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Hartner S*, Abolfathi H*, Rezanejad M, Liu B, Karimi E, Rogers D, Sorin M, Doré S, Desharnais L, Orain M, Enlow W, Gagné A, Wei Y, Bossé Y, Quail DF, Jobert P+ and Walsh LA+. (2025) Oncogenic driver mutations underlie the spatial tumour immune landscape of non-small cell lung cancer. Nature Communications 16:8402

Desharnais L*, Sorin M*, Rezanejad M, Liu B, Karimi E, Atallah A, Swaby AM, Yu MW, Doré S, Hartner S, Fiset B, Wei Y, Kadang B, Rayes R, Joubert P, Camilleri-Broët S, Fiset PO, Quail DF, Spicer JD+ and Walsh LA+. (2025) Spatially mapping the tumour immune microenvironments of non-small cell lung cancer. Nature Communications 16:1345

Karimi E*, Yu MW*, Maritan SM*, Perus LJM*, Rezanejad M, Sorin M, Dankner M, Fallah P, Dore S, Zuo D, Fiset B, Kloosterman DJ, Ramsay L, Wei Y, Lam S, Alsajjan R, Watson IR, Roldan Urgoiti G, Park M, Brandsma D, Senger DL, Chan JA, Akkari L, Petrecca K, Guiot MC, Siegel PM+, Quail DF+ and Walsh LA+. (2023) Single-cell spatial immune landscapes of primary and metastatic brain tumours. Nature 614:555-563

Sorin M*, Rezanejad M*, Karimi E*, Fiset B, Desharnais L, Perus LJM, Milette S, Yu MW, Maritan SM, Dore S, Pichette E, Enlow W, Gagne A, Wei Y, Orain M, Manem VSK, Rayes R, Siegel PM, Camilleri-Broet S, Fiset PO, Desmeules P, Spicer JD, Quail DF+, Joubert P+ and Walsh LA+. (2023) Single-cell spatial landscapes of the lung tumour immune microenvironment. Nature 614:548-554

McDowell SAC*, Milette S*, Dore S, Yu MW, Sorin M, Wilson L, Desharnais L, Cristea A, Varol O, Atallah A, Swaby A, Breton V, Arabzadeh A, Petrecca S, Loucif H, Bhagrath A, De Meo M, Lach KD, Issac MSM, Fiset B, Rayes RF, Mandl JN, Fritz JH, Fiset PO, Holt PR, Dannenberg AJ, Spicer JD, Walsh LA and Quail DF. (2023) Obesity alters monocyte developmental trajectories to enhance metastasis. J Exp Med 220:e20220509

Moldoveanu D, Ramsay L, Lajoie M, Anderson-Trocme L, Lingrand M, Berry D, Perus LJM, Wei Y, Moraes C, Alkallas R, Rajkumar S, Zuo D, Dankner M, Xu EH, Bertos NR, Najafabadi HS, Gravel S, Costantino S, Richer MJ, Lund AW, Del Rincon SV, Spatz A, Miller WH Jr, Jamal R, Lapointe R, Mes-Masson AM, Turcotte S, Petrecca K, Dumitra S, Meguerditchian AN, Richardson K, Tremblay F, Wang B, Chergui M, Guiot MC, Watters K, Stagg J, Quail DF, Mihalcioiu C, Meterissian S and Watson IR. (2022) Spatially mapping the immune landscape of melanoma using imaging mass cytometry. Science Immunology 7:eabi5072

McDowell SAC, Luo R, Arabzadeh A, Doré S, Bennett N, Breton V, Karimi E, Rezanejad M, Yang R, Lach K, Issac M, Samborska B, Perus L, Moldoveanu D, Wei Y, Fiset B, Rayes R, Watson I, Kazak L, Guiot MC, Fiset PO, Spicer JD, Dannenberg AJ, Walsh LA+ and Quail DF+. (2021) Neutrophil oxidative stress mediates obesity-associated vascular dysfunction and metastatic transmigration. Nature Cancer 2:545-562.

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Ng LG, Ballesteros I, Cassatella MA, Egeblad M, Fridlender ZG, Gabrilovich D, Gao Q, Granot Z, Grieshaber-Bouyer R, Grimes HL, Hedrick CC, Hidalgo A, Kaplan MJ, Kubes P, Ling GS, Lu L, Luo HR, Mayadas TN, Moutsopoulos NM, Ng M, Nigrovic PA, Ostuni R, Pittet MJ, Quail DF, Silvestre-Roig C, Soehnlein O, Udalova IA, Xue R, Zhang N and Kwok I. (2025) From complexity to consensus: A roadmap for neutrophil classification. Immunity 58:1890-1903

Quail DF and Walsh LA.(2024) Revolutionizing cancer research with spatial proteomics and visual intelligence. Nature Methods 21:2216-2219

Adrover JM, McDowell SAC, He XY, Quail DF and Egeblad M. (2023) NETworking with cancer: The bidirectional interplay between cancer and neutrophil extracellular traps. Cancer Cell 41:505-526

Walsh LA and Quail DF. (2023) Decoding the tumor microenvironment with spatial technologies. Nature Immunology 24:1982-1993

Quail DF, Amulic B, Aziz M, Barnes BJ, Eruslanov E, Fridlender ZG, Goodridge HS, Granot Z, Hidalgo A, Huttenlocher A, Kaplan MJ, Malanchi I, Merghoub T, Meylan E, Mittal V, Pittet MJ, Rubio-Ponce A, Udalova IA, van den Berg TK, Wagner DD, Wang P, Zychlinsky A, de Visser KE, Egeblad M and Kubes P. (2022) Neutrophil phenotypes and functions in cancer: A consensus statement. J Exp Med 219:e20220011

Koelwyn GJ, Quail DF, Zhang X and Jones LW. (2017) Exercise-dependent regulation of the tumour microenvironment. Nature Reviews Cancer 17:620-632