Michael Y. Gerner

9.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
53 papers, 5.3k citations indexed

About

Michael Y. Gerner is a scholar working on Immunology, Infectious Diseases and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael Y. Gerner has authored 53 papers receiving a total of 5.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 38 papers in Immunology, 14 papers in Infectious Diseases and 12 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Michael Y. Gerner's work include Immunotherapy and Immune Responses (26 papers), T-cell and B-cell Immunology (23 papers) and Immune Cell Function and Interaction (17 papers). Michael Y. Gerner is often cited by papers focused on Immunotherapy and Immune Responses (26 papers), T-cell and B-cell Immunology (23 papers) and Immune Cell Function and Interaction (17 papers). Michael Y. Gerner collaborates with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and Germany. Michael Y. Gerner's co-authors include Ronald N. Germain, Wolfgang Kastenmüller, Matthew F. Mescher, Kerry A. Casey, Weizhe Li, Parizad Torabi‐Parizi, J. Scott Hale, Gordon J. Freeman, Helder I. Nakaya and Masao Hashimoto and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Michael Y. Gerner

50 papers receiving 5.2k citations

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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.

Defining CD8+ T cells that provide the proliferative burst after PD-1 therapy

2016 1.3k citations Michael Y. Gerner, Ronald N. Germain et al. Nature profile →
Alveolar Macrophages Provide an Early Mycobacterium tuberculosis Niche and Initiate Dissemination

2018 365 citations Sara Cohen, Benjamin H. Gern et al. Cell Host & Microbe profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Michael Y. Gerner United States	26	3.6k	1.6k	1.3k	604	524	53	5.3k
Wolfgang Kastenmüller Germany	38	4.6k 1.3×	1.7k 1.1×	1.9k 1.5×	420 0.7×	805 1.5×	62	7.1k
Jackson G. Egen United States	32	4.5k 1.3×	2.1k 1.3×	1.6k 1.3×	476 0.8×	911 1.7×	48	7.7k
Jens V. Stein Switzerland	40	3.2k 0.9×	1.4k 0.9×	1.6k 1.3×	222 0.4×	233 0.4×	102	5.6k
Tri Giang Phan Australia	37	3.7k 1.0×	946 0.6×	1.4k 1.1×	270 0.4×	412 0.8×	66	5.9k
Alex Y. Huang United States	36	4.6k 1.3×	1.7k 1.1×	2.2k 1.7×	266 0.4×	463 0.9×	120	7.0k
Robert Balderas United States	35	3.9k 1.1×	920 0.6×	2.0k 1.6×	452 0.7×	642 1.2×	64	6.4k
Enrico Lugli Italy	36	4.1k 1.1×	2.8k 1.7×	1.6k 1.2×	487 0.8×	739 1.4×	75	6.6k
Nicholas R. J. Gascoigne United States	51	6.4k 1.8×	1.8k 1.1×	1.9k 1.5×	360 0.6×	487 0.9×	160	8.6k
Scott N. Mueller Australia	45	7.3k 2.0×	1.9k 1.2×	1.4k 1.1×	519 0.9×	1.2k 2.4×	103	9.5k
Adeeb Rahman United States	36	2.3k 0.7×	893 0.6×	1.4k 1.1×	372 0.6×	394 0.8×	79	4.2k

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Mortensen, Rasmus, Cecilia S. Lindestam Arlehamn, Rhea N. Coler, et al.. (2025). T cell–macrophage interactions in tuberculosis: What we've got here is failure to communicate. Journal of Internal Medicine. 299(1). 44–65.

Mortensen, Rasmus, Cecilia S. Lindestam Arlehamn, Rhea N. Coler, et al.. (2025). T cell – macrophage interactions in tuberculosis as barriers to vaccine-induced immunity: What we’ve got here is failure to communicate.

Gern, Benjamin H., Kimberly A. Foster, S. B. Cohen, et al.. (2025). Early and opposing neutrophil and CD4 T cell responses shape pulmonary tuberculosis pathology. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 222(10). 2 indexed citations

Huang, Jessica & Michael Y. Gerner. (2025). Dendritic Cell Organization and Function in Innate and Adaptive Immune Defense Within Lymph Nodes. Immunological Reviews. 337(1). e70071–e70071.

Wu, Yixuan, Jessica Huang, Meera K. Shenoy, et al.. (2024). Distal Immunization and Systemic Cytokines Establish a Transient Immune Alert State in the Intestine. The Journal of Immunology. 213(3). 373–383. 3 indexed citations

Lyons‐Cohen, Miranda R., Elya A. Shamskhou, & Michael Y. Gerner. (2024). Site-specific regulation of Th2 differentiation within lymph node microenvironments. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 221(4). 23 indexed citations

Leal, Joseph M., Jessica Huang, Karan Kohli, et al.. (2021). Innate cell microenvironments in lymph nodes shape the generation of T cell responses during type I inflammation. Science Immunology. 6(56). 68 indexed citations

Stoltzfus, Caleb, Ramya Sivakumar, Leo Kunz, et al.. (2021). Multi-Parameter Quantitative Imaging of Tumor Microenvironments Reveals Perivascular Immune Niches Associated With Anti-Tumor Immunity. Frontiers in Immunology. 12. 726492–726492. 22 indexed citations

Cabeza-Cabrerizo, Mar, Janneke van Blijswijk, Stephan Wienert, et al.. (2019). Tissue clonality of dendritic cell subsets and emergency DCpoiesis revealed by multicolor fate mapping of DC progenitors. Science Immunology. 4(33). 78 indexed citations

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Glaser, Adam K., Nicholas P. Reder, Ye Chen, et al.. (2019). Multi-immersion open-top light-sheet microscope for high-throughput imaging of cleared tissues. Nature Communications. 10(1). 2781–2781. 126 indexed citations

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Mao, Kairui, António P. Baptista, Samira Tamoutounour, et al.. (2018). Innate and adaptive lymphocytes sequentially shape the gut microbiota and lipid metabolism. Nature. 554(7691). 255–259. 272 indexed citations

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Gern, Benjamin H., Kristin N. Adams, Courtney R. Plumlee, Michael Y. Gerner, & Kevin B. Urdahl. (2018). 166. TGF-β Restricts T-cell IFNg Production in Pulmonary Tuberculous Granulomas. Open Forum Infectious Diseases. 5(suppl_1). S16–S16. 1 indexed citations

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Cohen, Sara, Benjamin H. Gern, Jared L. Delahaye, et al.. (2018). Alveolar Macrophages Provide an Early Mycobacterium tuberculosis Niche and Initiate Dissemination. Cell Host & Microbe. 24(3). 439–446.e4. 365 indexed citations breakdown →

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Eickhoff, Sarah, Michael Y. Gerner, Frederick Klauschen, et al.. (2015). Robust Anti-viral Immunity Requires Multiple Distinct T Cell-Dendritic Cell Interactions. Cell. 162(6). 1322–1337. 253 indexed citations

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Fonseca, Denise Morais da, Timothy W. Hand, Seong‐Ji Han, et al.. (2015). Microbiota-Dependent Sequelae of Acute Infection Compromise Tissue-Specific Immunity. Cell. 163(2). 354–366. 210 indexed citations

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Gerner, Michael Y., Parizad Torabi‐Parizi, & Ronald N. Germain. (2014). Strategically Localized Dendritic Cells Promote Rapid T Cell Responses to Lymph-Borne Particulate Antigens. Immunity. 42(1). 172–185. 247 indexed citations

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Gerner, Michael Y. & Matthew F. Mescher. (2009). Antigen Processing and MHC-II Presentation by Dermal and Tumor-Infiltrating Dendritic Cells. The Journal of Immunology. 182(5). 2726–2737. 36 indexed citations

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Gerner, Michael Y., Kerry A. Casey, & Matthew F. Mescher. (2008). Defective MHC Class II Presentation by Dendritic Cells Limits CD4 T Cell Help for Antitumor CD8 T Cell Responses. The Journal of Immunology. 181(1). 155–164. 54 indexed citations

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Mescher, Matthew F., et al.. (2007). Activation-induced non-responsiveness (anergy) limits CD8 T cell responses to tumors. Seminars in Cancer Biology. 17(4). 299–308. 42 indexed citations

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Mescher, Matthew F., Julie Curtsinger, Kerry A. Casey, et al.. (2006). Signals required for programming effector and memory development by CD8⁺ T cells. Immunological Reviews. 211(1). 81–92. 476 indexed citations

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