PILOT Publications

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

Neonatal liver niches program T cell tolerance

Eva-Lena Stange, Trong-Hieu Nguyen, Dustyn Mendoza, Aiara Lobo Gomes, Marlene Sophia Kohlhepp, Jonas Pes, Shahed Al Bounny, Julian Brueck, Yunus Cetiner, Urs Moerbe, Milas Ugur, Cristina Kalbermatter, Jarrett Lopez-Scarim, Aline Dupont, Susan A. V. Jennings, Julia Heckmann, Aaron Silva-Sanchez, Solveig Runge, Christoph Kuppe, Oliver Pabst, Thomas Clavel, Dorothee Viemann, Stephan P. Rosshart, Vuk Cerovic, Stephanie C. Ganal-Vonarburg, Adrien Guillot, Eva Billerbeck, Mathias W. Hornef, Natalia Torow

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