News and Events
Events
Upcoming Events
- Tuesday, September 29th; audiMAX Heidelberg: ‘Synthetic Immunology’ day at the LEMS conference
SynthImmune Seminar Series
Internal speakers on the first Thursday, external speakers on the third Thursday
Upcoming Sessions
- September 3rd: Internal Seminar
- September 17th: Prof. Markus Feuerer (Leibniz Institute for Immunotherapy), host: Michael Platten
Press and Media
News Archive
Kick-off of the SynthImmune Seminar Series on September 17th
We are happy to announce our new SynthImmune Seminar Series! On every third Thursday of the month, we will invite external speakers to the large seminar room at CIID (Im…
Upcoming Talk – Organized Beings and Living Beings: Reconceptualizing Kant’s Philosophy of Biology
Paula Órdens (University of Trier, Heidelberg University) will give a talk on July 7th at 3:30 pm CEST on Organized Beings and Living Beings: Reconceptualizing Kant’s Philosophy of Biology. The…
New publication in Immunity by SynthImmune PI Chong Sun
The lab of SynthImmune PI Chong Sun has published a paper in the journal Immunity entitled “Extracellular ATP-P2RY2 signaling drives intratumoral prostaglandin E2 accumulation and adaptive resistance to immunotherapy in…
New publication in Nature Cancer by SynthImmune PIs Lukas Bunse, Katharina Lindner, and Michael Platten
The labs of SynthImmune PIs Lukas Bunse, Katharina Lindner, and Michael Platten have published a paper in the journal Nature Cancer entitled “IDH1-mutant vaccine in newly diagnosed astrocytoma: final analysis…
New publication in Angewandte Chemie by SynthImmune PI Franziska Thomas
The lab of SynthImmune PI Franziska Thomas has published a review in the journal Angewandte Chemie (International Edition) entitled “Late-Stage Functionalization of Peptides on the Solid Phase”. In it, the…
New publication in Nature Communications by several SynthImmune PIs
The labs of SynthImmune PIs Alessia Ruggieri, Joachim Spatz, Ilia Platzman, Oliver Fackler, and Kevin Jahnke have published a paper in the journal Nature Communications entitled “Stress granule phase separation…
SynthImmune PI Lukas Bunse at the “Cellular Therapies for Malignant Brain Tumors” conference in Thailand
SynthImmune PI Lukas Bunse recently attended the “Cellular Therapies for Malignant Brain Tumors” conference of Princess Srisavangavadhana Faculty of Medicine, Chulabhorn Royal Academy in Thailand, and gave a talk on…
New review article from the labs of Michael Platten and Chong Sun
The labs of SynthImmune PIs Michael Platten and Chong Sun have published a paper in the journal Nature Reviews Cancer entitled “Regulation of immune checkpoint molecules in cancer immune evasion…
Research Highlight: DNA origami-based virus-like particles are new HIV vaccine candidates
SynthImmune PIs Frauke Mücksch and Oliver Fackler discuss the recent paper from MIT’s Mark Bathe’s lab on DNA origami vaccines in a research highlight in the journal Signal Transduction and…
A new paper from the labs of Oliver Fackler and Petr Chlanda
The labs of SynthImmune PIs Oliver Fackler and Petr Chlanda have published a paper in the journal Nature Communications entitled “A tissue-intrinsic mechanism sensitizes HIV-1 particles for TLR-triggered innate immune…
New publication from the group of Dominik Niopek
The lab of SynthImmune PI Dominik Niopek has published a paper in the journal Nature Communications entitled “Phage-assisted evolution of allosteric protein switches”. In it, the authors introduce a phage-assisted…
New preprint from the lab of Kerstin Göpfrich
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New preprint from the groups of Kerstin Göpfrich and Ulrich Schwarz
The labs of SynthImmune PIs Kerstin Göpfrich and Ulrich Schwarz have posted a preprint entitled “Volume and surface methods for microparticle traction force microscopy: a computational and experimental comparison”. In…
SynthImmune at the GfV Meeting
The 35th annual Meeting of the Society of Virology took place in Heidelberg from March 17th to March 20th, 2026. On Thursday, March 19th, SynthImmune Spokesperson Prof. Oliver Fackler and…
New preprint from the group of Kerstin Göpfrich
The lab of SynthImmune PI and co-spokesperson Kerstin Göpfrich has posted a preprint entitled “Buoyancy-driven sorting of synthetic cells for nanopore activity”. In it, the authors present a new sorting…
New publication from the group of Dominik Niopek
The lab of SynthImmune PI Dominik Niopek has published a letter in the journal Clinical and Translational Medicine entitled “Bioswitches: Towards programmable, on-demand control of therapeutic proteins”. In it, the…