Thomas Boehm

TL;DR: The physiological and transient predisposition to pneumococcal infections of young children (0–2 yr) is associated with the lack of circulating IgM memory B cells and of serum antipolysaccharide IgM.

TL;DR: The whn gene, designated whn, encodes a new member of the winged-helix domain family of transcription factors and is disrupted on mouse nu and rat rnuN alleles, the first member of this class of genes to be implicated in a specific developmental defect in vertebrates.

TL;DR: The whole-genome analysis of a cartilaginous fish, the elephant shark (Callorhinchus milii), finds that the C. milii genome is the slowest evolving of all known vertebrates, and features extensive synteny conservation with tetrapod genomes, making it a good model for comparative analyses of gnathostome genomes.

TL;DR: It is shown that small peptides that serve as ligands for major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I molecules function also as sensory stimuli for a subset of vomeronasal sensory neurons located in the basal Gao- and V2R receptor–expressing zone of the vomer onasal epithelium.

TL;DR: The WHN transcription factor was shown to be the product of the nude locus and these results define the first genetically separable steps during thymic epithelial differentiation.