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Paper of the Month für Natalia Torow

Die Publikation in Immunity von Dr. Natalia Torow, in der die postnatale Reifung des mukosalen Immunsystems charakterisiert wird, wurde als Paper of the Month der Medizinischen Fakultät ausgewählt.…

Alina Bachmann successfully defended her PhD

Congratulations to Alina Bachmann. She defended successfully her PhD thesis entitled “Host Pathogen Interaction in a novel in vivo model of EPEC infection” on February 22nd 2024.  In this work, she…

Enterocyte efferocytosis in the neonatal intestine

Kaiyi Zhang, PhD, from the Hornef group published her work on non-professional efferocytosis of Salmonella infected intestinal epithelial cells by neighboring enterocytes in the Journal of…

Sondervorstellung des Films „Unser Mikrobiom – das unsichtbare Aussterben“ am 2. Februar 2024 mit anschließendem Publikumsgespräch

Am Freitag, den 2. Februar 2024 zeigt das Aachener Apollo Kino den Dokumentarfilm „Unser Mikrobiom – das unsichtbare Aussterben“ ab 18 Uhr im Rahmen einer Sondervorstellung. Im Anschluss an dem Film…

Isabel Richter successfully defended her MD thesis

On september 8th 2023, Isabel Richter from the AG Hornef successfully defended her MD thesis entitled "The influence of microbial exposure on postnatal enterocyte differentiation and immune…

New research reveals: Bacteria adapt their locomotion to different environments

A recent publication from the Institute of Medical Microbiology at the Uniklinik RWTH Aachen sheds new light on the movement of bacteria and their adaptability to different environments. The study,…

Institute members at the Gordon Conference on Salmonella

Nour Diab, Anna-Lena Jürgens and Mathias Hornef participated at the Gordon Conference on Salmonella Biology and Pathogenesis that took place between July 23rd-28th 2023 in Lucca Italy. They presented…

Continuous funding of the Gut Liver CRC1382 by the German Research Foundation

Last week we learnt with excitement that our CRC1382 Gut-Liver Axis funded by the German Research Foundation since 2019 will be prolonged until 2027. Many members of the Institut of Medical…

Publication by Natalia Torow in Immunity

After hard work over many years on the postnatal maturation of antigen presenting cells in the intestinal Peyer’s patches after birth, Natalia has now published her results in the May edition of…

Review article by Natalia Torow and Mathias Hornef in Immunity

Together with Timothy Hand from the University of Pittsburgh, Natalia Torow and Mathias Hornef summarize and discuss our current knowledge and the concepts of the establishment of the mucosal immune…

Perspective article in Nature on the analysis of low density microbiota

A perspective article with Mathias Hornef as co-author was published in Nature on January 25th 2023 dealing with the analysis of low density microbiota. The paper discusses the technical problems and…

Annika Schwentker successfully defended her PhD

On January 23rd,Annika Schwentker from the AG Hornef successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled “Enterohepatic cooperation in the postnatal establishment of immune homeostasis”. Her work was…