Emma Slack

12.7k total citations · 7 hit papers
70 papers, 8.0k citations indexed

About

Emma Slack is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Immunology and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, Emma Slack has authored 70 papers receiving a total of 8.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 30 papers in Molecular Biology, 26 papers in Immunology and 19 papers in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in Emma Slack's work include Gut microbiota and health (24 papers), Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research (15 papers) and Immune Cell Function and Interaction (14 papers). Emma Slack is often cited by papers focused on Gut microbiota and health (24 papers), Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research (15 papers) and Immune Cell Function and Interaction (14 papers). Emma Slack collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, United Kingdom and United States. Emma Slack's co-authors include Andrew J. Macpherson, Caetano Reis e Sousa, Kathy D. McCoy, Siegfried Hapfelmeier, Markus B. Geuking, Matthew J. Robinson, Salomé LeibundGut‐Landmann, Edina Schweighoffer, Victor L. J. Tybulewicz and Melissa A. Lawson and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Emma Slack

69 papers receiving 7.8k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Syk- and CARD9-dependent coupling of innate immunity to the induction of T helper cells that produce interleukin 17

2007 934 citations Salomé LeibundGut‐Landmann, Matthew J. Robinson et al. Nature Immunology profile →
Syk-Dependent Cytokine Induction by Dectin-1 Reveals a Novel Pattern Recognition Pathway for C Type Lectins

2005 727 citations Emma Slack, Caetano Reis e Sousa et al. Immunity profile →
Intestinal Bacterial Colonization Induces Mutualistic Regulatory T Cell Responses

2011 648 citations Markus B. Geuking, Julia Cahenzli et al. Immunity profile →
Reversible Microbial Colonization of Germ-Free Mice Reveals the Dynamics of IgA Immune Responses

2010 598 citations Siegfried Hapfelmeier, Melissa A. Lawson et al. Science profile →
Innate and Adaptive Immunity Cooperate Flexibly to Maintain Host-Microbiota Mutualism

2009 383 citations Emma Slack, Siegfried Hapfelmeier et al. Science profile →
Microbiome-based interventions to modulate gut ecology and the immune system

2022 122 citations Emma Slack et al. profile →
Host control of the microbiome: Mechanisms, evolution, and disease

2024 53 citations Emma Slack, Kevin R. Foster et al. Science profile →

Peers

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Citations

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Emma Slack

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Emma Slack. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Emma Slack based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Emma Slack. Emma Slack is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Vaccine-enhanced competition permits rational bacterial strain replacement in the gut 2025 ·Science ·Verena Lentsch, (unknown), Andrea Rocker, (unknown), Claudia Moresi, (unknown), (unknown), Stefan A. Fattinger, Nicolas Wenner, (unknown), Wolf‐Dietrich Hardt, Claude Loverdo, Médéric Diard, Emma Slack	3
2	Relaxation of mucosal fibronectin fibers in late gut inflammation following neutrophil infiltration in mice 2025 ·PubMed ·(unknown), (unknown), Guido Regina, Ulrich auf dem Keller, Emma Slack, Viola Vogel	1
3	Host control of the microbiome: Mechanisms, evolution, and disease breakdown → 2024 ·Science ·(unknown), Emma Slack, Kevin R. Foster	53
4	Diagnosing and engineering gut microbiomes 2024 ·EMBO Molecular Medicine ·(unknown), Médéric Diard, Isabelle Hug, (unknown), Emma Slack	1
5	The microbiota conditions a gut milieu that selects for wild-type Salmonella Typhimurium virulence 2023 ·PLoS Biology ·Ersin Gül, Erik Bakkeren, Guillem Salazar, (unknown), (unknown), Mélanie Clerc, Philipp Christen, Stefan A. Fattinger, Bidong D. Nguyen, Patrick Kiefer, Emma Slack, (unknown), Julia A. Vorholt, Shinichi Sunagawa, Médéric Diard, Wolf‐Dietrich Hardt	14
6	“EvoVax” – A rationally designed inactivated Salmonella Typhimurium vaccine induces strong and long-lasting immune responses in pigs 2023 ·Vaccine ·Verena Lentsch, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Daniel Hoces, Claudia Moresi, (unknown), Emma Slack	2
7	IL-1 mediates microbiome-induced inflammaging of hematopoietic stem cells in mice 2021 ·Blood ·Larisa V. Kovtonyuk, Francisco Caiado, Santiago García‐Martín, (unknown), Patrick M. Helbling, Hitoshi Takizawa, Steffen Boettcher, Fátima Al‐Shahrour, César Nombela‐Arrieta, Emma Slack, Markus G. Manz	102
8	Reproducible Colonization of Germ-Free Mice With the Oligo-Mouse-Microbiota in Different Animal Facilities 2020 ·Frontiers in Microbiology ·Claudia Eberl, Diana Ring, Philipp C. Münch, Markus Beutler, Marijana Basic, Emma Slack, Martin Schwarzer, Dagmar Šrůtková, Anna Lange, Julia-Stefanie Frick, André Bleich, Bärbel Stecher	69
9	ATP released by intestinal bacteria limits the generation of protective IgA against enteropathogens 2019 ·Nature Communications ·Michele Proietti, Lisa Perruzza, Daniela Scribano, Giovanni Pellegrini, Rocco D’Antuono, Francesco Strati, Marco Raffaelli, Santiago González, Marcus Thelen, Wolf‐Dietrich Hardt, Emma Slack, Mauro Nicoletti, Fabio Grassi	73
10	Enchained growth and cluster dislocation: A possible mechanism for microbiota homeostasis 2019 ·PLoS Computational Biology ·Florence Bansept, Kathrin Moor, Médéric Diard, Wolf‐Dietrich Hardt, Emma Slack, Claude Loverdo	20
11	Inflammation boosts bacteriophage transfer between Salmonella spp. 2017 ·Science ·Médéric Diard, Erik Bakkeren, Jeffrey K. Cornuault, Kathrin Moor, Annika Hausmann, Mikael E. Sellin, Claude Loverdo, Abram Aertsen, Martin Ackermann, Marianne De Paepe, Emma Slack, Wolf‐Dietrich Hardt	129
12	Granulocytes Impose a Tight Bottleneck upon the Gut Luminal Pathogen Population during Salmonella Typhimurium Colitis 2014 ·PLoS Pathogens ·Lisa Maier, Médéric Diard, Mikael E. Sellin, (unknown), (unknown), Balamurugan Periaswamy, Emma Slack, Tamas Dolowschiak, Bärbel Stecher, Claude Loverdo, Roland R. Regoes, Wolf‐Dietrich Hardt	69
13	ATP-Gated Ionotropic P2X7 Receptor Controls Follicular T Helper Cell Numbers in Peyer’s Patches to Promote Host-Microbiota Mutualism 2014 ·Immunity ·Michele Proietti, (unknown), Tanja Rezzonico Jost, Andrea Romagnani, Caterina E. Faliti, Lisa Perruzza, Rosita Rigoni, Enrico Radaelli, Flavio Caprioli, Silvia Preziuso, Barbara Brannetti, Marcus Thelen, Kathy D. McCoy, Emma Slack, Elisabetta Traggiai, Fabio Grassi	143
14	Cecum Lymph Node Dendritic Cells Harbor Slow-Growing Bacteria Phenotypically Tolerant to Antibiotic Treatment 2014 ·PLoS Biology ·Patrick Kaiser, Roland R. Regoes, Tamas Dolowschiak, Sandra Y. Wotzka, Jette Lengefeld, Emma Slack, Andrew J. Grant, Martin Ackermann, Wolf‐Dietrich Hardt	106
15	Live Attenuated S. Typhimurium Vaccine with Improved Safety in Immuno-Compromised Mice 2012 ·PLoS ONE ·Balamurugan Periaswamy, Lisa Maier, Vikalp Vishwakarma, Emma Slack, Marcus Kremer, Helene Andrews‐Polymenis, Michael McClelland, Andrew J. Grant, Mrutyunjay Suar, Wolf‐Dietrich Hardt	25
16	Intestinal Bacterial Colonization Induces Mutualistic Regulatory T Cell Responses breakdown → 2011 ·Immunity ·Markus B. Geuking, Julia Cahenzli, Melissa A. Lawson, (unknown), Emma Slack, Siegfried Hapfelmeier, Kathy D. McCoy, Andrew J. Macpherson	648
17	Reversible Microbial Colonization of Germ-Free Mice Reveals the Dynamics of IgA Immune Responses breakdown → 2010 ·Science ·Siegfried Hapfelmeier, Melissa A. Lawson, Emma Slack, Jorum Kirundi, Maaike Stoel, Mathias Heikenwälder, Julia Cahenzli, Yuliya Velykoredko, Maria L. Balmer, Kathrin Endt, Markus B. Geuking, Roy Curtiss, Kathy D. McCoy, Andrew J. Macpherson	598
18	Innate and Adaptive Immunity Cooperate Flexibly to Maintain Host-Microbiota Mutualism breakdown → 2009 ·Science ·Emma Slack, Siegfried Hapfelmeier, Bärbel Stecher, Yuliya Velykoredko, Maaike Stoel, Melissa A. Lawson, Markus B. Geuking, Bruce Beutler, Thomas F. Tedder, Wolf‐Dietrich Hardt, Přemysl Berčík, Elena F. Verdú, Kathy D. McCoy, Andrew J. Macpherson	383
19	Dendritic cell expression of the Notch ligand jagged2 is not essential for Th2 response induction in vivo 2008 ·European Journal of Immunology ·(unknown), Salomé LeibundGut‐Landmann, Emma Slack, Li‐Kun Phng, Holger Gerhardt, Caetano Reis e Sousa, Andrew S. MacDonald	52
20	Myeloid C-type lectins in innate immunity 2006 ·Nature Immunology ·Matthew J. Robinson, David Sancho, Emma Slack, Salomé LeibundGut‐Landmann, Caetano Reis e Sousa	421

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