Jacques Robert, Ph.D.
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Jacques Robert, Ph.D.
About Me
Faculty Appointments
Professor - Department of Microbiology and Immunology (SMD)
Chair - Department of Microbiology and Immunology (SMD)
Albert and Phyllis Ritterson Professorship - Department of Microbiology and Immunology (SMD)
Professor - Department of Environmental Medicine (SMD) - Joint
Credentials
Post-doctoral Training & Residency
Senior postdoctoral fellow, Department of Microbiology and Immunology University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry 1995 - 1997
Postdoctoral fellow with Dr. Louis Du Pasquier & Member of the Basel Institute for Immunology. 1993 - 1994
Postdoctoral fellow with Dr. Louis Du Pasquier & Member of the Basel Institute for Immunology. 1990 - 1995
Teaching Assistant in Genetics, Cytogenetics and Embryology in the Department of Animal Biology University of Geneva. 1985 - 1990
Predoctoral fellow with Dr. Hans Rudi Kobel, University of Geneva, Department of Animal Biology 1985 - 1990
Education
PhD | Switzerland-Fac Sciences U Geneva. Developmental Biology. 1990
BA | Switzerland-Fac Sciences U Geneva. Biology. 1985
Awards
2019 School of Medicine and Dentistry Trainee Academic Mentoring Award in Basic Science. 2019
Alumni Award Excellence in Postdoctoral Mentoring. 2014
Excellence in Research. 2013
Research
TUMOR AND VIRAL IMMUNITY
The overall goal of our research is to understand the co-evolutionary relationships between the structure of selected molecules (e.g., heat shock proteins [hsps], hsp-receptors [CD91], NK cell receptors [KIR, FcRs], non-classical ...
Publications
Journal Articles
Kosch TA, Torres-Sánchez M, Liedtke HC, Summers K, Yun MH, Crawford AJ, Maddock ST, Ahammed MS, Araújo VLN, Bertola LV, Bucciarelli GM, Carné A, Carneiro CM, Chan KO, Chen Y, Crottini A, da Silva JM, Denton RD, Dittrich C, Espregueira Themudo G, Farquharson KA, Forsdick NJ, Gilbert E, Che J, Katzenback BA, Kotharambath R, Levis NA, Márquez R, Mazepa G, Mulder KP, Müller H, O'Connell MJ, Orozco-terWengel P, Palomar G, Petzold A, Pfennig DW, Pfennig KS, Reichert MS, Robert J, Scherz MD, Siu-Ting K, Snead AA, Stöck M, Stuckert AMM, Stynoski JL, Tarvin RD, Wollenberg Valero KC,
BMC genomics.. 2024 November 125 (1):1025. Epub 11/01/2024.
Robert J
Developmental and comparative immunology.. 2024 November 160 :105238. Epub 08/06/2024.
Kosch TA, Torres-Sánchez M, Liedtke HC, Summers K, Yun MH, Crawford AJ, Maddock ST, Ahammed MS, Araújo VLN, Bertola LV, Bucciarelli G, Carné A, Carneiro CM, Chan KO, Chen Y, Crottini A, da Silva JM, Denton RD, Dittrich C, Themudo GE, Farquharson KA, Forsdick NJ, Gilbert E, Jing C, Katzenback BA, Kotharambath R, Levis NA, Márquez R, Mazepa G, Mulder KP, Müller H, O'Connell MJ, Orozco-terWengel P, Palomar G, Petzold A, Pfennig DW, Pfennig KS, Reichert MS, Robert J, Scherz MD, Siu-Ting K, Snead AA, Stöck M, Stuckert AMM, Stynoski JL, Tarvin RD, Valero KCW,
bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology.. 2024 October 3 Epub 10/03/2024.
Books
Heat Shock Proteins in the Immune System (2018)
Chapter: An ancestral immune surveillance system in the amphibian Xenopus connecting certain heat shock proteins with classical and nonclassical MHC class I molecules
Reference Module in Life Sciences: Animal and plant immunology (2017)
Chapter: Humoral Immune Response of Amphibians
Ecology and Evolution of Cancer (2017)
Chapter: Evolutionary perspective of tumorigenesis and anti-tumor immunity provided by comparative studies in the amphibian Xenopus
Macrophages - origin, functions and biointervention (2017)
Chapter: Evolutionary aspects of Macrophages polarization
Encyclopedia of Immunobiology (2016)
Chapter: The immune system of amphibians
Ranaviruses: Lethal Pathogens of Ectothermic Vertebrates (2015)
Chapter: Ranavirus host immunity and immune evasion. In Ranaviruses
Encyclopedia of Immunobiology (2015)
Chapter: The immune system of amphibians
Skin Grafts (2011)
Chapter: Comparative study of skin graft tolerance and rejection in the amphibian Xenopusc
Diversity Special Issue: Amphibian Conservation (2010)
Chapter: Emerging ranaviral infectious diseases and amphibian decline
The frog Xenopus as a model to study evolutionary, developmental and biomedic (2009)
Chapter: Tumorigenesis and anti-tumor immune response in Xenopus laevis.