Cluster of Excellence ImmunoSensation
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ImmunoSensation is a Cluster of Excellence at the @unibonn.bsky.social‬ performing research in the field of #immunology. Visit our website: www.immunosensation.de
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🏆 This year’s #NobelPrize in #Physiology or #Medicine was awarded to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, and Shimon Sakaguchi for their discoveries on peripheral immune tolerance and the critical role of regulatory T cells (Tregs) in preventing autoimmune disease.

Congratulations to the laureates!
They discovered how the immune system is kept in check
The body’s powerful immune system must be regulated, or it may attack our own organs. Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi are awarded the Nobel…
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📘 New #publication. The group of Veronika Lukacs-Kornek recently published a research article titled "Global matrisome changes in obese lung are linked to fibroblastic stroma and premature aging" in Cell Reports.

Read more on our website: www.immunosensation.de/news/obesity...
Obesity causes lungs to age prematurely
What effects does severe obesity have on the lungs? A research team led by Prof. Dr. Veronika Lukacs-Kornek from the ‘ImmunoSensation2’ Cluster of Excellence…
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🌍 The Human Immunome Project has announced its Scientific Partner Network, a global alliance to perform research on the human immune system in health and disease.

The University of Bonn, our Cluster, the DZNE, and the Swarm Learning Consortium will serve as the European Hub for HIP.
Human Immunome Project Announces Scientific Partner Network
The Human Immunome Project (HIP) – a global NGO using artificial intelligence and big data to unlock the secrets of the human immune system in health and…
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🚨 #Job alert! The group of @boztugk.bsky.social at the University Hospital Bonn is looking for a

#Postdoc in Immunogenetics and Pediatric Autoimmune Diseases (m/f/d)

Application deadline is October 15.

Check out the full job ad at our website: www.immunosensation.de/opportunitie...
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📘 New #publication! The group of @boztugk.bsky.social published a #review #article titled "Immune-related actinopathies at the cross-road of immunodeficiency, autoimmunity and autoinflammation" in Nature Reviews Immunology.

Read more in the news article: www.immunosensation.de/news/how-cel...
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🌅 Last week we celebrated the 4th International School on Advanced Immunology together with (IFReC) Immunology Frontier Research Center from the Osaka University at the beautiful Maria Laach, Germany.

It was a great pleasure for us to host this year's school!
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Last Sunday we welcomed the first group of people intersted in exploring at the NeuVa ART LAB. Huge thanks to Paula Urrutia @sciart-is-cool.bsky.social and everyone who made it possible!
Looking forward to the next one!

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🚨 Open #position! The group of Zeinab Abdullah is looking for two PhD students for

a) Characterisation of hepatic NK-like T cells

b) Dissecting the role of STING signalling in anti-viral T cell responses

Application deadline: October 30

More information: www.immunosensation.de/opportunitie...
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🚨 Open #position! The group of Zeinab Abdullah at the Institute of Molecular Medicine and Experimental Immunology is looking for a

Postdoc in Immunology (TVL13/100%)

Application deadline: October 30

Apply now!

More information on our website: www.immunosensation.de/opportunitie...
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🚨 #Job alert! The group of Zeinab Abdullah at the Institute of Molecular Medicine and Experimental Immunology is looking for a

BTA or Biological laboratory technician (m/w/d)

Application deadline: October 30

Apply now!

More information on our website: www.immunosensation.de/opportunitie...
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🎬 Episode 18 of #SpotOnScience is out!

In this episode, Rudolfo Karl from the Institute of Innate Immunity shares his work on the role of macrophages in renal tissue promoting cystogenesis in early polycystic kidney disease.

Check out Spot on Science Episode 18: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmlT...
Spot on Science, Episode#18, Rudolfo Karl/ Tissue-residient macrophages in Polycystic Kidney Disease
YouTube video by Exzellenzcluster ImmunoSensation
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🚨 Deadline approaching! Register now for the Cluster Science Days 2025 taking place November 18 & 19 at the BMZ I & II.

Abstract submission is open until September 1st

Register here: www.conftool.org/cluster-scie...

#sciencedays #event #symposium #networking #meeting #sessions #Bonn
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🎬 Episode 17 of #SpotOnScience is out!

In this episode, Jeannette Gebel from the Institute of Innate Immunity is talking about her recent publication about a novel photoswitch that can enhance gene expression in mammalian cells.

Now available on Youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yR_...
Spot on Science, Episode#17, Jeannette Gebel / Optogenetic enhancement of protein bioproduction
YouTube video by Exzellenzcluster ImmunoSensation
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🚨 #Job alert! The group of Johannes Brägelmann at the Medical ClinicIII at the University Hospital in Bonn is offering 2 PhD positions:

1) PhD in Cancer Immunology
Link: www.immunosensation.de/opportunitie...

2) PhD in Spatial Cancer Biology
Link: www.immunosensation.de/opportunitie...

Apply now!
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🚨 #Job alert! The group of Mihai Netea at the LIMES Institute in Bonn is looking for 2 #PhD students to

1) investigate the reversal of immune tolerance in sepsis

Link: www.immunosensation.de/opportunitie...

2) inflammatory processes during ageing

Link: www.immunosensation.de/opportunitie...
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🔔Paper alert! Extremely excited to share a preprint from our lab! Spearheaded by @axel-schmidt.bsky.social, a super talented medical & computational geneticist, we studied latent Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infection at population-scale.

Interested in how this works & what we found? Read along! 👇
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🚨 There is a new W2 Professorship for Tumor Immunology (permanent position) available in our department. 🎓 🧫 🧪 🔬

ℹ️ Check out the details here: www.uni-bonn.de/en/universit...

⏰ Apply now! Application deadline is August 26, 2025.

📢 Please share!

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W2 Professorship for Tumor Immunology
W2 Professorship
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New #publication! The team of Valentin Schäfer from the Institute of Rheumatology and Clin. Immunology published a research article about the role of mosaic loss of the Y chromosome in giant cell arteritis in Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases.

Read the full publication: doi.org/10.1016/j.ar...
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🎬 Episode 16 of #SpotOnScience is out!

In this episode, Aleksej Frolov from the German Centre for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE) shares his work on the influence of the immune system on spastic paraplegia type 15 (SPG15).

Check out Spot on Science Episode 16: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jH3G...
Spot on Science, Episode#16 Aleksej Frolov / Microglia and T cell activation in spastic paraplegia
YouTube video by Exzellenzcluster ImmunoSensation
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🌅 The ImmunoSensation #Summer #School 2025 was a great success!

The school brought together 20 PhD students for four days of scientific #exchange and #networking, all set in the beautiful Siebengebirge in Königswinter.

A big thank you to everyone who contributed to this collaborative experience! 👏
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🎬 Time for Hashtag#SpotOnScience: Episode 15 is out now!

🧑‍🔬 How does #obesity during #pregnancy affect the next generation?

👉 Let Hao Huang introduce you to his findings: youtu.be/ZpylsSbgGbg
Spot on Science, Episode#15 Hao Huang / How maternal obesity effects the next generation
YouTube video by Exzellenzcluster ImmunoSensation
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It was a great pleasure attending the #symposium of the Bonn-Cumming Host-Directed Pandemic Therapeutics Program (BCHT)!

Delegates from the Cumming Global Centre for Pandemic Therapeutics in #Melbourne, Australia visited #Bonn to discuss current and future #collaborations with Cluster scientists.
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Food Can Fix It! How healthy eating can protect us and the planet

Join the panel discussion at Museum Koenig

📅 Date: 25.06.2025, 6.30PM

📍 Location: Museum Koenig Bonn

Please note that the event is in German.

You can find more information on our website: www.immunosensation.de/events/food-...