Events archive

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

Speaker: Timothy Hand (University of Pittsburgh)

Title: Maternal regulation of early life immune developmentMaternal regulation of early life immune development

Location: online

Host: Mathias Hornef

Our internal PILOT seminar takes place online every second Wednesday.

New Year's Update and Speed Networking

Speaker: Clarissa Prazeres da Costa, TU Munich School of Medicine and Health, Department of Preclinical Medicine

Ti​​tle: Fetomaternal immune priming in the context of the Hygiene Hypothesis and the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD)

Date and time: Wednesday 15 January at 1pm

Monday, Jan 20, 2025,  5 p.m.  - CoPILOT - internal seminar (online, zoom link below)

Speakers:

Jill Schmidt (A06): "Perinatal crosstalk of microbiota and intestinal macrophages in the control of mucosal pathogens"

Lina Kieger (A04): "Mechanisms and consequences of microglia elimination during postnatal development"

Date and time: January 22 at 1pm

Presentation by Project Z01: Automated Segmentation, Detection, and Morphological Characterization of Tissue Macrophage

and

Project A08: Multi-omics exploration of immune signatures in blood and tracheal aspirates associated with early development

 Date and time: Monday, Jan 27, 5 p.m.: Jaap van Buul (University of Amsterdam)

Talktitle: Seeing light at the end of the tunnel: the dynamics of
leukocyte transendothelial migration

Host: Aleksandra Kurova, Markus Sperandio

Location: Munich and online

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

Time: 1-2pm

Speaker: David Vermijlen (University of Brussels)

Location: Freiburg and online (please attend in person if you are in Freiburg!)

Title: The third way of immune protection in human: development and function of gd T cells in perinatal life

Host: Sagar

Presentation by projects A04 (Role of crosstalk between γδ T cells and Langerhans cells in driving their mutual differentiation in the postnatal niche)

and

B01 (Perinatal fate decisions of macrophages in protected tissues)

Speaker: Daniela Diefenbacher (PR Manager, Biomedical Center, LMU)

Title: Public Relations in Science

Date: February 10, 2025, 5 p.m.
Location: online

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

Speaker: Hans-Reimer Rodewald (DKFZ Heidelberg)

Title: Dissecting fetal and adult layers of hematopoiesis by Polylox barcoding

Location: Freiburg and online

Host: Philipp Henneke

Presentation by Project A06 (Title: Prospective whole-genome sequencing uncovers factors influencing bacterial transmission in neonates - The ProtectNeo-Study)

and

Project B03 (Perinatal development of dermal macrophage diversity).

Speaker: Jonathan Bohlen, LMU Munich

Title: Decoding human immunity through somatic DNA lesions

Host: Markus Sperandio

Presentation by Project A07 (Effects of neonatal wildling microbiota on the immune response to vaccination)

and

Project B09 (Effects of maternal hyperlipidemia on embryo-derived macrophages and perinatal immune development)

Speaker: Ranit Kedmi

Title: Antigen-Specific Networks in Gut Tolerance

Location: Munich and online

Host: Barbara Schraml

PILOT will be hosting an International Symposium on Perinatal and Early Life Immunity  from 9-12 April 2025 at the Historisches Kaufhaus in Freiburg

We already have a fantastic line-up of invited speakers for this event. We plan to complement this with talks selected on the basis of abstracts and there will also be opportunities to present posters.

More details will be posted here as they are finalized; in the meantime, please save the date!

Speaker: Dr. Wolfram Meyer, European Patent Office

Title: Patent Matters – Patenting in Europe an Introduction

Date and time: 05 May 2025, 5 p.m.

Location: Freiburg and online

Host: Alina Semenjakin