Katarzyna Sitnik wins Merit Award of CMV Conference

  https://www.cmv2022.org Abstract of Oral Presentation Pdgfra-positive fibroblasts are a major site of mouse cytomegalovirus latency in vivo. Latent cytomegalovirus (CMV) infections pertain to most of the human population, yet our understanding of the cell types that carry latent CMV in vivo remains limited. While endothelial cells and macrophages have been identified previously as sites […]

Recent Paper: Antiviral immunity requires changes of chromosome structure

Innate immunity to viral infection is achieved by a group of polypeptide mediators, the interferons (IFN). By binding to cell surface receptors they initiate signal transduction via Janus kinases (JAK) that the STATs target, a group of transcription factors. STATs combine to form a transcription factor, ISGF3, that activates transcription of a large number of […]

Recent Paper: Oncogenically mutated TYK2 can be targeted by combinatorial treatment in modelled cell lines and patient-derived cells

Our work builds on a previously published paper (https://doi.org/10.1038/leu.2016.277) describing germ-line TYK2 gain-of-function (GOF) mutations identified in childhood leukemia. In close collaboration with the Dutch pediatric oncologists we studied the oncogenic and druggable properties of the two activating mutations of this JAK family member tyrosine kinase. We demonstrate the transformation capacity of the potent TYK2P760L […]

Press Release: Vetmeduni Vienna

Vetmeduni Vienna, January 25th 2021: Extension of “Monarchies and Hierarchies in Shaping Chromatin Landscapes” Special Research Programme funded by Austrian Science Fund FWF https://www.vetmeduni.ac.at/en/infoservice/press-releases/presseinformationen-2021/extension-of-monarchies-and-hierarchies-in-shaping-chromatin-landscapes-special-research-programme/   Second funding period (2021-2025) for SFB F61 approved in the FWF Board meeting from 23rd to 25th of November 2020.   Summary of the Research Program The STAT proteins are […]

Press Release: Joined seminar series of FWF Vienna DocFund with SFBs

In Q2 2021 a common seminar series of the FWF-funded Vienna Life Science Region research consortia of DocFund TissueHome (speakers Karl Kuchler & Birgit Strobl; https://tissuehome.meduniwien.ac.at), SFB HIT: HADCs – Immunomolulation – T cells (speaker Willfried Ellmeier; https://www-new.meduniwien.ac.at/HIT/) and the SFB JAK-STAT & Chromatin Landscapes (speakers Mathias Müller & Thomas Decker) will start. Please look […]

Press Release: Joined forces of FWF SFB with DFG TRR

Joined forces of FWF SFB with DFG TRR: the Viennese JAK-STAT consortium and the DFG funded Transregio (TRR) research consortium ‘Determinants and Dynamics of Elimination versus Persistence of Hepatitis Virus Infection’ (TRR179) coordinated by Ralf Bartenschlager (http://www.trr179.de/en/) initiated a collaboration with future researcher exchanges and lab visitations.

Thomas Krausgruber receives the Karl Landsteiner Award

Thomas Krausgruber receives the Karl Landsteiner Award for Immunological Basic Research of the Austrian Society for Allergology and Immunology (ÖGAI, www.oegai.org) handed over at the Virtual Congress Day December 4th 2020. The Award Committee of the ÖGAI supported by international reviewers selected Thomas Krausgruber from Christoph Bock’s lab for his work and widely recognized publication […]

Press Release: Vetmeduni Vienna

Vetmeduni Vienna, January 25th 2021: Extension of “Monarchies and Hierarchies in Shaping Chromatin Landscapes” Special Research Programme funded by Austrian Science Fund FWF https://www.vetmeduni.ac.at/en/infoservice/press-releases/presseinformationen-2021/extension-of-monarchies-and-hierarchies-in-shaping-chromatin-landscapes-special-research-programme/   Second funding period (2021-2025) for SFB F61 approved in the FWF Board meeting from 23rd to 25th of November 2020. Summary of the Research Program The STAT proteins are transcription […]

Tobias Suske receives Milstein Abstract Award for Cytokines 2020 Virtual Meeting

The Award Committee of the International Cytokine and Interferon Society (ICIS) selected the SFB PhD student Tobias Suske from Richard Moriggl’s lab for a Milstein Abstract Award in the amount of $500 in recognition of his presentation at Cytokines 2020 Virtual Meeting held at 1 – 4 November (https://seattle.cytokinesociety.org). The talk entitled “The Activating STAT5BN642H Driver […]

Molecular Pathology and TYK2 Activity During Endotoxin-induced Hyperinflammation

The SFB members Birgit Strobl, Mathias Müller and Richard Moriggl show in complex mouse models and human cells the pivotal role of TYK2 in the development of severe organ damage during endotoxemia. Mechanistically the TYK2-dependent pathology was driven by murine caspase-11 (CASP11) or the human homolog CASP5 activity and the subsequent release of IL-1ß and IL-18. […]