Most of my writing is devoted to scientific publications.

 

Primary Papers

Adrian Liston, Rachel E. Kohler, Scott Tonley, Sarah Haylcok-Jacobs, Iain Comerfod, Adriana C. Caon, Julie Webster, Jodie M. Harrison, Jeremy Swann, Ian Clark-Lewis, Heinrich Korner and Shaun R. McColl. ‘Inhibition of CCR6 function reduces the severity of experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis via effects on the priming phase of the immune response’. 2009. Journal of Immunology. 182(5) p3121. Pubmed | Direct access

Adrian Liston, Li-Fan Lu, Donal O’Carroll, Alexander Tarakhovsky and Alexander Y. Rudensky. ‘Dicer-dependent microRNA pathway safeguards regulatory T cell function’. 2008. Journal of Experimental Medicine. 205(9) p1993. Pubmed | Direct access       

Research Highlight: Lucy Bird. 'Regulatory T cells: MicroRNAs maintain identity' 2008. Nature Reviews Immunology. 8 p752. Direct access

Faculty of 1000 – “Exceptional”

Adrian Liston, Katherine M Nutsch, Andrew G Farr, Jennifer M Lund, Pandelakis A Koni, and Alexander Y Rudensky. ‘Differentiation of regulatory Foxp3+ T cells in the thymic cortex’. 2008. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. 105(33) p11903. Pubmed | Direct access

Leading Edge: ‘Immunology Select: Can’t Keep a Good Treg Down’ 2008. Cell. 134(5) p699. Direct access

Owen M Siggs, Lisa A Miosge, Adele Yates, Edyta M Kuchsarka, Daniel Sheahan, Tomas Brdicka, Arthur Weiss, Adrian Liston* and Christopher C Goodnow*. ‘Opposing functions of Zap70 for immunity and tolerance titrate differentially in response to inherited single nucleotide substitutions’. 2007. Immunity. 27(6) p912. Pubmed | Direct access *equal contribution senior authors.

Adrian Liston, Owen M. Siggs and Christopher C. Goodnow. ‘Interleukin-2 prevents diabetes by thymic conversion and peripheral functional maintenance of high avidity islet-specific Foxp3+ CD4 T cells to inhibit the expansion of low avidity effector cells’. 2007. Immunology and Cell Biology. 85(4) p338. Pubmed | Direct access

News and commentary: Ian R van Driel. ‘Tolerance and autoimmunity: Entwined pathways lead to immunological tolerance’ 2007. Immunology and Cell Biology. 85(4) p267. Pubmed | Direct access

Adrian Liston, Andrew G. Farr, Zhibin Chen, Christophe Benoist, Diane Mathis, Nancy R. Manley & Alexander Y. Rudensky. ‘Lack of Foxp3 function and expression in the thymic epithelium’ 2007. Journal of Experimental Medicine 204(3) p475. Pubmed | Direct access

In this issue: Hema Bashyam. ‘Re-redefining Foxp3 function’ 2007. Journal of Experimental Medicine 204(3) p455. Direct access

Adrian Liston, Kristine Hardy, Yvonne Pittelkow, Susan R. Wilson, Lydia E. Makaroff, Aude M. Fahrer & Christopher C. Goodnow. ‘Impairment of organ-specific T cell negative selection by diabetes susceptibility genes: genomic analysis by mRNA profiling’ 2007. Genome Biology 8(1) R12. Pubmed | Direct access

Daniel H.D. Gray, Natalie Seach, Tomoo Ueno, Morag Milton, Adrian Liston, Andrew Lew, Christopher C. Goodnow and Richard L. Boyd. ‘Developmental kinetics, turnover and stimulatory capacity of thymic epithelial cells’ 2006. Blood 108(12) p3777. Pubmed | Direct access

In this issue: Geoffrey O. Gillard and Andrew G. Farr. ‘The thymus: a house dividing’ 2006. Blood 108(12) p3629. Direct access

Adrian Liston, Sylvie Lesage, Daniel H.D Gray, Lorraine A. O’Reilly, Andreas Strasser, Aude M. Fahrer, Richard L. Boyd, Judith Wilson, Alan G. Baxter, Elena M. Gallo, Gerald R. Crabtree, Kaiman Peng, Susan R. Wilson & Christopher C. Goodnow. ‘Generalised resistance to thymic deletion in the NOD mouse: a polygenic trait characterized by defective induction of Bim’ 2004. Immunity 21(6) p817. Pubmed | Direct access

Faculty of 1000 – “Recommended”

Adrian Liston, Daniel H.D. Gray, Sylvie Lesage, Anne L. Fletcher, Judith Wilson, Kylie E Webster, Hamish S. Scott, Richard L. Boyd, Leena Peltonen & Christopher C. Goodnow. ‘Gene dosage limiting role of Aire in thymic expression, clonal deletion and organ-specific autoimmunity’ 2004. Journal of Experimental Medicine 200(8) p1015. Pubmed | Direct access

Faculty of 1000 – “Must read”

Adrian Liston, Sylvie Lesage, Judith Wilson, Leena Peltonen, and Christopher C. Goodnow. ‘Organ-specific T cells escape thymic censoring as a result of autoimmune polyendocrinopathy syndrome 1 mutation’ 2003. Nature Immunology 4(4) p350. Pubmed | Direct access

Highlight: Kirsty Minton. ‘There’s something in the Aire’ 2003. Nature Reviews Immunology 3 p264. Direct access

News and Views: Jonathon Sprent and Charles D. Surh ‘Knowing one’s self: central tolerance revisited’ 2003. Nature Immunology 4(4) p303. Pubmed | Direct access

Faculty of 1000 – “Must read”

 

Review articles

Adrian Liston, Michelle Linterman and Li-Fan Lu. ‘MicroRNA in the adaptive immune system, in sickness and in health’. 2010. Journal of Clinical Immunology. 30(3) p163. Pubmed | Direct access

John Altin, Chong Shen and Adrian Liston. ‘Understanding the Genetic Regulation of IgE production’. 2010. Blood Reviews. 24(4-5) p163. Pubmed | Direct access

Adrian Liston. ‘How many genes in type 1 diabetes?’ 2010. International Diabetes Monitor 22(2). Publisher

Adrian Liston, Michelle Linterman and Li-Fan Lu. ‘MicroRNA in the adaptive immune system, in sickness and in health’. 2010. Journal of Clinical Immunology. 30(3) p339. Pubmed | Direct access

Adrian Liston and Jeong M Kim. ‘Short-circuiting regulatory T-cell proliferation during chronic infection’. 2009. Immunology and Cell Biology. 87(6) p443. Pubmed | Direct access

Li-Fan Lu and Adrian Liston. ‘MicroRNA in the immune system, microRNA as an immune system’. 2009. Immunology. 127(3) p291. Pubmed | Direct access

Adrian Liston, Anselm Enders and Owen M Siggs. ‘Unravelling the clinical association of partial T-cell immunodeficiency and immune dysregulation with mouse models’ 2008. Nature Reviews Immunology. 8(7) p545. Pubmed | Direct access

Adrian Liston. ‘Autoimmunity – Beyond the Immune System’ 2008. Immunology and Cell Biology. 86(4) p295. Pubmed | Direct access

Adrian Liston and Alexander Y. Rudensky. ‘Thymic development and peripheral homeostasis of regulatory T cells’. 2007. Current Opinion in Immunology. 19(2) p176. Pubmed | Direct access

Adrian Liston. ‘There and back again: Autoimmune Polyendocrinopathy Syndrome Type I and the Aire knockout mouse’. 2006. Drug Discovery Today: Disease Models. 3(1) p33. Direct access

Owen M. Siggs, Lydia E. Makaroff and Adrian Liston. ‘The why and how of thymocyte negative selection’. 2006. Current Opinion in Immunology. 18(2) p175. Pubmed | Direct access

Adrian Liston, Sylvie Lesage, Daniel H.D. Gray, Richard L. Boyd & Christopher C. Goodnow ‘Genetic lesions in T cell tolerance and thresholds for autoimmunity’. 2005. Immunological Reviews. 204(1) p87. Pubmed | Direct access

Adrian Liston and Shaun R. McColl. ‘Subversion of the chemokine world by microbial pathogens’ 2003. BioEssays. 25(5) p478. Pubmed | Direct access

 

Book chapters

Lydia Makaroff, Michelle Linterman and Adrian Liston. ‘Genetic control of T cell immune tolerance mechanisms and susceptibility to autoimmune disease’ 2008. F. Columbus (Ed) Genetic Predisposition to Disease. p39. Publisher

Margot Pearson, Anna Cowan and Adrian Liston. ‘PhD education in science: producing the scientific mindset’ 2008. Boud & Lee (Eds) Changing Practices of Doctoral Education. Publisher

Adrian Liston. ‘The forgotten side of autoimmune diabetes: the role of genetic variability in pancreatic function’ 2008. R. M. Mohan (Ed) Research Advances in Immunology and Cell Biology. 1 p1-10.

Adrian Liston and Christopher C. Goodnow. ‘Genetic lesions in thymic T cell clonal deletion and threshold for autoimmunity’ 2005. Novartis Foundation Symposium. 267 p180. Pubmed | Publisher

 

Popular science articles

Adrian Liston. ‘Gene’s crucial role in autoimmune disease’ 2004. Australasian Science (April) p20. Publisher