Journal club article by @tomikostevc.bsky.social & @sawitzkilab.bsky.social discussing a recent #preprint from @sciencekyle.bsky.social that uses a synthetic cytokine receptor to simultaneously induce inflammatory and phagocytic phenotypes in a macrophage rdcu.be/ftTPx

Excited to share a highlight that Birgit Sawitzki and I wrote about a recent preprint on fine-tuning macrophage polarization using synthetic cytokine receptors from the @sciencekyle.bsky.social Lab! @preprintclub.bsky.social

Happy to pitch our findings and ideas at the Bioengineering Symposium by @mdc-berlin.bsky.social today

From 25 to 27 June 2026, the 15th Translational Immunology School (TIS) of the #DGfI brought together early-career researchers and leading international experts in Potsdam. 😊 dgfi.org/akademie-fue... Chair: B. Grimbacher, Co-Chair: @sawitzkilab.bsky.social @efis-immunology.bsky.social #immunology

Inspiring exchange of ideas and experiences with the next generation of translational immunologists at the Translational Immunology School by @dgfi-org.bsky.social 💡

Great meeting the ME/CFS community last week in Berlin and sharing our latest findings!

Inspiring week at Utrecht University for our team! Our PhD Adrian joined fellow TopGut DCs, and our PI Birgit Sawitzki was there too. A great mix of science, collaboration & new ideas - leaving with fresh perspectives, strong connections & motivation ✈️ Thanks to #HorizonEU & #MSCA DN! #TopGut #PhD

The new research institute Si-M (Der Simulierte Mensch/The Simulated Human), a joint Charité-TU Berlin venture, officially opened!   We are excited to be a part of this new space, combinining biology, data science and engineering to model human physiology and accelerate medical translation! 🧬

Excited to share our new study showing that CD4⁺ and CD8⁺ T cells communicate via the AICL–KLRF1 axis to sustain cytokine production in precursor exhausted T cells. This support is disrupted in tumors, potentially promoting CD8⁺ T cell exhaustion. 🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Two of our lab members, Christina Iwert and Lev Petrov, have recently successfully defended their PhD theses! Congrats and wishing you both loads success in your careers! 🎓 @woodenrobo.bsky.social

Halloween in Sawitzki Lab 🎃🧙🕸️

We are at the #EMBLSpatialBiology: Melting Pot in beautiful Heidelberg this week! Exciting poster session today where also Matthias and Adrian shared their work. #ESSB2025

Excited to share our new study on how age-related changes in STAT signaling impact antiviral responses and hyperinflammation in COVID-19! 🧵 Explainer thread by the first author Lev Petrov linked below ⬇️

📣 We are looking for a master student to join us at the @bihatcharite.bsky.social to work on an exciting project in the field of #cancer and #spatialbiology! 🔬 #singlecell #multiomics

Adrian and Birgit are in Porto this week for a meeting of the TOP-GUT #MSCA Doctoral Network. Lots of fun sharing recent discoveries, planning collaborations and getting hands-on training on organoid culture. 🙌

Waking up our sleeping beauty! Super excited to have Xenium and PhenoCycler now running in the same room 🤩 #SpatialOmics #SpatialBiology #SpatialProteomics #SpatialTranscriptomics #Immunology

📣 Job alert! 📣 We are are looking for a talented bioinformatician to join us at the Berlin Institute of Health at Charité to analyze multiomics data in post-COVID-19 and ME/CSF syndrome research. Please share and come join us! ⬇️ #ImmunoSky #Bioinformatics #Immunology #ComputationalBiology #MedSky

We’re excited to be a part of the Swarm Learning Initiative, working to accelerate immune response analyses in infectious diseases! Anika, Lev, and Birgit joined the 1st Swarm Learning Symposium at @dzne.science, where Anika shared innovative concepts for ex vivo functional analyses. 📈

Exciting to see this story out — showing that children with MIS-C have high levels of TGFβ, which weakens T cells and reactivates EBV. Blocking TGFβ reversed this effect, making this a potential treatment option! Proud to have contributed our part!

Visited two events with a focus that was new to me - on tech- and methodology. Helpful, technical input and discussions that are often lacking in broader events! ⛰️📊 German Mass Cytometry User Forum - Jena, Germany 1️⃣0️⃣❎️ Single Cell & Spatial Discovery Symposium by 10X Genomics - Munich, Germany

Happy Valentine's Day! 🫶 #FluorescentFriday #SpatialProteomics #Microscopy

As part of BIH Diversity Month, Katherine Deane visited the BIH@Charité and stopped by our lab. Katherine is a renowned expert on accessibility and inclusivity, and we had great time discussing ways to make our lab and the broader scientific community more inclusive!

Lucas @lucasarendholz.bsky.social is presenting his project on post-COVID syndrome (long COVID) at the 8th German Mass Cytometry User Forum in Jena, Germany! 🙌

We're thrilled that the CURE-ME project received funding from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research! Together with experts from Charité and @tumuenchen.bsky.social, we are investigating the role of Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) in triggering autoreactivity and post-infectious #MECFS.

Protesting budget cuts for research and education in Berlin! #SaveBrainCity

Congratulations to Julia Stein for earning her Dr.rer.nat. degree from the @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social with a stellar PhD defence last week! Well done, Dr. Stein! 🎓 #Immunosky #PhD #SciSky

Very exciting week for Sawitzki Lab! 🎉 We moved into brand-new lab spaces at the Rahel Hirsch Center for Translational Medicine (BIH & Charité). Plus, we made the leap to Bluesky! 🚀