Siamon Gordon
Siamon Gordon | |
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Born | 29 April 1938 |
Alma mater | University of Cape Town Rockefeller University |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Pathology |
Institutions | University of Oxford |
Thesis | Nuclear and plasma membrane properties of macrophage heterokaryons and hybrids (1971) |
Doctoral students | Jonathan Austyn[1] |
Siamon Gordon
Education
He gained his medical degrees (
PhD from Rockefeller University, where he taught from 1971 to 1976. The rest of his career, from 1976 to 2008, was at the University of Oxford.[4]
Career and research
He was on the
Gordon is noted for his work on the phenotypic and functional diversity of
F4/80. Subsequent studies led to the identification of various scavenger receptors and the cloning of the pattern recognition receptor
, Dectin-1.
Publications
- Macrophage Biology and Activation, Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology (ed, 1992)
- Siamon Gordon (ed) The Legacy of cell fusion Oxford University Press, 1994, ISBN 978-0-19-854772-3
- Advances in Cell and Molecular Biology of Membranes and Organelles (ed, 1999)
- Siamon Gordon, ed (1999). Phagocytosis: the host 5. JAI Press, ISBN 978-1-55938-999-0
- Siamon Gordon, ed. (2000). Phagocytosis: microbial invasion. Vol. 6. Elsevier. ISBN 978-0-7623-0610-7.
- Siamon Gordon, ed. (2003). The Macrophage as Therapeutic Target. Springer. ISBN 978-3-540-44250-9.
- Stefan H. E. Kaufmann; Ruslan Medzhitov; Siamon Gordon, eds. (2004). The innate immune response to infection. ASM Press. ISBN 978-1-55581-291-1.
References
- EThOS uk.bl.ethos.237663.
- ^ http://www.debretts.com/people/biographies/browse/g/3215/Siamon+GORDON.aspx [dead link]
- ^ "Siamon Gordon - title page". Archived from the original on 23 April 2012. Retrieved 21 December 2011.
- ^ "CIDRI". Archived from the original on 26 April 2012. Retrieved 21 December 2011.
- ^ "Siamon Gordon | Faculty Member | Faculty Opinions".
- PMC 2810092.
- ^ "Scientific Advisory Board « American Asthma Foundation". www.americanasthmafoundation.org. Archived from the original on 13 May 2009.