Kai Toellner

ORCID: 0000-0001-8404-645X

Colleges, School and Institutes

Willingness to take PhD students

Yes

PhD projects

Dr Toellner is interested in supervising doctoral research students in the following areas:

The role of antibodies in the selection of germinal centre B cells
Effects of ageing on the antibody affinity maturation
Signals leading to differentiation of plasma cells
Regulation of B cell migration by chemokines

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Most downloaded publications

Germinal center B cells govern their own fate via antibody feedback
Yang Zhang, Stephen Young, Francesco Falciani & Kai Toellner, 11 Mar 2013, In: The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 210, 3, p. 457-64 8 p.

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Early B blasts acquire a capacity for Ig class switch recombination that is lost as they become plasmablasts.
Jennifer Marshall, Yang Zhang, Adam Cunningham, Ian MacLennan & Kai Toellner, 1 Dec 2011, In: European Journal of Immunology. 41, 12, p. 3506-12 7 p.

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Cognate interactions : extrafollicular IL-4 drives germinal-center reactions, a new role for an old cytokine
Kai Toellner, Jul 2014, In: European Journal of Immunology. 44, 7, p. 1917-1920

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A theory of germinal center B cell selection, division, and exit
Elodie Mohr, Yang Zhang & Kai Toellner, 26 Jul 2012, In: Cell Reports. 2, 1, p. 162-74 13 p.

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Antagonizing retinoic acid receptors increases myeloid cell production by cultured human hematopoietic stem cells
Geoff Brown, Alan Cunningham, Kai Toellner, Feb 2017, In: Archivum immunologiae et therapiae experimentalis. 65, 1, p. 69–81 13.

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237 downloads

Recent publications

Enhanced BCR signaling inflicts early plasmablast and germinal center B cell death
Juan Yam-Puc, Laura Garcia Ibanez, Yang Zhang, Yotis Senis & Kai Toellner, 19 Feb 2021, In: iScience. 24, 2, 102038.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Nr4a1 and Nr4a3 reporter mice are differentially sensitive to T cell receptor signal strength and duration
Juan Yam-Puc, Kai Toellner, David Wraith, Graham Anderson & David Bending, 3 Nov 2020, In: Cell Reports. 33, 5, 108328.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Class-switch recombination occurs infrequently in germinal centers
Yang Zhang, Kai Toellner, 20 Aug 2019, In: Immunity. 51, 2, p. 337-350.e7

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Recent Activities

Lifelong Health and Wellbeing

Joanna Long (Advisor), (Advisor), Anna Whittaker (Presenter) & Kai Toellner (Advisor)

Nov 2013

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