James Forman, DMD, PhD

Professor
Endowed Title: Mary Nell and Ralph B. Rogers Professorship in Immunology
Immunology
Graduate Program: Immunology
Molecular Microbiology

Contact Information

UT Southwestern Medical Center
5323 Harry Hines Boulevard
Dallas, Texas 75390

Office Phone: 214-648-5924
Office Fax: 214-648-5929

james.forman@utsouthwestern.edu

Education

Graduate SchoolTufts University (1971)
Graduate SchoolTufts University (1965)

Research Interests

CD8 T cells
class I antigens
Innate immunity
NK cells
NKT cells

Publications

Featured
Memory CD8+ T Cells Provide Innate Immune Protection against Listeria monocytogenes

Berg, R., Crossley, E., Murray, S. and Forman, J. , J. Experimental Medicine , 2003; (198):1583

Featured
MHC Class Ib Restricted CTL Provide Protection Against Primary and Secondary Listeria monocytogenes Infection.

Seaman, M., Wang, C.-R., and J. Forman. , J. Immunology , 2000; (165):5192-5201

Featured
The pathway for processing leader-derived peptides that regulate the maturation and expression of Qa-1b.

Bai, A., Broen, J and Forman, J. , Immunity , 1998; (9):413-421

Featured
The effect of the proteasome inhibitor lactacystin on the presentation of Tap-dependent and -independent peptide epitopes by class I molecules.

Bai, A. and Forman, J. , J. Immunol. , 1997; (159):2139-46

Featured
Identification of a Tap-dependent leader peptide recognized by alloreactive T cells specific for a class IB antigen.

Aldrich, C.J., DeCloux, A., Woods, A.S., Cotter, R.J., Soloski, M., and Forman, J. , Cell , 1994; (79):649-658

Featured
Negative and positive selection of antigen-specific cytotoxic T lymhoyctes affected by the 3 domain of MHC I molecules.

Aldrich, C.J., Hammer, R.E., Koszinowski, U., Hood, L., Stroynowski, I., and Forman, J. , Nature , 1991; (352):718-721

Imatinib mesylate inhibits antigen-specific memory CD8 T cell responses in vivo.

Parisa Sinai, Rance E. Berg, J. Marshall Haynie, Merrill J. Egorin, Robert L. Ilaria Jr, and James Forman , J. Immunology , February 2007; (178):2028-2037

Thymus-dependent memory phenotype CD8 T cells in naive B6.H-2Kb-/-Db-/- animals mediate an antigen-specific response against Listeria monocytogenes.

Su, Jie, Berg, R.E., Murray, S., and Forman, J , J. Immunology , Fall 2005; (in press)

Relative Contributions of NK and CD8 T cells to IFN-γ Mediated Innate Immune Protection against Listeria monocytogenes.

Rance E. Berg, Emily Crossley, Sean Murray and James Forman , J. Immunology Cover picture for the August 1 2005 issue of the Journal taken from this article. , 2005; (175):1571

The role of TCR stimulation and TGF-beta in controlling the expression of CD94/NKG2A receptors on CD8 T cells.

Gunturi, A, Berg, R.E., Crossley, E., Murray, S. and Forman J. , European J. Immunology , 2005; (35):766-775