It’s always great to get new information on antigenic variation 🔬 check out this new cool paper from Alex Beaver and the Monica Mugnier and Luisa Figueiredo labs!

Check out this cool paper by @MFryeLab if you are curious to know how small mitochondrial RNA modifications in tumors impact their ability to form metastasis! 👀 Huge congrats to all the authors! 👏

The Biozentrum is searching for new group leaders. I’m biased of course, but I really think this is the BEST place to start a lab. The community and resources are awesome! Come join us!! I can’t wait to meet my new colleague! 🤗

#mebop2022 students being treated to a talk by Álvaro Acosta-Serrano Álvaro AcostaSerrano on his work on vector-borne diseases

Really honored to attend Isabel Roditi’s retirement lecture. #mebop2022 IZB_unibern

I am honoured to receive my second European Research Council (ERC) Proof of Concept grant! This grant will support us in the development of a novel targeted delivery tool for molecular therapeutics. 🧬 Congrats to Joey Verdi, Dimitra Stamkopoulou and J Paulo Lorenzo for their work! Stay tuned for updates! 🔥

Thank you for the highlight ZEB! 🎉

Happy to share the latest paper by our Riccardo Pecori et al. ⬇️ #ADAR1 #RNA #editing on antisense transcripts results in apparent U-to-C base changes. Clusters of A-to-I and “U-to-C” events may help to identify immunogenic loci. x.com/RiccardoPecori… frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

Dig into the "VSGome" with our latest preprint on the structural classification of the Variant Surface Glycoproteins of the African Trypanosome based on a combination of experimental X-ray crystallography and Alphafold prediction. doi.org/10.1101/2023.0… Shout-out to the authors!

Check out our latest preprint and meet the EDITOPES, RNA-editing derived #neoepitopes generated through #sitedirectedRNAediting. Stay tuned for future applications to favour tumor response to immunotherapy! Shoutout to the authors: Beatrice Casati Veronica Pinamonti Riccardo Pecori

New lab paper alert 🚨 where we show B cell repertoires from trypanosome infections and talk all about immunodominant epitopes on different VSGs - check it out! Congratulations to everyone involved! cell.com/cell-reports/f…

The i3 seminar series continues this week with talks from Dr. Marco Binder aka The Binder Lab and Dr. Elias Amro from Papavasiliou & Stebbins Labs. Save the date and join us 📆🥳 See below for the details⬇️

Are you curious to know what human APOBEC3B does in mice? Read this awesome paper by Alicia Alonso de la Vega SotilloLab and collaborators to find out! 🐭 Spoiler alert: RNA editing plays a crucial role! Congrats to all the authors for the excellent work! 👏

Our department is expanding and we are launching a new chapter of cutting-edge science with an exciting symposium featuring talks from outstanding speakers exploring new frontiers in #immunology #infection and #cancer research. Save the date! 🗓️

Exciting news!📢 As our new name reveals, our research program has expanded to unite all the DKFZ research groups working in the broad field of #Immunology, #Infection and #Cancer! We are happy to join forces towards bigger goals and to host our first joint Symposium in June! 💪

The next appointment of our i2 DKFZ seminar series is this Thursday, May 23rd, at 4 pm. We will hear two Data & Technique talks by Johan Zeelen from @Papasteblabs and Marie Szczeponik from Ungerechts lab. Save the date and join us for a lively discussion! Find more details below! ⬇️

Panosome GmbH, a company born from our joint labs, has been awarded a €1.55 million research grant to fund their promising work on the development of a novel antibody-based therapy for pancreatic cancer. 👏 Excited to see what comes next! Read more 👉 linkedin.com/posts/panosome…