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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - Distinguished Fellows of the American Association of Immunologists (AAI)
  • 2012 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)
  • 2009 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2009 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2007 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians

Overview

Wayne M. Yokoyama is affiliated with Washington University in St. Louis, United States. Their research primarily focuses on immunology and microbiology, with significant contributions also in medicine. Their work spans several subfields such as immunology, epidemiology, infectious diseases, rheumatology, and public health, environmental and occupational health.

Their main research topics include:

  • Immune Cell Function and Interaction
  • T-cell and B-cell Immunology
  • Cytomegalovirus and herpesvirus research
  • IL-33, ST2, and ILC Pathways
  • Immunotherapy and Immune Responses
  • Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Research
  • Reproductive System and Pregnancy

Recent publications by Wayne M. Yokoyama include:

  • "cDC1 prime and are licensed by CD4+ T cells to induce anti-tumour immunity" (2020, Nature)
  • "Autoimmunity-associated T cell receptors recognize HLA-B*27-bound peptides" (2022, Nature)
  • "Blood natural killer cell deficiency reveals an immunotherapy strategy for atopic dermatitis" (2020, Science Translational Medicine)
  • "Fibrosis induced by resident macrophages has divergent roles in pancreas inflammatory injury and PDAC" (2023, Nature Immunology)
  • "Hobit confers tissue-dependent programs to type 1 innate lymphoid cells" (2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)

Frequent co-authors in their publications include:

  • Sytse J. Piersma
  • Liping Yang
  • Bijal A. Parikh
  • Jennifer Poursine-Laurent
  • Michael D. Bern

Publications by Wayne M. Yokoyama have appeared regularly in venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • The Journal of Immunology
  • eLife
  • The Journal of Experimental Medicine
  • Nature

Wayne M. Yokoyama's academic recognitions include membership and fellowship in several notable organizations such as the National Academy of Sciences (2007), the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2009), the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2009), the National Academy of Medicine (2012), and distinguished fellowship of the American Association of Immunologists awarded in 2020. Additionally, they are a member of the Association of American Physicians.

Best Publications

  • Innate or Adaptive Immunity? The Example of Natural Killer Cells

    Eric Vivier;David H. Raulet;Alessandro Moretta;Michael A. Caligiuri

  • Licensing of natural killer cells by host major histocompatibility complex class I molecules

    Sung Jin Kim;Jennifer Poursine-Laurent;Steven M. Truscott;Lonnie Lybarger

  • Embryonic and adult-derived resident cardiac macrophages are maintained through distinct mechanisms at steady state and during inflammation.

    Slava Epelman;Kory J. Lavine;Anna E. Beaudin;Dorothy K. Sojka

  • MHC class I alloantigen specificity of Ly-49+ IL-2-activated natural killer cells

    Franz M. Karlhofer;Randall K. Ribaudo;Randall K. Ribaudo;Wayne M. Yokoyama;Wayne M. Yokoyama

  • Pan-viral specificity of IFN-induced genes reveals new roles for cGAS in innate immunity

    John W. Schoggins;Donna A. MacDuff;Naoko Imanaka;Maria D. Gainey

  • TLR9-dependent recognition of MCMV by IPC and DC generates coordinated cytokine responses that activate antiviral NK cell function.

    Anne Krug;Anthony R French;Winfried Barchet;Jens A.A Fischer

  • Cytokine-induced memory-like natural killer cells

    Megan A. Cooper;Julie M. Elliott;Peter A. Keyel;Liping Yang

  • Minimal Differentiation of Classical Monocytes as They Survey Steady-State Tissues and Transport Antigen to Lymph Nodes

    Claudia Jakubzick;Claudia Jakubzick;Emmanuel L. Gautier;Sophie L. Gibbings;Dorothy K. Sojka

  • Recognition of a virus-encoded ligand by a natural killer cell activation receptor.

    Hamish R.C. Smith;Jonathan W. Heusel;Indira K. Mehta;Sung Jin Kim

  • Vital involvement of a natural killer cell activation receptor in resistance to viral infection.

    Michael G. Brown;Ayotunde O. Dokun;Ayotunde O. Dokun;Jonathan W. Heusel;Hamish R. C. Smith

  • Immune functions encoded by the natural killer gene complex.

    Wayne M. Yokoyama;Beatrice F. M. Plougastel

  • Tissue-Resident Macrophages in Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma Originate from Embryonic Hematopoiesis and Promote Tumor Progression

    Yu Zhu;John M. Herndon;Dorothy K. Sojka;Ki Wook Kim

  • The Dynamic Life of Natural Killer Cells

    Wayne M. Yokoyama;Sung Jin Kim;Anthony R. French

  • In vivo developmental stages in murine natural killer cell maturation.

    Sung Jin Kim;Koho Iizuka;Hyun Seok P Kang;Ayontunde Dokun

  • The Ly-49 and NKR-P1 gene families encoding lectin-like receptors on natural killer cells: the NK gene complex.

    W M Yokoyama;W E Seaman

  • Specific and nonspecific NK cell activation during virus infection.

    Ayotunde O. Dokun;Sung Jin Kim;Hamish R C Smith;Hyun Seok P Kang

  • Tissue-resident natural killer (NK) cells are cell lineages distinct from thymic and conventional splenic NK cells

    Dorothy K Sojka;Beatrice Plougastel-Douglas;Liping Yang;Melissa A Pak-Wittel

  • In vivo natural killer cell activities revealed by natural killer cell-deficient mice

    Sung Jin Kim;Koho Iizuka;Hector L. Aguila;Irving L. Weissman

  • Gain of Virulence Caused by Loss of a Gene in Murine Cytomegalovirus

    Ivan Bubić;Markus Wagner;Astrid Krmpotić;Tanja Saulig

  • NKG2D recruits two distinct adapters to trigger NK cell activation and costimulation

    Susan Gilfillan;Emily L. Ho;Marina Cella;Wayne M. Yokoyama

  • Liver-resident NK cells confer adaptive immunity in skin-contact inflammation.

    Hui Peng;Xiaojun Jiang;Yonglin Chen;Dorothy K. Sojka

Frequent Co-Authors

Marco Colonna
Marco Colonna Washington University in St. Louis
Anthony A. Scalzo
Anthony A. Scalzo University of Western Australia
Daved H. Fremont
Daved H. Fremont Washington University in St. Louis
Michael S. Diamond
Michael S. Diamond Washington University in St. Louis
Mark J. Smyth
Mark J. Smyth QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute
Zhigang Tian
Zhigang Tian University of Science and Technology of China
Ted H. Hansen
Ted H. Hansen Washington University in St. Louis
David H. Margulies
David H. Margulies National Institutes of Health
Kenneth M. Murphy
Kenneth M. Murphy Washington University in St. Louis

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