Qualifications

Ph. D.

Immunology Professional membership

International Society for Interferon and Cytokine Research (ISICR)

International Cytokine Society (ICS) German Society for Immunology (DGFI) European Association for Cancer Research (EACR)

Haematopoietic stem cell maintenance and lineage differentiation

Lymphocyte development Erythropoiesis and anemia Cancer Cytokine signaling

Klein-Hessling S, Rudolf R, Muhammad K, Knobeloch K-P, Maqbool MA, Cauchy P, Andrau J-C, Avots A, Talora C & Ellenrieder V 2016 'A threshold level of NFATc1 activity facilitates thymocyte differentiation and opposes notch-driven leukaemia development' NATURE COMMUNICATIONS 7, Author Site , DOI PEARL Busch R, Murti K, Liu J, Patra AK, Muhammad K, Knobeloch K-P, Lichtinger M, Bonifer C, Wörtge S & Waisman A 2016 'NFATc1 releases BCL6-dependent repression of CCR2 agonist expression in peritoneal macrophages from Saccharomyces cerevisiae infected mice' European journal of immunology 46, (3) 634-646 , DOI Alrefai H, Muhammad K, Rudolf R, Pham DAT, Klein-Hessling S, Patra AK, Avots A, Bukur V, Sahin U & Tenzer S 2016 'NFATc1 supports imiquimod-induced skin inflammation by suppressing IL-10 synthesis in B cells' Nature communications 7, , DOI PEARL Alrefai H, Muhammad K, Rudolf R, Pham DAT, Klein-Hessling S, Patra AK, Avots A, Bukur V, Sahin U & Tenzer S 2016 'NFATc1 supports imiquimod-induced skin inflammation by suppressing IL-10 synthesis in B cells (vol 7, 11724, 2016)' Nature Communications 7, Author Site , DOI PEARL Chopra M, Langenhorst D, Beilhack A, Serfling E & Patra AK 2015 'Interleukin-2 critically regulates bone marrow erythropoiesis and prevents anemia development' European journal of immunology 45, (12) 3362-3374 , DOI Rudolf R, Busch R, Patra AK, Muhammad K, Avots A, Andrau J-C, Klein-Hessling S & Serfling E 2014 'Architecture and expression of the nfatc1 gene in lymphocytes' Frontiers in immunology 5, , DOI Muhammad K, Alrefai H, Marienfeld R, Pham DAT, Murti K, Patra AK, Avots A, Bukur V, Sahin U & Kondo E 2014 'NF-κB factors control the induction of NFATc1 in B lymphocytes' European journal of immunology 44, (11) 3392-3402 , DOI Patra AK, Avots A, Zahedi RP, Schüler T, Sickmann A, Bommhardt U & Serfling E 2013 'An alternative NFAT-activation pathway mediated by IL-7 is critical for early thymocyte development' Nature immunology 14, (2) 127-135 , DOI