The SFB 854 and the Else-Kröner-Forschungskolleg regularly invite guest speakers to Magdeburg. The seminars are held in the lecture hall of the Kinderklinik (building 10) at 5 pm.

13 May 2020
Dr. Francesco Boccellato
Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, University of Oxford
"In vitro regeneration of human epithelial barriers to understand tissue homeostasis and response to infection"

12 December 2019
Dr. Tim Lämmermann
Max-Planck-Institute for Immunobiology and Epigenetics, Freiburg
"Innate immune cell dynamics in the tissue interstitium"

28 November 2019
Apl. Prof. Dr. Christiane Wolz
Interfaculty Institute of Microbiology and Infection Medicine, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen
"Staphylococcus aureus escape from within macrophages: Toxins and Regulators"

17 October 2019
Univ.-Prof. Dr. med. Ulrich Keller​
Clinic for Haematology and Oncology, Charité - University Hospital Berlin
"Pathogenesis and therapeutic targeting of Myc-dependent cancers"

26 September 2019
Dr. Nicolas Chatain
Haematology, Oncology, Haemostaseology and Stem Cell Transplantation, University Hospital Aachen
"'Hit the road, JAK!' - Old and New Strategies to target MPN"

05 September 2019
PD Dr. med. Constantin Lapa
Department of Nuclear Medicine, University Hospital Würzburg
"CXCR4-directed theranostics"

15 August 2019

Abgesagt!
Prof. Dr. Konstanze F. Winklhofer
Institute of Biochemistry and Pathobiochemistry
"Antigen-specific regulation of pulmonary tolerance and allergic inflammation in humans"

11 July 2019
Prof. Dr. Petra Bacher
Institute of Immunology, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein
"Antigen-specific regulation of pulmonary tolerance and allergic inflammation in humans"

27 June 2019
Dr. Sascha Kahlfuß
Department of Pathology, New York University School of Medicine, USA
"Calcium signaling in physiological and pathological Th17 immune responses"

13 June 2019
Prof. Dr. Ger van Zandbergen
Paul-Ehrlich Institue, Federal Institute for Vaccines and Biomedicines, Langen
"Magic bullets against Leishmania"

23 May 2019
Dr. Markus Bender
Department of Experimental Biomedicine, University Hospital Würzburg
"The role of ADAP in megakaryocyte polarization and platelet biogenesis"

16 May 2019
Prof. Dr. med. Simone Spuler
Charité, University of Medicine Berlin and Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Department for muscle diseases
"Human muscle stem cells: Molecular properties and therapeutic potential"

28 March 2019
Prof. Dr. Stefan Rose-John
Institute of Biochemistry, Unit for Cytokine and Metalloproteinase Research, Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel
"Interleukin-6 and ADAM17 in inflammation and cancer"

21 March 2019
ABGESAGT!
Dr. Tim Lämmermann
Max-Planck-Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics, Freiburg
"Innate immune cell dynamics in the tissue interstitum"

14 February 2019
Dr. Till Strowig
Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI), Braunschweig
"Investigating the interplay of microbiota and host: From bugs to phenotypes"

31 January 2019
Prof. Dr. Immo Prinz
Institute of Immunology, Hannover Medical School
"Innate and Adaptive Functions of γδ T cells"

24 January 2019
Prof. Dr. Markus Sperandio
Walter Brendel Centre of Experimental Medicine, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
"Src kinases in neutrophil recruitment"

22 November 2018
Dr. Gabriel Sollberger
Max-Planck-Institute for Infection Biology, Cellular Microbiology, Berlin
"Neutrophil biology from development to lysis"

16 August 2018
Yuanqing Ma
University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
"T cell receptor clustering as a mechanism of signal initiation"

09 August 2018
Pushpa Pandiyan, PhD
School of Dental Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio
"The role of short chain fatty acids in regulating Foxp3⁺ cells and immunomodulation in oral mucosa"

07 June 2018
PD Dr. Thomas Jacobs
Heat Protozoa Immunology, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg
"T cell regulation in Malaria: A tightrope walk between protection and pathology"

24 May 2018
Prof. Dr. Andreas Simm
Zentrum für Medizinische Grundlagenforschung & Universitätsklinik und Poliklinik für Herzchirurgie, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
"Advanced Glycation Endproducts: from aging to physiology"

03 May 2018
Prof. Paul A. Iaizzo, PhD
Institute for Engineering in Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA
"Translational Applications of black bear hibernation for ischemic protection and/or wound healing"

12 April 2018
Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Birgit Schittek
University of Tübingen, Department of Dermatology, Division of Dermatooncology
"The influence of skin inflammation and microbiota on S. aureus skin colonization"
(Seminar will be given at 5.15 pm)

05 April 2018
Prof. Nelson Gekara, PhD
Laboratory for Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden (MIMS), Umea, Sweden
"Cross-talks between DNA damage and innate immunity"
(Seminar will be given at 5.15 pm)

22 March 2018
Prof. Dr. med. Rafael Kramann
Klinik für Nieren- und Hochdruckkrankheiten, Rheumatologische und Immunologische Erkrankungen, Universitätsklinikum Aachen
"Perivascular progenitors in fibrotic and cardiovascular disease"

22 February 2018
Prof. Dr. Heike L. Pahl
Section of Molecular Hematology, Department of Hematology / Oncology, Center for Tumor Biology, University Hospital Freiburg
"The role of the transcription factor NFE2 in the pathophysiology of myeloproliferative neoplasms"

14 December 2017
Dr. Selina K. Jorch
Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Canada
"The interplay between phagocytes and S. aureus in the kidney during systemic infections"

07 December 2017
Dr. Penelope Kay-Fedorov
Institut für Virologie, Medizinsiche Hochschule Hannover
"The human cytomegalovirus protein pUL11 interacts with CD45 and affects T cell functions"

30 November 2017
Prof. Valentin Gordeliy
Institut de Biologie Structurale, Grenoble, France
"Microbial rhodopsins and optogenetics"

09 November 2017
Ing. Dr. med. univ. Stefan Hatzl
Division of Hematology, Medical University of Graz, Austria
"The role of miR-23a in acute myeloid leukemia"

02 November 2017
Prof. Dr. Nicole Joller
Institute of Experimental Immunology, University of Zurich
"Specialization of Tregs in Th1 responses"

26 October 2017
Dr. Jens Geginat
Insituto Nazionale di Genetica Molecolare "Romeo ad Enrica Invernizzi", Milano, Italy
"Protective and pathogenic T-cell subsets in human autoimmune dieseases"

19 September 2017
Prof. David Sibley
Washington University, Division of Biology and Biomedical Sciences, USA
"Modulation of innate immunity by T. gondii virulence effectors"
(Seminar will be given on Wednesday in house 22, seminar room 3)

15 June 2017
Prof. Dr. Daniela Krause
Institut für Tumorbiologie und Experimentelle Therapie, Frankfurt
"A hostel for the hostile: The role of the bone marrow microenvironment in haematopoiesis and leukaemopoiesis and its therapeutic targeting"
(Seminar will be given at 5.15 pm)

11 May 2017
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schamel
Institute of Biology III (Molecular Immunology) and BIOSS Centre for Biological Signalling Studies, University Freiburg
"A TCR-Cholesterol Interaction controls phosphorylation of the TCR by Lck"

20 April 2017
Prof. Ann Mullally
Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women´s Cancer Center, Harvard Medical School, United States
"Elucidating the mechanism by which mutant calreticulin is oncogenic and causes MPN"

30 March 2017
Prof. Eva Sverremark-Ekström
Stockholm University, Department of Molecular Biosciences, Stockholm, Sweden
"Microbiota-mediated impact on the maturation and function of different T cell populations"

16 March 2017
Prof. Dr. Wiebke Hansen
Universitätsklinikum Essen, Institut für Medizinische Mikrobiologie, Essen
"Immunregulatory processes during malaria infection"

19 January 2017
Prof. Laura Gibson, MD
University of Massachusetts Medical School, MA, United States
"Cytomegalovirus Disease in Immunocompromised Hosts"

15 December 2016
PD Dr. rer. nat. Elisabeth Deindl
Walter-Brendel-Zentrum für experimentelle Medizin der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) München
"New players in Arteriogenesis - the central role of mast cells"

08 December 2016
Prof. Dr. Alexander Dalpke
University of Heidelberg, Department of Infectious Diseases, Medical Microbiology and Hygiene
"Lights on, lights off - signal induction and signal termination in innate immunity"

01 December 2016
Prof. Tania Watts
University of Toronto (Canada)
"The where, when and why of TNF family member GITRL in control of viral infection"

24 November 2016
Univ.-Prof. Dr. med. Tim H. Brümmendorf
Uniklinik RWTH Aachen, Klinik für Onkologie, Hämatologie und Stammzellentransplantation
"All´s well that ends well: telomere biology and replicative aging in the hematiopoietic system"

27 October 2016
Prof. Dr. Stefan Raunser
Max Planck Institut für Molekulare Physiologie, Dortmund
"The power of cryo-EM: structure of a human cytoplasmic actomyosin complex at near-atomic resolution"
(Seminar will be given in house 26, Institute for Molecular and Clinical Immunology, first floor, conference room 1, room 2.09)

25 October 2016
Prof. Dr. Sebastian Sager
Otto-von-Guericke Universität, Institut für Mathematische Optimierung
"Mathematical Optimization for Clinical Decision Support"

22 September 2016
Prof. Dr. Michael Kirschfink
Universität Heidelberg, Institut für Immunologie
"Complement escape of cancer cells: Molecular mechanisms and strategies of intervention"

22 June 2016
Dr. Anne Brüstle
The Australian National University, Canberra
"The encephalitogenic potential of Th17 cells (Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue)"
(Seminar will be given on Wednesday in the lecture hall of building 4, room no. 147)

16 June 2016
PD Dr. Dr. Angelika Riemer
German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg
"Development of a therapeutic HPV vaccine via target epitope identification by mass spectrometry"

26 May 2016
Univ. - Prof. Dr. Jens Rettig
Universität des Saarlandes, Centrum für Integrative Physiologie und Molekulare Medizin (CIPMM), Homburg
"The other synapse: Calcium-dependent exocytosis in the immune system"

19 May 2016
Assistant Professor Dr. Eric Camerer
Institut national de al santé et de la recherche médical (INSERM - Paris, Cardiovascular Research Center)
"Paracrine regulation of vascular integrity and tone by circulating sphingosine - 1 - phosphate"

31 March 2016
Prof. Dr. Andreas Krüger
Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main, Institut für Molekulare Medizin
"Micro(RNA)management of lymphocyte development"

17 March 2016
Prof. Alain-Yves Barde
Cardiff University (Cardiff, Wales)
"BDNF in health and disease"

10 March 2016
Dr. Philippe Bousso
Unité des Dynamiques des Résponses Immunes, Département d´Immunologie, Institut Pasteur, Paris
"Decoding immune responses to cancer and infection using intravital imaging"

03 March 2016
Prof. PD Dr. sc. nat. Siegfried Hapfelmeier
Universität Bern, Institut für Infektionskrankheiten
"Immune recognition and control of intestinal bacterial infection"

29 February 2016
Prof. Dr. Steffen Backert
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen Nürnberg, Lehrstuhl für Mikrobiologie
"Oncogenic signal transduction by the gastric pathogen Helicobacter pylori"
(Seminar will be given on Monday at 5.00 pm)

25 February 2016
Prof. Dr. Michael Zeisberg
Universitätsmedizin Göttingen, Zentrum Innere Medizin, Klinik für Nephrologie und Rheumatologie
"Tubulointerstitielle Firbrose"

11 February 2016
Prof. Dr. Stephan Ludwig
Center for Molecular Biology of Inflammation - ZMBE Muenster, Institute of Molecular Virology
"Novel aspects of influenza virus interference with innate immune signaling"

28 January 2016
Prof. Dr. Claudia Rössig
University Hospital Muenster, Pediatric Hematology and Oncology
"CAR T cell therapy of cancer"
(Seminar will be given at 5.30 pm)

21 January 2016
Dr. Anton Aebischer
Robert Koch Institut Berlin, Department Infectious Diseases
"Leishmania: Towards a molecular understanding of intracellular survival"
(Seminar will be given at 5.15 pm)

08 October 2016
Prof. Dr. rer. nat. habil Frank-Dietmar Böhmer
Friedrich Schiller Universität Jena, Zentrum für Molekulare Biomedizin, Institut für Molekulare Zellbiologie
"Regulation of oncogenic signaling of FLT3-ITD by redox mechanisms"
(Seminar will be given at 5.15 pm)

17 September 2015
PD Dr. med. Ronald Wolf
LMU München, Klinik und Poliklinik für Dermatologie und Allergologie
"Epidermal alarmins trigger susceptibility for inflammatory skin diseases"

10 September 2015
Dr. rer. biol hum. Peter Düwell
LMU - Klinikum der Universität München, Klinische Pharmakologie, Cancer Vaccine Lab
"Immunotherapy of Pancreatic Cancer: Reprogramming and beyond"

27 August 2015
Associate Professor Takehito Kaneko
University Kyoto, Japan, Graduate School of Medicine, Institute of Laboratory Animals
"Latest methods of genome editing and gamete preservation in mammals"

25 August 2015
Dr. rer. nat. Konstantin Neumann
Klinikum rechts der Isar, München, Institut für Klinische Chemie und Pathochemie, Forschungslabor Molekulare Immunologie
"Immune sensing of endogenous danger or damage by innate C-type lectin receptors"
(Seminar will be given on Tuesday at 5 pm)

02 July 2015
Prof. Dr. med. Hans-Joachim Anders
LMU Klinikum der Universität München, Forschungsbereich Nephrologie
"Necroinflammation - Signal components between tissue injury and inflammation"

18 June 2015
Dr. Timo Kurz
University of Dundee, Programme Leader, MRC Protein Phosphorylation and Ubiquitilation Unit
"Regulation of ubiquitin-dependent proteolysis and its implications for human disease"

11 June 2015
Univ.-Prof. Dr. med. Mathias Hornef
Uniklinik RWTH Aachen, Institut für Medizinische Mikrobiologie
"Innate immune recognition and response by the intestinal epithelium"

04 June 2015
Dr. Radoslav Ivanov Enchev
ETH Zürich, Institute of Biochemistry
"Regulation of neddylation and deneddylation"

07 May 2015
Prof. Dr. Barbara M. Bröker
Universität Greifswald, Abteilung für Immunologie
"Human immune memory of Staphylococcus aureus - the high cost of control"

19 March 2015
Prof. Dr. med. Antje Voigt
Institut für Biochemie, Kardiale Immunmodulation, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
"Targeting protein modifiers and cellular proteolysis to modulate cardiac inflammation"

12 March 2015
PD Dr. Udo Hartwig
Dept. of Medicine - Hematology & Oncology, Universal Medical Center of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
"Exploring virus- and acute leukemia-reactive CD8+ T lymphocytes with stem cell-memory and central-memory properties for adoptive cellualar therapy"

05 March 2015
Dr. med. Andreas Linkermann
Nephrologisches Forschungslabor, Universitätsklinikum Schleswig-Holstein Campus Kiel
"Targeting regulated necrosis to protect from acute kidney injury"

19 February 2015
Prof. Dr. Mathias Heikenwälder
Institut für Virologie, Helmholtz Zentrum München
"On the involvement of immune cells on fatty liver and liver cancer development"

29 January 2015
PD Dr. Bernd Giebel
Institute for Transfusion Medicine, University Hospital Essen
"From asymmetric cell division of human hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells via exosomes to GVHD treatment"

22 January 2015
Prof. Lydia Sorokin
Institut für Physiologische Chemie und Pathobiochemie, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
"The role of basement membranes in the neurovascular unit and leukocyte extravasation into the brain"

04 December 2014
Prof. Astrid Westendorf
Institut für Medizinische Mikrobiologie, Universitäts Duisburg Essen
"Impact of adaptive immunity in inflammation-associated colon cancer"
(Seminar will be given at 5.30 pm)

20 November 2014
Prof. Thomas Renné
Institut für Klinische Chemie und Laborationsmedizin, Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf
"Das Kontaktphasensystem: neue Perspektiven zur Therapie von Entzündungen"

23 October 2014
Prof. Daniel Sedding
Klinik für Kardiologie und Angiologie, Medizinische Hochschule Hannover
"Novel therapeutic strategies to modulate vascular remodeling processes"

16 October 2014
PD Dr. Markus Radsak
Hämatologie, Internistische Onkologie und Pneumologie, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
"Activation of polymorphonuclear neutrophils in hämatological malingnancies"

2 October 2014
Dr. Alexander Hergovich
UCL Cancer Institute, London
"NDR kinases in disease: a tale of parasites, flies, mice and Hippo signalling"

25 September 2014
Prof. Frank Tacke
Klinik für Gastroenterologie, Stoffwechselerkrankungen internistische Intensivmedizin, Uniklinik RWTH Aachen
"Macrophage heterogeneity in liver inflammation and fibrosis - implications for future therapeutic strategies"

11 September 2014
Prof. Jochen Mattner
Klinische Mikrobiologie, Immunologie und Hygiene, Universitätsklinikum Erlangen
"Influence of genetic polymorphisms on the phenotopic presentation of natural killer T cells"

17 July 2014
Prof. Triantafyllos Chavakis
Medizinische Klinik und Poliklinik III, Bereich Vaskuläre Inflammation, Diabetes und Niere, Universitätsklinikum Carl Gustav Carus, Technische Universität Dresden
"Vascular inflammation in disease"

10 July 2014
Prof. Daniel Wolf
Director Proteomics, Tumor Initiation & Maintenance Program, Degenerative Disease Progam, Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute
"Mechanisms impinging on elF2a phosphorylation: Roles in stress response and prostate cancer"

26 June 2014
Dr. Christian Pallasch
Klinik I für Innere Medizin, Labor für molekulare Biologie und Immunologie der CLL, Uniklinik Köln
"Interaction of Malignant Cells versus Macrophages in disease progressioin and therapy of Leukemia and Lymphoma"

12 June 2014
Prof. Markus Hoth
Dept. of Biophysics, Faculty of Medicine, Saarland University
"Analyzing basic mechanisms and the calcium dependence of tumor cell killing by NK and CTL"

15 May 2014
Prof. Sven Meuth
Clinic for Neurology, Medical University of Münster
“Ion channel mediated mechanisms of neuroinflammation”

09 May 2014
Prof. Philip Cohen
Protein Phosphorylation and Ubiquitylation Unit, University of Dundee
"Mechanisms that restrict activation of the MyD88 signalling network to prevent autoimmune and inflammatory diseases"
(Seminar will be given on Friday at 3 pm)

24 April 2014
Prof. Paola Chiarugi
Experimental and Clinical Biomedical Sciences Biochemistry, University of Florence
“Oxidative stress and metabolic reprogramming during tumor malignant progression: role of PKM2, HIF1 and Src kinase”

27 March 2014
Prof. Lars Leichert
Medical Proteome Center, Ruhr University Bochum
“Redox proteomics: from nitrosative stress-sensitive cysteines to chaperones activated by N-chlorination”

13 February 2014
Dean Camin, PhD
European Neuroscience Institute, Göttingen
“Control of fusion on both sides of the synapse”

28 November 2013
Prof. Mike Fainzilber
Department of Biological Chemistry, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
"Multiple roles of long-distance signaling within neurons"

14 November 2013
Dr. Thomas Kindler
Medical University, Mainz
"DNA repair in the context of oncogenic KRAS"

17 October 2013
Prof. Dr. Ivan de Curtis
San Raffaele Hospital, Research Center and Department of Neurology, Milano
"Mechanisms of Rac-mediated neuronal and non-neuronal cell motility"

23 May 2013
Prof. Dr. Pascal Meier
Institut of Cancer Research, London
"Apoptosis and ubiquitilation"

19 September 2013
PhD Nicholas Blanchard
Avenir Team leader Team 10: "Eukaryotic intracellular parasites: immunity and pathophysiology"
Centre de Physiopathologie de Toulouse-Purpan, Université Toulouse
"How do CD8 T cells see intravacuolar parasites? Insights into the processing of Toxoplasma gondii antigens
(Seminar will be given in the lecture hall of building 4)

11 July 2013
Prof. Dr. Klaus T. Preissner
Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, Justus-Liebig-University of Giessen
"Extracellular Nucleic Acids in Immune Defense and Disease "

26 June 2013
Mathias Gelderborn
Klinik und Poliklinik für Neurologie, Universitätklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf
"Neutralization of the IL-17 axis diminishes neutrophil invasion and protects from ischemic stroke "

13 June 2013
Prof. U. Schäfer
FE Experimentelle Neurotraumatologie, Universität Graz
"miR-451 a unique switch for cell-fate decisions "

30 May 2013
Prof. Anne Spurkland
Institute of Basal Medical Sciences, University of Oslo
"Regulation of Lck through phosphorylation of a conserved tyrosine in the SH2 domain "

08 May 2013
Prof. Sergei Nedospasov
Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology, Moscow and DRFZ Berlin
"Physiological functions of TNF in health and disease, as defined in engineered mice "

25 April 2013
PhD Andreas Müller
Dynamics of Immune Responses, Institut Pasteur, Paris
"Dynamics of immune effector activity against Leishmania major"

18 April 2013
Prof. Friedemann Kiefer
Max-Planck-Institute for Molecular Biomedicine, Department Vascular Cell Biology/Mammalian Cell Signaling Laboratory, Münster
"From lymphocyte repertoire selection to lymphatic vessel formation - the distant ends of a convoluted story"

11 April 2013
Prof. Anja Erika Hauser
Charité University Medicine and Deutsches Rheuma Forschungszentrum (DRFZ), Berlin
"Dynamics of plasma cell survival niches in the bone marrow"

21 March 2013
Dr. Dagmar Quandt
Sektion Rheumatologie und Translationszentrum für Regenerative Medizin, Universität Leipzig
"Altered thymopoiesis and peripheral T cell differentiation in rheumatoid arthritis"

13 December 2012
Dr. Friederike Berberich-Siebelt
Molekularpathologie, Institut für Pathologie der Julius-Maximillians-Universität Würzburg
"Dependence on NFAT levels discriminates conventional T cells from Foxp3+ regulatory T cells"

10 December 2012
Ph. D. Alexander Hoffmann
Principal Investigator, Signaling Systems Laboratory, San Diego Center for Systems Biology, USA
"A dynamical code to specify immune responses"

15 November 2012
Dr. Katherine W. Roche
Senior Investigator, National Institutes of Health-NINDS, Bethesda, USA
"Molecular mechanisms regulating NMDA receptors"

11 Oktober 2012
Prof. Dr. Martin Korte
Zoological Institute, Devision of Cellular Neurobiology, Technical University of Braunschweig
"Keeping the delicate balance between change and stability: cellular and molecular correlates of learning, forgetting and memory"

13 September 2012
Dr. Ruth Lyck
Theodor Kocher Instittute, University of Bern
"Going againts the tide - how encephalitogenic T cells breach the blood brain barrier"

06 September 2012
Prof. Reinhard Fässler
Head of the Department of Molecular Medicine, Max Planck Institute of  Biochemistry, Martinsried
"Genetic analysis of integrin functions in mice"

26 July 2012
Dr. Siegfried Weiß
Head of the Department Molecular Immunology, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig
"Interferon-beta in cancer surveillance"

14 June 2012
Dr. Robert Pawlak
Department of Cell Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Leicester, UK
"Control of anxiety by extracellular protolysis in the amygdale"

31 May 2012
Prof. Jens Pahnke
Head of the Neurodegeneration Research Lab, German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE)
"Export and degradation of toxic Abeta moieties from the brain - funktional involvement of microglia, mitochondria and ABC transporter"

30 May 2012
Dr. Markus Feuerer, Dr. Jeroen Krijgsveld
German Cancer Research Center, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg
"Quantitative proteomics: from regulatory T cells to cellular programming"  (Seminar will be given in Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, forum, room X1.04; 17:15)

24 May 2012
Prof. Michael Huber
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Immunology, Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Medical Faculty, RWTH Aachen University
"LPS recognition and signaling in mast cells: it´s hip to be square"

10 May 2012
PD Dr. Alexander Zarbock
Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Westphalian Wilhelm's University of Münster
"New insights into selectin-mediated integrin activation and leucocy te recruitment"

03 May 2012
Prof. Christian Kurts
Institutes of Experimental Immunology, University of Bonn
"Role of dendritic cells in kidney disease"

19 April 2012
Prof. Frank-Dietmar Böhmer
Friedrich-Schiller Universität, Institut für Molekulare Zellbiologie, Jena
"Signal transduction by the protein-tyrosine phosphatase DEP-1/PTPRJ/CD148 in hematopoietic cells and oncogenesis"

22 March 2012
Prof. Wilfried Ellmeier
Institut für Immunologie, Zentrum für Pathophysiologie, Infektiologie und Immunologie, Medizinische Universität Wien
"Transcriptional and epigenetic control of T ccell development and function"

08 March 2012
Prof. Philippe Bastiaens
Max Planck Institute of molecular Physiology, Department of Systemic Cell Biology, Dortmund
"The wanderings of the proto-oncogene product Ras"

24 Februar 2012 (Institut für Biologie, Haus 91, 16:00)
Prof. Jeroen Pasterkamp
Department of Neuroscience and Pharmacology, Section Neurodevelopment, University Medical Center Ulrecht, The Netherlands
"Molecular and cellular mechanismsof neural circuit development"

23 Februar 2012
Carlos Eduardo Tadokoro, Ph.D
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciéncia, Lab of immune Regulation and Unit of Cell Imaging, Portugal
"Unveiling tolerance throughout intravital microscopy"

16 Februar 2012
Prof. Thomas Seufferlein
Klinik f. Innere Medizin I, Universitätsklinikum der Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
"PKDs-novel players in tumor biology"

26 January 2012
PD Dr. Lars Bullinger
Klinik f. Innere Medizin III, Zentrum f.Innere Medizin, Universitätsklinikum Ulm
"Omics" in acute myeloid leukemia - integrative analyses open new avenues"

15 December 2011
Dr. Melanie Brinkmann
Helmholtz-Zemtrum für Infektionsforschung, Braunschweig
"Disarming the innate immune response: herpesviruses know how"

01 December 2011
Dr. Emmanuel Bourinet
Research Director, Department of Physiology, CNRS, France
"T-type calcium channels as potential targets of analgesic pharmacology"

24 November 2011
Prof. Wilfried Ellmeier
Institute of Immunology, Center for Pathophysiology, Infectiology and Immunology, Medical University of Vienna
"Transcriptional and epigenetic control of T cell development und function"

10 November 2011
Dr. James Thaventhiran
Research Department of Immunology, Division of Infection & Immunity, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University College London
"The regulation of terminal differentiation for the CD8+ T cell"

27 October 2011
Prof. Ralf Brandes
Head of Institute for Cardiovascular Physiology, Goethe-University, Frankfurt am Main
"Reactive oxygen species in vascular homeostasis"

20 October 2011
Dr. Sharon Matthews
Centre for Oncology & Molecular Medicine, Division of Medical Sciences, University of Dundee
"Functional analysis of Protein Kinase D in the immune system"

19 October 2011
Prof. Wolfgang Kaminski
Institut für Klinische Chemie, Universitätsmedizin Mannheim
"Rekombinatorische Immunrezeptoren in Phagozyten"

13 October 2011
Prof. Hans-Uwe Simon
Head of the Institute of Pharmacology, University of Bern
"Programmed necrosis - a novel type of death in inflammatory neutrophils"

15 September 2011
Prof. Hilmar Bading
Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Neurowissenschaften, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
"Nuclear Calcium: signal integrator in synapse-to-nucleus communication and regulator of adaptations"

8 September 2011
Prof. Matthijs Verhage
Center for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research (CNCR), Amsderdam
"Trafficking ,docking and fusion of secretory vesicles"

24 August 2011
Prof. William Henry Colledge
Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience
"Kisspeptin Signalling and Fertility"

28 July 2011
Prof. Mike Cousin
Centre for Integrative Physiology, University of Edinburgh
"Molecular steps in the activity-dependent bulk endocytosis of synaptic vesicles"

12 July 2011
Prof. Christian Kurts
Institut für Experimentelle Immunologie, Universitätsklinikum Bonn
"Molecular and cell-biological mechanisms of CTL Cross-priming"

7 July 2011
Prof. Johannes Waltenberger
Klinik und Poliklinik für Kardiology, Universitätsklinikum Münster
"VEGF function and VEGF resistence in cardiovascular disease"

23 June 2011
Prof. Dr. med. Tim Sparwasser
Institute of Infection Immunology, Twincore Hannover
"Novel approaches for vaccine design: Bypassing Treg activity enhances T cell-mediated immunity"

6 June 2011
Prof. Marc A.M. J. van Zandvoort
University Maastricht
"In vivo functional multiphoton imaging of microvessels in atherosclerotic lesions"

28 April 2011
Dr. Jens V. Stein
Theodor Kocher Institute, University Bern
"Molecular control of T cell migration in vivo"

7 April 2011
Prof. Jürgen Bernhagen
Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Cell Biology, RWT Aachen University
"Promiscuous use of chemokine receptors by non-classical chemokines in inflammation and atherogenesis"

31 March 2011
Prof. Laura Conforti
Dept. of Internal Medicine, University of Cincinnati
"The Ion Channel network at the Immunological Synapse"

10 March 2011
Prof. Chris Rudd
Institute for Medical Research, University of Cambridge
"CTLA-4 function and adhesion pathways in T-cell immunity"

3 March 2011
Prof. Britta Engelhardt
Theodor Kocher Institute, University Bern
"T cell migration into the CNS during health and disease: Different molecular keys
allow access to different CNS compartments"

1 March 2011
HD Dr. Helmut Jonuleit
Clinic for skin desease, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
"Human regulatory T cells: Expression profiling and functional testing"

27 January 2011
Prof. Kerstin Amann
Dept. of Nephropathology, Universitätsklinik Erlangen
"Proteasominhibition bei Lupus nephritis - ein neues therapeutisches Prinzip?"

20 January 2011
Dr. Andreas Krueger
Institute of Immunology, Medizinische Hochschule Hannover
"Early T cell progenitors - thymus seeding and lineage commitment"

13 January 2011
Prof. Frank Heppner
Institute of Neuropathology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
"Neuroimmune actions in Alzheimer's disease"

25 November 2010
Prof. Wolfgang Dubiel
Dept. of Surgery, Division of Molecular Biology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
"Structure and function of the human COP9 signalosome"

17 November 2010
Prof. Anne Croy
Dept. of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada
"A few immunological enigmas associated with pregnancy"

11 November 2010
PhD Dominik Filipp
Laboratory of Immunobiology, Institute of Molecular Genetics AS CR, Praque, CZ
"Mechanisms governing the involvement of Lck in the initiation of TCR signaling"

28 October 2010
Prof. Marcus Groettrup
Dept. of Biology and Immunology, University Konstanz
"FAT10 - a ubiquitin like signal for proteasomal degradation in the immune system"

14 October 2010
PD. Dr. Karin Loser
Clinic for Dermatology, Research group: Cutaneous Immunity, Universtiy Muenster
"Title pending"

7 October 2010
Prof. Chris Rudd
Dept. of Pathology, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
"Title pending"

23 September 2010
Prof. Josef M. Pfeilschifter
Dept. of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, Frankfurt/Main
"Wenn Fette nicht dick machen - Signalfunktionen von Sphingolipiden in der Niere"

16 September 2010
Prof. N. A. Mitchison
University College London, United Kingdom
"Cancer Immunology: immunoselection, editing, evasion, Wither now?"

5 July 2010
Dr. Anna Walduck
Dept. of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Melbourne, Australia
"Understanding how vaccination works in the stomach"

17 June 2010
Prof. Patra Dersch
Dept. Molecular Infection Biology, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany
"Cell signalling pathways implicated in Yersinia pseudotuberculosis invasion into host cells"

3 June 2010
Prof. Miguel Soares
University of Louvain, Louvain, Portugal
"Heme release from hemoproteins: An ubiquitous player in the pathogenesis of immune mediated inflammatory diseases?"

27 May 2010
Dr. Angel Barco
Dept. of Molecular Neurobiology, Neuroscience Institute of Alicante
"Transcriptional control of neural plasticity: the CREB regulon and other activity-driven gene programs"

29 April 2010
Prof. Oreste Acuto
Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
"New insights into TCR signaling initiation and regualtion"

8 April 2010
Prof. Jean-Antoine Girault
École des Neurosciences, Paris, France
"Dopamine signaling in the striatum: from membrane to the nucleus"

18 March 2010
Prof. Gerald W. Zamponi
Dept. of Physiology & Pharmacology, Medicine University of Calgary, Canada
"Regualtion of N-type calcium channels - implications for pain"

11 March 2010
Dr. Isabella Sarto-Jackson
Center of Brain Research, Medical University Vienna
"The cell adhesion molecule neuroplastin 65 regulates GABA(A) receptor surface trafficking via the p38 MAPK pathway"

18 February 2010
Prof. Rolf Jessenberger
Institute of Physiological Chemistry, Medical Factulty, TU Dresden
"Nuclear, cytoplasmic and membrane-associated functions of SWAP-70 in hematopoietic cells"

17 December 2009
Dr. Jens Rettig
Dept. of Physiology, Saarland University Homburg
"On the physiological role of CAPS in LDCV exocytosis - A functional study in adrenal chromaffin cells"

20 November 2009
Prof. Thomas F. Meyer
Max Plank Institute for Infection Biology, Berlin
"Molecular biology of Helicobacter pylory infection"

19 November 2009
Prof. Christian Rosenmund
Neurowissenschftliches Forschungszentrum, Charite-Universitätsmedizin Berlin
"The Role of Complexins in regulating Calcium triggered release"

1 October 2009
Dr. Tobias Haas
Department of Experimental Oncology, Mediterranean Institute of Oncology, Viagrande, Italy
"Identification of novel constituents of the TNF receptor signalling complex"

24 September 2009
Prof. Johan Van Lint
Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium
"Protein Kinase D signaling in health and disease"

18 June 2009
Dr. Hans-Christian Kornau
Zentrum für Molekulare Neurobiologie (ZMNH), Universität Hamburg
"Regulation of AMPA receptor endocytosis during hippocampal mGluR-LTD"

14 May 2009
Dr. Tilman Brummer
Zentrum für Biosystemanalyse, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
"Function, feedback regulation and oncogenic potential of the Gab2 signalling complex"

30 April 2009
Dr. Pico Caroni
Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland
"Specification of adult structural plasticity patterns in juveniles"

23 April 2009
Prof. Annette C. Dolphin
Department of Neuroscience, University College London, United Kingdom
"The Cinderella subunits of calcium channels: alpha2delta subunits, mechanism of action, involvement in disease and target site for drugs"

2 April 2009
Prof. Ezra Burstein
UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, USA
Department of Internal Medicine-Digestive & Liver Diseases and Department of Molecular Biologie
"Novel architecture of Cullin-RING ligases: lessons from studying NF-?B ubiquitination"

12 February 2009
Prof. Peter Scheiffele
Biozentrum, Dept. Neurobiologie, University of Basel
"Mechanisms of Selective Synaptic Connectivity in the Cerebellum"

29 January 2009
Prof. Volker Haucke
Institut für Chemie und Biochemie, Freie Universität Berlin
"Regulation of vesicle-mediated membrane traffic at synapses and beyond"

11 December 2008
Prof. Hanspeter Herzel
Dpt. of Theroetical Biology (ITB), Humboldt-University Berlin
"Systems biology of the mammalian circadian clock"

10 July 2008
Dr. Anna Walduck
Dpt. of Microbiology and Immunology Melbourne, University of Melbourne, Australia
"Leptin, regulatory T cells and vaccination against Helicobacter pylori"

3 July 2008
Prof. Kai Simons
Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology, Dresden
"Lipid rafts in membrane trafficking and disease"

8 May 2008
Prof. Dirk H. Busch
Institut für Medizinische Mikrobiologie, Immunologie und Hygiene, Technische Universität München
"Origin of CD8+ effector and memory T cell subsets"

17 April 2008
Dr. Ramin Massoumi
Malmö University Hospital, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Malmö, Sweden
"The role of CYLD in growth inhibition of tumor cells"

28 February 2008
Prof. Zimmer
Institut für Molekulare Psychiatrie, Universitätsklinikum Bonn
"Endocannabinoid modulation of inflammatory responses: Allergic responses and neuropathic pain"

7 February 2008
Prof. Nancy Hogg
London Research Institute, Cancer Research, United Kingdom
"How T lymphocytes use the integrin LFA-1 to attach and migrate"

17 January 2008
Dr. Jürgen Ruland
III. Medizinische Klinik, Technische Universität München
"Signal specific activation of NF-kB in innate and adaptive immunity"

13 December 2007
Silvio Rizzoli
Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Department of Neurobiology, Göttingen
"In vitro studies of synaptic vesicles and sorting endosomes"

11 October 2007
Prof. Michael Hahne
Institut de Génétique Moléculaire de Montpellier, France
"The implication of the two TNF family members APRIL and TRAIL in disease"

27 September 2007
Prof. Olaf Wolkenhauer
Systems Biology & Bioinformatics, Universität Rostock
"The role of mathematical modeling in hypothesis-driven cell biology"

19 July 2007
Prof. Thomas Brocker
Institute for Immunology, LMU Munich
"Dendritic cell - CD8 T cell interaction for immunity or tolerance"

24 May 2007
Dr. Rory Mitchell
Membrane Biology Group, Centre for Integrative Physiology, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
"Additional signals from G protein-coupled receptors"

3 May 2007
PD Matthias Kneussel
Research group Synaptogenesis and Neurotransmission
Zentrum für Molekulare Neurobiologie Hamburg
"Motor protein-mediated transport underlying receptor turnover at inhibitory synapses"

8 March 2007
Prof. Erich Gulbins
Department of Molecular Biology
University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen
"Ceramide and ion channels in apoptosis and cystic fibrosis"

11 December 2006
Prof. Gudrun Ahnert-Hilger
AG Functional Cell Biology
Center for Anatomy, Charité, Berlin
"Regulation of vesicular monoamine transporter (VMAT) by heterotrimeric G-proteins"

23 November 2006
Prof. Nils Brose
Abteilung für Molekulare Neurobiologie
Max-Planck-Institut für Experimentelle Medizin, Göttingen
"The role of cell adhesion proteins in synapse formation between nerve cells - in the context of normal brain development as well as psychiatric disease"

9 October 2006
PD. Thomas Budde
Institut für Experimentelle Epilepsieforschung, Westfälische-Wilhelms-Universität Münster
"Principle constituents of the resting membrane potential of central neurons"

4 October 2006
Prof. Dieter Wolf
Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, USA
"Control and Function fo Cullin-RING ubiquitin ligases"

14 September 2006
Prof. Mara Dierssen
Genes and Disease Program, Genomic Regulation Center, Barcelona, Spain
"Genetic dependence of synaptic pathology of Down syndrome: lessons from mouse models"

13 July 2006
Prof. Beat Lutz
Institut für Physiologische Chemie, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
"The functions of the endocannabinoid system in the body's homeostasis"

11 May 2006
Dr. Michael Engelke
Abteilung Zelluläre und Molekulare Immunologie, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
"Regulation of antigen receptor-induced Ca2+ mobilization in B lymphocytes"

25 April 2006
Prof. Hartmut Beug
Molekulare Pathologie (I.M.P), Wien
"EMT and cancer progression: new key players identified by expression profiling"

30 March 2006
Prof. D. Wedlich
Molekulare Entwicklungs- und Zellphysiologie, Zoologisches Institut II, Universität Karlsruhe
"Where to go? How Wnt-signaling controls cell migrationin Xenopus gastrulation"

2 March 2006
Prof. Jürgen Wehland
GBF Braunschweig
"Bacteria-host-cell interactions at the plasma membrane: stories on actin cytoskeleton subversion"

1 December 2005
Prof. Sebastian Suerbaum
Institut für Medizinische Mikrobiologie und Krankenhaushygiene, Medizinische Hochschule Hannover
"Genetic variation in Helicobacter pylori"

13 October 2005
Prof. Lukas Huber
Biozentrum, Sektion für Zellbiologie, Medizinische Universität Innsbruck
"Spatiotemporal Regulation of MAPK signaling by scaffolds and endocytosis"

25 August 2005
Dr. Daniel Krappmann
Max-Delbrück-Centrum für Molekulare Medizin, Berlin
"Mechanisms and functions of IkappaB-Kinase/N-kappaB signaling in the immune system"

14 July 2005
Dr. Mathias Hornef
Institute für Medizinische Mikrobiologie und Hygiene, Universität Freiburg
"Innate recognition and response by the intestinal epithelium"

8 July 2005
Prof. Pierre Michetti
Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne, Switzerland
"A protective Role for Mast Cells in Helicobacter Vaccination"

10 June 2004
Prof. Emad El-Omar
Institute of Medical Sciences, University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom
"Chronic inflammtion and GI malignancy"

29 April 2004
Dr. Birgit Luber
TU-München
"E-Cadherin Mutations in Cancer: Effects on Cell Motility and Signal Transduction"

25 March 2004
Prof. Dr. Silvia Bulfone-Paus
Research Center, Borstel
"IL-15 receptor signaling system and regulation of CD8-dependent immune responses"

20 November 2003
Dr. Richard Ferrero
Pasteur Institute, Paris
"Nod-1-dependent host recognition of an extracellular mucosal pathogen: Helicobacter pylori"

13 November 2003
Dr. Michael Seeger
Institut für Biochemie, Projektgruppe: Zelluläre Immunantwort, Charité Berlin
"Ubiquitin domain proteins"

22 May 2003
PD Dr. Claus Scheidereit
Max-Delbrück-Centrum für Molekulare Medizin(MDC), Berlin
Bereich: Zellwachstum und -differenzierung, Gruppe: Signaltransduktion in Tumorzellen
"Biochemical and genetic analysis of NF-kB signaling in tumorigenesis and embryonic development"

8 May 2003
Prof. Peter-M. Kloetzel
Institut für Biochemie, Charité Berlin
"Plasticity of the proteasome and its role in MHC class I antigen processing"

6 March 2003
Prof. Holger Kalthoff
Klinik für Allgemeine und Thoraxchirurgie, Forschungsbereich für Molekulare Onkologie, Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel
"Mechanismen der Resistenz gegen CD95-vermittelte Apoptose in soliden Tumoren"

28 Februrary 2003
Dr. Daniel Krappmann
Max-Delbrück-Centrum für Molekulare Medizin, Berlin
Bereich: Zellwachstum und -differenzierung, Gruppe: Signaltransduktion in Tumorzellen
"Induced degradation of Bcl10 negatively interferes with T cell receptor-induced activation of NF-kB"

20 Februrary 2003
Prof. M. L. Schmitz
Department for Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Bern
"Analysis of activation pathways for the inducible factors NF-kB and p53"

30 January 2003
Prof. Thomas Wirth
Abteilung Physiologische Chemie, Universität Ulm
"Transcriptional control of cell differentiation in B lymphopoiesis and neurogenesis"