Deadline extension just announced: you still have a chance to submit your abstract until 22 April 2026!☝🏻

The next Lady Mary Montagu Lecture Series is starting soon! ✨ The lectures are held online and free of charge. You are cordially invited to attend. 😊 register via https://dgfi.org/gleichstellung/lady-mary/ 25.3.2026, 4-6pm, Prof. Dr. Sarina RAVENS, Hannover In this series of lectures, the DGfI Commission on Gender Equality and Career Development provides a forum for excellent female immunologists. They will share their exciting research, but also talk about their experiences in forming a career as women in STEM (=MINT). Chair: Prof. Dr. Stella Autentieth About the Speaker: Prof. Dr. Sarina Ravens is Professor of Systems Human Immunology at MHH. She leads a junior research group at the Institute of Immunology and is a member of the Cluster of Excellence RESIST - Resolving Infection Susceptibility. Her research centers on the development and functions of γδ T cells in infectious diseases, with a particular emphasis on early life events. Her group aims to define immune mechanisms and identify immune markers that predict susceptibility to infection across early life. She is a role model for women in immunology, highlighted by the 2024 EFIS Ita-Askonas Prize. Spokesperson for the Commission Sabrina B. Bennstein Niklas Beyersdorf https://dgfi.org/gleichstellung/ #womeninscience #Genderequality #Careerdevelopment

The next Lady Mary Montagu Lecture Series is starting soon! ✨ You are cordially invited to attend 😊 register via dgfi.org/gleichstellu...
@dgfi-yi.bsky.social @yefis-immunology.bsky.social @iuisjuniorcomm.bsky.social @efis-immunology.bsky.social @iuis-online.bsky.social
#womeninscience

🔹 Tobias Köhler of the #KurzaiLab @uni-wuerzburg.de for his presentation:
“The effect of lung colonization with #CandidaAlbicans on #StaphylococcusAureus infection” 🫁🔬

Congratulations 🎉 — we’re looking forward to seeing the progress of your projects next year at #Rothenfels2027 🏰

🔹 Lars André Jager of the #KellerLab at #UniversityHospitalRegensburg for his presentation:
“TLR7 senses microbial viability of #OrientiaTsutsugamushi via RNA in #PlasmacytoidDendriticCells” 🧬🧫
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Also at #Rothenfels2026 @dgfi-org.bsky.social @dgfi-yi.bsky.social #DGHM: We are excited to award two Come-back-to-Rothenfels Awards 🏅🏅 to outstanding PhD researchers 🧑‍🔬, whom we are delighted to invite back in 2027.

The awards go to:

…Dinah Lange of the #TheobaldLab at #UniversityHospitalCologne & @unicologne.bsky.social for her talk on intracellular signaling cascades and cell death mechanisms of #DendriticCells induced by #Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection. Congrats 🎉@dgfi-org.bsky.social @dgfi-yi.bsky.social #DGHM

Always a highlight of #rothenfels2026: This years BD presentation award is shared between Paulina Schad of the #DalpkeLab at #UniversityHospitalHeidelberg for her talk on the role of RNA modifications for TLR8 recognition of different bacteria and…1/2

Special thanks to our keynote speakers Claudia Kemper from the NIH and Christoph Wilhelm @labwilhelm.bsky.social from Bonn University - inspiring talks 👏🏼👏🏼 about the cell autonomous function of the complement system and about how nutrition impacts our barrier immunity& immune metabolism!!

Happy Hi from the 2026 Rothenfels Meeting - the 29. Symposium „Infection and Immune Defense“ of the @dgfi-org.bsky.social and #DGHM
🦠🧫🔬 - always a great opportunity for networking for the community and esp. our aspiring junior researchers👩🏻‍🔬🧑🏽‍🔬👨🏼‍🔬 for presenting and discussing their projects.

1st-year PhD👩‍🔬researcher #SvenjaStelzig pitching her project at this year’s AKDC meeting of the @dgfi-org.bsky.social 💬🔬

🙌 Huge thanks to @kruglab.bsky.social & Björn Clausen for once again organizing a beautiful meeting for the German dendritic cell community 🧫💡

🏥 #UniversityMedicalCenterRostock

⏳ 9 days left to apply — don’t miss out! 🎗️🏆
Apply / spread the word / nominate someone!

Very well deserved. The short summary on this discovery can be found here:

The discovery of regulatory T cells

www.nature.com/articles/d42...

A photo of a Nobel medal

BREAKING: The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded jointly to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, and Shimon Sakaguchi "for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance"

Stay tuned for more.
#NobelPrize

How to find the papers you need to read — and avoid the ones you don’t With thousands of papers being published everyday, it can be a task working out which matter. Here are some tips to help you decide.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...
…now that’s quite helpful👆🏻💡🤓

Excited to take part in the 11th European🇪🇺Conference on Tetraspanins🍦 in Montpellier🇫🇷 1st time sharing our data with this vibrant & welcoming community!
Shout out to 1st-year PhD researcher Mick Gottemeier for his poster 👏 Thanks to the Manchot🐧Foundation for support🙏
#Tetraspanins #Montpellier

Congratulations 🎊 Looking forward to the exciting discoveries coming from your lab in the years ahead!

BATF controls IFN I production via DC-SCRIPT in plasmacytoid dendritic cells The basic leucine zipper ATF-like transcription factor (BATF) plays a pivotal role in coordinating various aspects of lymphoid cell biology, yet essential functions in dendritic cells (DCs) have not b...

Preprint available: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Dr. Shafaqat Ali presenting our work on the function of BATF in plasmacytoid Dendritic Cells in the "Immuneregulation: DC and metabolism" #IUIS2025 #UniversityRostockMedicalCenter @hhu.de @dgfi-org.bsky.social @dfg.de

The #IUIS2025 is on!! The @dgfi-org.bsky.social is kicking off the Satellite Symposium in great style at the Austria Center Vienna! #Immunology #Science

Frontiers | The Mycotoxin Beauvericin Exhibits Immunostimulatory Effects on Dendritic Cells via Activating the TLR4 Signaling Pathway Beauvericin (BEA), a mycotoxin of the enniatin family produced by various toxigenic fungi, has been attributed multiple biological activities such as anti-ca...

..building on our previous Frontiers in Immunology paper 🔗 doi.org/10.3389/fimm...

#Immunology #CathepsinB #Mycotoxins #ProteinScience #Beauvericin

📖 Have a look and feel free to share!

The mycotoxin Beauvericin is an uncompetitive inhibitor of Cathepsin B Beauvericin (BEA), a cyclic depsipeptide, is a mycotoxin of the enniatin family and the secondary metabolite of various toxigenic fungi. Multiple biological functions of BEA have been well investigat....

🚨 Our new publication out now
🍄☠️“The mycotoxin Beauvericin is an uncompetitive inhibitor of Cathepsin B”
🔗 doi.org/10.1002/pro....
👏Congrats to first authors Xiaoli Yang & Pablo Cea-Medina @dfg.de #RTG2158 & thnx to Holger Gohlke for the great collaboration!
@hhu.de #RostockUniversityMedicalCenter

With this #rothenfels2025 has come to an end🏁 Thanks to everyone who came and contributed with talks and discussions and fun and made it this special type of meeting🤩😎 Hope to CU again next year for #rothenfels2026 on March 16 to 18 - mark your calendars!📅
@dgfi-yi.bsky.social @dgfi-org.bsky.social

My group @aps-hki.bsky.social is looking for a new postdoc in immunology of fungal infections focusing on vulvovaginal candidiasis. Please contact me for further details in case of interest.

We are incredibly proud of Kar On Cheng for winning the best presentation award at the 28th Symposium: "Infection and Immune Defense". She presented her doctorate project on IL-36 and its role in inflammation during RVVC. Congratulations Kar On!!!

Final highlight of #rothenfels2025: Kar On Cheng of @aps-hki.bsky.social receives the 1st BD presentation award for her beautiful talk on IL-36 functions in recurrent vulvovaginal candidiasis (RVVC) 👏🏻👏🏼👏🏾congratulations🎉well deserved an looking forward to hearing about your work in the future👩🏻‍🔬📄

Congrats 🎉 to @evanowack.bsky.social for this great work👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻Thanks for letting us be part of it!! #ManchotFoundation #MOI_IV

And keynote speaker of day 2 Karsten Hiller of @tubraunschweig.bsky.social is giving us a deep dive into immuno metabolism in macrophages: #itaconate rules ✌🏻🤓 #Rothenfels2025

Day 2 of the study group Infection Immunology Meeting at #Rothenfels2025 features the traditional afternoon walk ☀️😎- perfect for discussing data and networking at saturated oxygen levels 😬

Fascinating evening🌇keynote given by David @sancholab.bsky.social on how the gut microbiome trains the immune system inside the bone marrow🦴 and how its metabolites impact atherosclerosis 👏🏻

Great opportunity to kick-start this 🦋bsky account: Back at #Rothenfels2025 for our yearly meeting of the @dgfi-org.bsky.social and #DGHM study groups for infection immunology🦠🧫🔬 - great talks and fresh🌟data presented mostly by our aspiring junior researchers👩🏻‍🔬🧑🏽‍🔬👨🏼‍🔬 already at the first day.