We have received very generous funding (4 Mio DKK) from the LEO Foundation to decode the evolution of anti-fungal immunity in the skin!
14 years after having been selected as a “Future leader of Dermatology”, Christina has now taken over mentorship of the next generation of future leaders in skin research. Great meeting in beautiful Nice with excellent science. Thank you #ESDR!
Great conference. New immune targets for fighting cancer are on the horizon. Maybe also our T cell-derived GSDME.
EFIS School 2025 in Izmir. A great Immunology School with fantastic talks, workshops, student mentoring, great food and all night dancing.
Bar evening and science quiz in Mikulov with a super enthusiastic group of bright PhD students.
Excited about the invitation of the Czech Young Immunologists to share my personal journey in science and my challenges as a PI.
Looking forward to the Future Leaders Academy 2025 in Nice. Feeling honoured to have been chosen as a mentor for the next generation of leaders in skin science.
ImmuneAlliance Seminar of the German and Japanese Societies of Immunology. Happy to organize this seminar series and the upcoming conference in Sept. 2026
Christina’s debut as the chair of the ESDR Sweet and Sour Kitchen Seminar series together with co-chair Prof. Remco van Doorn: Latest developments in the science of vitiligo pathogenesis.
Christina has received the ERC CoC grant and €2 Mio funding for her frontier research on immune protection across human tissues. Thrilled and humbled by this prestigious award and full of gratitude to her terrific, dedicated and friendly team.
Congratulations to Alisa who won the Science Slam of the German Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (yGMB) in Jena in 2024 for presenting Ying-Yin’s PhD work.
The Immune Alliance Meeting in Nara (Japan) 2024. Great science and wonderful collegial exchange and friendship.
The ImmunoOctoberfest in Raitenhaslach has been a terrific conference. Happy to have been invited to be among the stellar line-up of speakers to present our story on how NaCl boosts T cell cytotoxicity.
Our latest paper in Nature Immunology got featured in News & Views of Nature Immunology! “A pinch of salt boosts T cell function”.
No time to read our paper by Soll et al. in Nat Immunol 2024, then listen to this podcast summarizing our work
Feeling honoured to have been elected to the Board of the European Society for Research in Dermatology (ESDR) in 2024. Happy to serve this vibrant society that is dedicated to skin research and dermatology together with my colleagues at the highest level.
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7236696976279449601/
Beautiful summery from Nicolas Restifo commenting on our story on salt mediated increases of anti-tumour immunity that we published in @NatImmunol 2024.
Prof. Olaf Gross from Freiburg has been our guest at the Translational Immunology Seminar Series Jena. Seminar room packed despite the summer holiday season. Terrific lecture! Thanks for coming.
My recent invitation of Tokyo inspired the initiation of this new Lecture Series, the Immune Alliance of the German-Japanese societies of Immunology. Great talks by outstanding immunologists are to be expected monthly each 2nd Wednesday (9am CET). Register here: https://dgfi.org/immune-alliance/
Christina being happy and proud for having been selected for the Lady Mary Montagu Lecture by the DGFI.
International Society of Investigative Dermatology (ISID) Meeting in Tokyo. Honoured to have been selected to represent the ESDR with a keynote talk.
Just informed by Google Scholar that our Nature paper has reached the 1000 citation milestone. Happy for the impact this work has for the scientific community.
Our discovery on IL-1alpha release by human Th17 cells via Gasdermin E pores (Nat Immunol 2023) was selected as highlight by the Germany Society of Immunology. The illustration even made it to the cover of the DGFI quarterly news.
Congratulations Tonio for your successful doctoral thesis defence (April 2023). Good luck Dr. Brinkschmidt for your future career and thanks for having been such a great lab member.
Our new Sony MA900 4-laser cell sorter has arrived. A new kid on the block next to the Cytek Aurora and BD FACS Fusion sorter.
Congratulations to Alisa for her poster prize from the German Society of Immunology Spring School in Ettal 2023!
Inauguration of our new building at the Leibniz-HKI. Endless space and most advances technologies combined with superb minds and smiling faces!
Our Translational Immunology Seminar Series Jena. Happy to have those stellar scientists share their great science.
This is how the researcher with the best MD thesis of TU Munich looks like (spectacular achievement).
This is how a proud mentor looks like. This personal present (self-made Thanks-bread) will soon be hanging on the office wall.
https://www.sfb1335.med.tum.de/en/site/women-science-symposium-2021
Panel discussion (Leaky pipeline of women in academia) during the “Women in Science Symposium” (German Research Foundation, SFB1335) with Inge Bell (Terre des Femmes, Human Rights Activist), Thomas Sattelberger (Member of Bundestag, politician, manager), Isabell Welpe (Chair of Strategy and Organisation, TUM School of Management), Percy Knolle (Chair of Molecular Immunology, TUM), Maike Buchner (Junior Research Group Leader, MRI) and Christina.
We have now a fully functional Flow Cytomety Unit! See our happy operators Tom Sommermann with Steffi Hälbich.
The FungiNet Collaborative Research Center got funded for another 4 years. Looking forward to awesome science and fruitful collaborations with our colleagues from Jena and Würzburg.
Julia Matthias (Doctoral student of the Zielinski Lab) awarded with the Egon Macher Prize in Dermatology 2020 (10.000 €) and the Young Investigator Award for Multiple Sclerosis of the Eva und Helmer Christoph Lehmann Stiftung 2020 (5.000 €). Congratulations!
Thanks a lot, dear Jacobsen lab, for this wonderful welcome present. Happy to be your lab neighbour!
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