Biography
Immunologist with a keen interest in clinical research, drug-discovery, scientific writing and developing novel therapeutics in immuno-oncology and immuno-inflammation. Currently based in the laboratory of Prof Luke O"Neill in Dublin whilst working as a Senior Scientific Investigator for Sitryx Therapeutics in Oxford, with a senior role in managing projects in immunology, target validation, immunometabolism and translational research.
Publications and Further Research Outputs
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Timmons GA, Carroll RG, O'Siorain JR, Cervantes-Silva MP, Fagan LE, Cox SL, Palsson-McDermott E, Finlay DK, Vincent EE, Jones N, Curtis AM, The Circadian Clock Protein BMAL1 Acts as a Metabolic Sensor In Macrophages to Control the Production of Pro IL-1β, Frontiers in Immunology, (12), 2021
Zbigniew Zaslona, Ewelina Flis, Mieszko M Wilk, Richard G Carroll, Eva M Palsson-McDermott, Mark M Hughes, Ciana Diskin, Kathy Banahan, Dylan G Ryan, Alexander Hooftman, Alicja Misiak, Jay Kearney, Gunter Lochnit, Wilhelm Bertrams, Timm Greulich, Bernd Schmeck, Oliver J McElvaney, Kingston H G Mills, Ed C Lavelle, Małgorzata Wygrecka, Emma M Creagh, Luke A J O'Neill, Caspase-11 promotes allergic airway inflammation, Nature Communications, 2020
PÃ¥lsson-McDermott, E.M. and Oâ Neill, L.A.J., Targeting immunometabolism as an anti-inflammatory strategy, Cell Research, 30, (4), 2020, p300-314
Angiari, S. and Runtsch, M.C. and Sutton, C.E. and Palsson-McDermott, E.M. and Kelly, B. and Rana, N. and Kane, H. and Papadopoulou, G. and Pearce, E.L. and Mills, K.H.G. and O'Neill, L.A.J., Pharmacological Activation of Pyruvate Kinase M2 Inhibits CD4+ T Cell Pathogenicity and Suppresses Autoimmunity, Cell Metabolism, 31, (2), 2020, p391-405.e8
Galván-Peña, S., Carroll, R.G., Newman, C., (...), Modis, L.K., O'Neill, L.A., Malonylation of GAPDH is an inflammatory signal in macrophages, Nature Communications, 10, (1), 2019, p338-
McElvaney, O.J. and Zaslona, Z. and Becker-Flegler, K. and Palsson-McDermott, E.M. and Boland, F. and Gunaratnam, C. and Gulbins, E. and O'Neill, L.A. and Reeves, E.P. and McElvaney, N.G., Specific inhibition of the NLRP3 inflammasome as an antiinflammatory strategy in cystic fibrosis, American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 200, (11), 2019, p1381-1391
Hughes, M.M. and Hooftman, A. and Angiari, S. and Tummala, P. and Zaslona, Z. and Runtsch, M.C. and McGettrick, A.F. and Sutton, C.E. and Diskin, C. and Rooke, M. and Takahashi, S. and Sundararaj, S. and Casarotto, M.G. and Dahlstrom, J.E. and Palsson-McDermott, E.M. and Corr, S.C. and Mills, K.H.G. and Preston, R.J.S. and Neamati, N. and Xie, Y. and Baell, J.B. and Board, P.G. and O'Neill, L.A.J., Glutathione Transferase Omega-1 Regulates NLRP3 Inflammasome Activation through NEK7 Deglutathionylation, Cell Reports, 29, (1), 2019, p151-161.e5
Early JO, Menon D, Wyse CA, Cervantes-Silva MP, Zaslona Z, Carroll RG, Palsson-McDermott EM, Angiari S, Ryan DG, Corcoran SE, Timmons G, Geiger SS, Fitzpatrick DJ, O'Connell D, Xavier RJ, Hokamp K, O'Neill LAJ, Curtis AM., Circadian clock protein BMAL1 regulates IL-1ß in macrophages via NRF2., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 115, (36), 2018, pE8460-E8468
Diskin C, Pålsson-McDermott EM., Metabolic Modulation in Macrophage Effector Function., Frontiers in immunology, 9, 2018, p270
Zas"ona Z, Pålsson-McDermott EM, Menon D, Haneklaus M, Flis E, Prendeville H, Corcoran SE, Peters-Golden M, O'Neill LAJ., The Induction of Pro-IL-1ß by Lipopolysaccharide Requires Endogenous Prostaglandin E2 Production., Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950), 198, (9), 2017, p3558-3564
Palsson-McDermott, E.M. and Dyck, L. and Zaslona, Z. and Menon, D. and McGettrick, A.F. and Mills, K.H.G. and O'Neill, L.A., Pyruvate kinase M2 is required for the expression of the immune checkpoint PD-L1 in immune cells and tumors, Frontiers in Immunology, 8, (OCT), 2017
Ní Cheallaigh, C., Sheedy, F.J., Harris, J., Muñoz-Wolf, N., Lee, J., West, K., McDermott, E.P., Smyth, A., Gleeson, L.E., Coleman, M., Martinez, N., Hearnden, C.H., Tynan, G.A., Carroll, E.C., Jones, S.A., Corr, S.C., Bernard, N.J., Hughes, M.M., Corcoran, S.E., O'Sullivan, M., Fallon, C.M., Kornfeld, H., Golenbock, D., Gordon, S.V., O'Neill, L.A., Keane, J. Lavelle, E.C, A Common Variant in the Adaptor Mal Regulates Interferon Gamma Signaling., Immunity, 44, (2), 2016, p368 - 379
Gleeson LE, Sheedy FJ, Palsson-McDermott EM, Triglia D, O'Leary SM, O'Sullivan MP, O'Neill LA, Keane J, Cutting Edge: Mycobacterium tuberculosis Induces Aerobic Glycolysis in Human Alveolar Macrophages That Is Required for Control of Intracellular Bacillary Replication., Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950), 196, (6), 2016, p2444-2449
Palsson-McDermott EM, Curtis AM, Goel G, Lauterbach MA, Sheedy FJ, Gleeson LE, van den Bosch MW, Quinn SR, Domingo-Fernandez R, Johnson DG, Jiang J, Israelsen WJ, Keane J, Thomas C, Clish C, Vanden Heiden M, Xavier RJ, O'Neill LA, Pyruvate Kinase M2 Regulates Hif-1alfa Activity and IL-1ß Induction and Is a Critical Determinant of the Warburg Effect in LPS-Activated Macrophages., Cell metabolism, 21, (1), 2015, p65-80
Palsson-Mcdermott, E.M., Curtis, A.M., Goel, G., (...), Xavier, R.J., O'Neill, L.A.J. , Erratum: Pyruvate kinase m2 regulates hif-1α activity and IL-1β induction and is a critical determinant of the warburg effect in lps-activated macrophages (Cell Metabolism (2015) 21 (65-80)), 2015, - 347
Corr, S.C., Palsson-Mcdermott, E.M., Grishina, I., Barry, S.P., Aviello, G., Bernard, N.J., Casey, P.G., Ward, J.B.J., Keely, S.J., Dandekar, S., Fallon, P.G., O'Neill, L.A.J., MyD88 adaptor-like (Mal) functions in the epithelial barrier and contributes to intestinal integrity via protein kinase C, Mucosal Immunology, 7, (1), 2014, p57-67
Tannahill, GM, Curtis, AM, Adamik, J, Palsson-McDermott, EM, McGettrick, AF, Goel, G, Frezza, C, Bernard, NJ, Kelly, B, Foley, NH, Zheng, L, Gardet, A, Tong, Z, Jany, SS, Corr, SC, Haneklaus, M, Caffrey, BE, Pierce, K, Walmsley, S, Beasley, FC, Cummins, E, Nizet, V, Whyte, M, Taylor, CT, Lin, H, Masters, SL, Gottlieb, E, Kelly, VP, Clish, C, Auron, PE, Xavier, RJ, O'Neill, LAJ, Succinate is an inflammatory signal that induces IL-1 beta through HIF-1 alpha, NATURE, 496, (7444), 2013, p238-+
Sheedy FJ, Palsson-McDermott E, Hennessy EJ, Martin C, O'Leary JJ, Ruan Q, Johnson DS, Chen Y, O'Neill LA., Negative regulation of TLR4 via targeting of the proinflammatory tumor suppressor PDCD4 by the microRNA miR-21, Nature Immunology, 11, (2), 2010, p141-147
Palsson-McDermott E, Doyle S, McGettrick A, Hardy M, Husebye H, Banahan K, Gong M, Golenbock , Espevik T and O'Neill LAJ, TAG: a GOLD domain-containing splice variant of TRAM that negatively regulates the MyD88-independent pathway in TLR4 signaling, Nature Immunology, 10, 2009, p579 - 586
McCoy CE, Carpenter S, Palsson-McDermott EM, Gearing J, O'Neill, LA, Glucocorticoids inhibit IRF3 phosphorylation in response to Toll-like, The Journal of Biological Chemistry, 283, 2008, p14277-14285
Pålsson-McDermott EM, O'Neill LA., The potential of targeting Toll-like receptor 2 in autoimmune and inflammatory diseases, Ir J Med Sci, 176, (4), 2007, p253-60
Miggin SM, Palsson-McDermott E, Dunne A, Jefferies, CA, Pinteaux, E, Banahan, K, Murphy C, Moynagh PN, Yamamoto, S, Akira S, Rothwell N, Golenbock, DT, Fitzgerald KA and O'Neill LA, NF-kappaB activation by the Toll-IL-1 receptor domain-containing protein Mal is regulated by caspase-1, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , 104, 2007, p3372 - 3377
Palsson-McDermott EM, O'Neill, LA. , Building an immune system from nine domains., Biochem Soc Trans., 35, (6), 2007, p1437-44
Palsson-McDermott EM, O'Neill LA. , The potential of targeting Toll-like receptor 2 in autoimmune and inflammatory diseases, Ir J Med Sci, 176, (4), 2007, p253-60
McGettrick, A, Brint EK, Palsson-McDermott, EM, Rowe, DC, Golenbock, DT, Gay NJ, Fitzgerald, KA and O'Neill LA, Trif-related adapter molecule is phosphorylated by protein kinase C epsilon during Toll-like receptor 4 signalling, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , 103, (24), 2006, p9196 - 9201
Palsson-McDermott EM and O'Neill LA, Signal transduction by the lipopolysacchride receptor Toll-like receptor-4, Immunology, 113, (2), 2004, p153 - 162
E. M. Palsson-McDermott and L. A. O'Neill, Signal transduction by the lipopolysaccharide receptor, Toll-like receptor-4, Immunology, 113, (2), 2004, p153-62
Eva Palsson-McDermott and Luke A.J. O'Neill, Ras participates in the activation of p38 MAPK by Interleukin-1 by associating with IRAK, IRAK2, TRAF6, and TAK-1, The Journal of Biological Chemistry, 277, (10), 2002, p7808 - 7815
K. A. Fitzgerald, E. M. Palsson-McDermott, A. G. Bowie, C. A. Jefferies, A. S. Mansell, G. Brady, E. Brint, A. Dunne, P. Gray, M. T. Harte, D. McMurray, D. E. Smith, J. E. Sims, T. A. Bird and L. A. O'Neill, Mal (MyD88-adapter-like) is required for Toll-like receptor-4 signal transduction, Nature, 413, (6851), 2001, p78-83
Fitzgerald KA, Palsson-McDermott EM, et al, Mal (MyD88-adapter-like) is required for Toll-like receptor-4 signal transduction, Nature, 413, (6851), 2001, p78 - 83
E. M. Palsson, M. Popoff, M. Thelestam and L. A. O'Neill, Divergent roles for Ras and Rap in the activation of p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase by interleukin-1, The Journal of Biological Chemistry, 275, (11), 2000, p7818-7825
Eva M Palsson,Michael Popoff, Monica Thelestam,Luke O'Neill, Divergent Roles for Ras and Rap in the Activation of p38 MAPK by Interleukin-1, The Journal of Biological Chemistry, 275, (11), 2000, p7818 - 7825
O'Neill LA, Matthews JS, Pålsson E, Jeffries C, Brennan P, Cantrell DA., Interleukin 1 signalling: synergy with Rac1 and Pi3 kinase., Biochemical Society Transactions, 25, (4), 1998, pS578 - S578
O'Neill LA, Matthews JS, Palsson EM, Jeffries C, Brennan P, Cantrell DA, Interleukin1 signalling: synergy with Rac1 and Pi3 kinase, Biochem Soc Trans, Nov, (25), 1997, pS578-