The Prizes and Awards at the 10th Center's Retreat

At the 10th Retreat of the Center, held on September 24, 2019, 74 projects were presented as short presentations and posters. Our scientists were awarded 12 Poster Prizes and one Best Publication Award.

The Award for the Best Publication of the Center was conferred to Bernhard Kratzer (IFI) for the publication:

Prevention of allergy by virus-like nanoparticles (VNP) delivering shielded versions of major allergens in a humanized murine allergy mode.
Bernhard Kratzer, Cordula Köhler, Sandra Hofer, Ursula Smole, Doris Trapin, Jagoba Iturri, Dietmar Pum, Philip Kienzl, Adelheid Elbe‐Bürger, Pia Gattinger, Irene Mittermann, Birgit Linhart, Gabriele Gadermaier, Beatrice Jahn‐Schmid, Alina Neunkirchner, Rudolf Valenta, and Winfried F. Pickl. Allergy. 2019 Feb; 74(2): 246–260. Published online 2018 Nov 5. doi: 10.1111/all.13573

The Best Presentation Prizes were awarded to:

Adebanke Oluwatoyin Akinfenwa (IPA)
BET V 1-SPECIFIC ADAPTIVE IMMUNE RESPONSES IN MICE AND MAN
Adebanke Oluwatoyin Akinfenwa, Huang H., Focke-Tejkl M. , Valenta R., Campana R.

Nora Geissler (ISPTM)
THE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN OBESITY, ALLERGY AND BEHAVIOURAL CHANGES
Nora Geissler, Maria Orola, Alexander Nardo, Thomas M. Stulnig, Maria Nikou, Daniela Pollak, Elke Korb, Irma Schabussova, Aleksandra Inic-Kanada and Ursula Wiedermann

Alexandra Gülich (IFI)
THE TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR RUNX3 IS ESSENTIAL FOR SURVIVIAL AND ACTIVATION OF CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTES
Alexandra Gülich, Caroline Tizian, Daniela Hainberger, Kseniya Khamina, Thomas Faux, Astha Laiho, Liisa Andersen, Philipp Schatzlmaier, Ichiro Taniuchi, Christoph Bock, Laura Elo, Alexander Lercher, Andreas Bergthaler, Wilfried Ellmeier, Shinya Sakaguchi

Jasmine Karacs (IPA)
ALUM AND MPLA, ADJUVANTS USED IN ALLERGEN VACCINES AS TRIGGER FOR NET RELEASE IN HUMAN NEUTROPHILS
Jasmine Karacs, Manuel Reithofer, Barbara Bohle, Beatrice Jahn-Schmid

Livia Kromp (IPA)
BINDING OF VITAMIN D3 IMPAIRS THE ALLERGENIC CAPACITY OF THE MAJOR BIRCH
POLLEN ALLERGEN BET V 1
Livia Kromp, Karin Hufnagl, Rodolfo Bianchini, Markus Wiederstein, Frank Redegeld, Gerlinde Hofstetter, Franziska Roth-Walter, Luis F. Pacios, Erika Jensen-Jarolim

Katharina A. Mayer (IFI)
THE METABOLIC SENSOR AMP-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE COORDINATES T EFFECTOR CELL RESPONSES IN VIVO
Katharina A. Mayer, Ursula Smole, Chi Zu, Anna Christamentl, Nicole Boucheron, Michael Trauner, Wilfried Ellmeier, Winfried F. Pickl, Guido A. Gualdoni, Gerhard J. Zlabinger

Alexandra-Cristina Petre (HAI)
BACK TO BASICS - CHARACTERIZING THE CELLS OF THE RESPIRATORY TRACT BRINGS US ONE STEP CLOSER TO UNDERSTANDING LUNG PATHOLOGIES
Alexandra-Cristina Petre, Ohradanova-Repic A., Zech A., Kramer M., Bsuchner P., Bernardi M., Ullrich R., Krenn K., Markstaller K., Hiesmayr M., Idzko M. and Stockinger H.

Michael Reiter (HAI)
CHARACTERIZING IGM PERSISTENCE IN THE CONTEXT OF LYME BORRELIOSIS
Michael Reiter, Mateusz Markowicz, Anna Schötta, Hannes Stockinger and Gerold Stanek

Lisa Sandner (IFI)
RINL- A NOVEL MODULATOR OF CD4+ EFFECTOR T-CELLS
Lisa Sandner, Ci Zhu, Michael Trauner, Wilfried Ellmeier, Ruth Herbst, Nicole Boucheron

Anna-Margarita Schötta (HAI)
MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING OF BORRELIA BURGDORFERI SENSU LATO STRAINS DETECTED IN CLINICAL SAMPLES
Anna-Margarita Schötta, Theresa Stelzer, Michael Reiter, Verena Mündler, Mateusz Markowicz, Johanna Strob, Anna Gindl, Georg Stary, Hannes Stockinger and Gerold Stanek

Maria R. Strobl (IPA)
CHARACTERIZATION OF THE AFFINITY OF MAL D 1-SPECIFIC ANTIBODIES INDUCED BY SUBLINGUAL IMMUNOTHERAPY WITH RECOMBINANT BET V 1 OR MAL D 1
Maria R. Strobl, Claudia Kitzmüller, Christian Lupinek, Gabriela Sánchez Acosta, Tamar Kinaciyan, Barbara Bohle 

Peter A. Tauber (IFI)
THE KINASE INHIBITOR BX-795 MODULATES THE FUNCTION OF HUMAN AND MURINE T HELPER CELLS BY STIMULATING IL-2 PRODUCTION, UP-REGULATING CD73 AND INHIBITING TH2 EFFECTOR CYTOKINES
Peter A. Tauber, Ursula Smole, Bernhard Kratzer, Philipp Schatzlmaier, Doris Trapin, Cordula Köhler, Alina Neunkirchner, Sabrina Jutz, Peter Steinberger, Hannes Stockinger, Winfried F. Pickl

Congratulations to the awardees!

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