
Department of Dermatology
ORCID: 0000-0002-4755-0224
T +43 1 40160-63009
michelle.epstein@meduniwien.ac.at
Keywords
Allergy and Immunology; Animal models; Asthma; Biocompatible Materials; Biomimetic Materials
Research group(s)
- Experimental Allergy Laboratory
Research Area: The experimental allergy laboratory focuses on the elucidation of the basic mechanisms underlying the initiation and perpetuation of allergic disease.
Members:
Research interests
The experimental allergy laboratory focuses on the elucidation of the basic mechanisms underlying the initiation and perpetuation of allergic disease.
Techniques, methods & infrastructure
Cellular immunology, experimental animal models for the study of allergic disease, asthma and biomaterials.
Grants
- FoodEnTwin Twinning of research activities for the frontier research in the fields of food, nutrition and environmental ‘omics (2018)
Source of Funding: EU, H2020
Principal Investigator - ELASTISLET Tailored Elastin-like Recombinamers as Advanced Systems for Cell Therapies in Diabetes Mellitus: a Synthetic Biology Approach towards a Bioeffective and Immunoisolated Biosimilar Islet/Cell Niche (2015)
Source of Funding: EU, H2020
Principal Investigator
Selected publications
- Lake, I.R. et al., 2016. Climate Change and Future Pollen Allergy in Europe. Environmental Health Perspectives, 125(3).
- Riba, M. et al., 2016. Revealing the acute asthma ignorome: characterization and validation of uninvestigated gene networks. Scientific Reports, 6(1)
- Hamaoui-Laguel, L. et al., 2015. Effects of climate change and seed dispersal on airborne ragweed pollen loads in Europe. Nature Climate Change, 5(8), pp.766-771
- Schliehe, C. et al., 2014. The methyltransferase Setdb2 mediates virus-induced susceptibility to bacterial superinfection. Nature Immunology, 16(1), pp.67-74
- Markus, M.A. et al., 2014. Non-Invasive Optical Imaging of Eosinophilia during the Course of an Experimental Allergic Airways Disease Model and in Response to Therapy