Host Determinants in Lung Infections
Main Emphasis
Tuberculosis (TB) caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) is one of the most deadly infectious diseases worldwide. The rate of progression to disease is driven by a complex interplay of pathogen and host-related factors. The current poor understanding of protective versus non-protective host responses hampers the development of new treatments, particularly those based on immunomodulatory strategies. The overall goal of our research is to understand how host-related factors regulate anti-tuberculosis defenses, focusing on two major aspects, which are likely to play a crucial role in the pathogenesis of TB: the biological sex and viral coinfections.
Vaccines:
- Molecular basis of sex-dependency in vaccine efficacy
B cells
- Elucidate the sex-specific role of B cells in TB
- B cell development in the bone-marrow during chronic infection
Myeloid cells
- Sex-specific regulation and function of monocytes and macrophages in TB
- Sex-specific regulation of immunoproteasome function in lung infection (Meiners/Schneider)
Coinfection
- Viral triggers of TB disease: Impact of influenza or MCMV on TB disease and Mtb-specific immunity
German Research Foundation (DFG)
- DFG SCHN 1150/6-1 Host determinants of susceptibility to Mycobacterium tuberculosis: the role of the biological sex (2020- )
- DFG SCHN 1150/4-1 Studying the protective efficacy of radiation-attenuated Plasmodium sporozoites as anti-infective malaria vaccine during concurrent infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis (2015-2018)
- COVSH-NET (experimental studies on COVID-19)
Leibniz Graduate School "Model Systems for Infectious Diseases"
- Hormonal effects on Mycobacterium tuberculosis-infected human macrophages (Schneider / Sellau; 2021-2024)
- Viral triggers of tuberculosis disease: a case for cytomegalovirus? Schneider / Brune; (2020-2023)
- Impact of an influenza virus infection on the outcome of experimental tuberculosis in mice; Schneider / Gabriel; (2015-2018)
- Malaria – Tuberculosis Co‐Infection: Dissecting the immunological interactions during concurrent Plasmodium and Mycobacterium infection; Schneider / Jacobs; (2012-2015)
Life Science-Stiftung München:
- The role of B cell/Plasma cell-derived IL-10 in tuberculosis
2024
Harikumar Parvathy G, Bhandiwad D, Eggers L, von Borstel L, Behrends J, Hein M, Hertz D, Marschner J, Orinska Z, Kaufmann SHE, Flores-Valdez MA, Lotter H, Schneider BE. Sex differences in vaccine induced immunity and protection against Mycobacterium tuberculosis. bioRxiv 2024.04.20.590403; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.04.20.590403
Hertz D, Marwitz S, Eggers L, von Borstel L, Harikumar Parvathy G, Behrends J, Jonigk DD, Manz RA, Goldmann T, Schneider BE. Ablation of B cell-derived IL-10 increases tuberculosis resistance. bioRxiv 2024.07.17.603865
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.07.17.603865
2021
Henning J, Walendy-Gnirß K, Tekin-Bubenheim N, Kouassi NM, Ben-Batalla I, Berenbrok N, Wolff M, dos Reis VP, Zickler M, Scholl L, Gries A, Jania H, Kloetgen A, Düsedau A, Pilnitz-Stolze G, Jeridi A, Yildirim AÖ, Fuchs H, Gailus-Durner V, Stoeger C, de Angelis MH, Manuylova T, Klingel K, Culley FJ, Behrends J, Loges S, Schneider B, Krauss-Etschmann S, Openshaw P, Gabriel G. Offspring born to influenza A virus infected pregnant mice have increased susceptibility to viral and bacterial infections in early life. /Nat Commun/ *12, *4957 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25220-3.
Klionsky, DJ, Abdel-Aziz, AK, Abdelfatah, S, Abdellatif, M, Abdoli, A, Abel, S, Abeliovich, H, Abildgaard, MH, Abudu, YP, Acevedo-Arozena, A, Adamopoulos, IE, Adeli, K, Adolph, TE, Adornetto, A, Aflaki, E, Agam, G, Agarwal, A, Aggarwal, BB, Agnello, M, Agostinis, P, Agrewala, JN, Agrotis, A, Aguilar, PV, Ahmad, ST, Ahmed, ZM, Ahumada-Castro, U, Aits, S, Aizawa, S, Akkoc, Y, Akoumianaki, T, Akpinar, HA, Al-Abd, AM, Al-Akra, L, Al-Gharaibeh, A, Alaoui-Jamali, MA, Alberti, S, Alcocer-Gómez, E, Alessandri, C, Ali, M, Alim Al-Bari, MA, Aliwaini, S, Alizadeh, J, Almacellas, E, Almasan, A, Alonso, A, Dallenga, T, Leschczyk, C, Schaible, UE, Schneider, BE & Sonawane, A 2021, 'Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (4th edition) 1, Autophagy, Jg. 17, Nr. 1, S. 1-382. https://doi.org/10.1080/15548627.2020.1797280
2020
Beer, AJ, Hertz, D, Seemann, E, Beretta, M, Westermann, M, Bauer, R, Bauer, M, Kessels, MM & Qualmann, B 2020, 'Reduced Mrp2 surface availability as PI3Kγ-mediated hepatocytic dysfunction reflecting a hallmark of cholestasis in sepsis', Scientific Reports, Jg. 10, Nr. 1, 13110. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-69901-3
Dutta, NK & Schneider, B 2020, 'Are There Sex-Specific Differences in Response to Adjunctive Host-Directed Therapies for Tuberculosis?', FRONTIERS IN IMMUNOLOGY, Jg. 11, S. 1465. https://doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2020.01465
Hertz D, Dibbern J, Eggers L, von Borstel L, Schneider BE. Increased male susceptibility to Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection is associated with smaller B cell follicles in the lungs. Scientific Reports 2020; 10: 5142
Witschkowski J, Behrends J, Frank R, Eggers L, von Borstel L, Hertz D, Mueller A.-K, Schneider BE. BCG Provides Short-Term Protection from Experimental Cerebral Malaria in Mice. Vaccines 2020, 8, 745.
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Scientific staff
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Alumni
- Maja Grote
- Laura Knüppel