The Prizes and Awards at the 9th Center's Retreat

At the 9th Retreat of the Center, held on September 17, 2018, 78 projects were presented as short presentations and posters. This time again, a Best Publication Award was conferred.

• The Award for the Best Publication of the Center was conferred to  Katarzyna Niespodziana (IPA), for the publication:

PreDicta chip-based high resolution diagnosis of rhinovirus-induced wheeze
_{Katarzyna Niespodziana, Katarina Stenberg-Hammar, Spyridon Megremis, Clarissa R. Cabauatan, Kamila Napora-Wijata, Phyllis C. Vacal, Daniela Gallerano, Christian Lupinek, Daniel Ebner, Thomas Schlederer, Christian Harwanegg, Cilla Söderhäll, Marianne van Hage, Gunilla Hedlin, Nikolaos G. Papadopoulos & Rudolf Valenta. Nature Communications volume 9, Article number: 2382 (2018)} 

• In addition, 13 young researchers were awarded Best Presentation Prizes:

Liisa Andersen (IFI)
MAZR CONTROLS THE DEVELOPMENT AND DIFFERENTIATION OF FOXP3+ REGULATORY T CELLS
Liisa Andersen, A. Gülich, M. Alteneder, T. Preglej, A. Schebesta, M. Orola, A. Hladik, S. Knapp, S. Floess, J. Huehn, T. Krausgruber, C. Bock, T. Faux, A. Laiho, L. Elo, O. Rasool, R. Lahesmaa, T. Sparwasser, S. Sakaguchi and W. Ellmeier

Yulia Dorofeeva (IPA)
MOLECULAR, STRUCTURAL AND IMMUNOLOGICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF THE RECOMBINANT WILD-TYPE-LIKE VERSIONS OF THE MAJOR PARIETARIA ALLERGENS, PAR J 1 AND PAR J 2
Yulia Dorofeeva, Rudolf Valenta, Margarete Focke-Tejkl

João Grilo (IPA)
CROSS-BLOCKING ACTIVITY OF SPECIFIC ANTIBODIES INDUCED BY SLIT WITH RBET V 1
João Grilo, Tamar Kinaciyan and Barbara Bohle

Piotr Humeniuk (IPA)
A JURKAT BASED NFΚB-EGFP INKT REPORTER CELL LINE TO EVALUATE THE INTERACTION OF FOOD-DERIVED LIPIDS WITH INKT CELL RECEPTORS
Piotr Humeniuk, Sabine Geiselhart, Claire Battin, Tonya Webb, Peter Steinberger, Karin Hoffmann-Sommergruber, Wolfgang Paster

Elke Korb (ISPTM)
THE LUNG-GUT AXIS: ALLERGIC AIRWAY INFLAMMATION AND TOLERANCE INDUCTION ARE ASSOCIATED WITH CHANGES IN THE GUT MICROBIOME
Elke Korb, K. Ambroz, M. Drinic, C. Zwicker, T. Svoboda, M. Ehling-Schulz, B. T. Hanson, C. Herbold, A. Loy, S. Widder, U. Wiedermann, I. Schabussova

Markus Kraller (HAI)
MOLECULAR IMAGING OF THE ANTIGEN RECOGNITION DYNAMICS IN CD8+ CYTOTOXIC T-CELLS
Markus Kraller, René Platzer, Paul Spechtl, Johannes B. Huppa and Hannes Stockinger

Verena Mündler (HAI)
TOLL-LIKE RECEPTORS: DECIPHERING THEIR ROLE TOWARD BORRELIELLA SPP.
Verena Mündler, Claire Battin, Michael Reiter, Gerold Stanek, Peter Steinberger, Hannes Stockinger

Dominika Polak (IPA)
NEUTROPHILS PROMOTE T-CELL-MEDIATED INFLAMMATION IN ALLERGY
Dominika Polak, Nazanin Samadi, Caterina Vizzardelli, Gabriela Sanchez-Acosta, Peter Steinberger, and Barbara Bohle

Manuel Reithofer (IPA)
CHARACTERIZATION OF ALUM-INDUCED NET-FORMATION IN HUMAN NEUTROPHILS
Manuel Reithofer, Dominika Polak, Claudia Kitzmüller, Georg Greiner, Barbara Bohle, Beatrice Jahn-Schmid

Johann Romberger (IFI)
DEVELOPING AN IN VITRO MODEL SYSTEM TO STUDY LOCALIZATION OF MUSCLE SPECIFIC KINASE TO THE NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION
Johann Romberger, Geid, L., Fülöp, G., Sevcsik, E., Schütz, G., Herbst, R.

Anna-Margarita Schötta (HAI)
FIRST DETECTION OF CANDIDATUS RICKETTSIA MENDELII AND A NEW RICKETTSIA GENETIC VARIANT IN AUSTRIA
Anna-Margarita Schötta, Mateusz Markowicz, Hannes Stockinger and Gerold Stanek

Angelika Tscheppe (IPA)
CONTRIBUTION OF CONFORMATIONAL AND LINEAR IgE EPITOPES TO ARA H 2-SPECIFIC IgE-BINDING - IN VITRO AND IN VIVO STUDIES
Angelika Tscheppe, Dieter Palmberger, Christian Radauer, Leonie S. Van Rijt, Merima Bublin, Christine Hafner, Wolfgang Hemmer, Vanessa Mayr, Chiara Palladino, Adrian Logiantara, Ronald Van Ree, Reingard Grabherr, Heimo Breiteneder

Christian Zwicker (ISPTM)
INTRANASAL DELIVERY OF THE PROBIOTIC STRAIN E. COLI O83 SUPPRESSES EXPERIMENTAL ALLERGIC AIRWAY INFLAMMATION IN A PROPHYLACTIC AND THERAPEUTIC SETTING
Christian Zwicker, Priya Sarate, Mirjana Drinic, Katharina Ambroz, Elke Korb, Ursula Smole, Cordula Köhler, Mark S. Wilson, Hana Kozakova, Peter Sebo, Miloslav Kverka, Ursula Wiedermann and Irma Schabussova

Congratulations to the awardees!