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Medical Immunology Campus Erlangen INTERDISCIPLINARY CENTERS AND CENTRAL INSTITUTES Medical Immunology Campus Erlangen Speaker in its first phase will be funded by the DFG from 10.1.2017 Prof. A. Alimonti, Institute of Oncology Re- Prof. Dr. med. Christian Bogdan Juli 2018 until June 2022 (TRR 241 „Immune-ep- search, Bellinzona: Switzerland Reprogramming the tumor immune response for „pro- ithelial communication in inflammatory bowel senescence“ therapy for cancer Scientific coordinator disease“, compareown report). In addition, we 30.5.2017 Prof. A. Zippelius, Department of Biomedicine, Dr. rer. nat. Sonja Pötzsch hope for the approval of the GK 2504/1 „Novel University Hospital Basel: Switzerland antiviral approaches: From small molecules to im- Cancer Immunotherapy: Strategies for personalization and combination approaches Address mune intervention“ (designated speaker: Prof. Dr. Institute of Clinical Microbiology, K. Überla), which was positively evaluated in De- 13.6.2017 PD Dr. S. Autenrieth, university hospital Tübin- gen Immunology and Hygiene cember 2018, as well as for the success of two Modulation of dendritic cells by bacterial pathogens Wasserturmstraße 3-5 further GK initiatives, which are currently in the 17.10.2017 Prof. M. Sieweke, Centre d’Immunologie de 91054 Erlangen stage of preparing the full proposal (GK 2559/1 Marseille Luminy: France Phone: +49 9131 8522571 „Immunomicrotope: Microenvironmental, meta- Stem cell like mechanisms of macrophage self renewal Fax: +49 9131 8522573 bolic, and microbial signals regulating immune 7.11.2017 Prof. D. Finke, Universitäts-Kinderspital Basel: [email protected] cell-pathogen interventions“, designated speaker: Switzerland License to operate - new insights into the regulation of ILC www.mice.fau.de Prof. Dr. C. Bogdan) or waiting for the decision immune functions on the preproposal (GK „Molekulare Stimula- 14.11.2017 Prof. M. Dalod, Centre d’Immunologie de Aims and structure toren und Kontrolleure der adaptiven Immunant- Marseille Luminy: France wort“, designated speaker: Prof. Dr. H.-M. Jäck). Deciphering how immune responses against infections or cancer are shaped by the cell types and states of mononu- The Medical Immunology Campus Erlangen, an clear phagocytes interdisciplinary center at the Faculty of Teaching 5.12.2017 Prof. S. Jung, Weizmann Institute of Science, Re- Medicine, was founded in March 2009 in order hovot: Israel to provide a common organizational platform The members of the Medical Immunology Cam- Macrophage strategies in gut and brain pus Erlangen are involved in teaching medical to scientists from all areas of immunobiology 23.1.2018 Prof. B. Ludewig, Institut für Immunbiologie, and clinical immunology. Since then, several in- students and students of the Bachelor’s and Mas- Kantonspital St. Gallen: Switzerland Stromal cell – Innate lymphoid cell interaction stitutes, departments, divisions, and research ter’s degree programs of Molecular Medicine at groups of the UK Erlangen, the Faculties of the Faculty of Medicine as well as students of the 21.2.2018 K. van Gisbergen, PhD, Department of life science programs at the Faculty of Sciences. Hematopoiesis, Amsterdam: The Netherlands Medicine and of Sciences of the FAU, the Fraun- Hobit as a tool to study the differentiation of tissue-resident In the winter term 2018/2019, a new elite master hofer Institute for Integrated Circuits (IIS), and memory T cells program on “Integrated Immunology” started, the Max Planck-Institute for the Science of Light 21.3.2018 T. Weinkopff, PhD, Department of Microbiology which is jointly run by the department of Biology (MPL) have been integrated into the Campus. & Immunology, University of Arkansas for Medical Sci- and the Faculty of Medicine and financed by the ences: USA The Medical Immunology Campus Erlangen or- Elite Network Bavaria. Furthermore, the Campus The Role of Vascular Remodeling during Leishmania Infec- ganizes scientific seminars and lectures, pro- tion promotes scientific exchange by hosting national motes the research of its members by public re- 17.4.2018 Dr. A. Triantafyllopoulou, Department of and international speakers of a broad, interdisci- lation activities, develops teaching concepts for Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Charité Berlin plinary range of topics at the weekly Immunolog- DNA damage signals instruct macrophage differentiation immunology in the Bachelor’s and Master’s de- ical Colloquium. The annual Joachim Kalden Lec- in granulomatous diseases gree programs of “Molecular Medicine” and in ture was initiated by the Medical Immunology 24.4.2018, Prof. N. Gagliani, General, Visceral and Tho- the elite master program “Integrated Immunol- Campus Erlangen in order to honor outstanding racic Surgery Department, UKE Hamburg-Eppendorf ogy”, and coordinates the participation in com- T cell functional heterogeneity and tissue-resident memory researchers with substantial impact on immuno- petitive federal funding initiatives. Three times cells: Understanding immune homeostasis and its under- logical research. Prof. Tak Wah Mak, Director of lying mechanisms a year, the Campus publishes a newsletter, the Campbell Family Institute for Breast Cancer 15.5.2018 Prof. W. Kastenmüller, Institute of Experimental which reports on exciting publications, honors, Research (Toronto, Canada) and Prof. Bruce Immunology (IEI), University of Würzburg and awards of the Campus’ almost 100 mem- Walker, Director of the Ragon Institute of MGH, Concepts of T cell activation from a spatiotemporal per- spective bers and also introduces new members. MIT and Harvard, Boston, USA, delivered the 12.6.2018 Prof. S. Vermeire, Department of Gastroenterol- Joachim Kalden Lecture on September 11, 2017 Research ogy, university hospital Leuven: Belgium and December 10, 2018, respectively. Novel therapeutic opportunities in IBD and where to place them The researchers of the Medical Immunology Lectures 3.7.2018 Prof. A. van Spriel, Department of Tumor Im- Campus Erlangen investigate the basic mecha- In September 2017, scientists of the Campus or- munology, University of Nijmegen: The Netherlands Tetraspanins: molecular organizers of the immune cell sur- nisms of the development, composition, func- th ganized the 47 Annual meeting of the German face tion, and deficiencies of the immune system. By Society of Immunology (DGfI) in the Heinrich- translating the results into clinical approaches, Ladeshall in Erlangen with more than 1.000 par- new and personalized methods for the preven- ticipants from 27 countries. In 2017 und 2018, tion, diagnosis, and therapy of autoimmune, in- the Medical Immunology Campus Erlangen in- flammatory, malignant, and infectious diseases vited 54 national and international scientists to are developed. give a lecture with the guest seminar series of During the reporting period, the scientists of the the Campus. The following compilation is a se- Campus succeeded in setting up a new immuno- lection of the complete list which can be viewed logical SFB together with an integrated GK which on the homepage of the Campus. 176.
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