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Events
Upcoming Events
- SynthImmune Young Scientist Retreat – October 22nd and 23rd
Press and Media
SynthImmune Seminar Series
Internal speakers on the first Thursday, external speakers on the third Thursday
Next Sessions:
- November 5th: Internal Speakers (Dr. Archana Yanamandra & Friederike Reinhardt)
- November 19th: External Speaker Prof. Dr. Katharina Imkeller (Universitätsmedizin Frankfurt)
Past Sessions:
- September 17th: External Speaker Prof. Dr. Markus Feuerer (host: Michael Platten)
- October 15th: External Speaker Dr. Ramsey Najm (host: Oliver Fackler)
Session Plan 26/27
- September 17th: External (Project 1)
- October 1st: None due to LEMS Conference
- October 15th: External (Project 2)
- November 5th: Internal (Project 2)
- November 19th: External (Project 3)
- December 3rd: Internal (Project 3)
- December 17th: External (Project 4)
- January 14th: Internal (Project 4)
- January 21st: External (Project 5)
- February 2nd: Internal (Project 5)
- February 18th: External (Project 6)
- March 4th: Internal (Project 6)
- March 18th: External (Project 7)
- April 1st: Internal (Project 7)
Recent News
Ramsey Najm discusses Organoid Engineering at the SynthImmune Seminar
Yesterday, our seminar series continued with its second external seminar, featuring a lecture by Dr. Ramsey Najm from the Organoid Engineering Lab. His talk, titled “Engineering Organoids: Tools and Models…
A day full of SynthImmune at the LEMS conference
SynthImmune presented its research program at this year’s LEMS Conference on September 29. The program featured talks by internal and external invited speakers, covering research across all seven SynthImmune projects.…
Oliver Fackler represents SynthImmune at the U15 Bridge Talk
On October 7th, SynthImmune Spokesperson Oliver Fackler participated in the German U15 events, U15 Bridge Talk – Science meets Diplomacy and its Parliamentary Evening (Parlamentarischer Abend) to present and discuss…
Full-house at the first SynthImmune Seminar
Yesterday, we kicked off our SynthImmune Seminar Series with a spectacular talk by Prof. Markus Feuerer (Leibniz Institute for Immunotherapy) on “Harnessing repair functions of tissue regulatory T cells and…
New publication in JHEP Reports includes work from the lab of SynthImmune PI Felix Hartmann
A recent publication in JHEP Reports entitled “FGFR2 fusion-driven cholangiocarcinoma is characterized by a distinct neutrophil-enriched tumor microenvironment in a syngeneic murine model” contains work from the lab of SynthImmune…
New publication in Angewandte Chemie by SynthImmune PIs Christian Klein and Franziska Thomas
The labs of SynthImmune PIs Christian Klein and Franziska Thomas have published a paper in the journal Angewandte Chemie entitled “Peptide Thioester and Triazole Derivatives Through On-Resin Dual-Modification of Peptide Thiosulfonates”. In…
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…