THE WEBER LAB 
 

Innate Immunity @ Tübingen

Interdisciplinary alliance of researchers in Tübingen

Overview

Since a few months, Tübingen's Eberhard Karls University is one of Germany's Excellence Universities and two of the three DFG-funded Clusters of Excellence (CoE) relate to Innate Immunity. Several PIs listed here participate in the CoEs "iFIT – Image-Guided and Functionally Instructed Tumor Therapies" (EXC 2180) and “CMFI – Controlling Microbes to Fight Infection" (EXC 2124). Several additional funding networks including innate immunity exist, e.g. involving skin immunit (with Heidelberg and Mainz) or platelets (with Würzburg). Generally, Immunology is also one of the Medical Faculty's Core Topics. Collectively, this makes Tübingen an ideal setting for cutting-edge research in innate immunity, so...

Welcome and find out more about these PIs and their research topics





Liudmilla Andreeva


Head of the  ICePhA-mouse clinic
(Adaptor proteins,  G-proteins, immunology, infectiology)


Prof. of Experimental Immunology
(Tumor Immunology, Tissue Immunology, Immunotherapy)


 

 

 




Group Leader
(Immunothrombosis, Haemostasis, Chemokines and Chemokine receptors, anti-thrombotic therapy)


Group leader
(Plant innate immunity, pattern recognition receptors, microbe-associated molecular patterns)


Group Leader
(Inflammation, holistic non invasive in vivo imaging)








Ruth Ley
Max Planck Director
(microbiome; TLR5)


Lukas Mager
Group Leader
(Microbiome, Immunlogy, Onclology)

Melanie Märklin
Group Leader
(Immunosurveillance and immune evasion of cancer, immune cells, perforin granzyme signaling, NFAT transcription factors, treatment resistance, therapeutic antibodies)







Patrik Münzer

Thorsten Nürnberger
Professor of Plant Biochemistry

Julia Sbierski-Kind
Specialist in internal medicine, endocrinology, and diabetology
(Crosstalk of tissue-resident innate immune cells with stromal cells in metabolically active tissues, immune dysregulation in gestational diabetes)







Professor of Translational Immunology
(Immunotherapy, antibodies)


Professor of Molecular Medicine
(T cell immunology, gammadelta T cells)


Head Research Section Molecular Virology
(Viral immune evasion)








Birgit Schittek 
Head Experimental Dermatology Research Group
(Innate Immunity in the skin, antimicrobial peptides, S. aureus infection, microbiome)


Professor of Molecular Medicine


Group Leader








Professor of Biochemistry
(Virus-receptor interactions, immune evasion, immune receptors)


Alexander N. R. Weber
Professor of Innate Immunity
(Innate Immunity, Pattern Recognition Receptors, Inflammasome, Effect of genetic variants, Microbiome-Host-Interaction, Chitin sensing)

Florian Wimmers
Group Leader
(Vaccines, Tumor immunology, Innate Immunity, Epigenetics, Immune-drug interactions)