Events archive

Our external PILOT Seminar Series on Perinatal Immunity takes place every second Wednesday.

Speaker: Elvira Mass

Title: Developmental programming of Tissue-Resident Macrophages

Date and time: 14 January, 1 p.m.

Venue: Freiburg and online

Host: Katrin Kierdorf

Presentations by Jonas Pes (Project A01): Early life Giardia lamblia infection tolerizes the intestinal mucosal immune system

and

Doğuş Altunoez (Project B05): Periweaning diet-induced activation of an IFNgamma-mediated regulatory circuit promotes the homeostasis of cytotoxic CD8+ T Cells

Date and time: January 12, 2026; 5 pm

Location: online

Presentation by Project A08 (Immune trajectories defining early lung development in newborn infants)

Our external PILOT Seminar Series on Perinatal Immunity takes place every second Wednesday.

Speaker: Naomi McGovern

Title: Decoding Placental Dynamics: Transcriptomic and Functional Insights Across Gestation

Date and time: 17 December, 1 p.m.

Venue: Freiburg and online

Host: Philipp Henneke

Speaker: Thiago Mattar Cunha, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil

Title: Inflamed border: role of meningeal cells for neuropathic pain

Date and time: December 15, 5 p.m.

Venue: online

Host: Clarissa Döring

Presentation by Project A06 (Perinatal crosstalk of microbiota and intestinal macrophages in the control of mucosal pathogens)

Presentation by Project B03 (Perinatal development of dermal macrophage diversity)

Our annual CoPILOT Retreat will take place from 26 - 28 November 2025 at Dietrich Bonhoefffer Haus in Berlin.

All CoPILOT members are invited to register for the upcoming retreat; please note that the number of available places is limited.

In the event of oversubscription, spots will be allocated based on project affiliation.

PILOT speednetworking for PIs and Postdocs.

Date and time: Wednesday 26 November 1pm

Presentation by Project INF (Information infrastructure for research data management)

project presentations by

Marleen Eckert (project A06) and Ramin Shakiba (project B05)

5 p.m. (online via zoom)

Our external PILOT Seminar Series on Perinatal Immunity takes place every second Wednesday.

Speaker: Marie Bodinier

Title: Prebiotic strategy during pregnancy to prevent allergy by a translational research approach

Venue: online only

Host: Tom Clavel

project presentation by

Julia Heckmann (project A03)

5 p.m. (online via zoom)

Our external PILOT Seminar Series on Perinatal Immunity takes place every second Wednesday.

Speaker: Thomas Marichal (Liège)

Title: Revisiting lung physiology through the lens of a neutrophil

Date and time: 05 November, 1 p.m.

Venue: Freiburg and online

Host: Philipp Henneke

presentations by 

Anna-Lena Ullrich (project A01) and Pin-Yu Kuo (project B05)

5 p.m. (online via zoom)

Presentation by Project A03 (The role of S100-alarmins in the perinatal development of respiratory immunity)

Semester Welcome 

Monday, October 27, 2026

5 p.m. (online via zoom)

Our external PILOT Seminar Series on Perinatal Immunity takes place every second Wednesday.

Speaker: Sing Sing Way

Title: Learning immunology from mothers and babies

Venue: online only

Host: Philipp Henneke

Presentation by Project

B02 (Role of placenta-derived peptide PIF in perinatal immune cell regulation)

and

Project A05 (Long-lasting consequences of early-life influenza A virus infection for the tissue-resident memory T cell niche and susceptibility to secondary infections).

Our external PILOT Seminar Series on Perinatal Immunity takes place every second Wednesday.

Speaker: Liza Konnikova

Title: Distinct, Not Deficient: Specialized Immune Strategies in Early Life

Date and time: 08 October, 1 p.m.

Venue: Munich (BMC, N02.017) and online

Host: Paula Rothämel