‘Gut, Liver and Friends’ Seminar with Fredrik Bäckhed, Gothenburg

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Prof. Fredrik Bäckhed from the Department of Molecular and Clinical Medicine at Gothenburg University, Sweden, and his team combine clinical oriented research with gnotobiotic mouse models to address the role of the normal gut microbiota in metabolic diseases. The title of his talk is: "Gut microbiota and type 2 diabetes"  Please find more information here: [...]

‘Gut, Liver and Friends’ Seminar with Gad Frankel, London

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Gad Frankel is Professor for Molecular Pathogenesis at the Department of Life Sciences at Imperial College London, UK. Gad Frankel and his team study infection of mucosal surfaces by enteric (Citrobacter rodentium) and pulmonary (Klebsiella pneumoniae) pathogens in the context of antimicrobial resistance, the microbiome and immunometabolism; and bacterial conjugation. The title of his talk [...]

‘Gut, Liver and Friends’ Seminar with Ziad al Nabhouni, Bern

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Physiopathologist Ziad Al Nabhani from the Department of BioMedical research at the University of Bern, Switzerland, received an ERC Starting grant as part of "Horizon 2020", the European Union's framework programme for research and innovation. Ziad Al Nabhani is investigating the influence of early childhood nutrition on the immune system The title of his talk [...]

‘Gut, Liver and Friends’ Seminar with Alessandra Perna

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Title: Sulfur compound derangements and chronic kidney disease: will research have the power to change outcomes for this condition? Alessandra F. Perna is Full Professor of Nephrology at the University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli” in Naples, Italy. She studied over three decades the topic of uremic toxicity, with special regard to the derangements of sulfur [...]

‘Gut, Liver and Friends’ Seminar with Stefan Jordan, Charité Berlin

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Stefan Jordan is scientist at the Charite – Universiätsmedizin Berlin. He is the Head of the Laboratory of Microbiology, Metabolism and Inflammation (LoMMI) at the Institute of Microbiology, Infectious Diseases and Immunology. Using basic and clinical research Stefan Jordan and his team investigate how the dietary energy metabolism controls the homeostasis and function of immune [...]

‘Gut, Liver and Friends’ Seminar with Zania Stamataki

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The Stamataki Lab in Birmingham, UK, studies how immune cells in the liver microenvironment contribute to disease pathogenesis. One focus of the group is to understand the process of encclysis. Enclysis is the enclosure and lysis of regulatory T cells by hepatocytes. A first paper on this new process was released in November 2019 (Davies [...]

‘Gut, Liver and Friends’ Seminar with Tobias Boettler

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The group of Prof. Dr. Tobias Boettler at the Clinics for Gastroenterology, Hepatology Endocrinology and Infectious Diseases at Freiburg University focusses on characterizing the signals that regulate T cell survival and function in the context of acute and chronic viral hepatitis. The title of his talk is: "Follicular T Helper cells and their role in [...]