The Prizes and Awards at the 7th Center's Retreat

At the 7th Retreat of the Center, held on September 20, 2016, 85 projects were presented as short presentations and posters. This time, also an Adjunct Professorship and a Best Publication Award were conferred.

The Adjunct Professorship of the Medical University of Vienna was awarded to Prof. Elopy Sibanda, Zimbabwe by Rector Müller.

_{Prof. Elopy Sibanda, Rector Markus Müller.  © Reiter}

The Award for the Best Publication of the Center was conferred for the first time this year. Awardee is Sandra Rosskopf (IFI), for the publication

„Creation of an engineered APC system to explore and optimize the presentation of immunodominant peptides of major allergens“,
Sandra Rosskopf, Sabrina Jutz, Alina Neunkirchner, Martín R. Candia,
Beatrice Jahn-Schmid, Barbara Bohle, Winfried F. Pickl & Peter Steinberger.

_{Prof. Gerhard-Johann Zlabinger, Sandra Rosskopf, MSc., Prof. Hannes Stockinger. © Reiter}

And of course, Best Presentation Prizes were awarded to 11 young researchers:

Liisa Andersen (IFI)
MOLECULAR ANALYSIS OF MAZR FUNCTION IN CD4+ T CELLS
Liisa Andersen, Alexandra Gülich, Alexandra Schebesta, Shinya Sakaguchi, Wilfried Ellmeier

Mirjana Drinić (ISPTM)
IMMUNOMODULATORY PROPERTIES OF EXTRACT DERIVED FROM TOXOPLASMA GONDII
Mirjana Drinić, Angelika Wagner, Bärbel Ruttkowski, Anja Joachim, Ursula Wiedermann, Irma Schabussova

Elias Gmeiner (HAI)
PROCESS CONTROL AND OPTIMISATION OF DIALYSIS WATER QUALITY
Elias Gmeiner, Sonja Knetsch, Andrea Lettl, Angelika Schmidhuber, Elisabeth Holzhammer, Regina Sommer

Daniela Hainberger (IFI)
THE ROLE OF NUCLEAR RECEPTOR CO-REPRESSOR 1 (NCOR1) IN T HELPER DIFFERENTIATION
Daniela Hainberger, Lena Müller, Johan Auwerx, Wilfried Ellmeier

Ingrid Hartl (HAI)
DEMONSTRATION OF A GENE KNOCK OUT USING CRISPR/CAS9 SYSTEM IN THE HUMAN T CELL LINE JURKAT E6.1
Ingrid Hartl, Philipp Schatzlmaier, Hannes Stockinger, Anna Repic

Piotr Humeniuk (IPA)
ACTIVATION OF iNKTs BY FOOD DERIVED LIPIDS
Piotr Humeniuk, Sabine Pfeifer, Pawel Dubiela, Roberta Aina, Christoph Nagl, Karin Hoffmann-Sommergruber

Sabrina Jutz (IFI)
A CELLULAR PLATFORM FOR THE EVALUATION OF IMMUNE CHECKPOINT MOLECULES
Sabrina Jutz, Annika Hennig, Judith Leitner, Ömer Asrak, Dejana Dijanovic, Winfried F. Pickl, Wolfgang Paster, Peter Steinberger

Katarzyna Niespodziana (IPA)
STUDY OF RHINOVIRUS-SPECIFIC ANTIBODY RESPONSES IN CHILDREN UNDER 4 YEARS
Katarzyna Niespodziana, Katarina Stenberg-Hammar, Clarissa R. Cabauatan, Kamila Napora-Wijata, Phyllis Vacal, Daniela Gallerano, Christian Lupinek, Daniel Ebner, Thomas Schlederer, Christian Harwanegg, Erik Melén, Cilla Söderhäll, Marianne van Hage, Gunilla Hedlin, Rudolf Valenta

Philipp Schatzlmaier (HAI)
RAPID MULTIPLEX ANALYSIS OF LIPID RAFT SIGNALING COMPONENTS WITH SINGLE LYMPHOCYTE RESOLUTION
Philipp Schatzlmaier, Lisa Göschl, Wilfried Ellmeier, Johannes B. Huppa, Hannes Stockinger

Anna-Margarita Schötta (HAI)
COMPARISON OF TICK-SCREENING METHODS FOR PATHOGEN DETECTION AND IMPACT ON RESULTS
Anna-Margarita Schötta, Michiel Wijnveld, Hannes Stockinger, Gerold Stanek

Alexander Zwirzitz (HAI)
UROKINASE RECEPTOR AND CD11B DEFINE HUMAN SKIN-HOMING MEMORY REGULATORY T CELLS AND CONTROL THEIR ADHESION AND TISSUE HOMEOSTASIS
Alexander Zwirzitz, Philip Kienzl, Karin Pfisterer, Vladimir Leksa, Adelheid Elbe-Bürger, Hannes Stockinger

Congratulations to the awardees!