A new PILOT publication, which describes an integrative transcriptomic analysis across species, developmental stages and diseases, facilitates a unified taxonomy of microglia states.
In this publication the PILOT researcher Marco Prinz, Katrin Kierdorf and Daniel Erny showed...
PILOT researchers discover Kupffer Cell plasticity in mycobacterial infection
PILOT researchers identified a unique Kupffer cell subset in a mycobacterial infection model...
New publication by project B01 about the cellular responsiveness of CNS macrophages after repopulation
The PILOT researcher Marco Prinz showed that Monocyte-derived brain macrophages are...
In the current issue of Nature, TRR 359 PILOT is featured in the article “The infection enigma”
In this news article, journalist Diana Kwon discusses why infections are life-threatening for...
Exploring Science Up Close: Continuing PILOT’s outreach activities across TRR 359 sites
Building on the success of last year's Science Day outreach event, PILOT continued to foster...
CoPILOT Retreat 2025
From 26 to 28 November 2025, almost all CoPILOT members came together for the third CoPILOT...
PILOT group leader Julia Kolter receives Emmy Noether funding
Dr. Julia Kolter, group leader of PILOT project B03, has been awarded funding via the Emmy...
New publication by project A06: Prospective Whole-Genome Sequencing to Identify Bacterial Transmission and Its Modifiers in Neonates
PILOT members Timmy Nguyen, Martin Kuntz and PILOT director Philipp Henneke have published a new...
New publication by project B03: Sensory neurons shape macrophages via TGF-ß signaling (Immunity)
PILOT group leaders Julia Kolter, Katrin Kierdorf and Philipp Henneke as well as many of...
New publication by project A04 about early microglia progenitors in embryonic CNS (Developmental Cell)
PILOT group leaders Katrin Kierdorf, Marco Prinz, Melanie Börries and their PhD Student...
New publication by project B01 about microglia-neuron crosstalk in Nature
PILOT group leaders Marco Prinz and Harald Binder have published a new paper in...
Markus Sperandio received the Malpighi Award from the European Society of Microcirculation (ESM)
PILOT group leader Markus Sperandio has received the Malpighi Award on May 22, 2025 at the ESM...
New PILOT publication by project A06 about microbiota development in a cohort of European toddlers in ISME Communictaions
PILOT group leader Tom Clavel has published a new paper in ISME Communications:
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New PILOT publication by project A01 about a possible influence of early life infection on long-term host–microbial homeostasis (PNAS)
PILOT members Anna-Lena Ullrich, Thomas Clavel, Aline Dupont and...
New PILOT publication in Cell Reports
PILOT members Andreas Goschin, Sebastian Baasch, Philipp Henneke and Michele Proietti have...