Career milestone: 200 papers

Our new paper out at Nature Immunology was my 200th scientific paper! A good time to look back on the portfolio. 

First, my coauthors: 

My most frequent coauthor is James Dooley, no surprise since we've run the lab together these last 14 years! 67 articles coauthored, a good third of my papers. We've had a lot of staff and students trained in our lab over these years (165, to be exact), including a few who changed the direction of our lab - Stephanie Humblet-Baron coauthored 46 papers and Susan Schlenner coauthored 17, both are now professors at the University of Leuven. Vaso Lagou also coauthored 17 papers as a post-doc, before moving over to the Sanger. Jossy Garcia-Perez and Dean Franckaert were both PhD students, with 15 coauthorships, now working together at CellCarta. Our major collaborators come through clearly: Carine Wouters (28 papers) and Isabelle Meyts (15 papers) on the clinical side, An Goris (15 papers) on genetics, and Michelle Linterman (18 papers), Patrick Matthys (16 papers) and Sylvie Lesage (11 papers) for immunology.

The research topics come out via the key words from the titles. Tregs, Foxp3, T cells and the thymus all leap out, but looking closely you'll see pretty much every branch of immunology represented. A special call-out to my favourite cytokine, IL2 (with 14 papers, and getting stronger) and our microRNA papers (22 papers, but it was just a phase). 

The work is pretty evenly split between mouse and human, although we tend to use "mouse" a lot more in the title. In terms of topics, 88 papers work on autoimmune diseases, with 17 touching on diabetes. 40 papers intersect with cancer biology or cancer immunology, 30 papers are on primary immunodeficiencies (across both mouse and human, but spread out over so many genes and syndromes they don't pop out here). 15 papers papers are on neuroimmunology, a current strength of the lab.

Finally, the journals that published our work! Really thrilled to see Nature Immunology up there, with 8 papers. We have a scattering of other top journals, Cell, Nature, Science, Nature Medicine, Nature Neuroscience, Nature Genetics all get a mention. Our most popular journals, however, are The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (10 papers), which has published some of our key work on primary immunodeficiency in both mouse and human, and Immunology and Cell Biology (10 papers), the Australian and New Zealand society journal (and a pleasure to work with!). I've been told by senior researchers that publishing anything below the top tier "dilutes my record", but I'm proud of all the science we do, and work to make sure that every story finds a home and every staff member or student with data gets to show it on the international stage.

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