Joel Ernst, MD

Professor and Chief
M_MED-ZSFG-EXPM

The goal of my research is to provide the mechanistic basis for development of effective vaccines against tuberculosis.

Publications

Antibody-Fab and -Fc features promote Mycobacterium tuberculosis restriction.

bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology

Grace PS, Peters JM, Sixsmith J, Lu R, Luedeman C, Fenderson BA, Vickers A, Slein MD, Irvine EB, McKitrick T, Wei MH, Cummings RD, Wallace A, Cavacini LA, Choudhary A, Proulx MK, Sundling C, Källenius G, Reljic R, Ernst JD, Casadevall A, Locht C, Pinter A, Sasseti CM, Bryson BD, Fortune SM, Alter G

Back-to-Africa introductions of Mycobacterium tuberculosis as the main cause of tuberculosis in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

PLoS pathogens

Zwyer M, Rutaihwa LK, Windels E, Hella J, Menardo F, Sasamalo M, Sommer G, Schm?lling L, Borrell S, Reinhard M, D?tsch A, Hiza H, Stritt C, Sikalengo G, Fenner L, De Jong BC, Kato-Maeda M, Jugheli L, Ernst JD, Niemann S, Jeljeli L, Ballif M, Egger M, Rakotosamimanana N, Yeboah-Manu D, Asare P, Malla B, Dou HY, Zetola N, Wilkinson RJ, Cox H, Carter EJ, Gnokoro J, Yotebieng M, Gotuzzo E, Abimiku A, Avihingsanon A, Xu ZM, Fellay J, Portevin D, Reither K, Stadler T, Gagneux S, Brites D

Evaluation of SARS-CoV-2 serology assays reveals a range of test performance.

Nature biotechnology

Whitman JD, Hiatt J, Mowery CT, Shy BR, Yu R, Yamamoto TN, Rathore U, Goldgof GM, Whitty C, Woo JM, Gallman AE, Miller TE, Levine AG, Nguyen DN, Bapat SP, Balcerek J, Bylsma SA, Lyons AM, Li S, Wong AW, Gillis-Buck EM, Steinhart ZB, Lee Y, Apathy R, Lipke MJ, Smith JA, Zheng T, Boothby IC, Isaza E, Chan J, Acenas DD, Lee J, Macrae TA, Kyaw TS, Wu D, Ng DL, Gu W, York VA, Eskandarian HA, Callaway PC, Warrier L, Moreno ME, Levan J, Torres L, Farrington LA, Loudermilk RP, Koshal K, Zorn KC, Garcia-Beltran WF, Yang D, Astudillo MG, Bernstein BE, Gelfand JA, Ryan ET, Charles RC, Iafrate AJ, Lennerz JK, Miller S, Chiu CY, Stramer SL, Wilson MR, Manglik A, Ye CJ, Krogan NJ, Anderson MS, Cyster JG, Ernst JD, Wu AHB, Lynch KL, Bern C, Hsu PD, Marson A

Test performance evaluation of SARS-CoV-2 serological assays.

medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences

Whitman JD, Hiatt J, Mowery CT, Shy BR, Yu R, Yamamoto TN, Rathore U, Goldgof GM, Whitty C, Woo JM, Gallman AE, Miller TE, Levine AG, Nguyen DN, Bapat SP, Balcerek J, Bylsma SA, Lyons AM, Li S, Wong AW, Gillis-Buck EM, Steinhart ZB, Lee Y, Apathy R, Lipke MJ, Smith JA, Zheng T, Boothby IC, Isaza E, Chan J, Acenas DD, Lee J, Macrae TA, Kyaw TS, Wu D, Ng DL, Gu W, York VA, Eskandarian HA, Callaway PC, Warrier L, Moreno ME, Levan J, Torres L, Farrington LA, Loudermilk R, Koshal K, Zorn KC, Garcia-Beltran WF, Yang D, Astudillo MG, Bernstein BE, Gelfand JA, Ryan ET, Charles RC, Iafrate AJ, Lennerz JK, Miller S, Chiu CY, Stramer SL, Wilson MR, Manglik A, Ye CJ, Krogan NJ, Anderson MS, Cyster JG, Ernst JD, Wu AHB, Lynch KL, Bern C, Hsu PD, Marson A

A High Throughput Whole Blood Assay for Analysis of Multiple Antigen-Specific T Cell Responses in Human Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection.

Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950)

Whatney WE, Gandhi NR, Lindestam Arlehamn CS, Nizam A, Wu H, Quezada MJ, Campbell A, Allana S, Kabongo MM, Khayumbi J, Muchiri B, Ongalo J, Tonui J, Sasser LE, Fergus TJ, Ouma GS, Ouma SG, Beck AA, Mulligan MJ, Oladele A, Kaushal D, Cain KP, Waller L, Blumberg HM, Altman JD, Ernst JD, Rengarajan J, Day CL, TBRU-ASTRa Study Group

Affiliation