PILOT Publications

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

Perinatal dysfunction of innate immunity in cystic fibrosis

Jaudas F, Bartenschlager F, Shashikadze B, Santamaria G, Reichart D, Schnell A, Stöckl JB, Degroote RL, Cambra JM, Graeber SY, Bähr A, Kartmann H, Stefanska M, Liu H, Naumann-Bartsch N, Bruns H, Berges J, Hanselmann L, Stirm M, Krebs S, Deeg CA, Blum H, Schulz C, Zawada D, Janda M, Caballero-Posadas I, Kunzelmann K, Moretti A, Laugwitz KL, Kupatt C, Saalmüller A, Fröhlich T, Wolf E, Mall MA, Mundhenk L, Gerner W, Klymiuk N.

2025 Science Translational Medicine

Resident and recruited macrophages differentially contribute to cardiac healing after myocardial ischemia

Tobias Weinberger, Messerer Denise, Markus Joppich, Maximilian Fischer, Clarisabel Garcia Rodriguez, Konda Kumaraswami, Vanessa Wimmler, Sonja Ablinger, Saskia Räuber, Jiahui Fang, Lulu Liu, Wing Han Liu, Julia Winterhalter, Johannes Lichti, Lukas Thomas, Dena Esfandyari, Guelce Percin, Sandra Matin, Andrés Hidalgo, Claudia Waskow, Stefan Engelhardt, Andrei Todica, Ralf Zimmer, Clare Pridans, Elisa Gomez Perdiguero, Christian Schulz

Mural cell-derived chemokines provide a protective niche to safeguard vascular macrophages and limit chronic inflammation

Pekayvaz K, Gold C, Hoseinpour P, Engel A, Martinez-Navarro A, Eivers L, Coletti R, Joppich M, Dionísio F, Kaiser R, Tomas L, Janjic A, Knott M, Mehari F, Polewka V, Kirschner M, Boda A, Nicolai L, Schulz H, Titova A, Kilani B, Lorenz M, Fingerle-Rowson G, Bucala R, Enard W, Zimmer R, Weber C, Libby P, Schulz C, Massberg S, Stark K.