Congrats to our Master student Hitikk Chawla, recipient of the Mainzer Rotary Jugendpreis 2025! 🎉 He was honored by the #Rotary Clubs in Mainz for his outstanding work on the development of an oral vaccine against Streptococcus pneumoniae. #MedicalResearch #PneumococcalDisease #VaccineDevelopment

Rotary Youth Award 2025 to Hitikk Chawla, honouring committment to society, culture and science for his cutting-edge work on oral pneumococcus vaccines! Congrats!!!

#NewPaper in EJI! ✨ Led by Juan Nahuel Quiroz and @luberod.bsky.social (IMM, Mainz) we uncovered how dendritic cells rewire their protein tags when sensing danger, revealing a new layer of immune regulation. 🔗 Read here: doi.org/10.1002/eji.... #Immunology #DendriticCells #ImmuneRegulation

2nd Brazilian-German Immunology Meeting / Austrian Edition / Vienna 2025! Wonderful talks and discussions. Thanks to our host Wilfried Ellmeier #SFB-F70 HIT/ support from #SBI #

EJI & EFIS are proud to announce the brand-new ECR Article of the Year Award 🏆 Presented by EJI’s Editor-in-Chief Matteo Iannacone at #IUIS2025, this prize celebrates outstanding research by early career researchers published in EJI 🎉 Check the eligibility criteria here👇 bit.ly/3Hvn9t5

Drs. José Carlos Alves Filho, Luciana Berod (@luberod.bsky.social), and Thomas Weichhart (@weichhartlab.bsky.social) are presenting their work on the metabolic regulation of immune responses at #IUIS2025! Check out the session at 1:45 pm in Hall E1.

#IUIS Vienna 2025 #immunometabolism - congrats @luberod.bsky.social sharing exiting new data on the link between metabolism and immune cell differentiation and function!

New paper from our lab just dropped: We discovered that an antibiotic can block #Tregs - immune cells that can help cancers hide. This could open new doors for #immunotherapy against #cancer. Congrats to first-time first author Luana Silva! Check out the publication here: doi.org/10.1002/eji....

📅 Save the date: the 38th European Macrophage and Dendritic Cell Society (EMDS) Meeting will take place from 16–18 September 2025 in Edinburgh, Scotland. 🔗 Registration & details: https://loom.ly/v07DKgo #GlobalImmunology #ImmunologyWithoutBorders

How Does Metabolism Shape Immunity?🤔 We want to know! 💡Submit your research to our special issue "Immunometabolism & Beyond" in the @eurjimmunol.bsky.social by Jan 31, 2026. 🔗 bit.ly/45xs3xo Edited by Peiying Li & @timsparwasser.bsky.social @efis-immunology.bsky.social @yefis-immunology.bsky.social

Exciting cutting-edge research topic @ Universitätsmedizin Mainz ! #immunometabolism #JGU

RESEARCH | Y Kao, @timsparwasser.bsky.social et al. - Princeton U @mainzuniversity.bsky.social‬ The metabolic requirements of IL17A-producing gamma delta T cells, offering a target to treat psoriasis by inhibiting fatty acid synthesis.

📢 New Grant: €300,000 from @ekfstiftung.bsky.social for our team working on mucosal #vaccines to fight off #Pneumococcus 🧫💉 Congrats to @timsparwasser.bsky.social, Prof. Lujan and the entire team for securing this competitive funding! #VaccineResearch #PneumococcalDisease #TranslationalResearch

📢New role: Starting today, @timsparwasser.bsky.social will be leading the brand-new Department of Diagnostics as spokesperson – bringing together teams from genetics, pathology, microbiology & more! Here's to stronger collaboration and smarter diagnostics! 🙌 #UMCMainz #Diagnostics #UM.Neustart

What a fantastic two days! Our Symposium "Immunometabolism & Beyond – From Liver to Brain" brought together scientists from Shanghai, Mainz & beyond. Thanks to all who joined us—and to our partners & the SGC for their support! #SinoGerman #Immunometabolism

Big news: Prof. Alves-Filho (@uspoficial.bsky.social, Brazil) is joining us in Mainz as a Gutenberg Research College Fellow! He’ll be working with our team on immune cell research in cancer + autoimmunity. Science across borders! 🌍🧬 #Immunology #GRC #TranslationalMedicine #InternationalResearch

Final event Medical Startup Alliance - great pitch by Alex and Hitikk! #JGU #RMU #biomindz @immh-mainz.bsky.social

Welcome PD Dr. Sethi! What an inspiring start 💡✨

Wonderful inaugural lecture by PD Dr. Sethi! Referring to giants of immunology - how to distinguish non-infectious self from infectious non-self! Welcome to IMMH_Mainz #JGU #RMU

We are thrilled to welcome Ni Zeng as a new postdoctoral researcher in our lab! Joining us with a prestigious @humboldt-foundation.de Research Fellowship, she will explore how metabolism shapes #Tcell function. Welcome aboard, Ni! #Immunometabolism #CancerResearch #Autoimmunity #AgingResearch

Mark your calendars! PD Dr. Sethi gives his inaugural lecture on innate immune receptors & pathogens 🧬 🗓️ 13 June | ⏰ 3–5 PM | 📍 UM Mainz, Building 708H, Lecture Hall “Pathologie” #Immunology #MainzScience #InnateImmunity

Immunometabolism & beyond - from liver to brain. A great success! Tx to all the speakers and participants for fantastic talks and good discussions! #immunometabolism #DFG #Universitätsmedizin Mainz

Special issue Immunometabolism and Beyond: from Liver to Brain! European Journal of Immunology Article types: reviews and research articles Submission deadline 1 November 2025 Thanks to Nadja, Matteo and Bin for this wonderful opportunity! #immunometabolism #EJI #CRC1292 #CRC355 #CRC156 #FZI

I am so excited to share our new publication on Nature Metabolism about the metabolic reprogramming in gamma delta T cells in response to inflammation. #gdt #immunometabolism Thanks for my research team in groups of @timsparwasser.bsky.social in Germany and Princeton @lydialynch.bsky.social 🙌🏻

🚀 New @naturemetabolism.bsky.social paper from Yu-San Kao and colleagues in Mainz shows the path to novel psoriasis therapies. 🧬 Read the original publication here: doi.org/10.1038/s422... #Immunology #Psoriasis #Metabolism #ScienceNews

15 PhDs, 11 countries, 1 goal: Rethinking immunotherapy! @luberod.bsky.social leads #UNLIMITED, a newly EU-funded Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions #MSCA Doctoral Network on lipid #immunometabolism with €4.5m for cutting-edge science!! Congratulationss! #immunology #bioinformatics #drugdevelopment

Proud to announce that we are one of the 149 out of 1417 successful applicants to be funded for a EU MSCA Doctoral Network! Looking forward to this big challenge coordinaring such an amazing network: UNLIMITED (UNderstanding Lipid ImmunoMetabolIsm To trEat Disease)

We are thrilled to welcome Daria Kondrateva, a Master student from @uni.lu to our team in Mainz! As part of the International Master of #Biomedicine program, Daria will be working on her thesis project with Prof. Berod. We look forward to her contributions and #collaboration with the IMMH!

One of my favorite topics right now! Very nice review on The evolutionary tug-of-war of macrophage metabolism during bacterial infection from @timsparwasser.bsky.social read here 👇 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Mark your calendars for this year's Day of Immunology on April 29th, 2025! This year's theme is "Brain and Immunity: Immunological insights into neurologic disorders". Be sure to register for our webinar from 15:00-18:00 CEST at: loom.ly/gMqUDLs !

📢 Join us for the Symposium of our 5th Sino-German Mobility Program Meeting: 🔬 Immunometabolism & Beyond – From Liver to Brain 🔬 🏨 Mainz, May 20-21, 2025 🆓 Free participation, limited spots 📩 Register now: [email protected] Full program coming soon! #Symposium2025 #Immunology #FreeEvent

We offer 2 PhD positions! Expertise in immunology and bioinformatics required!

Welcome, Shneh Sethi! An expert in #laboratory medicine will join our #teaching team this summer. We are looking forward to this fantastic #collabration!

📢 Open call 📢 We're offering 2 fully funded PhD positions with the International PhD Programme of the IMB this summer. Check out the project and apply here by April 3rd ➡️ www.imb.de/students-pos...

2nd Brazilian-German Immunology Workshop Vienna, Austria August 15-16, 2025 DEADLINE for application: March 1 Pls apply to Tim Sparwasser (sparwasser.office’at’uni-mainz.de) or Bernardo Franklin (franklin’at’uni-bonn.de) by March 1 2025, stating the title of the lecture and a half-page abstract.

The summer call of our International PhD programme is open! 📢 Ready to advance your scientific career? If you're passionate about #RNAbiology, #Bioinformatics, or #Immunology, apply to our open calls and join our global community of over 200 #PhD students! 🌍 www.imb.de/phd

New Paper alert! 🚨 In a collaborative project, Luciana Berod's group at the Institute for Molecular Medicine uncovered new findings highlighting the powerful link between #metabolism & #immune_function. This breakthrough could open new doors for immune regulation & therapy! #Immunology #Tregs #FoxP3

Congratulations to Dr. Brandstetter & Dr. Dennebaum on their recent #promotion to senior physician (Oberarzt)! We are proud to have such dedicated doctors in our #diagnostics team to promote the development of our Department of Infection Medicine!

Congratulations, Gwen on your new position as Associate Professor with the Host-Microbe Interactomics group at Wageningen University & Research! We wish you all the best and look forward to continued excellent #research on #gut_microbiota coming from the Netherlands. Veel geluk!

German-Japanese Immune Alliance - Fantastic meeting in Nara - looking forward to the next reunion in Germany! @dgfi_org #JSI

Brazilian researchers will soon have new opportunities to work in ERC-funded research teams in Europe. The European Commission and the Brazilian CNPq concluded an official agreement in Brussels on 11 December.     @ERC_Research

#HappyHolidays ! At the IMMH Christmas Party we remembered a turbulent year together with many changes, new faces, and big successes. Now we are excited to look forward and welcome the #NewYear. Thank you to all our members, collaborators, and friends!

#Neustart 2025

Exciting news! Director of the IMMH @timsparwasser.bsky.social was awarded a visiting professorship at @uspoficial.bsky.social! Starting in April, he’ll collaborate with top researchers, deliver lectures, and foster innovation at USP’s School of Medicine in Ribeirão Preto. #Collaboration #Research

Hello, Bluesky Community! Out with the old, in with the new! The IMMH Social Media is starting out 2025 with a #NewBeginning: We are switching from X to #Bluesky🦋! We are making things even more simple by also leaving Facebook & Threads.