Epernicus: Alexander Ploss, Ph.D.

Alexander Ploss, Ph.D.

Position:
Research Assisant Professor

Center for the Study of Hepatitis C

Laboratory of Virology and Infectious Disease

The Rockefeller University (New York, NY)
Degrees:

Ph.D., Immunology, Weill Cornell Medical College (New York, NY), Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (New York, NY)

Dipl. Biochem., Biochemistry, Eberhard Karls University of Tubingen (Tubingen, Germany)
Past Advisors:

Charles M. Rice (as Research Associate)

Charles M. Rice (as Post Doctoral Fellow)
Research:
Honors:
1999-2001 Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (German National Merit Foundation)

Communities:

Alexander Ploss's Genealogy

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Alexander Ploss's Publications (15)

Towards a small animal model for hepatitis C.
Ploss A, Rice CM

EMBO reports. 2009 Nov;10(11):1220-7
Humanized mice for modeling human infectious disease: challenges, progress, and outlook.
Legrand N, Ploss A, Balling R, Becker PD, Borsotti C, Brezillon N, Debarry J, de Jong Y, Deng H, Di Santo JP, Eisenbarth S, Eynon E, Flavell RA, Guzman CA, Huntington ND, Kremsdorf D, Manns MP, Manz MG, Mention JJ, Ott M, Rathinam C, Rice CM, Rongvaux A, Stevens S, Spits H, Strick-Marchand H, Takizawa H, van Lent AU, Wang C, Weijer K, Willinger T, Ziegler P

Cell host & microbe. 2009 Jul 23;6(1):5-9
Priming of protective T cell responses against virus-induced tumors in mice with human immune system components.
Strowig T, Gurer C, Ploss A, Liu YF, Arrey F, Sashihara J, Koo G, Rice CM, Young JW, Chadburn A, Cohen JI, Münz C

The Journal of experimental medicine. 2009 Jun 8;206(6):1423-34
Human occludin is a hepatitis C virus entry factor required for infection of mouse cells.
Ploss A, Evans MJ, Gaysinskaya VA, Panis M, You H, de Jong YP, Rice CM

Nature. 2009 Feb 12;457(7231):882-6
Pathogen-specific CD8 T cell responses are directly inhibited by IL-10.
Biswas PS, Pedicord V, Ploss A, Menet E, Leiner I, Pamer EG

Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950). 2007 Oct 1;179(7):4520-8
Cell culture-grown hepatitis C virus is infectious in vivo and can be recultured in vitro.
Lindenbach BD, Meuleman P, Ploss A, Vanwolleghem T, Syder AJ, McKeating JA, Lanford RE, Feinstone SM, Major ME, Leroux-Roels G, Rice CM

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 2006 Mar 7;103(10):3805-9
Distinct regulation of H2-M3-restricted memory T cell responses in lymph node and spleen.
Ploss A, Leiner I, Pamer EG

Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950). 2005 Nov 1;175(9):5998-6005
Cross-recognition of N-formylmethionine peptides is a general characteristic of H2-M3-restricted CD8+ T cells.
Ploss A, Tran A, Menet E, Leiner I, Pamer EG

Infection and immunity. 2005 Jul;73(7):4423-6
Immunologic Memory
Alexander Ploss, Eric G. Pamer

Encyclopedia of Molecular Cell Biology and Molecular Medicine. 2005:383
Development of CD1d-restricted NKT cells in the mouse thymus.
Dao T, Guo D, Ploss A, Stolzer A, Saylor C, Boursalian TE, Im JS, Sant'Angelo DB

European journal of immunology. 2004 Dec;34(12):3542-52
Rapid development of T cell memory.
Wong P, Lara-Tejero M, Ploss A, Leiner I, Pamer EG

Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950). 2004 Jun 15;172(12):7239-45
Memory
Alexander Ploss, Eric G. Pamer

Novel Vaccination Strategies. 2004:73
Promiscuity of MHC class Ib-restricted T cell responses.
Ploss A, Lauvau G, Contos B, Kerksiek KM, Guirnalda PD, Leiner I, Lenz LL, Bevan MJ, Pamer EG

Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950). 2003 Dec 1;171(11):5948-55
H2-M3-restricted memory T cells: persistence and activation without expansion.
Kerksiek KM, Ploss A, Leiner I, Busch DH, Pamer EG

Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950). 2003 Feb 15;170(4):1862-9
Amphotropic murine leukemia virus replication in human mammary epithelial cells and the formation of cytomegalovirus-promoter recombinants.
Reuss FU, Heber R, Ploss A, Berdel B

Virology. 2001 Dec 5;291(1):91-100

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Alexander Ploss, Ph.D.

Research Assisant Professor

Alexander Ploss's Genealogy

Alexander Ploss's Publications (15)