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Salmonella SopB suppresses post-transcriptionally regulated cytokine release to reduce early tissue inflammation and delay disease progression

Nour Diab, Chiun Huei Yong, Eva-Lena Stange, Marlène S. Birk, Matthias A. Schmitz, Stefan Düsterhöft, Jonas Pes, Kira Noemi Ferle, Isabel Karkossa, Kristin Schubert, Jörg Deiwick, Mihael Vucur, Tom Luedde, Natalia Torow, Andreas Ludwig, Aline Dupont, Joel Selkrig, Martin von Bergen, Michael Hensel, Kaiyi Zhang & Mathias W. Hornef

2026 Nature Communications

Developmental factors drive the compartmentalized and discontinuous maturation of the small intestinal epithelium during the early postnatal period

Johannes Schöneich, Aline Dupont, Stefan Schlößer, Mingbo Cheng,
Matthias A. Schmitz, Isabel Richter, Narasimha Murthy Keshava Prasad Gubbi,
Kaiyi Zhang, Tiago Maié, Asmae Laouina, Sofia Jäverfelt, Fabian Imdahl,
Christophe Toussaint, Antoine-Emmanuel Saliba, Christoph Kuppe, Oliver Pabst,
Thaher Pelaseyed, Ivan G. Costa, Mathias W. Hornef

Peri-weaning, diet-induced activation of an IFNγ-mediated regulatory circuit promotes cDC1 maturation and CD8+ T cell differentiation

Doğuş Altunöz, Ramin Shakiba, Kaushikk Ravi Rengarajan, Hamsa Narasimhan, Nikos E. Papaioannou, Sadiq Nasrah, Jessica Vetters, Maria L. Richter, Maria Parra Reyes, Nadine Nuschele, Denise Messerer, Sabine Schwamberger, Andreas Goschin, Dimitrios Starfas, Melanie Schmid, Tobias Straub, Michele Proietti, Katrin Böttcher, Maria Colomé-Tatché, Dirk Haller, Jan P. Böttcher, Stephanie Ganal-Vonarburg, Sophie Janssens, Christian Schulz, Anne B. Krug, Barbara U. Schraml

2026 Nature Communications

Single-cell profiling reveals diverse γδ T cell subsets in ulcerative colitis

Mayer LS, Arnold J, Roettele F, Reuter N, Pattekar A, Ohtani T, Ribeiro MM, Siwicki R, Bruder K, Obwegs D, Stahl E, Buechel S, Roehlen N, Kolter J, Mansoori Moghadam Z, Alaswad A, Zhumalidova Z, Li G, Liu X, Li Y, Singh A, Villacorta Hidalgo J, Paraskevopoulou MD, Yajnik V, Juarez J, Ren Y, Li H, Wherry EJ, Lewis JD, Wu GD, Bewtra M, Tomov VT, Thimme R, Bengsch B, Hasselblatt P, Picelli S, Hofmann M, Sagar

RORγt-expressing dendritic cells are functionally versatile and evolutionarily conserved antigen-presenting cells

Hamsa Narasimhan, Maria L. Richter, Ramin Shakiba, Nikos E. Papaioannou, Christina Stehle, Kaushikk Ravi Rengarajan, Isabel Ulmert, Arek Kendirli, Clara de la Rosa, Pin-Yu Kuo, Abigail Altman, Philipp Münch, Saba Mahboubi, Vanessa Küntzel, Amina Sayed, Eva-Lena Stange, Jonas Pes, Alina Ulezko Antonova, Carlos-Filipe Pereira, Ludger Klein, Diana Dudziak, Marco Colonna, Natalia Torow, Mathias W. Hornef, Björn E. Clausen, Martin Kerschensteiner, Katharina Lahl, Chiara Romagnani, Maria Colomé-Tatché, and Barbara U. Schraml

Salmonella infection accelerates postnatal maturation of the intestinal epithelium

Stefan Schlößer, Anna-Lena Ullrich, Nastaran Fazel Modares, Matthias A. Schmitz, Johannes Schöneich, Kaiyi Zhang, Isabel Richter, Laura Robrahn, Sarah Schraven, James S. Nagai, Sven-Bastiaan Haange, Susan A. V. Jennings, Thomas Clavel, Ulrike Rolle-Kampczyk, Fabian Kiessling, Ivan G. Costa, Vanesa Muncan, Urska Repnik, Martin von Bergen, Aline Dupont, and Mathias W. Hornef

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***SPECIAL EVENT*** PILOT International Symposium on Perinatal and Early Life Immunity

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!

 

 

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