Neal S. Silverman, PhD is a Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious
Diseases. He is also affiliated with the Department of Microbiology and Physiological
Systems, the Immunology and Virology Program, and the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program.
His expertise and research interests include innate immune recognition, signal
transduction, and gene expression, especially in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster.

Articles

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Ecdysone triggered PGRP-LC expression controls Drosophila innate immunity (with Florentina Rus, Thomas Flatt, Mei Tong, Kamna Aggarwal, Kendi Okuda, Anni Kleino, Elisabeth Yates, and Marc Tatar), EMBO Journal (2013)
 

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Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus Major Allergen 1 Activates the Innate Immune Response of the Fruit Fly Drosophila melanogaster (with Christine Warmbold, Karin Uliczka, Florentina Rus, Roland Suck, Arnd Petersen, Artur J. Ulmer, Holger Heine, and Thomas Roeder), Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) (2013)
 

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Cutting Edge: FAS (CD95) mediates noncanonical IL-1beta and IL-18 maturation via caspase-8 in an RIP3-independent manner (with Lukas Bossaller, Ping-I Chang, Christian Schmidt-Lauber, Sandhya Ganesan, William J. Kaiser, Vijay A. K. Rathinam, Edward S. Mocarski, Deepa Subramanian, Douglas R. Green, Katherine A. Fitzgerald, Ann Marshak-Rothstein, and Eicke Latz), Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) (2012)
 

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Serine/threonine acetylation of TGFbeta-activated kinase (TAK1) by Yersinia pestis YopJ inhibits innate immune signaling (with Nicholas Paul Paquette, Joseph E. Conlon, Charles R. Sweet, Florentina Rus, Lindsay Wilson, Andrea J. Pereira, Charles V. Rosadini, Nadege Goutagny, Alexander N. R. Weber, William S. Lane, Scott A. Shaffer, Stephanie Maniatis, Katherine A. Fitzgerald, and Lynda M. Stuart), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (2012)
 

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Characterization of poxvirus-encoded proteins that regulate innate immune signaling pathways (with Florentina Rus, Kayla Morlock, Ngoc Pham, Girish J. Kotwal, and William L. Marshall), Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) (2012)
 

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Contributions to Books

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Bug Versus Bug: Humoral Immune Responses in Drosophila melanogaster (with Deniz Erturk Hasdemir, Nicholas Paquette, and Kamna Aggarwal), Innate Immunity of Plants, Animals, and Humans (2007)
 

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Acetylation, Activation and Toxicity: The Role of ADA/GCN5 Complex in Transcription (with Leonard Guarente), Mechanisms of Transcription (1997)