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Please note that our usual internal seminar series won't take place this wednesday.

Feel free to join the trailblazer lecture instead.

The Developing Human Immune System

Wednesday, October 2, 2024 at 11:00

BMC Small Lecture Hall (N 02.040)

Großhaderner Str. 9, 82152 Planegg-Martinsried

Host: Barbara Schraml, BMC

Co-organizers: SFB 1054 Cell Fate Decisions and PILOT (TRR 359 Perinatal Development of Immune Cell Topology)

The human immune system is extremely complex, comprised of multiple cell types and states interacting in myriad ways to produce diverse cellular ecosystems. The rise of single-cell genomics in recent years has contributed a great deal to understanding this complexity and the role of the immune system in infection, inflammation, and disease. In this lecture Muzlifah Haniffa will demonstrate the application of single-cell genomics to decode the developing human immune system. In particular, she will discuss her work using single-cell RNA sequencing to study human yolk sac, fetal liver and bone marrow haematopoiesis and the immune network formation in prenatal peripheral tissues. Muzlifah will discuss this work within her broader research goal of understanding how developmental immune programs may be co-opted in post-natal disease. A detailed understanding of the developing immune system is also relevant to improve stem cell therapy and regenerative medicine.

Muzz (as she likes to be called) describes herself as a “dermatologist by trade, born into immunology, married into developmental biology and … best friends with single-cell “Omics’…”. She and her team apply single-cell genomics technologies to understand how the immune system develops and maintains health. She heads the Cellular Genetics program at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, where she is a senior group leader, and is Professor of Dermatology and Immunology at Newcastle University. In addition, she is the Biological Network Co-Coordinator for the Human Cell Atlas https://www.humancellatlas.org/ , a global, grass-roots led research consortium aiming to map all cell types in the healthy body across all stages of development. An enthusiastic and committed international collaborator, she is an associate in the new (2024) TRR 359 PILOT.

Our external PILOT Seminar Series on Perinatal Immunity takes place every second Wednesday.

Speaker: Branko Cirovic (DKFZ Heidelberg)

Title: Clonal fates emanating from Flt3+ hematopoietic progenitor cells in situ

Location: Freiburg and online

Host: Philipp Henneke

Our internal PILOT seminar takes place online every second Wednesday.

Our external PILOT Seminar Series on Perinatal Immunity normally takes place every second Wednesday.

NOTE: This week, the seminar will be on THURSDAY instead of Wednesday due to the speaker's travel schedule.

Speaker: Katharina Lahl (University of Calgary)

Location: Munich and online

Host: Barbara Schraml

Title: Introduction to GWAS and molecular QTL analysis

Speaker: Sarah Kim-Hellmuth

Date: Moday, May 27

5 p.m. 

Venue: Seminar Room N02.017, Biomedizinisches Centrum, LMU

and via Zoom (link will follow)

Our external PILOT Seminar Series on Perinatal Immunity takes place every second Wednesday.

Time: 11 AM due to time difference

Speaker: David Hume (University of Queensland)

Location: online via webex

Host: Christian Schulz

Our internal PILOT seminar takes place online every second Wednesday.

Our internal PILOT seminar takes place online every second Wednesday.

As part of the CoPILOT curriculum, a workshop on “Visual Communication of Science” will be offered. The format is blended learning - participants get access to a platform for self learning and get to know the topic.

A live online seminar (zoom) will take place on June 14, 2024 from 9:00 am to 1:30 pm.

Please find further details in the attached flyer (please login via your account to download the flyer) and here

We would like to open the workshop also to interested postdocs within PILOT - so if you are interested and would like to participate, please register by May 02, 2024: trr359.copilot@med.uni-muenchen.de

Looking forward to your registrations.

Our internal PILOT seminar takes place online every second Wednesday.

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