The Binder Lab (DKFZ Heidelberg)

Cytokines meeting coming up Nov 2-5 in Seattle! Fantastic keynote speakers ⬇️.

Sadly, I for my part do absolutely not feel like visiting the US🇺🇸 currently (how far is Portland from Seattle??). Would have loved to catch up with friends and colleagues (@adforu.bsky.social, @ramlabuw.bsky.social, ...)

It’s goodnight Vienna as Paris sleeper train to Austria and Berlin hit by cuts Some Nightjet services suspended from mid-December after French withdrawal amid public budget crisis

Paris-Berlin sleeper: low carbon, 2 years old, constantly full, but currently losing SNCF a few million EUR/yr

Intl Jet fuel tax exemptions are 80 years old and cost the EU 22 million EUR/yr for the Paris-Berlin route alone.

And you're cutting... the sleeper?

www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...

These 99 'lab hacks' will make your scientific work easier Nature asked contributors, editors and working researchers to share their best advice for scientists.

Over the last year, Nature’s Careers team has been tapping into its global community of readers, writers, friends and colleagues to compile a list of laboratory hacks to help make scientists’ working lives easier. Here’s a list of 99 of those hacks. #Academicsky 🧪

PhD position in my team!

Join me in the new Graduate School ACME (www.mhh.de/en/institute...). 65% TVL 13 for 4 years integrated into the Hannover Medical School; the ACME program starts in April 2026, but joining us earlier is possible.
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@gesvirologie.bsky.social
@infect-net.bsky.social

The hepatitis E virus capsid protein ORF2 counteracts cell-intrinsic antiviral responses to enable persistent replication in cell culture Author summary Hepatitis E virus (HEV) is an important yet often underestimated pathogen. Depending on the genotype, HEV infections can progress to chronicity, but the underlying mechanisms remain poo...

Super interesting virus: #hepatitas 😅 E virus #HEV!

@daothilab.bsky.social looked into its ORF2 protein and how it counteracts cell-intrinsic immune responses. Congrats Ann-Kathrin, Loan and team, and thanks for having us on board!
dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...

(Hepatitas® by the Orange Superbrain)

Guter Vortrag heute Abend von @cdrosten.bsky.social bei der Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften. Wie funktioniert Wissenschaft, wie funktionale Genetik, und was ist "Gain of Function"?

Wer es nicht in die wunderschöne Alte Aula geschafft hat: youtu.be/JyV-62C_9u8?...

Quarks: Viren: Freund und Feind! - hier anschauen Viren gelten als Auslöser von Krankheiten und Pandemien. Doch das ist nur ein Teil der Wahrheit. Seit Milliarden Jahren wirken sie auch als Motor der Evolution. Rund acht Prozent unseres menschlichen ...

Nicht alle Viren machen uns krank, tatsächlich nur ein ganz kleiner Teil von ihnen. Andere leben auf und in uns, und manche sind sogar fester Bestandteil unseres Erbguts!

Ein Einblick in die vielen Facetten der Virologie bei @quarkswdr.bsky.social:

www.ardmediathek.de/video/Y3JpZD...

📈 Last week I had the chance to present my project on the influence of #interferon on antigen processing by the proteasome at the 2nd #Heidelberg Interferon Symposium! 🦠🧬🧫 1/3

Interferons forever!!! This has been a fantastic meeting! Thank you Marieke Essers and Marco Binder @thebinderlab.bsky.social !!!

Very welcome– we enjoyed it so much ourselves! And thank you for your inspiring keynote!

Sad that the #IFNSymposiumHD comes to an end 😢, but happy to hear the great Marieke Essers give the last keynote 😊 Interferons“ role in hematopoietic stell cells.

Great first day at the #IFNSymposiumHD, with BBQ dinner, drinks and especially: great people and discussions 😊

Now looking forward to the second day, which will be kicked off by @meganstanifer.bsky.social shortly!

Perfect end of a perfect first #IFNsymposiumHD day: dinner, drinks and interferons…

Yes

How fitting: just after lunch, we had Stefan Jordan @jordanlab.bsky.social tell us about the huge health benefits of fasting, across all inflammatory diseases. And of course, Interferons are involved… 😅
#IFNSymposiumHD

Second keynote by Ana Martín Villalba @dkfz.bsky.social on the role of #interferons in brain development and aging. Very fascinating topic in the total absence of viruses!
#IFNSymposiumHD

First keynote at #IFNSymposiumHD given by Nadine Laguette @nadinelaguette.bsky.social on DNA-PK and its interactions with the STING pathway.

It started– the second Heidelberg Interferons Symposium 🤩

Welcome in Heidelberg, Mathias! Very much looking forward to meeting you and your team and checking out where we could collaborate!

DFG-Präsidentin Katja Becker am Rednerpult auf dem Festabend der DFG-Jahresversammlung in Hamburg.

Die weltweit bedrohte #Wissenschaftsfreiheit war zentrales Thema der #DFG-Jahresversammlung: Präsidentin Katja Becker warnte in ihrer Festrede vor der steigenden #Wissenschaftsfeindlichkeit in den USA und auch in Deutschland: "Jetzt ist die Zeit aufzustehen und Zeichen zu setzen!" fcld.ly/9jj11wg

Wow, they start to overtly threaten you in case you don't get back to them. This is insane...

#predatoryconferences #spam #sciencespam

Thanks, we‘ll try that out. I can’t access your notebook, though 😔

Die Abteilung Virologie am Zentrum für Infektiologie lädt gemeinsam mit der Aidshilfe Heidelberg am 1. Juli 2025 um 17 Uhr in die Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften am Karlsplatz zu einer interaktiven Veranstaltung ein.

Keine Ahnung wer Sie sind, und an dem Tweet ist nichts verstörend oder gar falsch. Kinder haben eine erstaunlich hohe Resilienz gegen akutes COVID-19, das ist eine Tatsache, deren molekularen Grundlagen wir in der Studie untersuchten 🤷‍♂️

Second day of the great (as always) #NCII conference @unituebingen.bsky.social. Beautiful overview talk by my old friend Nelson Gekara on homeostatic priming of the immune system through nucleic acid sensing.

Session chaired by my first PhD student Joschka Willemsen 🤩 Am I getting old?! 😳

Dr. Anthony Fauci urges Americans not to accept "Normalization of Untruths".

Mit fünf weiteren Fachgesellschaften macht sich die GfV stark dafür, die Wissenschaftsfreiheit zu verteidigen und zu festigen. Leider geschieht dies nicht im luftleeren Raum, sondern in Zeiten, in denen diese essentielle Freiheit zusehends auch bei uns unter Druck gerät.

g-f-v.org/gemeinsame-s...

Lesenswert!

I am afraid you are right…

Habe a safe trip back (with no further DB chaos)!

I didn’t dare to interrupt you over lunch, but would have loved to quickly say hi. Other occasions will come up!

Really great talk, btw! And a perfect companion talk by Andreas Wack this afternoon. Inspiring day!