Looking forward to our next seminar on May 7🎉

🎤Tobias Kollmann - Why do newborns die? What we can do about it: Shift focus from pathogen to host
🎤Clara Delaroque - Microbiome in Heritage: How Maternal Microbiome Transmission Impacts Next-Generation Health

Registration: www.efis-eline.eu/seminars

1 week until our next seminar! 🎉

Register here:
www.efis-eline.eu/seminars

🚀 Just 5 days left to apply!
We’re hiring — and we’d love for you to join our team. If you’re passionate about AI, health and infection research, this is your moment to start an independent junior research group at HZI in one of Europe's most research-rich regions.
⏰ Deadline: March 30

Natural maternal immunity protects neonates from Escherichia coli sepsis - Nature Neonatal sepsis caused by Escherichia coli is associated with reduced transfer of pathogen-specific maternal antibodies and, in a mouse model, can be prevented by maternal preconceptual&nbsp...

Nearly every baby is colonized by various E. coli at birth, but luckily only 1 in 1000 develops a severe infection: A new paper in Nature shows how maternal IgG specific to mum`s gut E.coli protects neonates.

Read here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#EFIS #ELINE #NeonatalImmmunology (1/7)

EFIS-ELINE - Seminars Seminars run on the first Thursday of every month at 16:00 CET. We kick off with a 15-minute spotlight talk from an early-career researcher, then a senior scientist takes the stage for a deeper dive, ...

Save the date for our second seminar: April 2, 4 pm CET

🎤 Adrian Erlebacher - Mechanisms of parturition timing in mice
🎤 Dan Corral – Maternal Immune Regulation of Lactation

Register here:
www.efis-eline.eu/seminars

#EarlyLifeImmunity #Immunology #EFIS

Mucosal vaccination in mice provides protection from diverse respiratory threats Traditional vaccines target specific pathogens, limiting their scope against diverse respiratory threats. We describe an intranasal liposomal formulation combining toll-like receptor (TLR) 4 and 7/8 l...

Most vaccines are designed to protect against a single pathogen - this new study proposes a different concept: mucosal vaccination providing broad protection against multiple respiratory pathogens.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Reminds us of BCG vaccination in neonates! (1/7)

Peripheral immune-inducer dendritic cells drive early-life allergic inflammation - Nature Early-life exposure to allergens triggers a distinct local mode of dendritic cell activation in neonatal skin without requiring migration to lymph nodes, which shapes responses to allergens in later l...

New exciting #NeonatalImmunology paper: Peripheral immune-inducer dendritic cells drive early-life allergic inflammation (1/5) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

One week until our the kick-off of our seminar series!
Stay tuned and register here: www.efis-eline.eu/seminars

#EarlyLifeImmunity #Immunology #EFIS

Text: We seek: Game changers in infection research; Human Microbe Alliance for Universal Health (HUMAN) program; in the background a night sky with a shooting star and an electron micrograph of different bacteria

Are you a game changer in infection research? Apply for a HUMAN junior research group leader position (with professorship and tenure options) at the HZI by March 30!

Infection Biology: jobs.helmholtz-hzi.de/job/Braunsch...

AI in Health and Infection Research: jobs.helmholtz-hzi.de/job/Braunsch...

Thanks Michael!

To strengthen the European research on early life immunology we have started the EFIS study ELINE
Info and seminar announcement 👇🏼
#EFIS#ELINE#immunology

See you in less than two hours!

@kuppechristoph.bsky.social, Oliver Pabst, @tclavel.bsky.social, Doro Viemann, @srosshart.bsky.social, Vuk Cerovic, @ganalvonarburg.bsky.social, Adrien Guillot, Eva Billerbeck

Trong-Hieu Nguyen,Dustyn Mendoza, Aiara Lobo Gomes, Marlene Kohlhepp, Jonas Pes, Shahed Al Bounny, @jbrueck.bsky.social, Yunus Cetiner, Urs Moerbe, @milasugur.bsky.social, Cristina Kalbermatter, Jarrett Lopez-Scarim, Aline Dupont, Sue Jennings, Julia Heckmann, Aaron Silva-Sanchez, Solveig Runge,

Proud PI moment: first preprint from the Torow lab🔥. Four years ago
@eva-stange.bsky.social
set out to map T cell dynamics in the neonatal liver—what a ride. A genuinely collaborative effort, and a special shout-out to Mathias W. Hornef for outstanding mentorship.

@kuppechristoph.bsky.social, Oliver Pabst, @tclavel.bsky.social, Doro Viemann, @srosshart.bsky.social, Vuk Cerovic, @ganalvonarburg.bsky.social, Adrien Guillot, Eva Billerbeck

Trong-Hieu Nguyen,Dustyn Mendoza, Aiara Lobo Gomes, Marlene Kohlhepp, Jonas Pes, Shahed Al Bounny, @jbrueck.bsky.social, Yunus Cetiner, Urs Moerbe, @milasugur.bsky.social, Cristina Kalbermatter, Jarrett Lopez-Scarim, Aline Dupont, Sue Jennings, Julia Heckmann, Aaron Silva-Sanchez, Solveig Runge,

Congrats Max!

Ankündigung von offenen Stellen am Helmholtz-Zentrum für Infektionsforschung mit QR-Codes zu den Stellenanzeigen

We are looking for a new generation of scientists pushing the boundaries of infection research and using AI to shape the future of health research.
🚀Apply for junior group leader positions in our HUMAN program by November 26.
www.helmholtz-hzi.de/en/career/jo...
www.helmholtz-hzi.de/en/career/jo...

For our #flowcytometry peeps, would you like to have a single fix/perm protocol that is optimised for everything? One that preserves fluorophores while allowing simultaneous TF and cytokine staining? How about 100-fold cheaper?

You got it:
currentprotocols.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

I have started my own group over a year ago and it has been an exciting journey. I am greatful to my mentor Mathias Hornef from whom I learned so much to prepare me for this. It was a pleasure to reconnect for the SMI oral history project and reflect on the science on neonatal mucosal immunity.

Congrats!
Does this imply we are not to ingest novel foods during infection?

EMIG2025 Join us at the 13th European Mucosal Immunology Group Meeting 21-23 July 2025, in Aachen, Germany – EMIG 2025! Abstract Submission Deadline extended: June 1st EMIG is a network of European scientist...

Consider attending #EMIG2025 in Aachen!
This meeting offers an excellent platform for students and postdocs to build their professional network in mucosal immunology.
🔗 emig2025.de
PIs: Encourage your team to join.
#MucosalImmunology #EMIG2025 #AachenScience #EarlyCareerResearchers

Die Nachwuchsgruppe “Early Life Immunity” (ELIM) von Dr. Natalia Torow am HZI sucht eine_n Doktorand_in (w/m/d) zum Thema Verständnis der CD4+ T-Zell-Antworten in neonatalen darmassoziierten lymphatis... Die Nachwuchsgruppe „Early Life Immunity“ (ELIM) unter der Leitung von Dr. Natalia Torow sucht eine_n Doktorand_in zum Thema “Verständnis der CD4+...

🚨 PhD position 🚨
My new group @HZI_de is hiring!
Project: DC–T cell interactions in the neonatal gut to develop better oral vaccines.
Looking for candidates w/ immunology and/or bioinformatics background.
Apply 👉 www.helmholtz-hzi.de/karriere/job...

Looking forward to reading it - congrats!

Pictures of Lise Meitner Group leaders: Sofie Valk, Flore Kunst, Anna-Maria Meister, Maria Sokolova, Heidi Colleran, Nathalie Feiner und Ulrike Kraft.

Want to lead a research group at a Max Planck Institute – with a #tenuretrack position & substantial resources?

Apply for the Lise Meitner Excellence Program by @maxplanck.de. The program aims to promote exceptionally qualified #WomeninScience. Deadline: April 8, 2025
www.mpg.de/lise-meitner...

Still time to submit late breaking abstract to this fantastic meeting: www.perinatal-immunity.de/en/symposium...

#proudPI moment to spot @eva-stange.bsky.social on the award recipient picture at the #KSTCells25 where she presented her awesome data on hepatic T cell homeostasis in early life 🔥

Only one week left to submit an abstract!

I am co-organizing this fantastic meeting on #earlylifeimmunity in beautiful Freiburg 😍. Abstract submission until Dec 15th!
#CRC359 #DFG

www.perinatal-immunity.de/en/symposium...