The Prizes and Awards at the 8th Center's Retreat

At the 8th Retreat of the Center, held on September 19, 2017, 89 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 Carmen Stecher (IFI), for the publication:

PD-1 Blockade Promotes Emerging Checkpoint Inhibitors in Enhancing T Cell Responses to Allogeneic Dendritic Cells

Carmen Stecher, Claire Battin, Judith Leitner, Markus Zettl, Katharina Grabmeier-Pfistershammer, Christoph Höller, Gerhard J. Zlabinger, and Peter Steinberger, Front Immunol. 2017; 8: 572.

In addition, 12 young researchers were awarded Best Presentation Prizes:

Małgorzata Anna Cichoń (IPA)
EFFECT OF SELUMETINIB ON THE EXPRESSION OF CALCIUM ATPases IN COLORECTAL CANCER
Małgorzata Anna Cichoń, Ágnes Enyedi2, Krisztina Lór, Enikő Kállay

Pia Gattinger (IPA)
NOVEL DIAGNOSTIC MARKER FOR CROSS-REACTIVE CARBOHYDRATE DETERMINANTS (CCD) INDICATES PRESENCE OF CCD EPITOPES IN HDM-EXTRACT
Pia Gattinger, Irene Mittermann, Christian Lupinek, Mira Silar, Natalija Novak, Gerhard Hofer, Walter Keller and Rudolf Valenta

Laura Geid (IFI)
CHARACTERIZING AGRIN-DEPENDENT MUSCLE SPECIFIC KINASE ENDOCYTOSIS
Laura Geid & Ruth Herbst

Alexandra F. Gülich (IFI)
THE TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR RUNX3 IS ESSENTIAL FOR MAINTAINING THE METABOLIC INTEGRITY OF CYTOTOXIC LYMPHOCYTES
Alexandra F. Gülich, Caroline Tizian, Daniela Hainberger, Kseniya Khaminam, Thomas Faux, Asta Laiho, Ichiro Taniuchi, Christoph Bock, Laura Elo, Andreas Bergthaler, Wilfried Ellmeier, Shinya Sakaguchi

Patricia Hamminger (IFI)
IDENTIFICATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF HDAC1 AND HDAC2 INTERACTION NETWORKS IN TH17 CELLS
Patricia Hamminger, Lena Hess, Lisa Göschl, Teresa Preglej, Markus Hartl, Christian Seiser, Wilfried Ellmeier

Florian Kellner (HAI)
SHOWING STRENGTH: MECHANICAL FORCES IN T-CELL ANTIGEN RECOGNITION
Florian Kellner, Janett Göhring, Lukas Schrangl, Gerhard Schütz, Johannes Huppa

Elke Korb (ISPTM)
THE GUT-LUNG AXIS: IMPACT OF ALLERGIC AIRWAY INFLAMMATION AND TOLERANCE INDUCTION ON THE GUT MICROBIOTA
Elke Korb, Katharina Ambroz, Mirjana Drinić, Christian Zwicker, Priya Sarate, Tatjana Svoboda, Buck T. Hanson, Alexander Loy, Monika Ehling-Schulz, Ursula Wiedermann, Irma Schabussova

Katharina A. Mayer (IFI)
REGULATION OF CD4+ T CELL DIFFERENTIATION AND FUNCTION BY THE METABOLIC SENSOR AMP-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE
Katharina A. Mayer, Guido A. Gualdoni, Gerhard J. Zlabinger

Anastasia Meshcheryakova (IPA)
SPECIFIC INTERPLAY BETWEEN SPHINGOLIPID AND IMMUNE SYSTEMS IN OVARIAN CANCER: A SYSTEMS MEDICINE-BASED STUDY
Anastasia Meshcheryakova, Martin Svoboda, Felicitas Mungenast, Martina Salzmann, Markus Jaritz, Dietmar Pils, Dan Cacsire Castillo-Tong, members of OVCAD Consortium, Peter Birner, Philip Zimmermann, Georg Heinze, Robert Zeillinger, Diana Mechtcheriakova

Dominika Polak (IPA)
NEUTROPHILS PROMOTE ALLERGIC INFLAMMATION BY PRESENTING ALLERGEN TO SPECIFIC CD4+ T CELLS
Dominika Polak, Christine Hafner, Caterina Vizzardelli, Peter Briza, Claudia Kitzmüller, Gabriela Sánchez-Acosta, Nazanin Samadi, Adelheid Elbe-Bürger, Peter Steinberger, Maria Gschwandtner, Wolfgang Pfützner, Gerhard J. Zlabinger, Beatrice Jahn-Schmid, and Barbara Bohle

Manuel Reithofer (IPA)
ALUM-ADJUVANTED ALLERGOIDS INDUCE IgE-BLOCKING IgG ANTIBODIES IN ALLERGEN-SPECIFIC IMMUNOTHERAPY
M. Reithofer, S.L. Böll, C. Kitzmüller, F. Horak, M. Sotoudeh, B. Bohle, B. Jahn-Schmid

Christian Zwicker (ISPTM)
INTRANASAL EXPOSURE TO THE PROBIOTIC STRAIN E. COLI O83 REDUCES ALLERGIC AIRWAY INFLAMMATION IN MICE IN A PROPHYLACTIC AND THERAPEUTIC SETTING
Christian Zwicker, Priya Sarate, Mirjana Drinic, Katharina Ambroz, Elke Korb, Ursula Smole, Cordula Köhler, Petr Sebo, Hana Kozakova, Miloslav Kverka, Ursula Wiedermann and Irma Schabussova

Congratulations to the awardees!