May 2024 – New DAAD RISE Germany research intern from Canada
The Baumjohann Lab is happy to host another DAAD RISE Germany research intern. This year, Phoebe McNair-Luxon from The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, will stay in our group for the next three months. She will learn all about T helper cells with hands-on lab experience under Luisa’s and Teresa’s guidance.
April 2024 – New paper in Nature Communications!
We are super excited to see our study together with Katharina Lahl’s group on Bcl6 in dendritic cells now published in Nature Communications 🔬 😀 Genomic deletion of Bcl6 differentially affects conventional dendritic cell subsets and compromises Tfh/Tfr/Th17 cell responsesXiao H#, Ulmert I#, Bach L, Huber J, Narasimhan H, Kurochkin I, Chang Y, Holst S, Mörbe…
March 2023 – New paper in Science Immunology!
We are thrilled to see our tour-de-force on the role of TGF-β and c-Maf in Tfh/Th17 cell differentiation now published in Science Immunology (freely accessible through our list of Publications): TGF-β specifies TFH versus TH17 cell fates in murine CD4+ T cells through c-MafChang Y#, Bach L#, Hasiuk M, Wen L, Elmzzahi T, Tsui C,…
February 2024 – Best talk award
With two talks (Teresa and Luisa) and three posters, the Baumjohann Lab was well-represented at this year’s Life Science Network Bonn (Bonner Forum Biomedizin, BFB) meeting in Hennef. And congratulations to Luisa – she won the best talk award!
February 2024 – Carnival
For this year’s carnival celebration, members of the Kato, Jung, and Baumjohann labs dressed up as bees.
January 2024 – Harald von Boehmer Midwinter Conference in Seefeld
Luisa attended the Harald von Boehmer Midwinter Conference in Seefeld, Austria, and enjoyed fantastic talks, networking, and snow. She received lots of positive feedback on her poster presentation.
December 2023 – Christmas Market
For our Christmas lab outing we joined the crowd at the Bonn Christmas Market for mulled wine and delicious food.
November 2023 – Cluster Science Days
Each November, scientists of our Cluster of Excellence ImmunoSensation meet to discuss their latest reseach. This year we had over 300 in-person attendants in the BMZ I lecture hall and our lab was well-represented by one short talk given by Luisa and 5 poster presentations!
November 2023 – New MD student grant
Binta received a BONFOR SciMed MD fellowship – Congratulations and good luck!
July 2023 – Yinshui’s PhD defense
Yinshui successfully defended his PhD thesis in mid-July. Congratulations to this huge accomplishment!