Research groups
Emily Thornton
Postdoctoral Fellow
I am interested in the interactions between immune cells and the environment at mucosal sites. During my PhD, I used two-photon live imaging to study dendritic cell sampling and antigen presentation in the lung during an acute model of asthma. Currently, I am working to adapt live imaging techniques to study immune cell interactions in the gut during colitis.
Recent publications
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Foxp3+ T reg cells control psoriasiform inflammation by restraining an IFN-I-driven CD8+ T cell response.
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Stockenhuber K. et al, (2018), J Exp Med, 215, 1987 - 1998
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The lung is a site of platelet biogenesis and a reservoir for haematopoietic progenitors
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Lefrançais E. et al, (2017), Nature, 544, 105 - 109
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ILC3 GM-CSF production and mobilisation orchestrate acute intestinal inflammation.
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Pearson C. et al, (2016), Elife, 5
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The spatiotemporal cellular dynamics of lung immunity.
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Lelkes E. et al, (2014), Trends Immunol, 35, 379 - 386
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Chitin activates parallel immune modules that direct distinct inflammatory responses via innate lymphoid type 2 and γδ T cells.
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Van Dyken SJ. et al, (2014), Immunity, 40, 414 - 424