performance of the MiniMUGA Genotyping Array: A New Tool To Improve Rigor and Reproducibility in Mouse Research, 2020, Genetics
  • Human Tumor Targeted Cytotoxic Mast Cells for Cancer Immunotherapy, 2022, Frontiers in Oncology
  • Harnessing the Anti-Tumor Mediators in Mast Cells as a New Strategy for Adoptive Cell Transfer for Cancer, 2022, Frontiers in Oncology
  • Structural, functional, and immunogenicity implications of F9 gene recoding, 2022, Blood Advances
  • Content and performance of the MiniMUGA genotyping array, a new tool to improve rigor and reproducibility in mouse research, 2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Tal Kafri collaborates frequently with several co-authors including:

  • Yajing Hao
  • Fei Zou
  • Martin T. Ferris
  • Fernando Pardo-Manuel de Villena
  • Tong Gui

Best Publications

  • Suppression of TNF-α-Induced Apoptosis by NF-κB

    Daniel J. Van Antwerp;Seamus J. Martin;Tal Kafri;Douglas R. Green

  • Highly efficient and sustained gene transfer in adult neurons with a lentivirus vector.

    Ulrike Blömer;Luigi Naldini;Tal Kafri;Didier Trono

  • Developmental pattern of gene-specific DNA methylation in the mouse embryo and germ line.

    Tal Kafri;Mira Ariel;Michael Brandeis;Ruth Shemer

  • Sustained expression of genes delivered directly into liver and muscle by lentiviral vectors

    Tal Kafri;Ulrike Blömer;Daniel A. Peterson;Fred H. Gage

  • Maternal-specific methylation of the imprinted mouse Igf2r locus identifies the expressed locus as carrying the imprinting signal.

    R. Stöger;P. Kubička;C. G. Liu;T. Kafri

  • Gene delivery by lentivirus vectors

    Adam S. Cockrell;Tal Kafri

  • The ontogeny of allele-specific methylation associated with imprinted genes in the mouse

    M. Brandeis;Tal Kafri;M. Ariel;J. R. Chaillet

  • A Packaging Cell Line for Lentivirus Vectors

    Tal Kafri;Henriette van Praag;Ling Ouyang;Fred H. Gage

  • Lentiviral Vectors: Regulated Gene Expression

    Tal Kafri;Henriette van Praag;Fred H. Gage;Inder M. Verma

  • Cellular immune response to adenoviral vector infected cells does not require de novo viral gene expression: Implications for gene therapy

    Tal Kafri;David Morgan;Troy Krahl;Nora E Sarvetnick

  • Generation of a stable cell line producing high-titer self-inactivating lentiviral vectors.

    Kailin Xu;Hong Ma;Thomas J. McCown;Inder M. Verma

  • Replacement of 5-methylcytosine by cytosine: a possible mechanism for transient DNA demethylation during differentiation

    Aharon Razin;Moshe Szyf;Tal Kafri;Michal Roll

  • Mechanistic aspects of genome-wide demethylation in the preimplantation mouse embryo.

    Tal Kafri;Xiaohong Gao;Aharon Razin

  • Biodistribution and toxicity studies of VSVG-pseudotyped lentiviral vector after intravenous administration in mice with the observation of in vivo transduction of bone marrow.

    Dao Pan;Roland Gunther;Weiming Duan;Steve Wendell

  • DNA Methylation from Embryo to Adult

    Aharon Razin;Tal Kafri

  • Proteasome Inhibitors Enhance Gene Delivery by AAV Virus Vectors Expressing Large Genomes in Hemophilia Mouse and Dog Models: A Strategy for Broad Clinical Application

    Paul E Monahan;Clinton D Lothrop;Junjiang Sun;Matthew L Hirsch

  • Gene transfer to human pancreatic endocrine cells using viral vectors.

    Gil Leibowitz;Gillian M. Beattie;Tal Kafri;Vincenzo Cirulli

  • Employing a Gain-of-Function Factor IX Variant R338L to Advance the Efficacy and Safety of Hemophilia B Human Gene Therapy: Preclinical Evaluation Supporting an Ongoing Adeno-Associated Virus Clinical Trial

    Paul E Monahan;Junjiang Sun;Tong Gui;Genlin Hu

  • Lentivirus-Mediated Transduction of Islet Grafts with Interleukin 4 Results in Sustained Gene Expression and Protection from Insulitis

    W. S. Gallichan;Tal Kafri;Troy Krahl;Inder M. Verma

  • A Large U3 Deletion Causes Increased In Vivo Expression From a Nonintegrating Lentiviral Vector

    Matthew Bayer;Boris Kantor;Adam Cockrell;Hong Ma

Frequent Co-Authors

Inder M. Verma
Inder M. Verma Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Aharon Razin
Aharon Razin Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Fred H. Gage
Fred H. Gage Salk Institute for Biological Studies
John G. Flannery
John G. Flannery University of California, Berkeley
Howard Cedar
Howard Cedar Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Donald B. Kohn
Donald B. Kohn University of California, Los Angeles
James L. Mohler
James L. Mohler Roswell Park Cancer Institute
Mark S. Sands
Mark S. Sands Washington University in St. Louis
Fernando Pardo-Manuel de Villena
Fernando Pardo-Manuel de Villena University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
David W. Threadgill
David W. Threadgill Texas A&M University

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