The Binder Lab (DKFZ Heidelberg)

📈 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…

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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… 😅
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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!
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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.

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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!

Second day of the @www.helmholtz.de #COVIPA Symposium on Pandemic Preparedness. Really excited now to listen to Leif Sander @sanderlab.bsky.social on the role of innate immunity in respiratory viral infections 🤩

“Infection endocrinology” – sex hormones have pleiotropic effects, what is their role and how are they influenced by infectious diseases? Gülsah Gabriel on the role of CYP19A1 in COVID-19. #covipa @www.helmholtz.de

Learning from the past, preparing for future pandemics: @www.helmholtz.de #covipa International Symposium, hosted at the @dkfz.bsky.social.

Great keynote by Florian Krammer, followed by interesting presentations out of the #covipa consortium itself (Hedda Wardemann @dkfz-iic.bsky.social on photo).

Der Blog von @jmwiarda.bsky.social ist essenziell für Wissenschaft und Wissenschaftspolitik in Deutschland. Allen die daran interessiert sind kann ich eine Unterstützung sehr ans Herz legen.

Additionally, it is super exciting to see the @dkfz.bsky.social so closely integrated, with Michael Platten @michael-platten.bsky.social @platten-lab.bsky.social taking a lead role. This is fantastic for our IIC program @dkfz-iic.bsky.social!

Exciting times ahead!

Excellence cluster "SynthImmune" gets funded!! 🤩 Immunology in Infection and Cancer are now a center piece of the Heidelberg-Mannheim campus @hlsalliance.bsky.social!

Congratulation to everyone involved with extra kudos to Oliver Fackler @ciid-heidelberg.bsky.social!

How the Epstein-Barr virus promotes its spread in the body Many people are infected with the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), and most are unaware of it. However, EBV can sometimes cause cancer, and this pathogen also appears to play an important role in multiple sc...

Researchers at the DKFZ and the Heidelberg University Hospital have discovered that the Epstein-Barr virus increases the ability of infected immune cells to migrate. In this way, the pathogen promotes its spread in the body - a potential approach for new therapies.
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