Team Hub 2
Hub 2 - Vienna(AUT)/Charlottesville(USA)/Berlin(GER)/Boston(USA)
This hub was founded in September 2023 and focusses on reviewing preprints in the area of immunology, inflammation and immunogenetics:
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Medical University of Vienna (Vienna, Austria)
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University of Virginia (Charlottesville, USA)
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Max-Delbrück Center Berlin (Berlin, Germany)
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Ragon Institute in Boston (MIT, Harvard, Mass General, USA)
This hub consists of a strong community of researchers focussing on immunology, immunometabolism, metabolism, immunogenetics and inflammation. Together, this hub reviews one preprint per week in a collaborative and community-based setting in their area of expertise.
Previous hub partners include Vanderbilt University (Nashville, USA) and our communication partner "Genes & Immunity".
Coordinators
Co-founder
Felix Richter
Postdoctoral fellow in the the Bergthaler lab at the Medical University of Vienna and CeMM. His research focusses on the role of CD8+ T cells in the development of cachexia.
Dörte Symmank
Ph.D. student at Weninger Lab at the Medical University of Vienna. Her research primarily explores the reactions of immune cells, especially granulocytes, in inflammatory skin diseases and infections using multiphoton imaging and scSeq.
Teresa Neuwirth
PostDoc in the Maier lab at the Center for Molecular Medicine in Vienna, Austria where her work focuses on how the anatomical location of a tumor draining lymph node affects metastasis development.
Lisabeth Pimenov
MD/PhD student in the Knapp/Gawish Lab at the Medical University of Vienna. Her research focuses on epithelial and immune cell responses to viral respiratory infections.
Aljawharah Alrubayyi
Postdoctoral fellow in the Gaiha lab at Ragon Institute of Mass General, MIT and Harvard . Her research focuses on studying vaccine-induced T-cell responses in chronic viral infections.
Kelsey Voss
Assistant Professor at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. Dr. Voss is passionate about immunometabolism. Her lab in the Department of Pharmacology researches iron metabolism in autoimmunity.
Alisa Iakupova
PhD student in the Young-Ae Lee group at the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in Berlin. Her research aims to understanding how food allergies can resolve spontaneously or persist through a lifetime.
Raisa Brito Santos
Postdoctoral researcher at the Max Delbrück Center in Berlin, Germany. Her work focuses on the mechanisms of kinins in inflammation and immunometabolism.
Reviewers
Gavin Li
PhD student in the Piehl lab at Karolinska Institutet, and a University of Toronto Applied Immunology alumni. His research focuses on understanding the role of EBV in driving multiple sclerosis (MS) and the impact of various MS treatments on this immune dysregulation.
Partners
Our mission would not not be achievable without reliable partners that support the initiative and are crucial to the success of the cross-institutional immunology preprint journal club.
The Medical University of Vienna is a leading medical center. The individual institutes, centers, departments and clinics thereby form an inseparable unity of education, research and patient care. The research at the Medical University of Vienna focusses on immunology, cancer research, neuroscience, cardiovascular medicine and medical imaging.
The Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association (MDC) is a leading research institution located in Berlin, Germany. It was founded in 1992 and is named after the German-American physicist and biologist Max Delbrück, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1969 for his pioneering work in molecular genetics. The MDC's mission is to study molecular mechanisms to understand the origins of diseases and to develop new therapies. The center focuses on cardiovascular and metabolic diseases, cancer, neurological diseases, and diseases of the immune system. The MDC combines basic research with clinical research to ensure that discoveries in the laboratory can be translated into clinical applications as quickly as possible. The MDC collaborates with various institutions, hospitals, and universities, both nationally and internationally, to promote interdisciplinary and translational research. It is part of the Helmholtz Association, Germany's largest scientific organization.The MDC has state-of-the-art facilities and employs a diverse group of scientists from various disciplines, making it a hub for innovative research in the field of molecular medicine.
The Ragon Institute is a collaborative initiative between Mass General Brigham, MIT, and Harvard, dedicated to harnessing the immune system to prevent and cure human diseases. Originally focused on HIV/AIDS, the Institute has since expanded its efforts to address a broader range of globally significant diseases.
The University of Virginia focus on intellectual and societal challenges that impact the greater good, creating new knowledge that moves the world forward.
University of Virginia
Communication Partner
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Genes & Immunity is a bimonthly journal published by Nature, part of Springer Nature. The journal publishes articles focused on understanding how genetic, genomic and functional variations affect immune cells and the immune system. The editorial team is led by Prof. Abhishek Garg, who has a long trajectory in immune-oncology, and counts with the expertise of four associate editor, representative of the four main topics covered by G&I: Clinical Immunology, Single-cell omics, Translational Immunology and Immunogenetics. In addition, we want to better serve the emerging needs and expectations of the research community by including among our publications, short highlights of yet-to-be peer reviewed preprints in the field. For that we collaborate with the Preprint Club.
Nature Reviews Immunology is a monthly review journal, staffed by a team of full-time professional editors, that provides in-depth coverage of all areas of immunology, from fundamental mechanisms to applied aspects. In addition to our review articles, we highlight recent developments and exciting new primary papers in the field, as well as reflecting on the people, papers and events that have influenced the development of immunology. We publish regular ‘Preprint Watch’ Journal Club pieces in collaboration with the Preprint Club to provide our readers with a short summary of early data of potential interest.