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Cluster of Excellence ImmunoSensation²

Immunology as a key to better health

ImmunoSensation2 is a Cluster of Excellence at the University of Bonn funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). We are dedicated to the study of innate immunity beyond the boundaries of classical immunology. We address the immune system as a sensory organ for health, which we term the immune sensory system. We are immunologists, neurobiologists, systems biologists, biochemists, biophysicists and mathematicians from the Faculty of Medicine and the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences at the University of Bonn and the German Centre for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE) of the Helmholtz Association.

Founded in 2012, ImmunoSensation2 is currently in its eleventh year of funding. We continue to pursue our mission of innovative science in immunology. Further, we link immunology to other systems, such as the metabolic system and the nervous system. Ultimately, we want to better understand the intimate connection between the immune sensory system and human health and disease.

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How the Immune System Learns from Harmless Particles

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How the Immune System Learns from Harmless Particles

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How immune cells communicate to fight viruses

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How immune cells communicate to fight viruses

Bonn researchers develop new techniques to analyse the communication of immune cells in the defence against infection.
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Bonn Researchers Kidney

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Navigation software supports kidney research

Bonn researchers develop method for three-dimensional image processing to solve the mystery of kidney inflammation.
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Upcoming events

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    Diversity Days

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    University Campus Bonn Poppelsdorf

    The Vice Rectorate for Equal Opportunity and Diversity is organising the third Diversity Days at the University of Bonn. The program includes the topics "Language Connects" and "Women Empowering STEM".

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    Spatial Biology Club

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    Venusberg Campus, BMZ I, Lecture Hall ( B013.EG.302 )

    Decoding Cell Fates Through Single Cell Omics Imaging and Generative AI by Prof. Jian Shu PhD Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard