Christopher A. Cottrell

4.0k citations

24 papers · 941 indexed · 1 hit paper · h-index 14

Infectious Diseases top 5%
Molecular Biology
Virology top 2%
Immunology top 10%
Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging top 10%

Co-authors: Andrew B. Ward Hannah L. Turner Jesper Pallesen Daniel Wrapp Barney S. Graham Jason S. McLellan Kizzmekia S. Corbett Robert N. Kirchdoerfer
Topics: HIV Research and Treatment (18 papers)Monoclonal and Polyclonal Antibodies Research (10 papers)Immune Cell Function and Interaction (6 papers)
Cited by: Virology Infectious Diseases Immunology
Journals: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Journal of Virology Scientific Reports
Partner nations: United States Netherlands United Kingdom

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Christopher A. Cottrell

22 papers receiving 927 citations

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Stabilized coronavirus spikes are resistant to conformational changes induced by receptor recognition or proteolysis

2018 311 citations Robert N. Kirchdoerfer, Nianshuang Wang et al. Scientific Reports profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Structural insights into VRC01-class bnAb precursors with diverse light chains elicited in the IAVI G001 human vaccine trial 2025 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Xiaohe Lin,Christopher A. Cottrell,Oleksandr Kalyuzhniy,Ryan Tingle,Michael Kubitz,(unknown),Meng Yuan,William R. Schief,Ian A. Wilson	0
2	Optimization of an alum-anchored clinical HIV vaccine candidate 2023 ·npj Vaccines ·Kristen A. Rodrigues,Christopher A. Cottrell,Jon M. Steichen,Bettina Gröschel,Wuhbet Abraham,Heikyung Suh,Yash Agarwal,Kaiyuan Ni,Jason Y.H. Chang,Parisa Yousefpour,Mariane B. Melo,William R. Schief,Darrell J. Irvine	4
3	High frequency of HIV precursor-target-specific B cells in sub-Saharan populations 2023 ·Cell Reports ·(unknown),Alberto Cagigi,Chen‐Hsiang Shen,Amy R. Henry,Timothy S. Johnston,Chaim A. Schramm,Christopher A. Cottrell,Oleksandr Kalyuzhniy,(unknown),Thumbi Ndung’u,Krista L. Dong,(unknown),Merlin L. Robb,Michael A. Eller,Prossy Naluyima,Peter D. Kwong,Daniel C. Douek,William R. Schief,Sarah F. Andrews,Adrian B. McDermott	1
4	Increasing sensitivity of antibody-antigen interactions using photo-cross-linking 2023 ·Cell Reports Methods ·Alba Torrents de la Peña,Leigh M. Sewall,Rebeca de Paiva Fróes Rocha,Abigail M. Jackson,(unknown),Sandhya Bangaru,Christopher A. Cottrell,Subhasis Mohanty,Albert C. Shaw,Andrew B. Ward	4
5	Humanized V(D)J-rearranging and TdT-expressing mouse vaccine models with physiological HIV-1 broadly neutralizing antibody precursors 2022 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Sai Luo,Changbin Jing,Adam Yongxin Ye,Sven Kratochvil,Christopher A. Cottrell,Jahyun Koo,Aimee Williams,(unknown),Himanshu Batra,(unknown),Oleksandr Kalyuzhniy,(unknown),Alessandro Barbieri,John Manis,Barton F. Haynes,William R. Schief,Facundo D. Batista,Ming Tian,Frederick W. Alt	11
6	High thermostability improves neutralizing antibody responses induced by native-like HIV-1 envelope trimers 2022 ·npj Vaccines ·Iván del Moral-Sánchez,Rebecca A. Russell,Edith E. Schermer,Christopher A. Cottrell,Joel D. Allen,Alba Torrents de la Peña,Celia C. LaBranche,Sanjeev Kumar,Max Crispin,Andrew B. Ward,David C. Montefiori,Quentin J. Sattentau,Kwinten Sliepen,Rogier W. Sanders	12
7	Antibody responses induced by SHIV infection are more focused than those induced by soluble native HIV-1 envelope trimers in non-human primates 2021 ·PLoS Pathogens ·Jelle van Schooten,Marlies M. van Haaren,Hui Li,Laura E. McCoy,Colin Havenar‐Daughton,Christopher A. Cottrell,Judith A. Burger,Patricia van der Woude,Leanne C. Helgers,Ilhan Tomris,Celia C. LaBranche,David C. Montefiori,Andrew B. Ward,Dennis R. Burton,John P. Moore,Rogier W. Sanders,Shane Crotty,George M. Shaw,Marit J. van Gils	12
8	The C3/465 glycan hole cluster in BG505 HIV-1 envelope is the major neutralizing target involved in preventing mucosal SHIV infection 2021 ·PLoS Pathogens ·Tysheena P. Charles,Samantha L. Burton,Prabhu S. Arunachalam,Christopher A. Cottrell,Leigh M. Sewall,Venkata S. Bollimpelli,Sailaja Gangadhara,Antu Dey,Andrew B. Ward,George M. Shaw,Eric Hunter,Rama Rao Amara,Bali Pulendran,Marit J. van Gils,Cynthia A. Derdeyn	17
9	Elicitation of potent serum neutralizing antibody responses in rabbits by immunization with an HIV-1 clade C trimeric Env derived from an Indian elite neutralizer 2021 ·PLoS Pathogens ·Rajesh Kumar,(unknown),Leigh M. Sewall,Gabriel Ozorowski,Christopher A. Cottrell,Wen-Hsin Lee,Lauren G. Holden,Sara T. Richey,(unknown),(unknown),Ashish,Vivek Kumar,Shubbir Ahmed,(unknown),Naresh Kumar,Kailapuri G. Murugavel,Aylur K. Srikrishnan,Devin Sok,Andrew B. Ward,Jayanta Bhattacharya	6
10	Disassembly of HIV envelope glycoprotein trimer immunogens is driven by antibodies elicited via immunization 2021 ·Science Advances ·Hannah L. Turner,Raiees Andrabi,Christopher A. Cottrell,Sara T. Richey,Ge Song,Sean Callaghan,Fabio Anzanello,Tyson J. Moyer,Wuhbet Abraham,Mariane B. Melo,Murillo Silva,(unknown),Eva G. Rakasz,Quentin J. Sattentau,Darrell J. Irvine,Dennis R. Burton,Andrew B. Ward	24
11	Mining HIV controllers for broad and functional antibodies to recognize and eliminate HIV-infected cells 2021 ·Cell Reports ·(unknown),Anne‐Sophie Dugast,(unknown),Christopher A. Cottrell,Jeffrey Copps,Shu Lin,Deniz Cizmeci,Michael S. Seaman,Margaret E. Ackerman,Andrew B. Ward,Galit Alter,Boris Jülg	14
12	Visualization of the HIV-1 Env glycan shield across scales 2020 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Zachary T. Berndsen,Srirupa Chakraborty,Xiaoning Wang,Christopher A. Cottrell,Jonathan L. Torres,Jolene K. Diedrich,César A. López,John R. Yates,Marit J. van Gils,James C. Paulson,S. Gnanakaran,Andrew B. Ward	52
13	Potent anti-influenza H7 human monoclonal antibody induces separation of hemagglutinin receptor-binding head domains 2019 ·PLoS Biology ·Hannah L. Turner,Jesper Pallesen,Shanshan Lang,Sandhya Bangaru,Sarah Urata,Sheng Li,Christopher A. Cottrell,Charles A. Bowman,James E. Crowe,Ian A. Wilson,Andrew B. Ward	35
14	Conformational Plasticity in the HIV-1 Fusion Peptide Facilitates Recognition by Broadly Neutralizing Antibodies 2019 ·Cell Host & Microbe ·Meng Yuan,Christopher A. Cottrell,Gabriel Ozorowski,Marit J. van Gils,Sonu Kumar,Nicholas C. Wu,Anita Sarkar,Jonathan L. Torres,Natalia de Val,Jeffrey Copps,John P. Moore,Rogier W. Sanders,Andrew B. Ward,Ian A. Wilson	26
15	Cryo-EM structure of P. falciparum circumsporozoite protein with a vaccine-elicited antibody is stabilized by somatically mutated inter-Fab contacts 2018 ·Science Advances ·David Oyen,Jonathan L. Torres,Christopher A. Cottrell,C. Richter King,Ian A. Wilson,Andrew B. Ward	53
16	Stabilized coronavirus spikes are resistant to conformational changes induced by receptor recognition or proteolysisbreakdown → 2018 ·Scientific Reports ·Robert N. Kirchdoerfer,Nianshuang Wang,Jesper Pallesen,Daniel Wrapp,Hannah L. Turner,Christopher A. Cottrell,Kizzmekia S. Corbett,Barney S. Graham,Jason S. McLellan,Andrew B. Ward	311
17	The 2017 Keystone Symposium on HIV Vaccines 2017 ·Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics ·Christopher A. Cottrell,Andrew B. Ward	0
18	Structures of Ebola virus GP and sGP in complex with therapeutic antibodies 2016 ·Nature Microbiology ·Jesper Pallesen,Charles D. Murin,Natalia de Val,Christopher A. Cottrell,Kathryn M. Hastie,Hannah L. Turner,Marnie L. Fusco,Andrew I. Flyak,Larry Zeitlin,James E. Crowe,Kristian G. Andersen,Erica Ollmann Saphire,Andrew B. Ward	87
19	Holes in the Glycan Shield of the Native HIV Envelope Are a Target of Trimer-Elicited Neutralizing Antibodies 2016 ·Cell Reports ·Laura E. McCoy,Marit J. van Gils,Gabriel Ozorowski,Terrence Messmer,Bryan Briney,James E. Voss,Daniel W. Kulp,Matthew S. Macauley,Devin Sok,Matthias Pauthner,Sergey Menis,Christopher A. Cottrell,Jonathan L. Torres,Jessica Hsueh,William R. Schief,Ian A. Wilson,Andrew B. Ward,Rogier W. Sanders,Dennis R. Burton	140
20	Influences on the Design and Purification of Soluble, Recombinant Native-Like HIV-1 Envelope Glycoprotein Trimers 2015 ·Journal of Virology ·Rajesh P. Ringe,Anila Yasmeen,Gabriel Ozorowski,Eden P. Go,Laura K. Pritchard,Miklós Guttman,(unknown),Christopher A. Cottrell,Ian A. Wilson,Rogier W. Sanders,Albert Cupo,Max Crispin,Kelly K. Lee,Heather Desaire,Andrew B. Ward,Per Johan Klasse,John P. Moore	61

About Christopher A. Cottrell

Christopher A. Cottrell is a scholar working on Virology, Structural Biology and Immunology, having authored 24 papers that have together received 941 indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include HIV Research and Treatment (18 papers), Monoclonal and Polyclonal Antibodies Research (10 papers) and Immune Cell Function and Interaction (6 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Virology (346 citations), Infectious Diseases (461 citations) and Immunology (241 citations). Christopher A. Cottrell has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and United Kingdom. Frequent co-authors include Andrew B. Ward, Hannah L. Turner, Jesper Pallesen, Daniel Wrapp, Barney S. Graham, Jason S. McLellan, Kizzmekia S. Corbett, Robert N. Kirchdoerfer, Nianshuang Wang and Ian A. Wilson. Their work appears in journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Virology and Scientific Reports.

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