Lee J. Quinton, PhD
Associate Professor, Medicine

Biography
My expertise lies in the areas of the biology of acute pulmonary inflammation and the innate immune response to microorganisms in the lung.
Other Positions
- Associate Professor, Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine
- Center Faculty Member, Pulmonary Center, Boston University School of Medicine
- Associate Professor, Microbiology, Boston University School of Medicine
- Graduate Faculty (Primary Mentor of Grad Students), Boston University School of Medicine, Graduate Medical Sciences
- Member, Genome Science Institute, Boston University
Education
- Louisiana State University, PhD
- University of Southern Mississippi, BS
Classes Taught
- GMSMM725
Publications
- Published on 2/1/2021
Traber KE, Dimbo EL, Shenoy AT, Symer EM, Allen E, Mizgerd JP, Quinton LJ. Neutrophil-derived Oncostatin M triggers diverse signaling pathways during pneumonia. Infect Immun. 2021 Feb 01. PMID: 33526570.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 3/31/2020
Wooten AK, Shenoy AT, Arafa EI, Akiyama H, Martin IMC, Jones MR, Quinton LJ, Gummuluru S, Bai G, Mizgerd JP. Unique Roles for Streptococcus pneumoniae Phosphodiesterase 2 in Cyclic di-AMP Catabolism and Macrophage Responses. Front Immunol. 2020; 11:554. PMID: 32300347.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 2/27/2020
Guillon A, Arafa EI, Barker KA, Belkina AC, Martin I, Shenoy AT, Wooten AK, Lyon De Ana C, Dai A, Labadorf A, Hernandez Escalante J, Dooms H, Blasco H, Traber KE, Jones MR, Quinton LJ, Mizgerd JP. Pneumonia recovery reprograms the alveolar macrophage pool. JCI Insight. 2020 02 27; 5(4). PMID: 31990682.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 11/20/2019
Shenoy AT, Wasserman GA, Arafa EI, Wooten AK, Smith NMS, Martin IMC, Jones MR, Quinton LJ, Mizgerd JP. Lung CD4+ resident memory T cells remodel epithelial responses to accelerate neutrophil recruitment during pneumonia. Mucosal Immunol. 2020 03; 13(2):334-343. PMID: 31748706.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 8/15/2019
Traber KE, Dimbo EL, Symer EM, Korkmaz FT, Jones MR, Mizgerd JP, Quinton LJ. Roles of interleukin-11 during acute bacterial pneumonia. PLoS One. 2019; 14(8):e0221029. PMID: 31415618.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 7/23/2019
Kim Y, Allen E, Baird LA, Symer EM, Korkmaz FT, Na E, Odom CV, Jones MR, Mizgerd JP, Traber KE, Quinton LJ. NF-?B RelA Is Required for Hepatoprotection during Pneumonia and Sepsis. Infect Immun. 2019 08; 87(8). PMID: 31160364.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 11/15/2018
Quinton LJ. C-rac-king the Code of Smoke-induced Pneumonia Susceptibility. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2018 11 15; 198(10):1246-1248. PMID: 30063845.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 7/1/2018
Quinton LJ, Walkey AJ, Mizgerd JP. Integrative Physiology of Pneumonia. Physiol Rev. 2018 07 01; 98(3):1417-1464. PMID: 29767563.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 9/28/2017
Jacob A, Morley M, Hawkins F, McCauley KB, Jean JC, Heins H, Na CL, Weaver TE, Vedaie M, Hurley K, Hinds A, Russo SJ, Kook S, Zacharias W, Ochs M, Traber K, Quinton LJ, Crane A, Davis BR, White FV, Wambach J, Whitsett JA, Cole FS, Morrisey EE, Guttentag SH, Beers MF, Kotton DN. Differentiation of Human Pluripotent Stem Cells into Functional Lung Alveolar Epithelial Cells. Cell Stem Cell. 2017 Oct 05; 21(4):472-488.e10. PMID: 28965766.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 9/18/2017
Wasserman GA, Szymaniak AD, Hinds AC, Yamamoto K, Kamata H, Smith NM, Hilliard KL, Carrieri C, Labadorf AT, Quinton LJ, Ai X, Varelas X, Chen F, Mizgerd JP, Fine A, O'Carroll D, Jones MR. Expression of Piwi protein MIWI2 defines a distinct population of multiciliated cells. J Clin Invest. 2017 Oct 02; 127(10):3866-3876. PMID: 28920925.
Read at: PubMed
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