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Die Goethe-Universität Frankfurt lädt mit freundlicher Unterstützung der Friedrich-Merz-Stiftungsgastprofessur zum „Symposium Dietary and therapeutic microbiomemodulation: State of The Art and…

Patricia Blum, MSc (AG Horz) has received the MSA-Master Award 2024 for her master’s thesis „Investigation of putative phage-encoded depolymerases targeting Klebsiella pneumoniae“. The profile area…

Natalia Torow from the Hornef group has been appointed on a W1 Juniorprofessorship at the Helmholtz-Centre for Infection Research in Braunschweig. She will accept the position and leave our institute…

The recent publication in Immunity by Natalia Torow, PhD, characterising postnatal mucosal immune maturation has been selected as Paper of the Month of the Faculty of Medicine. Natalia explains her…

Congratulations to Alina Bachmann. She defended successfully her PhD thesis entitled “Host Pathogen Interaction in a novel in vivo model of EPEC infection” on February 22nd 2024.  In this work, she…

Kaiyi Zhang, PhD, from the Hornef group published her work on non-professional efferocytosis of Salmonella infected intestinal epithelial cells by neighboring enterocytes in the Journal of…

Am Freitag, den 2. Februar 2024 zeigt das Aachener Apollo Kino den Dokumentarfilm „Unser Mikrobiom – das unsichtbare Aussterben“ ab 18 Uhr im Rahmen einer Sondervorstellung. Im Anschluss an dem Film…

On september 8th 2023, Isabel Richter from the AG Hornef successfully defended her MD thesis entitled "The influence of microbial exposure on postnatal enterocyte differentiation and immune…

A recent publication from the Institute of Medical Microbiology at the Uniklinik RWTH Aachen sheds new light on the movement of bacteria and their adaptability to different environments. The study,…

Nour Diab, Anna-Lena Jürgens and Mathias Hornef participated at the Gordon Conference on Salmonella Biology and Pathogenesis that took place between July 23rd-28th 2023 in Lucca Italy. They presented…

Last week we learnt with excitement that our CRC1382 Gut-Liver Axis funded by the German Research Foundation since 2019 will be prolonged until 2027. Many members of the Institut of Medical…

After hard work over many years on the postnatal maturation of antigen presenting cells in the intestinal Peyer’s patches after birth, Natalia has now published her results in the May edition of…