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News
- Information on the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2
- Das Mikrobiom reguliert die Fitness des Immunsystems
- Unser Freund und Kollege Sascha Bischoff ist am 24. Juli 2020 von uns gegangen.
- Recommendations for Rheuma patients during the corona pandemic
- Wegbereiter der Stammzelltherapie zur Behandlung von Autoimmunerkrankungen zu Gast am DRFZ
- Fortschritte beim Sjögren-Syndrom: Erwerbstätig trotz „Rheuma“ der Speichel- und Tränendrüsen
- Tierversuche im Gespräch
- Konstant in Bewegung: Wohin geht die Rheuma-Versorgung?
- New – DRFZ Young Talents Fellowship
- 2nd German Mass Cytometry User Forum finished
- Kurzvortrag im Futurium: Rudolf Virchows Traum vollenden – Einzelzell-Medizin
- This was the Avrion Mitchison Award and Albrecht Hasinger Lecture 2019
- Depressive Zeichen bei Wirbelsäulenleiden: Studie zur Axialen Spondyloarthritis ausgezeichnet
- DRFZ nach Evaluation durch die Leibniz-Gemeinschaft zur weiteren Förderung empfohlen
- Corona pandemic: The DRFZ also switches to minimum operation
- Raluca Niesner wurde zu Oktober 2018 zur Universitätsprofessorin am Fachbereich Veterinärmedizin der FU ernannt.
- 29th Meeting of the German Society for Cytometry (DGfZ)
- Corona-Fragen an Prof. Andreas Radbruch: Wie reagiert das Immunsystem auf das Coronavirus?
- Keynote Lecture of Andreas Radbruch at the 5th European Congress of Immunology
- Senioren – Zahlreiche Senioren haben rheumatische Erkrankungen wie Arthrose oder rheumatoider Arthritis. Wie können Sie gegensteuern?
- EFIS – Newsletter to all immunologists, March 2020
- 30 Jahre Rheumaforschung in Berlin
- Vom 2. – 9.4.2020: Expertenforum „Coronavirus und Rheuma“
- Die Darmflora als Spiegel der Gesundheit
- Memory B cells also rest in the bone marrow and wait for reactivation
- Wolfgang Schulze Preis-Verleihung
- DRFZ versus SARS-CoV2
- DGfZ Meeting in Jena: Poster award for Lisa Budzinski
- Discovery of “super-functional” T-cells that drive inflammation in rheumatic diseases
- Antrittsvorlesung PD Dr. med. Anja Strangfeld an der Charité
- Interview mit Prof. Andreas Radbruch
- Information für Patientinnen und Patienten
- Guidelines for the use of cytometry
- Transitionsprojekte
- „Tag der Immunologie“ am DRFZ
- Leibniz-WissenschaftsCampus Chronische Entzündung wird weitere 4 Jahre gefördert
- DRFZ anniversary ceremony
- Kick off a new Innovative Medicine Initiative 2 (IMI2)-Project: 3TR
- Vielen Dank für eine schöne, spannende Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften am DRFZ!
- Switching off a “danger sensor” on immune cells prevents inflammation in a model of Rheumatoid Arthritis
- Annual Report of the DRFZ is online in media library
- Aktuelle Studienergebnisse zu Rheuma und Übergewicht – Zu viele Kilos hemmen die Wirkung von Medikamenten
- “Unser Ziel ist eine neue Klasse von Biologika” – Interview mit Andreas Radbruch
- Rheuma birgt hohes Risiko für Begleiterkrankungen
- Wolfgang Schulze Preis: Fristverlängerung − Forschungsvorhaben können bis 31.3.2020 eingereicht werden
- From single cell observation to systemic understanding
- Arbeitsgruppe Kerndokumentation mit Kussmaul-Medaille der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Rheumatologie ausgezeichnet
- Leibniz debattiert: Impfen
- 2nd Leibniz Summer School – Connecting Concepts of Chronic Inflammation
- Webinar on May 11, 2020 with Prof. Andreas Radbruch, initiated by IUIS, please register here
- Fritz Melchers zum Ehrenmitglied der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Rheumatologie ernannt
- Rheuma bei Kindern oft schwer erkennbar
- Poster Award for Patrick Maschmeyer
- Andreas Radbruch becomes new President of the European Federation of Immunological Societies
- Advanced Cytometry Course at the ECI
- Outstanding research funding for two young female DRFZ scientists
- Dr. Mir-Farzin Mashreghi: Er sucht neue Wege gegen chronische Entzündungen
- A new Lichtenberg Professorship dedicated to intestinal tract immunity
Dates
- ABGESAGT || Tag der Immunologie im DRFZ || ABGESAGT
- Rheuma-Liga im DRFZ: Arzt-Patienten-Gespräch: Naturheilkunde in der Rheumatologie – ergänzend oder notwendig?
- Avrion Mitchison Award Ceremony and Albrecht Hasinger Lecture 2019
- Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften 2019 im DRFZ
- Leopoldina-Symposium – Environmental Education of the Immune System in Health and Disease
- Rheuma-Liga im DRFZ: Sozialrecht und Kinder-Reha: Veranstaltung für Eltern von Kindern mit rheumatischen Erkrankungen
Seminare
- Marina Babic – Cac: Immune checkpoints as therapeutic targets in inflammation
- Randy Lindquist: Chronic inflammation at ectopic sites
- Florian Milatz: Übergewicht bei JIA (Epidemiologisches Doktorandenseminar)
- Kirsten Minden, Nadine Betenstehl: Komorbiditäten bei Erwachsenen mit juveniler idiopathischer Arthritis
- Mathias Mursell: Distinct survival niches for memory T helper cells in spleen and bone marrow
- Justus Ninnemann: Modulation of immune responses via targeting of host-microbiota interactions
- Tobias Brunner: Regulation of IL-33 receptor expression in T cell lineages
- Gitta Heinz: Next Generation Sequencing to investigate Immunity and Chronic Inflammation
- Kirsten Minden, Jens Klotsche, Florian Milatz: Beobachtungsstudien in der Kinderrheumatologie
- Marta Ferreira Gomes: The Importance of Fungal Infections – The Candida albicans Case
- Randy Lindquist: Chronic Inflammation at Ectopic Sites
- Frederik Heinrich: Analysis and Visualization of RNAseq Data
- Florian Milatz: Gesundheitsverhalten bei Jugendlichen mit juveniler idiopathischer Arthritis
- Martina Niewerth, Sascha Eulert: Erfassung der Versorgung neu an Rheuma erkrankter Kinder (ProKind)
- Christian Neumann: The transcription factor c-Maf shapes intestinal immune homeostasis by controlling regulatory T cell effector functions
- Johanna Callhoff: Sjögren: Langzeit-Daten der Kerndokumentation (Epidemiologisches Doktorandenseminar)
- Kirsten Minden, Martina Niewerth: Schnittstellenproblematik Kinder-/Erwachsenen-Rheumatologie
- Susann Schweitzer: JIA und Depression – Daten aus dem JUMBO-Register
- Frederik Heinrich : Analysis of Single cell RNA sequencing of human Tcells
- Laura Montag: Patientenberichtete Therapien bei der JIA (Epidemiologisches Doktorandenseminar)
- Michaela Heinrich: Bewertung der Versorgungssituation bei Patienten mit JIA (Epidemiologisches Doktorandenseminar)
- Dominique Muschter: Sensory neuropeptides modulate structural alterations of bone and cartilage in a murine OA model
- Jens Klotsche: Einfluss des Zeitpunktes des Therapiestartes mit Biologika auf die Langzeitprognose der JIA
- Tsung Yen Wu: Reactivation of memory T helper cells by damaged B cells
- Annette Lahmann: Development and Maintenance of T Follicular Helper Cells
- Johanna Callhoff: Claims Data for Health Services Research in Chronic Inflammatory Diseases
- Caroline Helmstetter: Quality versus Quantity in T Cell Cytokine Production
- Stefan Frischbutter: Mast Cells in Chronic Inflammation
- Martin Schäfer: Obesity and Rheumatoid Arthritis – of Biology and Biologic Drugs
- Rafael Deliz-Aguirre: The myddosome assembles de novo in live lymphoma cells after visualization with highspatiotemoral resolution imaging
- Laleh Khodadadi: CAR-T Cell Therapy
- Yvette Meißner: Pregnancies in Patients with Spondyloarthritis
- Sascha Eulert: p-Wert: Statistische Signifikanz, Interpretation und aktuelle Kritik
- Andreia Lino: The many facets of antibody secreting cells
- Marta Ferreira Gomes: Distinct isotype-switched memory B cell populations in bone marrow and spleen
- Victoria von Goetze: The immune modulatory potential of Anaeroplasma
- Kevin Thurley: What can we learn from mathematical models in immunology?
- Roodline Cineus: Oncostatin M in intestinal inflammation
- Andreas Diefenbach: The role of ILC3 in intestinal epithelial homeostasis
- Annette Lahmann: Tissue-resident B cells in an airway inflammation model
- CANCELLED Johanna Calhoff: Real life data in rheumatology CANCELLED
- Keeping communications open with online research talks
- Franziska Szelinski: B cell subsets in Systemic lupus erythematosus
- Christopher Skopnik: Indications for autoreactivity of human T cells towards renal epithelial cells
- Jonathan Stefanowsky: Mechanisms of bone regeneration using longitudinal intravital microscopy
- There will be no seminar on 6 August 2019, because of unavailability of the speaker. Apologies for any inconvenience!
- Fabian Guendel Rojas: Cryptopatch-associated DC constitute an immunoregulatory checkpoint for ILC3 in the steady state gut
- Timo Rückert: Mechanisms of generation and maintenance of cytomegalovirus-induced NKG2C+ NK cell expansions
- Pierre-Louis Krauß: Bioenergetics of human Monocytes
- Thomas Rose: Type I IFN in idiopathic inflammatory myositis
- Laura Schaupp: Microbiota-Induced Type I Interferons Instruct a Poised Basal State of Dendritic Cells
- Domonkos Varga: Heterogeneity of cytotoxic T cell programs
- Rebecca Cornelis: Stromal cell contact-induced PI3K signaling prevents caspase-3 induced cell death of memory plasma cells
- Martina Bertolo:The cellular signature of urinary immune cells in Lupus nephritis: new insights into potential biomarkers
- Jason Biniaris: Regulation of Lupus Nephritis by group 1 innate lymphoid cells
- Caroline Helmstetter: Quantitative regulation of signature molecules in Th1 memory cells
- Lukas Heiberger: Maintenance of bone marrow-resident memory T lymphocytes
- Johanna Callhoff: Claims data for health services research in chronic inflammatory diseases
- Irene Mattiola: The macrophage tetraspan MS4A4A interacts with Dectin-1 and is required for macrophage/NK cell cross-talk and resistance to metastasis
- Alexander Ferdinand Fiedler: Development of a longitudinal fluorescence lifetime microendoscopy method for analyzing the cell metabolism during bone regeneration
- Maria Dzamukova: Do extracellular matrix proteins control angiogenesis in bone development and pathogenesis of osteoarthritis?
- Chiara Romagnani: Introduction to Immunology and Innate Immunity
- Nayar Duran Hernandez: Immune cell populations in the Hoffa fat pad of patients with Knee osteoarthritis
- Axel Schulz: Immune cell profiling of rheumatoid arthritis patients undergoing helminth therapy by mass cytometry
- Qingyu Cheng: Selective depletion of plasma cells in vivo based on the specificity of their secreted antibodies
- Arturo Zychlinsky: Neutrophil Function: from Mechanisms to Disease
- Marina Babic-Cac: NK cell receptor NKG2D enforces pro-inflammatory features and pathogenicity of Th1 and Th17 cells
- Katharina Baum: New tools for the analysis of biomolecular networks and detection of influential links
- Andreas Hutloff: B cell Differentiation and Interaction with T cells
- Ping Shen: TLR-1/2 signaling impairs mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation in human chondrocytes via the induction of nitric oxide
- Julia Polánsky Biskup: Epigenetic Mechanisms in Lymphocyte Differentiation
- Christina Stehle: T-bet-mediated regulation of ILCs and lymph node formation during embryonic development
- Max Löhning: T cell Activation and Memory Formation
- Lennard Ostendorf: Targeting CD38 in Systemic Lupus erythematodes
- Antigoni Triantafyllopoulou: Chronic Immune Reaction
- Sabine Kirchner: Adhärenz – Validierung eines Erhebungsinstrumentes
- Martin Metz: Allergy
- Gerald Willimsky: Cancer Immunology
- Ahmed N. Hegazy: Inflammatory Bowel Disease
- Andreas Pelz: Antigen-specific plasma cell depletion in myasthenia gravis
- Birgit Sawitzki: Transplantation and Immunotolerance
- Andrey Kruglov: Regulation of innate immune system by cytokines during inflammation
- Alexandra Damerau: First steps towards the in vitro simulation of an arthritic joint
- Gitta Heinz: Rolling circle translation of a circular RNA in T helper lymphocytes
- Carolin Ulbricht: Linking BCR signaling to metabolic reprogramming in germinal center B cells
- Anna Rapp: Mouse models of osteoarthritis
- Ruth Leben: Dynamic and functional in vivo imaging using time-resolved fluorescence microscopy
- Patrick Maschmeyer: Transcriptional landscapes of memory T cells from patients with juvenile idiopathic arthritis
- Julia Kuhrau: Novel pathways controlling T follicular helper cells
- Josephine Scholz: CANCELLED Vitamin A regulates humoral immunity by direct effects on B cells and indirectly via Tfh cells CANCELLED
- Marie Urbicht: Mass cytometry profiling of signaling pathways in SLE and during therapeutic intervention by JAK inhibitors
- Katharina Kurz: Significance of TNF/Lymphotoxin for the maintenance of mucosal barrier during chronic inflammation
- CANCELLED Peter Jani: The effects of miR221 gene cluster on mouse hematopoietic stem cell quiescence program CANCELLED
- CANCELLED ||Laura Montag: Medication Burden of Young adults with Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis || CANCELLED
- Shintaro Hojyo: Antigen priming of XCR1+ dendritic cells preferentially guides the differentiation of resting memory CD4 T cells
- Marta Ferreira Gomes (Department of Cell Biology, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena): Mechanism and effect of Candida albicans recognition by murine B cells
- Stefanie Gryzik: Immunomodulation of T helper cell subsets in an autoimmune model
- Shimon Sakaguchi, M.D., Ph.D.: Treg cells in autoimmune disease
- Christopher Kreßler: Epigenetic editing converts naïve and memory CD4+ T cells into FOXP3 expressing (regulatory ?) T cells
- Jonathan Stefanowski: Elucidating mechanisms of bone regeneration using longitudinal intravital microscopy in the bone marrow
- Martina Niewerth: Webbasierte Erfassung von Langzeitbeobachtungen in der Kinderrheumatologie (Epidemiologisches Doktorandenseminar)
- Svea Horn, Claudia Sengler: Juvenile Dermatomyositis – Daten aus der Kinderkerndokumentation (Epidemiologisches Doktorandenseminar)
- Claudia Sengler: Interpretation von Laborparametern in der Kinderrheumatologie (Epidemiologisches Doktorandenseminar)
- Tom Kolodziej, Florian Milatz: Sportprojekt „RheumaFit“ (Epidemiologisches Doktorandenseminar)
- Johanna Callhoff, Katinka Albrecht: SLE Komorbidität
- Paula Drechsel: Verlauf und Outcomes von Schwangerschaften bei Erwachsenen mit juveniler idiopathischer Arthritis – Erste Ergebnisse
- Laure Montag: Medikamentenlast bei jungen Erwachsenen mit JIA
- Sabine Kirchner: Adherence to treatment – Validation of the PARQ/ CARQ questionnaire
- Prof. Dr. Gerhard Krönke: Novel checkpoints during (Auto)antibody-induced inflammation
- Laura Bauer: T cell/B cell cooperation in inflamed lung tissue
- Seminar on ScaiVision
- Yen Hoang: PRI on cytometric data – proposing differentiating marker combinations based on machine learning
- Philipp Enghard: Urinary cells as biomarker for renal diseases
- Randall Lindquist: Intravital single-cell metabolic imaging of germinal centers
- Asylkhan Rakhymzhan: Three-photon imaging of various mouse organ structures
- Adrian Madrigal-Avilés: Different regulation in glucose metabolism between Th1 and Th2 cells
- Weijie Du: The epigenetic imprinting of human memory lymphocytes
- Anna Pascual-Reguant: Analysis of rare cell populations in situ using MELC
- Manuela Frese-Schaper: Topoisomerase I inhibitors as a potential new treatment for systemic lupus erythematosus
- Dominik Niesen: Quantitative stability of GATA3 and IL-4 expression levels in Th2 cells
- Mai Dan Nguyen: Proliferative response and metabolic dysfunction of chondrocytes in osteoarthritis
- Siska Wilantri: Circadian rhythms of immune cells in healthy individuals and patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis
- Antonia Niedobitek: Characterization of distinct plasma cell subsets in human bone marrow
- Claudia Sengler: Juvenile dermatomyositis – data of a national pediatric rheumatology database
- Torsten Gross: Robust network inference using response logic
- Nils Geisemeyer: Operationalisierung von Geschlecht in Erhebungsinstrumenten
- Sabine Baumgart: Implementing mass cytometry in clinical research
- Laleh Khodadadi: Autoreactive long-lived plasma cells: From discovery to depletion!
- Arturo Blazquez Navarro: The role of soluble mediators in the clinical course of EBV infection and B cell homeostasis after kidney transplantation
- Jun Dong: Clonal Relation of Human Memory T Lymphocytes from Bone Marrow versus Peripheral Blood
- Valeria Rios: Inflammatory bowel disease and spondyloarthritis
- CANCELLED ||Sergio Arce: Immune response biomarkers as indicators of sarcoidosis || CANCELLED
- Spyridon Lipka: Low density granulocytes in granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA) patients are immature and display an activated phenotype
- Nils Müller: The Role of ILCs in the Intestinal Epithelium
- Iason Biniaris: Innate immune regulation of lupus nephritis
- Aayushi Shah: T cells and Microbiota in Chronic Inflammation
- Michael Kofoed-Branzk: Epigenetic control of ILC3 plasticity
- Marie Burns: Immune cell-specific phosphorylation signatures in rheumatic diseases
- Ralf Köhler : Multiplexed fluorescence microscopy reveals heterogeneity among stromal cells in mouse bone marrow sections
- Valerie Plajer: Tbet’s role in the fate of Th1 cells in chronic infections
- Justus Ninnemann: Vitamin A regulates humoral immunity by direct effects on B cells and indirectly via Tfh cells
- Rachel Humphrey: What cancer immunologists are doing about COVID-19 (IUIS-Frontiers Webinar Series on COVID-19)
- Daniel Schulz : The role of stromal niches in chronic inflammation
- Randy Lindquist: Imaging of inflammation
- Stefanie Hahne: PI3 kinase and NFkB signaling induced by stromal cells and APRIL synergize to balance expression of pro- and anti-apoptotic proteins for survival of longlived bone marrow plasma cells
- Gitta Heinz: RNA-based gene regulation in chronic inflammation
- Laleh Khodadadi : Targeting Plasma cells
- Axel Schulz : High-Parametric Mass Cytometry: A single-cell, system-level technology for deciphering chronic inflammatory diseases
- Yvette Meißner : Inflammation, rheumatoid arthritis and cardiovascular disease
- Jens Klotsche: Langzeitsicherheit einer Biologika-Therapie im Kindesalter (JUMBO) (Epidemiologisches Doktorandenseminar)
- Asylkhan Rakhymzhan: Optical methods
- Randy Lindquist: Chronic inflammation and cancer
- Yvette Meißner: Schwangerschaften unter PsA/SpA (EuNeP) (Epidemiologisches Doktorandenseminar)
- Andreas Radbruch: Adaptive Immunity in COVID-19 (IUIS-Frontiers Webinar Series on COVID-19)
- Imke Redeker, Denis Poddubnyy: Komorbidität in Proclair (Epidemiologisches Doktorandenseminar)
- Stefan Frischbutter: Drug Discovery in academia
- Rheumatology Research Talks: AG Triantafyllopoulou
- Patrick Maschmeyer: Functions of microRNAs in chronic inflammatory diseases
- Shintaro Hoyjo: Helper T cells in chronic inflammation
- Alexander Beller: Microbiota analysis in health and disease
- Mihai Netea: Trained immunity and BCG vaccination: a tool against COVID19? (IUIS-Frontiers Webinar Series on COVID-19)
Arbeitsgruppen
- Kallinich lab
- Baumgrass lab
- Kruglov lab
- Chang lab
- Kubagawa lab
- Melchers lab
- Radbruch lab
- Thurley lab
- Tokoyoda lab
- Buttgereit lab
- Diefenbach lab
- Dörner lab
- Hauser lab
- Hegazy lab
- Hiepe lab
- Hutloff lab
- Niesner lab
- Polansky-Biskup lab
- Romagnani lab
- Triantafyllopoulou lab
- Worm lab
- Minden lab
- Strangfeld lab
- Zink group
- Poddubnyy lab
- Mashreghi lab
- Löhning lab
- Mass Cytometry
- Flow Cytometry & Cell Sorting (FCCF)
- Central Laboratory for Microscopy (CINIMA)
- Regine von Ramin Lab Molecular Rheumatology
- Immune Monitoring
- Animal Facility
- Central Laboratory
- Embryo Technology Laboratory
Köpfe
- Dipl. Ing. Biotech. Katrin Lehmann
- Anna Pfeffer
- Dr. med. vet. Anja Schulz
- Prof. Dr. Andreas Radbruch
- Dr. Ute Hoffmann
- Dipl. Ing. Toralf Kaiser
- Petra Starke
- Prof. Dr. Angela Zink
- Prof. Dr. Ria Baumgrass
- Prof. Dr. med. Frank Buttgereit
- Dr. habil. Hyun-Dong Chang
- Prof. Dr. Andreas Diefenbach
- Prof. Dr. med. Thomas Dörner
- Dr. rer. nat. Andreas Grützkau
- Prof. Dr. med. vet. Anja Erika Hauser
- Prof. Dr. med. Dr. rer. nat. Ahmed N. Hegazy
- Prof. Dr. med. Falk Hiepe
- Heike Hirseland
- Univ.-Prof. Dr. Andreas Hutloff
- PD Dr. med. Tilmann Kallinich
- Antje Klauß
- Dr. Andrey Kruglov
- Prof. Dr. Hiromi Kubagawa
- Prof. Dr. Max Löhning
- Mag. Dr. Elke Luger
- Dr. Mir-Farzin Mashreghi
- Dr.rer. nat. Henrik Mei
- Prof. Dr. Fritz Melchers
- Prof. Dr. med. Kirsten Minden
- Dr. Katrin Moser
- Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Raluca Niesner
- Prof. Dr. Denis Poddubnyy
- Prof. Dr. Julia Polansky-Biskup
- Prof. Dr. Chiara Romagnani
- PD Dr. med. Anja Strangfeld
- Dr. Kevin Thurley
- Dr. Koji Tokoyoda
- Prof. Antigoni Triantafyllopoulou, MD
- Prof. Dr. med. Margitta Worm