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Lauren Essler

Instructor

Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Departments

Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases

Other Positions

Research Fellow in Microbiology

Microbiology, Harvard Medical School

Biography

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Publications

Low-Dose Exposure to Ganglioside-Mimicking Bacteria Tolerizes Human Macrophages to Guillain-Barré Syndrome-Associated Antigens.

Patry RT, Essler L, Andresen S, Quinn FD, Szymanski CM. mBio 2021 02 22

PMID: 35100875
Interferon-gamma promotes iron export in human macrophages to limit intracellular bacterial replication.

Abreu R, Essler L, Giri P, Quinn F. PLoS One 2025

PMID: 33290416
Heparin inhibits intracellular Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacterial replication by reducing iron levels in human macrophages.

Abreu R, Essler L, Loy A, Quinn F, Giri P. Sci Rep 2018 05 08

PMID: 29740038

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