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Medical Microbiology and Immunology

Portrait of William Weidanz

William P. Weidanz, Ph.D.

Professor, Medical Microbiology and Immunology

Room 3205 Microbial Sciences Building
1550 Linden Drive
Madison, WI 53706-1521

(608) 262-9027
Fax: (608) 262-8418

wweidanz@wisc.edu

Research Interest

Immunoparasitology - The roles of T cells, T cell subsets, antigen reactive T cell lines and clones in immunity to malaria; characterization of responding T cell populations; identification of parasite inhibitory cells and molecules.

Training

1956- B.S., Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey
1958 - M.S., University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island
1961 - Ph.D., Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana
1961-64 - Postdoctoral Fellowship, NIH, Betesda, Maryland

Publications – NCBI PubMed search for "W.P. Weidanz"

van der Heyde, H.C., M.M. Elloso, B. Pepper, W.-L. Chang, J. Batchelder, and W.P. Weidanz. 1996. Expansion of the gamma delta T cell subset in vivo during blood-stage malaria in B cell-deficient mice. J. Leukoc. Biol. 60:221-229.

Yanez, D.M., D.D. Manning, A.J. Cooley, W.P. Weidanz, and H.C. van der Heyde. 1996. Participation of lymphocyte subpopulations in the pathogenesis of experimental murine cerebral malaria. J. Immunol. 157:1620-1624.

Elloso, M.M., H.C. van der Heyde, A. Troutt, D.D. Manning, and W.P. Weidanz. 1996. Human gamma delta T cell subset proliferative response to malarial antigen in vitro depends on CD4+ T cells or cytokines that signal through components of IL-2R. J. Immunol. 157:2096-2101.

Kobayashi, F., T. Mori, T. Matsui, T. Fujino, Y. Watanabe, W.P. Weidanz, and M. Tsuji. 1996. Production of interleukin 10 during malaria caused by lethal and nonlethal variants of Plasmodium yoelii yoelii. Parasit. Res. 82:385-391.

Alves, H.J., W. Weidanz, and L. Weiss. 1996. The spleen in murine Plasmodium chabaudi adami malaria: stromal cells, T lymphocytes and hematopoiesis. Am. J. Trop. Med. & Hyg. 55:370-378.

van der Heyde, H.C., B. Pepper, J. Batchelder, and W.P. Weidanz. 1997. The time course of selected malarial infections in cytokine-deficient mice. Exptl. Parasit. 85:206-213.

 
 
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