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GSk foundation award
July 2022: Kilian receives the GSK foundation science award in the category "clinical research" for his work on reverse T cell repertoire evolution during CMV infection. What an honor!
congrats to evi
July 2022: Evi's PhD work from the group of Angelika Rambold at the Max Planck Institute of Immunology and Epigenetics (Freiburg) is published in Nature Metabolism. Awesome!
Lab Excursion
July 2022: The team has been working super hard over the last 15 months. Time to be thankful and have some fun.
Article on BMBF website
July 2022: The BMBF's website features an article (in German) about our project to generate physiologically engineered antiviral T cells. This project is the most important funding source for our laboratory. We are extremely grateful for the support.
welcome, interns!
April 2022: Anna, Niclas and Sina are supporting the lab's team as interns. Anna is with us for 8 months in-between her MSc degree and her PhD. Niclas did a 2-month internship before starting Med School. Sina joins from Regensburg to do her MSc thesis with us.
new preprint
March 2022: New manuscript from our lab, in collaboration with the labs of Matthias Tenbusch (FAU), Ulrike Protzer (TUM), as well as many other partners from Erlangen, Munich and Cologne. We analyzed humoral and cellular immune responses after homologous vs. heterologous SARS-CoV-2 vaccination. Check out the preprint for some high-quality T cell analyses by our PhD student Katharina.
Welcome, rutuja!
March 2022: Our next (and for the moment last) PhD student arrived! Our postdoc Evi showed how seriously she takes mentoring and suggested that we pick Rutuja up at the train station after a long flight from India. So we did. Have a great start, Rutuja!
"Young council" of the bavarian academy of sciences
February 2022: A great honor for Kilian - he is selected into the "young council" (Junges Kolleg) of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences (Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, BAdW). Find out more about the Academy and the latest selected members here.
first paper!
December 2021: Our first paper is out at STAR Protocols! We provide a detailed protocol of CRISPR/Cas9-mediated orthotopic TCR replacement. Special kudos to Caro for her first first-authorship! Find the manuscript here.
XMAS lab quiz
December 2021: The Schober Lab celebrates the closure of its first year with a small Christmas party (all lab members freshly triple vaccinated and tested the same morning). Evi wins the first Christmas Lab Quiz - a kind of pub quiz with blind picking of prices donated by everyone (Wichteln style) - everyone agrees this likely marks the start of a long lab tradition. What a year this has been with this fantastic team. We can't wait for 2022!
Robert Koch postdoc award
October 2021: Kilian receives the Robert Koch Postdoc award by the Robert Koch Foundation in immunology. What an honour and time to be thankful! Learn more about the prizes and this year's awardees here.
Welcome evi, our first postdoc!
September 2021: The Schober Lab's first postdoc! Evi joins the team from the Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics in Freiburg, and is funded by our BMBF grant. She is now excited to explore the T cell field, but will also contribute her extensive expertise in immunometabolism. We are very happy that you are with us and we are very much looking forward to working with you, Evi! Find out more about Evi's background here.
new publication: reverse phenotyping
July 2021: Our work on 'reverse phenotyping' of SARS-CoV-2 antigen-reactive T cells is published in Nature Communications. Want to find out why Schrödinger's cat may come to mind? Find out in this tweetorial on the initial pre-print. See also press releases of TUM and Helmholtz.
support through bmbf
June 2021: The Schober Lab is becoming more and more established. A fundamental basis for the lab is the support through the BMBF (junior research groups in infectious diseases program). Learn more about the program here and about our project to engineer antigen-specific T cells with physiological function here.
project funding by ekfs
April 2021: The Else Kröner-Fresenius-Stiftung (EKFS) will fund a project on artifical intelligence-guided dissection of human antigen-specific T cell responses after yellow fever virus vaccination. The project will be carried out in collaboration with the group of Benjamin Schubert at the Helmholtz Center in Munich. Further information on the EKFS funding program can be found here. We are very grateful for the support and can't wait to get started!
The team is growing!
February 2021: Christine, Carolin, Philipp and Katharina will be joining the team in the next three months. Want to know who they are? Learn about them here. Welcome!
Jürgen wehland price
December 2020: Kilian has won the Jürgen Wehland Price 2020. The price is hosted by the Helmholtz Center for Infection research and is awarded to outstanding young scientists in the field of infection research. Read more here. Wohoo!