News

26 November 2025

The Junior Group Leaders of Berlin Network is being established. If you are based in Berlin, and opened your first lab in the last 6 years, please contact Felix to learn more about joining.

07 November 2025

We have a new PhD position available through the Max Planck Institute Graduate School. Find the link to the application, project and additional information on the “Join Us” page.

06 November 2025

New study out in Nature from the Schaefer lab at the MPI for Ageing shows how lymphoid gene expression in microglia exerts protective effects in Alzheimer’s disease. We are happy to have contributed to the story, and you can find it here.

20 October 2025

Congratulations to Zeynep who was accepted into the IMPRS-IDI Graduate School!

09 June 2025

The group is growing again! Zeynep has joined as a PhD student following her MSc at Nottingham University, UK.

01 May 2025

The first PhD student has joined the lab! Dennis joins us from Olivia Majer’s lab at the MPI for Infection Biology. He will be working on novel roles of inflammsome proteins in auto-inflammatory diseases.

13 April 2025

We are very happy that our collaboration with Dr. Sergi Cuartero’s lab at the Josep Carreras Leukaemia Research Institute, looking at the role of mutant CEBPA in cancer development, has now been published in Nature Communications. Check it out here!

18 December 2024

We are recruiting! We have a DRFZ funded PhD position to work on how genetic variation affects inflammatory gene regulation, especially genes mutated in monogenic autoinflammatory diseases. Find the advert under Join Us.

01 December 2024

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17 September 2024

Our paper on how strain-specific differences in mice affects the NLRP1 inflammasome response and gene regulation is out now in Cell Death & Differentiation! You can read it here.