Poster prizes at the Center’s Retreat

At the 2nd Retreat of the Center held on September 27, 2011, there were presented the 4 extramural facilities of the Center (the Trachoma Research Laboratory in Jimma, Ethiopia; Comparative Medicine, a joint venture with the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna supported by the Swiss Messerli Foundation; the MARIB Malaria Research Center in Bangladesh; the Water Research Facility Wiental) and 89 projects as posters. For the first time the best poster presentations were awarded.

The awardees are:

Postersession 1
Daniela Ackerbauer for the poster
PRECOMBINANT SCFV ANTIBODIES AGAINST CHIMERIC PROTEINS OF BET V 1 AND API G 1 FOR IGE EPITOPE MAPPING by Daniela Ackerbauer, Barbara Gepp, Wolfgang Hemmer, Merima Bublin, Heimo Breiteneder. Institute of Pathophysiology and Allergy Research, Center for Pathophysiology, Infectiology and Immunology, Medical University of Vienna

Thomas Bauer for the poster
THE ANTI INFLAMMATORY PHAGOCYTOSIS RECEPTOR AXL IS CONSTITUTIVELY UPREGULATED BY LANGERHANS CELLS IN RESPONSE TO EPIDERMAL TGF β1by Thomas Bauer1, Jennifer Jurkin1, Anna Zagorska2, Nighat Yasmin1, René Koeffel1, Bernhard Gesslbauer1, Greg Lemke2, Herbert Strobl1 1 Institute of Immunology, Center for Pathophysiology, Infectiology and Immunology, Medical University of Vienna, 2 Molecular Neurobiology Laboratory, The Salk Institute, La Jolla, USA

Leszek Gajdzig for the poster
THE SODIUM-PROTON EXCHANGE INHIBITOR EIPA AFFECTS MULTIPLE STEPS IN THE REPLICATION CYCLE OF HUMAN RHINOVIRUS 2 (HRV2) by Leszek Gajdzig1, Dorian Jungmann1, Dieter Blaas2 and Renate Fuchs1 1Dept. Pathophysiol. & Allergy Research, Center for Pathophysiology, Infectiology and Immunology, Medical University of Vienna 2Dept. Med. Biochem. MFPL, Med. Univ. Vienna, Austria

Postersession 2
Eva Guhsl for the poster
IGE CROSS-REACTIVITY BETWEEN BET V 1 AND THE MUNG BEAN PROTEINS CYTOKININ-SPECIFIC BINDING PROTEIN AND VIG R 1 IN PATIENTS WITH BIRCH POLLEN-ASSOCIATED ALLERGY TO MUNG BEAN SPROUTS by Eva Guhsl1, Barbara Gepp1, Gerlinde Hofstetter1, Nina Lengger1, Wolfgang Hemmer2, Heimo Breiteneder1, Christian Radauer1 1Department of Pathophysiology and Allergy Research, Center for Pathophysiology, Infectiology and Immunology, Medical University of Vienna, 2Floridsdorfer Allergiezentrum, Vienna

Julia Höbaus for the poster
OVEREXPRESSION AND METHYLATION OF THE VITAMIN D DEGRADING ENZYME CYP24A1 IN COLORECTAL CANCER by Julia Höbaus, Irfete Fetahu, Doris Hummel, Teresa Manhardt, Enikö Kallay Department of Pathophysiology and Allergy Research, Center for Pathophysiology, Infectiology, and Immunology, Medical University of Vienna, Austria

Claudia Kitzmüller for the poster
HUMAN BASOPHILS DO NOT ACT AS ANTIGEN-PRESENTING CELLS FOR THE MAJOR BIRCH POLLEN ALLERGEN BET V 1 by Claudia Kitzmüller (1,2), Nagl B. (1), Deifl S. (1,2), Walterskirchen C. (1,2), Jahn-Schmid B. (1), Zlabinger G. (3), Bohle B. (1,2) (1) Institute for Pathophysiology and Allergy Research, Center for Pathophysiology, Infectiology and Immunology, Medical University of Vienna, (2) Christian Doppler Laboratory for Immunomodulation, University of Vienna

Postersession 3
Sandra Pahr for the poster
CHARACTERIZATION OF A NOVEL ALLERGEN INVOLVED IN WHEAT FOOD ALLERGY by Sandra Pahr (1,2), Claudia Constantin (1), Nikos Papadopoulus (3), Stavroula Giavi (3), Mika Mäkelä (4), Christof Ebner (5), Adriano Mari (6), Irene Mittermann (1,2), Susanne Vrtala (1,2), Rudolf Valenta (1,7) (1) Division of Immunopathology, Department of Pathophysiology and Allergy Research, Center of Pathophysiology, Infectiology and Immunology, Medical University of Vienna, (2) Christian Doppler Laboratory for the Development of Allergen Chips, Medical University of Vienna, Austria (3) Allergy Department, 2nd Pediatric Clinic, University of Athens, Athens, Greece, (4) Skin and Allergy Hospital, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Finland, (5) Ambulatory for Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Vienna, Austria, (6) Center for Molecular Allergology, IDI-IRCCS, Rome, Italy (7) Christian Doppler Laboratory for Allergy Research, Medical University of Vienna, Austria

Philipp Schatzlmaier for the poster
DECODING TRANSMEMBRANE IMMUNOGLOBULIN SUPERGENE FAMILY MEMBER CD147 INSIDE THE CELL by Philipp Schatzlmaier, Verena Zojer, Hannes Stockinger Molecular Immunology Unit, Institute for Hygiene and Applied Immunology, Center for Pathophysiology, Infectiology and Immunology, Medical University of Vienna

Simone Schlacher for the poster
BACTERIAL GHOSTS AS ANTIGEN DELIVERY SYSTEM FOR OCULAR SURFACE DISEASES by Simone Schlacher, Laura Bassi OCUVAC team Institute of Specific Prophylaxis and Tropical Medicine, Center of Pathophysiology, Infectiology and Immunology, Medical University of Vienna

Postersession 4
Ursula Thiem for the poster
IS INTRA-TUMORAL BUDDING CORRELATED WITH LIVER METASTASIS IN PATIENTS WITH GRADE 2 COLORECTAL CANCER? A PILOT STUDY by Ursula Thiem1, Radu Rogojanu1,4, Ildiko Mesteri2, Isabella Ellinger1, Theresia Thalhammer1, Andreas Heindl3, Alex Seewald3, Giovanna Bises1 1Department of Pathophysiology and Allergy Research, Center for Pathophysiology, Infectiology and Immunology, Medical University of Vienna, Austria, 2Clinical Institute for Pathology, Medical University of Vienna, Austria, 3Seewald Solutions, Vienna, Austria, 4TissueGnostics GmbH, Vienna, Austria

Angelika Wagner for the poster
TOXOPLASMA GONDII INDUCED CELLS WITH SUPPRESSIVE PROPERTIES AGAINST ALLERGY by Angelika Wagner¹, Irma Schabussova¹, Bärbel Ruttkowski2, Anja Joachim2, Ursula Wiedermann¹ ¹ Institute of Specific Prophylaxis und Tropical Medicine, Medical University Vienna, Austria 2 University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, Austria

Verena Zojer for the poster
CD147 – A NEW INHIBITOR OF LATE T CELL RECEPTOR SIGNALING by Verena Zojer, Herbert B. Schiller, Wolfgang Paster, Florian Forster and Hannes Stockinger Institute for Hygiene and Applied Immunology, Center for Pathophysiology, Infectiology and Immunology, Medical University of Vienna