By Christin Meier|2024-04-25T13:18:21+02:0025.04.2024|
CRC1382 Project Day in April 2024 On 14th of April, the CRC1382 consortium met in Super C of the RWTH Aachen for the second out of three project days in 2024. Here, the participants discussed the progress of their work, connected with each other and exchanged their ideas. With almost 60 CRC [...]
By Christin Meier|2024-04-24T10:38:07+02:0022.04.2024|
CRC1382 graduate school: new clinical rotation in pathology To further strengthen the translational aspect of the educational programme for the PhD students of the CRC1382 "Gut-Liver Axis" graduate school, a new tailored clinical rotation covering the field of Pathology was set up beginning of this year. Next to a lecturing part, where [...]
By Betül Aycicek|2024-03-25T16:24:58+01:0025.03.2024|
Publication in Hepatology Communications Microbially conjugated bile salts found in human bile activate the bile salt receptors TGR5 and FXR Bile salts are an important means of communication in the organ crosstalk between gut and liver. PhD student Ümran Ay, Frank Schaap, Steven Olde Damink [...]
By hherbrand@ukaachen.de|2024-02-07T17:04:40+01:0007.02.2024|
Publication in the Journal of Experimental Medicine Salmonella infection: Non-professional efferocytosis contributes to barrier integrity in the neonate The immune system and the intestinal barrier of neonates and adult organisms are fundamentally different. Therefore, infections with the enteropathogen Salmonella have a different course and outcome [...]
By hherbrand@ukaachen.de|2024-02-06T17:47:12+01:0006.02.2024|
“Our Microbiome – the invisible extinction“ - Special cinema screening with discussion, moderated by CRC1382 PIs Oliver Pabst and Tom Clavel In the documentary "Our Microbiome - The Invisible Extinction", filmmakers Steven Lawrence and Sarah Schenck accompany the two microbiologists Gloria Dominguez-Bello and her husband, Martin Blaser who [...]
By Christin Meier|2023-12-04T10:43:25+01:0004.12.2023|
Sreepradha Eswaran, PhD student in the lab of Angela Schippers at the Department of Paediatrics (project B02), successfully defended her PhD thesis in the field of mucosal immunology end of November 2023. Sreepradha was investigating the role of beta7 integrin expressing innate immune cells in metabolic [...]
By Christin Meier|2023-09-21T10:48:44+02:0021.09.2023|
CRC1382 graduate student highly successful at WMIC 2023 Sarah received multiple awards at WMIC 2023 in Prague In September 3rd year graduate student Sarah Schraven presented her work at the World Molecular Imaging Congress (WMIC) in Prague . Her presentation with the topic "CT-MRI-aided [...]
By hherbrand@ukaachen.de|2023-06-02T13:39:00+02:0019.05.2023|
A reason to celebrate: The German research Foundation (DFG) approves second funding period for our CRC! On 17 May 2023, the DFG Senate decided to support our CRC for a second funding period of four more years (DFG, German Research Foundation - Press Releases). We [...]
By hherbrand@ukaachen.de|2023-04-27T17:43:58+02:0027.04.2023|
nature reviews gastroenterology & hepatology: 'Gut-liver axis: barriers and functional circuits' On behalf of our entire consortium, our spokesperson Oliver Pabst (B06, Q04), Mathias W. Hornef (B01, Q03), Frank Schaap (A07), Thomas Clavel (A05, Q02), Vuk Cerovic (B03) and Tony Bruns (B07) have summarised central [...]
By hherbrand@ukaachen.de|2023-04-27T17:41:45+02:0027.04.2023|
New CRC publication: Programmed and environmental determinants driving neonatal mucosal immune development Natalia Torow, one of our CRC1382 'Rising Stars' and PI Mathias Hornef (project B01) have published this review article in Immunity. 'In this paper we demonstrate that despite early microbial colonization the delayed [...]
