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Maximilian Frosch @mfrosch.bsky.social · 10d

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Nature @nature.com · 10d

A fresh supply of the immune cells that keep the brain tidy might one day help to treat a host of conditions, from ultra-rare genetic disorders to more familiar scourges, such as Alzheimer’s disease.

go.nature.com/46mGgPA

Swapping old immune cells in the brain with fresh ones could treat disease

Nature - Replacing immune cells called microglia holds promise for addressing brain conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease.

go.nature.com

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Katrin Kierdorf @katrinkierdorf.bsky.social · 11d

Love goes out to all the fly peeps @edrc2025.bsky.social, fantastic meeting and we had brilliant time together with @classenlab.bsky.social in Alicante!♥️♥️♥️
Can’t wait for the EDRC 2027 in Bonn!

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CIBSS – Centre for Integrative Biological Signalling Studies @cibss.bsky.social · 16d

New leadership for #CIBSS!
Welcome Sonja-Verena Albers as new spokesperson & congrats to Claudine Kraft on her confirmation. Together with Jürgen Kleine-Vehn, they’ll lead CIBSS into its #NextChapter – following Wolfgang Driever & Carola Hunte.
More info: kurzlinks.de/fkv4

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KleineVehnLab @kleinevehnlab.bsky.social · 16d

The future of @cibss.bsky.social @uni-freiburg.de is about teamwork, curiosity, and collaboration across disciplines.

We are thrilled to be in this together @kraftlabfr.bsky.social @archaellum.bsky.social @kleinevehnlab.bsky.social !

selfie of @kraftlabfr.bsky.social @archaellum.bsky.social @kleinevehnlab.bsky.social

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Katrin Kierdorf @katrinkierdorf.bsky.social · 21d

To all hemocyte lovers: Angela and me are hosting a special issue on Drosophila hemocytes 🪰👾We have some brillant drosophilists around the world who agreed to submit a review to this special issue! If you are also interested to contribute, reach out to us and we can give you more information!

Developmental Biology @devbiol.bsky.social · Aug 27

CALL FOR PAPERS! 🪰

Drosophila blood cells - Our #DBspecialissue highlights novel findings on hemocyte diversity in Drosophila melanogaster. The reviews explore diversity in terms of ontogeny, functional specification and organ-organ communication.

Submit today! tinyurl.com/357v25tj

Drosophila blood cells - Our special issue highlights novel findings on hemocyte diversity in Drosophila melanogaster. The reviews explore diversity in terms of ontogeny, functional specification and organ-organ communication.

Submit today! https://tinyurl.com/357v25tj

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Katrin Kierdorf @katrinkierdorf.bsky.social · 28d

Our newest study is out🥳! Big shout out to Alex and Philippe for their amazing work here 🫶🏻 and thx to all collaborators who helped us during this journey! And let me tell you… this is just one tiny puzzle piece of understanding microglia/macrophage tissue homing 😎 www.cell.com/developmenta...

Early microglia progenitors colonize the embryonic CNS via integrin-mediated migration from the pial surface

Petry et al. demonstrate a defined migration route of microglia progenitors from the surrounding mesenchyme into the embryonic CNS. This process relies on integrin activation and interactions with the...

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Dominic Grün @dominicgrun.bsky.social · Jul 21

Join our "Advances in Single-Cell Technologies" meeting in December in Freiburg, co-organised with Marco Prinz and @katrinkierdorf.bsky.social. Excellent line-up of speakers covering spatial technologies, lineage tracing, computational methods, and more.
www.uniklinik-freiburg.de/single-cell-...

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Hannah Garner @hannahgarner.bsky.social · Jun 9

Thank you to Lai Guan Ng and Lihui Dong for highlighting our work! www.cell.com/cancer-cell/...

Tumor neutrophils rewired from birth

Systemic responses during tumor progression reshape granulopoiesis. In this issue of Cancer Cell, Garner et al. show that tumor-derived signals reprogram neutrophil development early in myelopoiesis. ...

www.cell.com

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CIBSS – Centre for Integrative Biological Signalling Studies @cibss.bsky.social · Jul 15

Latest #ResearchNews from #NeuroImmunology: Katrin Kierdorf, Marco Prinz and colleagues show how the brain's own immune cells react in Alzheimer's disease and identify an important #Signalling pathway. Recently published in
@natneuro.nature.com.
Read more 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Universität Freiburg @uni-freiburg.de · Jul 15

#Alzheimer betrifft nicht nur das Gedächtnis, sondern auch das Immunsystem des Gehirns: Freiburger Forschende identifizieren im Tiermodell wichtigen Signalweg und zeigen, wie hirneigene #Immunzellen bei Alzheimer reagieren.
➡️ ufr.link/prinz-alzheimer
@cibss.bsky.social @uniklinik-fr.bsky.social

rof. Dr. Marco Prinz, Ärztlicher Direktor des Instituts für Neuropathologie am Universitätsklinikum Freiburg sowie Mitglied des Exzellenzclusters CIBSS – Centre for Integrative Biological Signalling der Universität Freiburg.

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Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics @mpi-ie.bsky.social · Jul 15

The first comprehensive map of HSC metabolism. 😱

The team of @ninacabezas.bsky.social published the first integrated map detailing metabolic & molecular changes in human blood stem cells as they age, specialize, or turn cancerous with many astonishing insights

More in @natcellbio.nature.com or ⬇️

Mapping the metabolism of blood stem cells

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics and ETH Zurich have created the first comprehensive metabolic profile of human blood stem cells. This opens up new possibilitie...

www.ie-freiburg.mpg.de

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Katrin Kierdorf @katrinkierdorf.bsky.social · Jul 14

🥳🥳🥳Countless years in the making and there it is 🫶🏻
Exceptionally proud of my lab and especially Lance who was driving this project for the last years! 🏎️Thank you to all the fantastic collaborators ♥️ I hope everyone enjoys reading our little story! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Response of spatially defined microglia states with distinct chromatin accessibility in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease - Nature Neuroscience

The dynamics of microglia states adjacent to or far from amyloid-beta plaques are unclear. Here the authors show that non-plaque-associated microglia modulate the cell population expansion in response...

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Katrin Kierdorf @katrinkierdorf.bsky.social · Jul 5

Brilliant talk by Lance from our lab at the 2nd ASPIRE Meeting about his soon to be online study on understanding microglia subsets in AD and what we can learn about windows of opportunity to modulate them!

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Dominic Grün @dominicgrun.bsky.social · Jul 2

Few dates left to apply for this tenure-track professorship on Single-Cell Systems Biology in my department at @uni-wuerzburg.de. Competitive package and highly attractive research environment at the Institute of Systems Immunology.

Dominic Grün @dominicgrun.bsky.social · Jun 2

We have an attractive opening for a tenure-track professorship in Single-Cell Systems Biology. Excellent package and infrastructure at @uni-wuerzburg.de Institute of Systems Immunology. Great place to live and work in the heart of the franconian wine region!

jobs.sciencecareers.org/job/673667/j...

junior professorship position (f/m/d) in Single-Cell Systems Biology - Würzburg (Stadt), Bayern (DE) job with Julius-Maximilians-University Würzburg - Faculty of Medicine | 673667

The Julius-Maximilians-University Würzburg, Faculty of Medicine is offering one junior professorship position (f/m/d) in Single-Cell Systems Biology.

jobs.sciencecareers.org

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Katrin Kierdorf @katrinkierdorf.bsky.social · Jun 30

So excited to be part of the 11th cardiac regeneration and vascular biology meeting in San Servolo! Excellent science and such a beautiful location

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Stephan P. Rosshart @srosshart.bsky.social · Jun 20

Please share our latest work @natcomms.nature.com „ONE MICROBIOTA TO RULE THEM ALL“ doi.org/10.1038/s414... A big THANK YOU to the entire team of great scientists! #wildlings doi.org/10.1126/scie... www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... www.cell.com/trends/immun... @fau.de @Hornegger.bsky.social

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Stephan P. Rosshart @srosshart.bsky.social · Jun 29

Please share! Hiring PIs working in microbiome, metabolism, cancer, allergies, autoimmunity, neurological and infectious diseases. We offer SPF-, gnotobiotic- and wildling-models + generous lab space + top notch equip., e.g. SONY ID7000, 10X Xenium, MACSima. Contact: [email protected]

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Dr. Peter Walentek (Walentek Lab) @walenteklab.bsky.social · Jun 16

Save the date 📅! Our TriNational #devbio #stemcell Meeting 2025 will be held in Freiburg on Sept. 19th. As always, participation is free and talks will be selected from early career scientists. Joun us 😊
Info: devstemcell.org/home

@biozentrum.unibas.ch @uni-freiburg.de @igbmc.bsky.social

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Mass Lab @masslab.bsky.social · Jun 15

The #Rosshart Lab goes wild again! Ever wondered whether using #Wildlings in our research would change the outcome of our results? 🤔💡 #immunosky @fau.de
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Laboratory mice engrafted with natural gut microbiota possess a wildling-like phenotype - Nature Communications

Here, the authors apply a standardized system, called TXsystem, to transplant wild mouse gut microbiota into SPF mice, developing “TXwildlings” mice that stably retain natural microbiota and human-lik...

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CIBSS – Centre for Integrative Biological Signalling Studies @cibss.bsky.social · May 22

We are thrilled to have just found out: CIBSS has secured continued funding under the #ExcellenceStrategy! This major boost will enable us to accelerate our research into biological signalling and lay the groundwork for next-generation insights from 2026 to 2032!

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Katrin Kierdorf @katrinkierdorf.bsky.social · Apr 8

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Katrin Kierdorf @katrinkierdorf.bsky.social · Apr 8

Warm-up for the big international symposium for early life immunity tomorrow with our CoPILOT crew! #TRR359 #IRTG-CoPILOT

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Mass Lab @masslab.bsky.social · Jan 15

We are happy to announce the new @for5775.bsky.social seminar series. Watch out for fantastic #macrophage talks!

FOR5775 MagNet @for5775.bsky.social · Jan 15

Join our #MagNet #Seminar by Nicolas Venteclef! He will be talking about #epigenetics and #adipose tissue #macrophages: January 20th at 4pm CET. Enter #zoom via QR code

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Mass Lab @masslab.bsky.social · Jan 12

Only few more days left to apply! We have several #PhD #positions in the field of #immunology #development #cellbiology #macrophages! #FOR5775 is hiring!! Find details here: macrophagenetwork.com/news-2/
Pls repost👇 #immunosky

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Florens Lohrmann @lohrmanf.bsky.social · Jan 9

Join the cutting-edge discussions at the International Symposium on Perinatal and Early Life Immunity, April 9-12 2025, Freiburg, Germany.
www.perinatal-immunity.de/en/symposium2025
Late-breaking abstracts still accepted!

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