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Digital Day of Immunology 2021

Once again this year, the ImmunoSensation Cluster of Excellence is celebrating the Day of Immunolgy, which takes place worldwide on April 29, with a digital event.

On April 24th (Saturday) we opened the world of immunology to young and old with various lectures and live experiments. The focus was on the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 and how it affects the immune system.

Kids and their parents participated in a live experiment on how to extract DNA from banana performed from Dr. Gregor Hagelüken. The TRR 259 Aortic Disease performed a live tour through one of their laboratories explaining how and what kind of research is conducted here.

In a following section various researchers from our Cluster of Excellence explained the most up-to-date results concering research in the field of SARS-CoV-2. Dr. Paul Albert König and Dr. Florian Schmidt, Institute for Innate Immunity gave a talk on Promising antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 Nanobodies as a new therapy. How the molecular fingerprint of diseases can be deciphered with the latest technology using the example of SARS-CoV-2 was presented by Dr. Anna Aschenbrenner, Dr. Thomas Ulas and Prof. Dr. Joachim Schultze from the LIMES Institute & DZNE.

The final slot in our program was dedicated to questions participants had concerning SARS-CoV-2 and the immune system. Our members Prof. Irmgard Förster (LIMES Institute), Prof. Gunther Hartmann (Institute of Clinical Pharmacology and Clinical Chemistry) and Prof. Eicke Latz answered all the open questions.

Throughout the program more then 350 participants listend and discussed recent science with us and asked lots of interesting questions.

The Day of Immunology 2021 was organized together with the TRR 259 Aortic Disease and TRR 237 Nucleic Acid Sensing.


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