heads the research laboratory Experimental Stem Cell Transplantation at the Department of Medicine II (Director Prof. Dr. Hermann Einsele) at Würzburg University Medical School since 2007. After finishing his studies in medicine and completing his thesis work in the laboratory of Prof. Dr. Ulrich Jäger at the University of Vienna Medical School, Austria, he followed an invitation to join as a postdoctoral research fellow the laboratory of Prof. Stephen Artandi, MD, PhD at Stanford University, USA. Soon thereafter, following his interest in the field of stem cell transplantation he joined the group of Prof. Robert S. Negrin, MD, also at Stanford University. Since then Dr. Beilhack has been working on mechanisms responsible for immune cell migration, stem cell transplantation, tumor immunology and infectious biology. The scientific work of Dr. Beilhack has been recognized by several research awards, including the Best Science Award 2004 of the American Society of Blood and Marrow Transplantation, the First International ADMO Award 2005, the Stowell-Orbison Award 2007, the Pathologist-in-Training-Award 2007 as well as the Chugai Science Award in 2007.

Contact:
Dr. Andreas Beilhack, P.I.
Tel: +49-931-201 77536 or -44040
beilhack_a@klinik.uni-wuerzburg.de

had been working in neurobiology research at Würzburg University and the Max Planck Institute in Göttingen previously. In 2007 she joined the Experimental Stem Cell Transplantation research laboratory. As the lab manager she is in charge of the organization of the group and helps to guide other lab members in experimental design and in mastering new techniques. Carolin Kiesel commands a broad array of laboratory skills including immunofluorescence microscopy, immunhistochemistry, flowcytometry and various molecular methods.

Contact:
Carolin Kiesel, Lab Manager
Tel: +49-931-201 27637
kiesel_c@medizin.uni-wuerzburg.de

studied biology at Würzburg University, Germany, and specialized in microbiology, genetics and biochemistry. In the lab of Ulrich Dobrindt, PhD at the Institute for Molecular Infectious Biology in Würzburg she could gain first insights in experimental research.  During her master thesis under supervision of  Jürgen Löffler, PhD, and Prof. Hermann Einsele, MD, at the Department of Medicine II at Würzburg University she worked on the interaction of human dendritic cells with  Aspergillus fumigatus. In 2008 she joined the Experimental Stem Cell Transplantation research laboratory and specializes in in vivo bioluminescence imaging, multiplex-flowcytometry, fluorescence-in-situ-hybridization as well as in vivo and in vitro murine and human models of immune processes. Carina Bäuerlein is a member of the Graduate School of Life Sciences Würzburg as well as the graduate college 'Immunomodulation‘.

Contact:
Carina Bäuerlein, PhD student
Tel: +49-931-201 27637
baeuerlein_c@medizin.uni-wuerzburg.de

studied biology at the Universities of  Bayreuth and Würzburg, Germany. He specialized in animal ecology, tropical biology, behavioral physiology, sociobiology and genetics. For his master thesis with Prof. Mark-Oliver Rödel, PhD and Prof. Jürgen Tautz, PhD he conducted research field trips to  Benin, Guinea und Liberia. Christian Brede graduated with his master thesis „Associations of Phrynomantis microps (Microhylidae) with a scorpion (Pandinus imperator) and a ponerine ant (Paltothyreus tarsatus)“. In 2008 he joined the Experimental Stem Cell Transplantation research team for his PhD thesis. He is also a member of the Würzburg Graduate School of Life Sciences and of the Graduate College 'Immunomodulation'. Christian Brede investigates T cell subpopulations in experimental stem cell transplantation and employs cell biological assays as well as in vivo bioluminescence imaging and high-resolution 3D microscopy.

Contact:
Christian Brede, Diplombiologe
Tel: +49-931-201 27638
brede_c@medizin.uni-wuerzburg.de

studied food chemistry at the University of Kaiserslautern and for his master thesis under the supervision of Professor Dieter Schrenk assessed the cytotoxic and pro-apoptotic properties of certain secondary fungal metabolites. He stayed on with Dieter Schrenk’s group for his PhD thesis at the Institute of Food Chemistry and Toxicology at the University of Kaiserslautern. For his dissertation he investigated the mechanism by which tumor promoters as 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin inhibit apoptosis in liver cells. Following a six months stay as a guest researcher at the University of Western Australia in Perth in Arunasalam Dharmarajan’s laboratory, Martin Chopra was awarded his PhD by the University of Kaiserslautern in June 2010. Dr. Chopra joined the Experimental Stem Cell Transplantation research laboratory in August 2010 and started establishing novel in vivo imaging techniques to study tumor biology. Another focus of his work is assessing the influence of the TNF-TNFR-system in the metastasis of syngenic tumors in rodent models within a project financed by the IFZK.

Contact:
Dr. rer. nat. Martin Chopra, Diplom-Lebensmittelchemiker
Tel: +49-931-201 27637
Chopra_M@medizin.uni-wuerzburg.de

studied biology at the Universities of Munich and Würzburg, Germany. She specialized in microbiology, pharmaceutical biology and behavioral biology. During her master thesis under supervision of Prof. Dr. Jürgen Becker at the Department of Dermatology at Würzburg University she worked on the identification of cancer stem cells in melanoma. In 2010 she joined the Experimental Stem Cell Transplantation research laboratory. As a research assistant, she conducts molecular and cellular methods such as PCR, FACS analysis and immunohistochemistry.

Contact:
Axelle Degla, Diplombiologin
Tel: +49-931-201 27637
Degla_A@klinik.uni-wuerzburg.de

studies medicine at the University of Würzburg since 2005. For his doctoral thesis he joined the Experimental Stem Cell Transplantation research laboratory in 2008. In his project he established functional T cell assays and analyses human lymphocyte populations by multiplex-flowcytometry. Fluorescence-in-situ-hybridization and real-time PCR complement his research approach.

Contact:
Stefan Herz, MD student
Tel: +49-931-201 27638 or 44055
E_Herz_S@klinik.uni-wuerzburg.de

studied biology at the University of Barcelona, Spain. For one year she participated in a student exchange program at the University of Salamanca, Spain. In 2008 she joined the research laboratory of Stephan Schulz, MD, at the Technical University of Munich, Germany and the Experimental Stem Cell Transplantation laboratory at Würzburg University for her master thesis. She has gained her first research experience during an internship program in the laboratory of Prof. John G. Collard, PhD, at The Netherlands Cancer Institute where she worked on murine models of T cell trafficking. Ana-Laura Jordán Garrote focuses now on the interaction of T cells with the innate immune system in models of allorejection and tolerance utilizing non-invasive imaging techniques, fluorescence microscopy, multiplex-flowcytometry and tissue culture based assays.

Contact:
Ana-Laura Jordán Garrote, master student
Tel: +49-931-201  27638
a-ljordan@hotmail.com

studied biology at the University of Würzburg with a special focus on biochemistry, genetics and cell and development biology. Due to a high level of interest in cancer research she worked during her diploma- as well as in her PhD-thesis in the area of tumor biology. The focus of her PhD-thesis was the histological characterization of Vaccinia-Virus-infected solid tumors in a xenograft model. She is now working as a postdoctoral fellow in the Experimental Stem Cell Transplantation research group of Dr. Andreas Beilhack. She studies the transcriptional programming of individual T-cell subsets within the DFG Collaborative Research Center Transregio 52 and specializes in a high-resolution 3D-microscopy technique.

Contact:
Dr. Viktoria Raab
Diplom-Biologin
Raab_V1@medizin.uni-wuerzburg.de
Tel.: +49-931-201 27638

studied biology at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern. Previously she gained research experience in plant ecology and genetics and conducted research field trips to Sub-Saharan Africa. Simone Riedel completed her diploma thesis about the genetic diversity of cyanobacteria in biological soil crusts in a savannah region in Namibia with Prof. Burkhard Büdel, PhD. In 2008 she joined the Experimental Stem Cell Transplantation laboratory for her PhD thesis. She is also a member of the Würzburg Graduate School of Life Sciences and of the Graduate College 'Immunomodulation'. Simone Riedel develops novel imaging tools and employs dynamic multiphoton-laser-scanning microscopy to investigate the interactions of immune cells, tumor cells and stroma cells in cellular and sub-cellular resolution.

Contact:
Simone Riedel, PhD student
Tel: +49-931-201 27638
riedel_s1@medizin.uni-wuerzburg.de

graduated from the Federal Research Assistant School in Würzburg, Germany. In 2008 she joined the Experimental Stem Cell Transplantation laboratory at Würzburg University. As a research assistent she conducts molecular and cellular methods such as PCR, multiplex flowcytometry and immunohistochemistry. Additionally she is assisting Carolin Kiesel in the organization of the research lab.

Contact:
Miriam Ritz, MTA
Tel: +49-931-201 27637
Ritz_M1@klinik.uni-wuerzburg.de

studies medicine at the University of Würzburg since 2005. In 2009 she started her doctoral thesis in the field of immunology in the Experimental Stem Cell Transplantation research laboratory at the Department of Medicine II at Würzburg University. Utilizing multiplex flow cytometry she is analyzing T cell subpopulations of patients undergoing allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation to identify predictive and diagnostic markers to prevent and treat acute graft-versus-host disease.

Contact:
Veronika Umrath, MD student
Tel: +49-931-201 27638 or 44055
verum02@gmx.de

studied biology at the “Federico II” University of Naples, Italy. During her master thesis under the supervision of Prof. Gabriella Chieffi she worked on the interaction between mast cells and peripheral nervous system in the frog, Rana esculenta. In 2001 she won the prestigious “Beniamino Segre fellowship” of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. In this year she focused her studies on the maturation of mast cells during the development in amphibians. During 2003-2004 she continued her studies on mast cells in a mouse model of contact hypersensitivity with Prof. Stephen J. Galli at Stanford University. In 2005 she completed the PhD program in Biology at the University of Naples and studied as a postdoctoral fellow the effect of amino acids on endocrine organs. Dr. Rossella Monteforte  will focus now on immune interactions and the pathogenesis of malignant diseases in mice.

Contact:
Dr. Rossella Monteforte, Postdoctoral Fellow
Tel: +49-931-201  27637
rossemont@yahoo.it

Open Postdoctoral  Position in Immunology & Bioimaging

A postdoctoral appointment is available full time to study immune cell mechanisms in mouse models of hematopoietic cell transplantation. Interested and highly motivated candidates will be given the opportunity to participate in an innovative translational research project within the DFG Collaborative Research Center Transregio 52 "Transcriptional Programming of Individual T Cell Subsets“. We conduct experiments with newly generated fluorescent and luminescent transgenic mouse lines, in vivo bioluminescence imaging and state-of-the-art microscopy, flowcytometry, and molecular biology techniques.

A successful applicant will have prior experience in animal models, in particular, experience and aptitude with adoptive cellular transfer models, a background in immunology, cell culture techniques, molecular biology and/or regulation of gene expression. A demonstrated publication record in these or related areas is essential along with excellent communication skills, fluency in English (both written and spoken) and the ability to work independently and together with a team.

Applications from severely handicapped persons with basically similar qualification will be given priority.

Interested applicants should send their electronic application including a brief cover letter describing their previous research experience and current interests, updated CV, publication list and names of three potential referees to:

Contact: Andreas Beilhack, MD
E-mail: beilhack_a@klinik.uni-wuerzburg.de
Subject: Postdoc Position