BSI Manchester Immunology Group Seminar Series: Professor Andreas Diefenbach, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin. Location: MS Lecture Theatre, Michael Smith Building
| Dates: | 6 March 2025 |
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| Times: | 12:00 - 13:00 |
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| What is it: | Seminar |
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| Organiser: | School of Biological Sciences |
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| How much: | Free |
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| Who is it for: | University staff, Adults, Alumni, Current University students |
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| Speaker: | Professor Andreas Diefenbach |
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"Innate Lymphoid Cells and tissue homeostasis"
Andreas Diefenbach1,2,3
1Institute of Microbiology, Infectious Diseases and Immunology (I-MIDI), Hindenburgdamm 30, 12203 Berlin
2The Berlin Centre for the Biology of Health (BC-BH), Hindenburgdamm 27, 12203 Berlin
3German Rheumatism Research Centre (DRFZ), Charitéplatz 1, 10117 Berlin
Innate lymphoid cells (ILC) are a recently discovered group of tissue-resident innate lymphocytes, that often take up residency in tissues during embryonal development. A current focus of our research is to obtain a molecular understanding of how the innate immune system and in particular ILC, by integrating environmental signals, contribute to tissue physiology. Recent studies have revealed ever more intriguing relationships between ILC and basic developmental and biologic processes that are likely to reveal unsuspected pathways by which the immune system might be plumbed to improve health and healthspan. These lines of research have suggested new paradigms for the immune system and for processes such as tissue homeostasis, tissue resilience, morphogenesis, metabolism, regeneration and growth.
Andreas Diefenbach studied Medicine at the University of Erlangen. After obtaining his doctoral degree in Microbiology and Immunology, he received postdoctoral training at the University of California Berkeley. He held faculty positions at the Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine, New York University, at the University of Freiburg and at the Johannes-Gutenberg-University Mainz. Since 2016, Andreas is Professor and Chair of the Institute of Microbiology, Infectious Diseases and Immunology at Charité and the Founding Director of the Berlin Centre for the Biology of Health, a joint research institute of Charité and Free University Berlin devoted to understanding the molecular mechanisms that maintain health. He also is a Senior Group Leader at the German Rheumatism Research Center, A Leibniz Institute. His lab studies development and function of the innate immune system and is particularly interested in understanding how the innate immune system coordinates adaptation of multicellular organisms to their environments (e.g., microbiota, nutrients). Research in the Diefenbach laboratory is supported by an Advanced Grant of the European Research Council and by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG). He is the coordinator of the DFG Priority Program 1937 (“Innate Lymphoid Cells”) and recognized as a Highly Cited Researchers (Clarivate Analytics) in the field of Immunology. Andreas is an elected member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences.
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Professor Andreas Diefenbach
Organisation: Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin
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Michael Smith Lecture Theatre
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