Events

Online seminar for TRR 332 members and participating institutions.
2-6 pm. (Zoom link will be sent one week before the seminar).

The certificates will be provided ONLY to participants who registered. Certificates will be sent to the given email address one week after the event.

Online seminar for TRR 332 members and participating institutions.
2-6 pm. (Zoom link will be sent one week before the seminar).

The certificates will be provided ONLY to participants who registered. Certificates will be sent to the given email address one week after the event.

We are thrilled to invite you to attend the 2026 European Phagocyte Meeting, taking place from March 23rd to 25th, 2026 at Keble College, in the historical and iconic city of Oxford, United Kingdom.

Online seminar for TRR 332 members and participating institutions.
2-6 pm. (Zoom link will be sent one week before the seminar).

The certificates will be provided ONLY to participants who registered. Certificates will be sent to the given email address one week after the event.

invited lecture by Michael Hölzel (University of Bonn)
AI-Based de novo protein design for targeting the cell surface proteins
Essen MFZ - EG0.005

invited lecture by Barbara Bröker (Universitätsmedizin Greifswald)
Beyond neutrophils: proteases in Staphylococcus aureus' interplay with its host
Room N 02.017 - BMC - München

invited lecture by James Chalmers (Dundee University)
Dipeptidyl peptidase-1 inhibition: a novel therapy targeting neutrophilic inflammation
online only - LMU

Online seminar for TRR 332 members and participating institutions.
2-6 pm. (Zoom link will be sent one week before the seminar).

The certificates will be provided ONLY to participants who registered. Certificates will be sent to the given email address one week after the event.

invited lecture by Malte Kelm (Universitätsklinikum Düsseldorf)
Myocardial infarction and T2 Diabetes
Essen MFZ - EG0.005

 invited lecture by Katja Simon (Max-Delbrück-Centrum für Molekulare Medizin - Berlin)
Autophagy in differentiation and aging in the immune system
room N 02.017 - BMC - München

Sunday, 19.10.2025 – Tuesday, 21.10.2025 

• Laboratory practicals on neutrophil recruitment and a theoretical introduction
• Good Scientific Practice workshop
• PhD/PostDoc discussion round
• Career development evening

invited lecture by Charlotte Scott (VIB, Belgium)
Investigating hepatic macrophage functional heterogeneity
MIC lecture hall
Münster

invited lecture Isabelle Arnold Wallén (University of Zurich)
Function of eosinophils in intestinal health and disease
MPI Münster Lecture Hall

invited lecture Georg Häcker (Freiburg University)
Inflammation, but through the apoptosis signalling pathway
host: LMU

30/06 to 02/07 - San Servolo - Italy
Event sponsored by the TRR 332

invited lecture Anja Erika Hauser (Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin)
Studying immune responses during bone regeneration using functional, multimodal optical microscopy
MPI Münster lecture hall

invited lecture by Alpaslan Tasdogan (Universitätsklinikum Essen)
Targeting metabolic liabilities in cancer metastasis 
UDE

Online seminar for TRR 332 members and participating institutions.
2-6 pm. (Zoom link will be sent one day before the seminar)

The certificates will be provided ONLY to participants who registered. Certificates will be sent to the given email address one week after the event.

invited lecture by Taco Kuijpers (Amsterdam University Medical Center)
Immunosuppressive neutrophils: do they exist?
MPI Münster Lecture Hall

Retreat in Münster, May 4-6.

invited lecture by Simon Haas (Berlin Institute for Medical System Biology)
Single-cell and spatial approaches to dissect pathomechanisms of hematological malignancies at scale
MPI Münster Lecture hall

We are excited to invite you to join us at the 2025 European Phagocyte Meeting, taking place in beautiful Madrid from March 26th to 28th, 2025!

Abstract Submission: November 26, 2024
Early Registration: January 26, 2025

Event sponsored by the TRR 332

 invited lecture by Christoph Scheiermann (University of Geneva)
Brain-immune interactions
MPI Münster Lecture Hall

invited lecture by Wolfgang Kastenmüller (Universität Würzburg)
Affinity selection phase during CD8 T cell priming
MPI Münster Lecture Hall

Online seminar for TRR 332 members and participating institutions.
2-6pm.
(Zoom link will be sent one week before the seminar)

invited lecture by Jaap D. van Buul (University of Amsterdam)
With a little help from my friends: the endothelium as immune modulator
room N 02.017 - BMC - München

invited lecture by David Brea Lopez (Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas de Barcelona)
Understanding the Bidirectional Communication Between the Brain and the Immune System in Stroke
Essen

invited lecture by Dominik Heider (UniMünster)
Machine Learning for omics analyses
MPI lecture hall
Münster

invited lecture by Vincenzo Bronte (University of Verona)
The Immune Landscape of Pancreatic Ductal Carcinoma
Dresden

invited lecture by Adrian Schreiber (Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin)
New Insights into the Pathogenesis of ANCA Vasculitis
München

Science outreach

invited lecture by Jörg Renkawitz (LMU München)
Mechanobiology of Immune Responses: from Cell Motility to NETosis 
room N 02.017 - BMC - München

invited lecture by Tobias Straub (LMU)
Turning Data into Discovery (Without the Headaches)
München

DFG-funded CRC consortia and graduate schools
Importance and Highlights of Cardiac, Vascular and Kidney Research in Germany

more info

invited lecture by Yuval Shaked (Israel Institute of Technology),
The immunological responses to immune checkpoint blockade and their clinical implications
MFZ seminar room EG 0.005
Essen

Science outreach

1st BMC Diversity Initiative Symposium
September 25, 2024
15:00 – 18:00
BMC, Small lecture Hall N040.042
Grosshaderner Str. 9, 82152 Planegg-Martinsried

All are welcome! Join us for this opportunity to network and exchange on exciting research as well as diversity in science – the topic that unites researchers from all cultures and at all stages of their careers. 

Registration is required for catering and meet-the-speaker session. Register here.

invited lecture by Denis Schapiro (Heidelberg University)
From oncology to cardiology: Spatial omics technologies for topographic biomarker discovery
MPI Münster lecture hall

International Symposium Neutrophil 2024

17-19/09/2023

LMU
15-16/09/2023

invited lecture by Sara Wickström (MPI Münster)
Mechanical regulation of cell states
MPI Münster lecture hall

invited lecture by Arthur Liesz (University of München)
Brain-Immune Interaction in Ischemic Stroke
MPI lecture hall

invited lecture by Christian Kurts (University of Bonn)
Role of Neutrophils in Kidney inflammation and infection
Biomedical Center Munich (BMC), seminar room N02.017

invited lecture by Alex Weber (University of Tübingen)
naRNA-LL37 composite DAMPs characterize sterile NETs as natural breakers of self-RNA tolerance for transient inflammation
MPI Münster Lecture Hall

invited lecture by Ron Heeren (Maastricht University)
Molecular imaging at cellular resolution: Mass Microscopy in action
MFZ Seminarraum EG 0.005
UDE

invited lecture by Jo van Ginderachter (Brussels University)
Infection history imprints prolonged changes to the Kupffer cell epigenome, transcriptome and function
MFZ Seminarraum EG 0.005
UDE

invited lecture by Max Nieuwdorp (University of Amsterdam)
Using FMT to dissect causality of gutmicrobiota in human (cardiometabolic) disease
MPI Münster lecture hall

invited lecture by Kim Martinod (KU Leuven)
NETs at the interface of immunity and thrombosis in Staphylococcus aureus endocarditis
MPI lecture hall

invited lecture by Carsten Marr (Helmholtz Muenchen)
Improving the diagnosis, therapy and understanding of severe blood diseases with AI
MPI Münster lecture hall

invited lecture by Mihai Netea (Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Center)
Trained immunity: a memory for innate host defense
MPI lecture hall

invited lecture by María Casanova (Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncológicas)
Multiplexing novel functions of myeloid cells in solid tumor microenvironments
MPI lecture hall

invited lecture by Marco Bacigaluppi (San Raffaele Scientific Institute in Milan)
Granulopoietic alterations in stroke of the aged
Universitätsklinikum Essen, MFZ, EG 0.005

invited lecture by Jianxu Chen (ISAS Dortmund)
Image Analysis for Optical Microscopy in the Era of AI
MPI lecture hall

invited lecture by Christoph Reichel (LMU Hospital Munich)
The interplay of neutrophils and hemostasis in cancer
LMU

invited lecture by Attila Mocsai (Semmelweis University)
Neutrophil signaling in autoimmune and autoinflammatory disease models
LMU Munich

invited lecture Ulrich Schaible (Forschungszentrum Borstel)
Novel Treatment Concepts Targeting the Tuberculosis Granuloma - Host-directed therapies, nanomedicines and microbiota 
LMU München
Seminar room 01.017
Biomedical Center, LMU

invited lecture by Angelika Rambold  (MPI Freiburg)
Ordering the chaos - how orga-metabolic circuits control immune cell function from within
MPI lecture hall

invited lecture by Marco Antonio Cassatella (Università di Verona)
Learning about slan+-monocytes while working on neutrophils, and vice-versa
Dresden

invited lecture by Anna Huttenlocher (University of Wisconsin)
Imaging neutrophil motility: going forward in reverse
MPI lecture hall

Annual retreat and Autumn school

September 18-22, 2023
Essen

3rd Inflammation & Imaging Symposium

Co-sponsored by SFB TRR 332
Multiscale Imaging Centre (MIC), Münster

invited lecture by Martin Kriegel (UKM/Yale)
Host immune-microbiota interactions in extraintestinal autoimmunity
MPI lecture hall

Extraordinarily at 1 pm

invited lecture by Richard Kitching (Monash University, Australia)
Autoimmunity to neutrophil granule proteins causing small vessel vasculitis: unique mechanisms of tissue injury
LMU München

invited lecture by Uli Flögel (Uni Düsseldorf)
Probing cardiovascular inflammation by 19F MRI
MPI Münster lecture hall

The ZMBE Symposium – 25 years of Molecular Biology of Inflammation

Co-sponsored by SFB TRR 332
Castle, Uni Münster 

invited lecture by Theodore Alexandrow (EMBL Heidelberg)
Spatial single-cell metabolomics reveals metabolic cell states
Universitätsklinikum Essen, MFZ, EG 0.005

invited lecture by Renato Ostuni (San Raffaele Scientific Institute)
Transcriptional control of myeloid cell identity and activation
Universitätsklinikum Essen, MFZ, EG 0.005

2023 European Phagocyte Workshop

Co-sponsored by SFB TRR 332
Budapest, Hungary 

invited lecture by Katja Kotsch (Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin)
Kidney-resident immunity - who´s good and who´s bad for allograft survival
MFZ,  Seminar room EG 0.005

Extraordinarily at 4 p.m

invited lecture by Ilaria Malanchi (Francis Crick Institute)
Metastasis: the art of adaptation and persuasion
Hautklinik lecture hall

invited lecture by Jose Maria Adrover (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)A vascular-restricted, tumor-induced neutrophil population drives vascular occlusion, pleomorphic necrosis, and metastasis
MPI Münster lecture hall

invited lecture by Christine Josenhans (Max von Pettenkofer-Institut)Sweet poison: characterizing a novel mode of intracellular innate activation using the chronic model pathogen Helicobacter pylori
N01.017, Biomedical Center, LMU

invited lecture by Tim Lämmermann (MPI Freiburg)
Neutrophils: Population Dynamics and Unexpected Cell Encounters in Inflamed Tissues
MPI Münster lecture hall

invited lecture t.b.a., host: