Cluster of Excellence ImmunoSensation

🌎 Together with the @dfg.de, @cecad.bsky.social, and @cibss.bsky.social, we are at the Cell Bio 25 conference in Philadelphia, USA!

We hope to have exciting conversations with attending scientists interested in #Immune #Diversity.

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The Science & Art Workshop NeuVa Mandala organised by @ruizdealmodovar.bsky.social and @sciart-is-cool.bsky.social allowed #science and #art enthusiasts to create their own art pieces representing the #neurovasculature

Check out our video from the #workshop:
www.instagram.com/reel/DR1l8NO...

YouTube video by The Company of Biologists JCS snapshot - Renal tissue-resident macrophages promote cystogenesis in polycystic kidney disease

👨‍🔬 Watch Rudolfo Karl present his paper titled "Renal tissue-resident macrophages promote cystogenesis in early polycystic kidney disease" published in Journal of Cell Science.

Youtube link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDr1...

🎉 Last Friday, the master students from the Master Science programs MSc #Biochemistry, MSc #Immunobiology, and MSc Medical #Immunosciences and #Infection celebrated their #graduation.

We congratulate all graduates on their great achievement!

We are well into our 5-day Cluster Workshop on Ribosome Profiling (Ribo-seq) run by sabbatical scientist Ranen Aviner @czbiohub.bsky.social. We welcome PhDs and PIs from Bonn/Cologne for a hands-on and analysis course sponsored by the Cluster @immunosens.bsky.social @unibonn.bsky.social UKB.

Niklas Klümper and Varun Venkataramani receive Lisec-Artz Prize Dr. Varun Venkataramani of the Faculty of Medicine at Heidelberg University and ImmunoSensation² member Dr. Niklas Klümper of the University Hospital Bonn have…

🏆 #Congratulations to Niklas Klümper, MD from the University Hospital Bonn and Varun Venkataramani from the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Heidelberg for receiving the Lisec-Artz Prize for their outstanding research in #cancer #biology.

Read more: www.immunosensation.de/news/niklas-...

The Cluster Science Days 2025 were a very joyful event bringing together our Bonn scientists to share ideas and to network.

During the event the Cluster participants could enjoy talks, interactive poster sessions and a fun evening program in a comfortable atmosphere fostering scientific exchange.

🧑‍🔬 Yesterday, for the "Day of Life Sciences" 15 students from the Beethoven Gymnasium in Bonn were visiting the lab of Gregor Hagelücken at the Institute of Structural Biology.

It was a great day inspiring students to choose life sciences subjects in their academic journey.

🏆 Anna Aschenbrenner from DZNE has been awarded the Tobias-Welte Prize by the German Sepsis Society, which recognizes outstanding achievements in sepsis and infection research. The prize honors her innovative work published in Cell.

Read more about the study: www.immunosensation.de/news/scienti...

Open position! The group of Kaan Boztug at the Clinic for Pediatric Immunology and Rheumatology in Bonn is looking for a

Postdoc in Bioinformatics/Computational Biology (m/f/d) (full-time position 100 %) for inatially 7 years.

More information on our website: www.immunosensation.de/opportunitie...

Less can be more: Low-dose steroids could effectively treat severe kidney inflammation Study by researchers in Bonn and Hamburg shows that lower doses of cortisone may be sufficient for aggressive kidney inflammation.

📘 New #publication! The research team of Prof. Christian Kurts at the #IMMEI recently published an article titled "Low-dose glucocorticoids attenuate cresentic glomerulonephritis by inhibiting the local differentiation of proinflammatory neutrophils" in Science Translational Medicine.

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…

🏆 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!

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…

📘 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...

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…

🌍 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.

🚨 #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...

📘 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...

🌅 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!

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!

@erc.europa.eu @immunosens.bsky.social @unibonn.bsky.social

🚨 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...

🚨 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...

🚨 #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...

YouTube video by Exzellenzcluster ImmunoSensation Spot on Science, Episode#18, Rudolfo Karl/ Tissue-residient macrophages in Polycystic Kidney Disease

🎬 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...

🚨 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

YouTube video by Exzellenzcluster ImmunoSensation Spot on Science, Episode#17, Jeannette Gebel / Optogenetic enhancement of protein bioproduction

🎬 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_...

🚨 #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!

🚨 #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...

🔔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! 👇

🚨 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!

@unibonn.bsky.social @immunosens.bsky.social

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...

YouTube video by Exzellenzcluster ImmunoSensation Spot on Science, Episode#16 Aleksej Frolov / Microglia and T cell activation in spastic paraplegia

🎬 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...