Dr Ed Roberts
- Senior Lecturer (Beatson Institute for Cancer Research)
email:
Ed.Roberts@glasgow.ac.uk
pronouns:
He/him/his
Publications
2024
Hargrave, K. E., Worrell, J. C. , Pirillo, C., Brennan, E., Masdefiol Garriga, A. , Gray, J. I., Purnell, T., Roberts, E. W. and MacLeod, M. K.L. (2024) Lung influenza virus specific memory CD4 T cell location and optimal cytokine production are dependent on interactions with lung antigen-presenting cells. Mucosal Immunology, 17(5), pp. 843-857. (doi: 10.1016/j.mucimm.2024.06.001) (PMID:38851589)
Kumar, S. et al. (2024) Specialized Tfh cell subsets driving type-1 and type-21 humoral responses in lymphoid tissue. Cell Discovery, 10, 64. (doi: 10.1038/s41421-024-00681-0) (PMID:38834551) (PMCID:PMC11150427)
Bentley-Abbot, C., Heslop, R., Pirillo, C., Chandrasegaran, P., McConnell, G., Roberts, E. , Hutchinson, E. and MacLeod, A. (2024) An easy to use tool for the analysis of subcellular mRNA transcript colocalisation in smFISH data. Scientific Reports, 14, 8348. (doi: 10.1038/s41598-024-58641-3) (PMID:38594373) (PMCID:PMC11004122)
Mahmood, M. et al. (2024) Mitochondrial DNA mutations drive aerobic glycolysis to enhance checkpoint blockade response in melanoma. Nature Cancer, (doi: 10.1038/s43018-023-00721-w) (PMID:38286828) (Early Online Publication)
2023
Young, A. L., Lorimer, T., Al-Khalidi, S. K. and Roberts, E. W. (2023) De novo priming: driver of immunotherapy responses or epiphenomenon? Essays In Biochemistry, 67(6), pp. 929-939. (doi: 10.1042/EBC20220244) (PMID:37139854) (PMCID:PMC10539938)
Pirillo, C. et al. (2023) Cotransfer of antigen and contextual information harmonizes peripheral and lymph node conventional dendritic cell activation. Science Immunology, 8(85), eadg8249. (doi: 10.1126/sciimmunol.adg8249) (PMID:37478193) (PMCID:PMC7616026)
Sims, A. et al. (2023) Superinfection exclusion creates spatially distinct influenza virus populations. PLoS Biology, 21(2), e3001941. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3001941) (PMID:36757937) (PMCID:PMC9910727)
2022
Leslie, J. et al. (2022) CXCR2 inhibition enables NASH-HCC immunotherapy. Gut, 71(10), pp. 2093-2106. (doi: 10.1136/gutjnl-2021-326259) (PMID:35477863) (PMCID:PMC9484388)
Bravo-Blas, A., Pirillo, C., Shergold, A., Andrusaite, A. and Roberts, E. W. (2022) Think global but act local: Tuning the dendritic cell response in cancer. International Journal of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, 147, 106227. (doi: 10.1016/j.biocel.2022.106227) (PMID:35605877)
Pirillo, C. et al. (2022) Metalloproteinase inhibition reduces AML growth, prevents stem cell loss and improves chemotherapy effectiveness. Blood Advances, 6(10), pp. 3126-3141. (doi: 10.1182/bloodadvances.2021004321) (PMID:35157757) (PMCID:PMC9131921)
Devlin, R. and Roberts, E. (2022) Building a healthy mouse model ecosystem to interrogate cancer biology. Disease Models and Mechanisms, 15(9), dmm049795. (doi: 10.1242/dmm.049795) (PMID:36098988) (PMCID:PMC9509886)
2021
Ntala, C. et al. (2021) Analysis of prostate cancer tumor microenvironment identifies reduced stromal CD4 effector T-cell infiltration in tumors with pelvic nodal metastasis. European Urology Open Science, 29, pp. 19-29. (doi: 10.1016/j.euros.2021.05.001) (PMID:34337530) (PMCID:PMC8317840)
2019
Binnewies, M. et al. (2019) Unleashing type-2 dendritic cells to drive protective antitumor CD4+ T cell immunity. Cell, 177(3), 556-571.e16. (doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2019.02.005) (PMID:30955881) (PMCID:PMC6954108)
2018
Morrissey, M. A., Williamson, A. P., Steinbach, A. M., Roberts, E. W. , Kern, N., Headley, M. B. and Vale, R. D. (2018) Chimeric antigen receptors that trigger phagocytosis. eLife, 7, e36688. (doi: 10.7554/eLife.36688.001) (PMID:29862966) (PMCID:PMC6008046)
Binnewies, M. et al. (2018) Understanding the tumor immune microenvironment (TIME) for effective therapy. Nature Medicine, 24(5), pp. 541-550. (doi: 10.1038/s41591-018-0014-x) (PMID:29686425) (PMCID:PMC5998822)
Denton, A. E., Roberts, E. W. and Fearon, D. T. (2018) Stromal cells in the tumor microenvironment. In: Owens, B. M.J. and Lakins, M. A. (eds.) Stromal Immunology. Series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, 1060. Springer, pp. 99-114. ISBN 9783319781259 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-78127-3_6)
2017
Wong, P. T., Roberts, E. W. , Tang, S., Mukherjee, J., Cannon, J., Nip, A. J., Corbin, K., Krummel, M. F. and Choi, S. K. (2017) Control of an unusual photo-claisen rearrangement in coumarin caged tamoxifen through an extended spacer. ACS Chemical Biology, 12(4), pp. 1001-1010. (doi: 10.1021/acschembio.6b00999) (PMID:28191924) (PMCID:PMC5404426)
2016
Flint, T. R., Janowitz, T., Connell, C. M., Roberts, E. W. , Denton, A. E., Coll, A. P., Jodrell, D. I. and Fearon, D. T. (2016) Tumor-induced IL-6 reprograms host metabolism to suppress anti-tumor immunity. Cell Metabolism, 24(5), pp. 672-684. (doi: 10.1016/j.cmet.2016.10.010) (PMID:27829137) (PMCID:PMC5106372)
Roberts, E. W. , Broz, M. L., Binnewies, M., Headley, M. B., Nelson, A. E., Wolf, D. M., Kaisho, T., Bogunovic, D., Bhardwaj, N. and Krummel, M. F. (2016) Critical role for CD103 + /CD141 + dendritic cells bearing CCR7 for tumor antigen trafficking and priming of T cell immunity in melanoma. Cancer Cell, 30(2), pp. 324-336. (doi: 10.1016/j.ccell.2016.06.003) (PMID:27424807) (PMCID:PMC5374862)
Headley, M. B., Bins, A., Nip, A., Roberts, E. W. , Looney, M. R., Gerard, A. and Krummel, M. F. (2016) Visualization of immediate immune responses to pioneer metastatic cells in the lung. Nature, 531(7595), pp. 513-517. (doi: 10.1038/nature16985) (PMID:26982733) (PMCID:PMC4892380)
Roberts, E.W. , Denton, A.E. and Fearon, D.T. (2016) Roles of stromal cells in the immune system. In: Bradshaw, R. A. and Stahl, P. D. (eds.) Encyclopedia of Cell Biology. Elsevier, pp. 616-623. ISBN 9780123947963 (doi: 10.1016/B978-0-12-394447-4.30079-7)
2014
Denton, A.E., Roberts, E.W. , Linterman, M.A. and Fearon, D.T. (2014) Fibroblastic reticular cells of the lymph node are required for retention of resting but not activated CD8+ T cells. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 111(33), pp. 12139-12144. (doi: 10.1073/pnas.1412910111) (PMID:25092322) (PMCID:PMC4143042)
2013
Feig, C. et al. (2013) Targeting CXCL12 from FAP-expressing carcinoma-associated fibroblasts synergizes with anti-PD-L1 immunotherapy in pancreatic cancer. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 110(50), pp. 20212-20217. (doi: 10.1073/pnas.1320318110) (PMID:24277834) (PMCID:PMC3864274)
Roberts, E. W. et al. (2013) Depletion of stromal cells expressing fibroblast activation protein-α from skeletal muscle and bone marrow results in cachexia and anemia. Journal of Experimental Medicine, 210(6), pp. 1137-1151. (doi: 10.1084/jem.20122344) (PMID:23712428) (PMCID:PMC3674708)
Articles
Hargrave, K. E., Worrell, J. C. , Pirillo, C., Brennan, E., Masdefiol Garriga, A. , Gray, J. I., Purnell, T., Roberts, E. W. and MacLeod, M. K.L. (2024) Lung influenza virus specific memory CD4 T cell location and optimal cytokine production are dependent on interactions with lung antigen-presenting cells. Mucosal Immunology, 17(5), pp. 843-857. (doi: 10.1016/j.mucimm.2024.06.001) (PMID:38851589)
Kumar, S. et al. (2024) Specialized Tfh cell subsets driving type-1 and type-21 humoral responses in lymphoid tissue. Cell Discovery, 10, 64. (doi: 10.1038/s41421-024-00681-0) (PMID:38834551) (PMCID:PMC11150427)
Bentley-Abbot, C., Heslop, R., Pirillo, C., Chandrasegaran, P., McConnell, G., Roberts, E. , Hutchinson, E. and MacLeod, A. (2024) An easy to use tool for the analysis of subcellular mRNA transcript colocalisation in smFISH data. Scientific Reports, 14, 8348. (doi: 10.1038/s41598-024-58641-3) (PMID:38594373) (PMCID:PMC11004122)
Mahmood, M. et al. (2024) Mitochondrial DNA mutations drive aerobic glycolysis to enhance checkpoint blockade response in melanoma. Nature Cancer, (doi: 10.1038/s43018-023-00721-w) (PMID:38286828) (Early Online Publication)
Young, A. L., Lorimer, T., Al-Khalidi, S. K. and Roberts, E. W. (2023) De novo priming: driver of immunotherapy responses or epiphenomenon? Essays In Biochemistry, 67(6), pp. 929-939. (doi: 10.1042/EBC20220244) (PMID:37139854) (PMCID:PMC10539938)
Pirillo, C. et al. (2023) Cotransfer of antigen and contextual information harmonizes peripheral and lymph node conventional dendritic cell activation. Science Immunology, 8(85), eadg8249. (doi: 10.1126/sciimmunol.adg8249) (PMID:37478193) (PMCID:PMC7616026)
Sims, A. et al. (2023) Superinfection exclusion creates spatially distinct influenza virus populations. PLoS Biology, 21(2), e3001941. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3001941) (PMID:36757937) (PMCID:PMC9910727)
Leslie, J. et al. (2022) CXCR2 inhibition enables NASH-HCC immunotherapy. Gut, 71(10), pp. 2093-2106. (doi: 10.1136/gutjnl-2021-326259) (PMID:35477863) (PMCID:PMC9484388)
Bravo-Blas, A., Pirillo, C., Shergold, A., Andrusaite, A. and Roberts, E. W. (2022) Think global but act local: Tuning the dendritic cell response in cancer. International Journal of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, 147, 106227. (doi: 10.1016/j.biocel.2022.106227) (PMID:35605877)
Pirillo, C. et al. (2022) Metalloproteinase inhibition reduces AML growth, prevents stem cell loss and improves chemotherapy effectiveness. Blood Advances, 6(10), pp. 3126-3141. (doi: 10.1182/bloodadvances.2021004321) (PMID:35157757) (PMCID:PMC9131921)
Devlin, R. and Roberts, E. (2022) Building a healthy mouse model ecosystem to interrogate cancer biology. Disease Models and Mechanisms, 15(9), dmm049795. (doi: 10.1242/dmm.049795) (PMID:36098988) (PMCID:PMC9509886)
Ntala, C. et al. (2021) Analysis of prostate cancer tumor microenvironment identifies reduced stromal CD4 effector T-cell infiltration in tumors with pelvic nodal metastasis. European Urology Open Science, 29, pp. 19-29. (doi: 10.1016/j.euros.2021.05.001) (PMID:34337530) (PMCID:PMC8317840)
Binnewies, M. et al. (2019) Unleashing type-2 dendritic cells to drive protective antitumor CD4+ T cell immunity. Cell, 177(3), 556-571.e16. (doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2019.02.005) (PMID:30955881) (PMCID:PMC6954108)
Morrissey, M. A., Williamson, A. P., Steinbach, A. M., Roberts, E. W. , Kern, N., Headley, M. B. and Vale, R. D. (2018) Chimeric antigen receptors that trigger phagocytosis. eLife, 7, e36688. (doi: 10.7554/eLife.36688.001) (PMID:29862966) (PMCID:PMC6008046)
Binnewies, M. et al. (2018) Understanding the tumor immune microenvironment (TIME) for effective therapy. Nature Medicine, 24(5), pp. 541-550. (doi: 10.1038/s41591-018-0014-x) (PMID:29686425) (PMCID:PMC5998822)
Wong, P. T., Roberts, E. W. , Tang, S., Mukherjee, J., Cannon, J., Nip, A. J., Corbin, K., Krummel, M. F. and Choi, S. K. (2017) Control of an unusual photo-claisen rearrangement in coumarin caged tamoxifen through an extended spacer. ACS Chemical Biology, 12(4), pp. 1001-1010. (doi: 10.1021/acschembio.6b00999) (PMID:28191924) (PMCID:PMC5404426)
Flint, T. R., Janowitz, T., Connell, C. M., Roberts, E. W. , Denton, A. E., Coll, A. P., Jodrell, D. I. and Fearon, D. T. (2016) Tumor-induced IL-6 reprograms host metabolism to suppress anti-tumor immunity. Cell Metabolism, 24(5), pp. 672-684. (doi: 10.1016/j.cmet.2016.10.010) (PMID:27829137) (PMCID:PMC5106372)
Roberts, E. W. , Broz, M. L., Binnewies, M., Headley, M. B., Nelson, A. E., Wolf, D. M., Kaisho, T., Bogunovic, D., Bhardwaj, N. and Krummel, M. F. (2016) Critical role for CD103 + /CD141 + dendritic cells bearing CCR7 for tumor antigen trafficking and priming of T cell immunity in melanoma. Cancer Cell, 30(2), pp. 324-336. (doi: 10.1016/j.ccell.2016.06.003) (PMID:27424807) (PMCID:PMC5374862)
Headley, M. B., Bins, A., Nip, A., Roberts, E. W. , Looney, M. R., Gerard, A. and Krummel, M. F. (2016) Visualization of immediate immune responses to pioneer metastatic cells in the lung. Nature, 531(7595), pp. 513-517. (doi: 10.1038/nature16985) (PMID:26982733) (PMCID:PMC4892380)
Denton, A.E., Roberts, E.W. , Linterman, M.A. and Fearon, D.T. (2014) Fibroblastic reticular cells of the lymph node are required for retention of resting but not activated CD8+ T cells. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 111(33), pp. 12139-12144. (doi: 10.1073/pnas.1412910111) (PMID:25092322) (PMCID:PMC4143042)
Feig, C. et al. (2013) Targeting CXCL12 from FAP-expressing carcinoma-associated fibroblasts synergizes with anti-PD-L1 immunotherapy in pancreatic cancer. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 110(50), pp. 20212-20217. (doi: 10.1073/pnas.1320318110) (PMID:24277834) (PMCID:PMC3864274)
Roberts, E. W. et al. (2013) Depletion of stromal cells expressing fibroblast activation protein-α from skeletal muscle and bone marrow results in cachexia and anemia. Journal of Experimental Medicine, 210(6), pp. 1137-1151. (doi: 10.1084/jem.20122344) (PMID:23712428) (PMCID:PMC3674708)
Book Sections
Denton, A. E., Roberts, E. W. and Fearon, D. T. (2018) Stromal cells in the tumor microenvironment. In: Owens, B. M.J. and Lakins, M. A. (eds.) Stromal Immunology. Series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, 1060. Springer, pp. 99-114. ISBN 9783319781259 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-78127-3_6)
Roberts, E.W. , Denton, A.E. and Fearon, D.T. (2016) Roles of stromal cells in the immune system. In: Bradshaw, R. A. and Stahl, P. D. (eds.) Encyclopedia of Cell Biology. Elsevier, pp. 616-623. ISBN 9780123947963 (doi: 10.1016/B978-0-12-394447-4.30079-7)
Grants
Grants and Awards listed are those received whilst working with the University of Glasgow.
- Investigating the tumour microenvironment of high risk localised prostate cancer to identify actionable pathways involved in cancer progression
2024 - 2029
Research datasets
2022
Sims, A., Burgess Tornaletti, L., Jasim, S., Pirillo, C., Devlin, R., Hirst, J., Loney, C. , Wojtus, J., Sloan, E., Thorley, L., Boutell, C. , Roberts, E. and Hutchinson, E. (2022) Superinfection exclusion creates spatially distinct influenza virus populations. [Data Collection]