Thomas S. Postler

2.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
25 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Thomas S. Postler is a scholar working on Immunology, Molecular Biology and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas S. Postler has authored 25 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Immunology, 9 papers in Molecular Biology and 8 papers in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in Thomas S. Postler's work include NF-κB Signaling Pathways (6 papers), Immune Cell Function and Interaction (5 papers) and HIV Research and Treatment (4 papers). Thomas S. Postler is often cited by papers focused on NF-κB Signaling Pathways (6 papers), Immune Cell Function and Interaction (5 papers) and HIV Research and Treatment (4 papers). Thomas S. Postler collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and United Kingdom. Thomas S. Postler's co-authors include Sankar Ghosh, Ronald C. Desrosiers, Jens H. Kuhn, Vincent Peng, Dev Bhatt, Philippe Lemey, Martin Beer, Donald B. Smith, Galina G. Karganova and Jack T. Stapleton and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Immunity and The Journal of Immunology.

In The Last Decade

Thomas S. Postler

23 papers receiving 1.1k 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.

Understanding the Holobiont: How Microbial Metabolites Affect Human Health and Shape the Immune System

2017 623 citations Thomas S. Postler, Sankar Ghosh Cell Metabolism profile →
Renaming of the genus Flavivirus to Orthoflavivirus and extension of binomial species names within the family Flaviviridae

2023 124 citations Thomas S. Postler, Martin Beer et al. Archives of Virology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Thomas S. Postler United States	13	638	270	179	176	159	25	1.2k
Jeffrey Roach United States	22	1.1k 1.7×	267 1.0×	85 0.5×	239 1.4×	79 0.5×	54	2.0k
Elisabeth Billard France	17	965 1.5×	235 0.9×	301 1.7×	284 1.6×	76 0.5×	32	1.6k
Bethany M. Henrick United States	22	702 1.1×	409 1.5×	285 1.6×	125 0.7×	84 0.5×	46	1.8k
Hongbin Xu United States	26	674 1.1×	468 1.7×	127 0.7×	169 1.0×	221 1.4×	41	1.7k
Maomeng Tong United States	11	1.2k 1.9×	271 1.0×	169 0.9×	212 1.2×	38 0.2×	12	1.5k
Nichole Nusbacher United States	11	620 1.0×	286 1.1×	46 0.3×	145 0.8×	50 0.3×	15	841
Christopher A. Gaulke United States	15	500 0.8×	129 0.5×	137 0.8×	112 0.6×	34 0.2×	35	867
Latifa Bousarghin France	19	696 1.1×	210 0.8×	218 1.2×	179 1.0×	51 0.3×	37	1.5k
Luiz Gustavo Gardinassi Brazil	19	351 0.6×	243 0.9×	264 1.5×	57 0.3×	176 1.1×	61	1.0k

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All Works

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Whitworth, Hilary, Thomas S. Postler, Christopher L. Cooper, et al.. (2025). The natural history of infection with Sudan virus compared to Ebola virus in non-human primates: a rapid review. Vaccine. 62. 127509–127509.

Guichard, Vincent, Yingyu Zhang, Takamasa Ito, et al.. (2025). Pre-existing epigenetic state and differential NF-κB activation shape type 2 immune cell responses. Immunity. 58(6). 1422–1437.e6. 1 indexed citations

Cooper, Christopher L., Thomas S. Postler, Marija Zaric, et al.. (2024). Prevalence of human filovirus infections in sub-Saharan Africa: A systematic review and meta-analysis protocol. Systematic Reviews. 13(1). 218–218. 1 indexed citations

Cummings, Matthew J., Vincent Guichard, Thomas S. Postler, et al.. (2024). HETEROGENEOUS EXPANSION OF POLYMORPHONUCLEAR MYELOID-DERIVED SUPPRESSOR CELLS DISTINGUISHES HIGH-RISK SEPSIS IMMUNOPHENOTYPES IN UGANDA. Shock. 62(3). 336–343.

Postler, Thomas S., Anqi Wang, Francesco Brundu, et al.. (2023). A pan-cancer analysis implicates human NKIRAS1 as a tumor-suppressor gene. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(46). e2312595120–e2312595120. 3 indexed citations

Postler, Thomas S., Martin Beer, Bradley J. Blitvich, et al.. (2023). Renaming of the genus Flavivirus to Orthoflavivirus and extension of binomial species names within the family Flaviviridae. Archives of Virology. 168(9). 224–224. 124 indexed citations breakdown →

Postler, Thomas S., et al.. (2023). Transcriptomic analysis reveals that RasGEF1b deletion alters basal and LPS-induced expression of genes involved in chemotaxis and cytokine responses in macrophages. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 19614–19614. 2 indexed citations

Paola, Nicholas Di, Nolwenn M. Dheilly, Sandra Junglen, et al.. (2022). Jingchuvirales : a New Taxonomical Framework for a Rapidly Expanding Order of Unusual Monjiviricete Viruses Broadly Distributed among Arthropod Subphyla. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 88(6). e0195421–e0195421. 17 indexed citations

Oh, Hyun-Ju, Yenkel Grinberg‐Bleyer, Thomas S. Postler, et al.. (2021). PDK1 Is Required for Maintenance of CD4+ Foxp3+ Regulatory T Cell Function. The Journal of Immunology. 206(8). 1776–1783. 8 indexed citations

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Postler, Thomas S., Vincent Peng, Dev Bhatt, & Sankar Ghosh. (2021). Metformin selectively dampens the acute inflammatory response through an AMPK-dependent mechanism. Scientific Reports. 11(1). 18721–18721. 45 indexed citations

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Postler, Thomas S.. (2021). A most versatile kinase: The catalytic subunit of PKA in T-cell biology. International review of cell and molecular biology. 361. 301–318. 6 indexed citations

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Silva, Aristóbolo M. & Thomas S. Postler. (2021). Charting protein dephosphorylation triggered by Toll-like receptor (TLR) signaling in macrophages and its role in health and disease. International review of cell and molecular biology. 361. 211–243. 2 indexed citations

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Postler, Thomas S., Shara N. Pantry, Ronald C. Desrosiers, & Sankar Ghosh. (2017). Identification and characterization of a long non-coding RNA up-regulated during HIV-1 infection. Virology. 511. 30–39. 28 indexed citations

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Postler, Thomas S. & Sankar Ghosh. (2017). Understanding the Holobiont: How Microbial Metabolites Affect Human Health and Shape the Immune System. Cell Metabolism. 26(1). 110–130. 623 indexed citations breakdown →

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Postler, Thomas S. & Sankar Ghosh. (2015). Bridging the gap: A regulator of NF-κB linking inflammation and cancer. Journal of Oral Biosciences. 57(3). 143–147. 17 indexed citations

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Oeckinghaus, Andrea, Thomas S. Postler, P. Nagesh Rao, et al.. (2014). κB-Ras Proteins Regulate Both NF-κB-Dependent Inflammation and Ral-Dependent Proliferation. Cell Reports. 8(6). 1793–1807. 29 indexed citations

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Postler, Thomas S., Jacqueline Bixby, Ronald C. Desrosiers, & Eloísa Yuste. (2014). Systematic Analysis of Intracellular Trafficking Motifs Located within the Cytoplasmic Domain of Simian Immunodeficiency Virus Glycoprotein gp41. PLoS ONE. 9(12). e114753–e114753. 4 indexed citations

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Postler, Thomas S. & Ronald C. Desrosiers. (2012). The Tale of the Long Tail: the Cytoplasmic Domain of HIV-1 gp41. Journal of Virology. 87(1). 2–15. 90 indexed citations

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Postler, Thomas S. & Ronald C. Desrosiers. (2012). The Cytoplasmic Domain of the HIV-1 Glycoprotein gp41 Induces NF-κB Activation through TGF-β-Activated Kinase 1. Cell Host & Microbe. 11(2). 181–193. 54 indexed citations

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Postler, Thomas S., José M. Martinez-Navío, Eloísa Yuste, & Ronald C. Desrosiers. (2011). Evidence against Extracellular Exposure of a Highly Immunogenic Region in the C-Terminal Domain of the Simian Immunodeficiency Virus gp41 Transmembrane Protein. Journal of Virology. 86(2). 1145–1157. 18 indexed citations

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