*** The Post-Doc Symposium will be postponed into 2021! The date in 2020 is CANCELLED. As soon as the new date is fixed, you will be informed here on our webpage! ***

The Bonn Cluster of Excellence ImmunoSensation2 invites you to the 1st PostDoc Symposium „SCIENCE IN THE CITY“ in Bonn, Germany from August 31st to September 2nd.

Aim: to bring together PostDocs from all over the world to exchange scientific knowledge and to give them the opportunity to inform themselves about career paths and options within the Cluster of Excellence (to learn more). Of course, we would also like to introduce and present Bonn as one of the TOP locations for the research field of Immunology. In addition to national and international young scientists from different locations, scientists from Bonn will also be present.

Program: will consist of poster sessions, talks from renowned researchers of Bonn and the chance for exchanging between all participants.

Participation: Interested people can participate only by sending an application to the Cluster of Excellence. If this application is approved, the conference fee, accommodation and catering on site as well as the travel expenses of the participants will be fully covered by the Cluster of Excellence.
Please send your application to: applications_immunosensation@uni-bonn.de
You can find further information here.

For questions please contact: immunosensation@uni-bonn.de
See you in Bonn!

 

Speaker
Prof. Markus Feurer
Lehrstuhl für Immunologie, RCI Regensburger Centrum für Interventionelle Immunologie

Title
tba

Date and Time
Tuesday, August 04, 2020 at 2 p.m

Location
(probably) Zoom Meeting - please register (see below!)

Host
Prof. Veronika Lukacs-Kornek & Prof. Natalio Garbi (Institute for Experimental Immunology)
This Cluster Lecture Series will be held online via a "Zoom-Meeting". If you want to take part please register under the following link. The Access-Data for Zoom will be send then to you on July 6, 2020.
Registration: https://www.umfrageonline.com/s/b4c9efb

 

Speaker
Dr. Bastian Höchst
Institute of Molecular Immunology & Experimental Oncology, Klinikum rechts der Isar
Technische Universität München

Title
Metabolic Momentum of Monocytes

Date and Time
Tuesday, July 14, 2020 at 2 p.m

Location
Zoom Meeting - please register (see below!)

Host
Dr. Annkristin Heine (Institute for Experimental Immunology & Medical Clinic III
This Cluster Lecture Series will be held online via a "Zoom-Meeting". If you want to take part please register under the following link. The Access-Data for Zoom will be send then to you on July 6, 2020.
Registration: https://www.umfrageonline.com/s/5189c08

 

Speaker
Prof. Petr Broz
Department of Biochemistry, University of Lausanne

Title
tba

Date and Time
Tuesday, July 07, 2020 at 12:00 a.m

Location
Zoom Meeting - please register (see below!)

Host
Prof. Eicke Latz & Florian Schmidt (Institute for Innate Immunity)

This Cluster Lecture Series will be held online via a "Zoom-Meeting". If you want to take part please register under the following link. The Access-Data for Zoom will be send then to you on July 6, 2020.
Registration: https://www.umfrageonline.com/s/f2b2ed9

 

Speaker
Prof. Ricardo Gazzinelli
University of Massachusetts Medical School

Title
In ammation, metabolism and periodicity of malaria parasites

Date and Time
Tuesday, May 05, 2020 at 4:00 p.m

Location
Zoom Meeting - please register (see below!)

Host
Prof. Bernardo Franklin (Institute for Innate Immunity)

This Cluster Lecture Series will be held online via a "Zoom-Meeting". If you want to take part please register under the following link. The Access-Data for Zoom will be send then to you on April 6, 2020.
Registration: https://www.umfrageonline.com/s/3913cc4

 

*Due to the current situation the talk is cancelled!*

Speaker
Priv.-Doz. Dr. Nico Lachmann
Hannover Medical School, Institute of Experimental Hematology

Title
Stem cells and macrophages: from disease modeling to new therapies

Date and Time
Tuesday, April 21st, 2020 at 5 pm

Location
LIMES Institute, Seminar Room, Ground floor

Host
Prof. Dr. Elvira Mass (LIMES Institute)

 

Speaker
Prof. Jan Riemer
Institute for Biochemicals, University of Cologne

Title
Mitochondrial Hydrogen Peroxide Signalling

Date and Time
Tuesday, April 07, 2020 at 12:00 p.m

Location
Zoom Meeting - please register (see below!)

Host
Prof. Katrin Paeschke (Medical Clinic III, UKB)
Prof. Matthias Geyer (Institute for Structural Bioogy, UKB)


This Cluster Lecture Series will be held online via a "Zoom-Meeting". If you want to take part please register under the following link. The Access-Data for Zoom will be send then to you on April 6, 2020.

Registration: https://www.umfrageonline.com/s/bf20510

 

***The Talk is cancelled due to the current situation.***

Speaker
Spyros Vernardis, PhD
Project Research Scientist, The Francis Crick Institute

Title
“Metabolomics in Bioprocessing: Ideas and applications”

Date and Time
Tuesday, March 10, 2020 at 12:00 p.m

Location
Lecture Hall, Building 10 (Teaching Building)
Venusberg-Campus 1, 53127 Bonn

Host
Prof. Dr. Christoph Wilhelm (Institute for Clinical Chemistry and Clinical Pharmacology)

 

Speaker
Prof. Bodo Grimbacher
Center for Chronic Immunodeficiency at Center for Translational Cell Research, University of Freiburg

Title
tba

Date and Time
Tuesday, February 04, 2020, 12 pm

Location
Lecture Hall 1 (big one), Building 13 (BMZ)
Venusberg-Campus 1, 53127 Bonn

Host
Prof. Markus Nöthen
Prof. Regina Betz
Institute for Human Genetics, Universityhospital Bonn

 

Speaker
Dr. Amma Yeboah
Visiting lecturer for Gender & Health behavior at the University of Cologne
Specialist in Psychiatry and Psychotherapy

Title
Sex & Gender: Tradition in Science

Date and Time
Monday, March 2, 2020 at 10:30 a.m.

Location
Lecture Hall, Building 13 (BMZ)
Venusberg-Campus 1, 53127 Bonn

Abstract
Gender in education and the workforce has changed over the past 100 years with women gaining in representation, equitable pay and recognition. In this lecture, Amma Yeboah presents perspectives on gender disparities in the  elds of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) and addresses issues concerning recent data on gaps in representation, compensation, and recognition, as well as evidence on leading explanations for these gaps. Biological implications of Sex in medical terms with emphasis on the spectrum in human biology will be presented as well. Finally, current knowledge on interventions to change individuals’ beliefs and behaviors, as well as organizational culture and practices will be discussed.

 

Speaker
Prof. Jörg Vogel
Director, Institute for Molecular Infection Biology, Julius-Maximilian-Universität Würzburg
Title
An RNA perspective on infections and the microbiome
Date and Time
Thursday, February 13, 2020, 10 am

Location
Lecture Hall, Building 13 (BMZ)
Venusberg-Campus 1, 53127 Bonn

Host
Prof. Katrin Paeschke
Medical Clinic III
Prof. Gunther Hartmann
Institute for Clinical Chemistry and Clinical Pharmacology

 

Speaker
Dr. med. Leif Erik Sander
Department of Infectious Diseases and Respiratory Medicine, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin

Title
Deconstructing human immune responses to live attenuated vaccines

Date and Time
Tuesday, January 21, 2020, 12 pm

Location
Lecture Hall, Building 10 (Lehrgebäude)
Venusberg-Campus 1, 53127 Bonn

Host
Prof. Gunther Hartmann
Prof. Martin Schlee
Institute for Clinical Chemistry and Clinical Pharmacology

 

Speaker
Professor Dr. Nina Henriette Uhlenhaut
Molecular Endocrinology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Helmholtz Diabetes Center

Title
Genomic mechanisms of anti-inflammatory glucocorticoid action

Date and Time
Wednesday, January 15, 2020, 11 am

Location
Lecture Hall, Building 10 (Lehrgebäude)
Venusberg-Campus 1, 53127 Bonn

Host
Dr. Clivia Lisowski, Institute of Experimental Immunology

 

Speaker
Prof. Dr. med. Martin Aepfelbacher
University Clinic Eppendorf, Hamburg

Title
Suppression of the innate immune response by a relative of the plague bacterium

Date and Time
Tuesday, January 14, 2020 at 12:30 p.m

Location
Lecture Hall 2, Building 13 (BMZ)
Venusberg-Campus 1, 53127 Bonn

Host
Dr. Gregor Hagelueken, Institute of Structural Biology

 

We are happy to announce our first Cluster Christmas „Party“ this year, which gives the opportunity to meet other members of the cluster, exchange experiences and to expand your network.

When? Friday, December 6th, 2019, starting 4 p.m.
Where?  BMZ (Building 13), Foyer
Who? Cluster members, associated scientists and members of the groups

While we provide mulled wine, non-alcoholic punch and soft drinks we would like to make an international Christmas buffet with snacks that will be stuffed by all of us, including you! 
We want to show the diversity and internationality of the cluster and invite you therefore to bring typical (Christmas) food from your home country/tradition and offer it to the other members of the cluster at the buffet.
To be able to plan a bit better and to make sure everyone gets some punch and mulled wine, we would ask you to simply enter your name in the following link if you are interested: https://www.umfrageonline.com/s/5ae033e
The free registration is possible until November 25th!
If you like to bring your kids with you, it is possible to use the Family- and Children's Room.

 

Speaker
Prof. Lukas Flatz, M.D.
Dermatologie, Kantonspital St. Gallen, Schweiz

Title
Mechanisms of checkpoint inhibitor mediated skin toxicity

Date and Time
Tuesday, December 3, 2019 at 12:00 p.m

Location
Small Lecture Hall, Building 13 (BMZ)
Venusberg-Campus 1, 53127 Bonn

Host
Prof. Michael Hölzel, Prof. Jenny Landsberg

 

Speaker
Dr. Rayk Behrendt
Institute for Immunology, Technical University Dresden

Title
Molecular mechanisms and therapy of nucleic acid-driven inflammation

Date and Time
Tuesday, November 19, 2019 at 12:00 p.m

Location
Lecture Hall, Building 10 (Lehrgebäude)
Venusberg-Campus 1, 53127 Bonn

Host
Prof. Hiroki Kato

 

We like to announce the date of this year's Cluster Science Days!
Date
November 4th to November 5th 2019

Location
Biomedical Center (BMZ) at Venusberg, Uniklinik Bonn, 53127 Bonn

The program includes key note lectures, talks and posters from
various research areas of immunology.
The registration is open now. For a registration please click here.


Further information visit the website here.

 

Speaker
Prof. Andreas Strasser
Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne, Australia Division Head: Molecular Genetics of Cancer

Title
Learning the rules of programmed cell death to develop novel therapies for cancer

Date and Time
Wednesday, Ocotber 9, 2019 at 11:00 a.m

Location
Lecture Hall, BMZ (Building 13)
Venusberg-Campus 1, 53127 Bonn

Host
Prof. Christian Kurts

I am a cancer researcher trained in cell bi-ology, immunology and molecular oncolo-gy. I have made major contributions to the discoveries that defects in cell death can cause cancer, autoimmune disease and impair the response of cancers to chemo-therapy. My current work aims to reach a detailed understanding of the molecular control of programmed cell death. My team is ex-ploiting this knowledge to develop novel treatments for cancer and autoimmune diseases that directly activate the cell death machinery.

 

Speaker
Dr. Santiagio F. Gonazales
Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB), Università della Svizzera italiana

Title
In vivo study of the inflammatory response that follows vaccination in the draining lymph node

Date and Time
Tuesday, September 24, 2019 at 11:00 a.m

Location
Lecture Hall, Lehrgebäude (Building 10)
Venusberg-Campus 1, 53127 Bonn

Host
Prof. Veronika Lukacs-Kornek

Santiago F. González holds two PhD degrees, one in microbiology from the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain) and one in immunology from the University of Copenhagen (Denmark). He has been awarded three EU Marie Curie Fellowships. He found during his work in Harvard that dendritic cells residing in the lymph node medulla use the lectin receptor SIGN-R1 to capture lymph-borne influenza virus and promote humoral immunity. These results have important implications for the generation of durable humoral immunity to viral pathogens through vaccination and were published in Nature Immunology. In November 2012 he joined the Institute for Research in Biomedicine in Bellinzona as a group leader studying pathogen-host interaction.