I&I Seminar

Medical priority Immunity & Inflammation

In collaboration with AmsterdamUMC, Prof Kilian Schober MD PhD (Dept Microbiology, University Hospital Erlangen, Germany) will give a seminar at Sanquin, Amsterdam

Title:  From bedside to bench: Understanding & engineering human antigen-specific T cell immunity

 Host: Brenda Raud

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Kilian Schober, MD, is a medical microbiologist and Heisenberg Professor for T cell immunology at the Institute of Microbiology, University Hospital of Erlangen, Germany. After his MD thesis, Kilian became a medical specialist for Microbiology, Virology and Epidemiology of Infections and joined the team of Dirk Busch at the Technical University of Munich as a post-doctoral fellow. As of 2021, he has been a group leader at the Institute of Microbiology in Erlangen. 

Schober's lab investigates human antigen-specific T-cell immunity using a reverse translational approach from bedside to bench. By studying standardized clinical settings -such as vaccination cohorts and human tissues- they aim to uncover fundamental principles of T-cell biology. A central focus is how T-cell fate is shaped by antigen receptor expression and how T-cell population dynamics unfold at the single-cell and single-clonotype level. In his talk, Kilian will outline how this strategy enables both mechanistic insight and opportunities to engineer human T-cell responses.