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! 🚀