volker briken

Bye everyone! I am done with Elon Musk and X.

"da_tracker" is out ! Our workflow for quantitative single cell and single bacterium/phagosome tracking is now published and still available for you to try. Please reach out if you need assistance for installing the tools and running it. journals.biologists.com/bio/article/13…

*please distribute widely* My department is searching for a new assistant professor in the immune engineering space with a keen interest in cancer applications. be.mit.edu/about/open-fac… Please reach out if you’re interested or know of someone we should proactively reach out to!

Staggering study @TheLancet showing antimicrobial resistance will become an important global health challenge in the 21st century.#AMR thelancet.com/journals/lance…

📢 postdoc opportunity! We’re a team of innate immunity enthusiasts working at the exciting interface of immunology & biochemistry. If you’re passionate about how the immune system recognizes non-self, we’d love to hear from you! Interested? Apply here 👇 genzentrum.uni-muenchen.de/career/postdoc…

We would love your feedback on the preprint, which you can find here: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

This is a fantastic PhD program! We’re recruiting up to 2 PhD students in the upcoming round. Make sure to apply here 👇

🎉 This #JI_TopRead from the @Vbriken lab reveals a role of the #inflammasome in DC responses to #infection with a mutant #Mycobacterium. #ReadTheJI #immunology Find out about the key pathways involved here ➡️ ow.ly/SYTj50TgRmN

Are you interested in the proteins that enable macrophages to eat, kill, and digest bacteria, apoptotic cells, or other debris? Here, we present PhagoID, phagosome proximity labeling we used to profile human and mouse phagosomes with quantitative mass spec! (1/ 11)

We’ve just finalized the program for our EMBO Inflammasome Workshop. 🙌 Next to many amazing short talks, we have an incredible lineup of poster presentations featuring lots of unpublished work. Check out the full agenda on our website—there’s still time to register! 👇

⚡️Great coincidence! First day of the lipidomics forum @FZBorstel, our first paper with lipidomics is peer-reviewed at @iScience_CP! Congratulations to first author @ListianSA! 🎉cell.com/iscience/fullt…

Happy to share authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S10… @CellPress Immunity. CD4 T cells contribute to protection against #TB in a reinfection macaque model by interacting with CD8s to generate an anti-inflammatory granuloma environment. Kudos to first authors Sharie Ganchua and @joshuabromley21

TB Keystone in February 2025 is going to be great. Please join us. Abstracts for short talks due November 12. Here’s a video where I discuss the meeting (cringe!). nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%… Details are on the #keystone website keysym.us/KSTB25.

Researchers from the Crick, @SickKidsNews and @JohnsHopkins have discovered a recycling mechanism that’s essential for keeping mitochondria healthy. It could become a future target to diagnose and treat conditions related to mitochondrial dysfunction. crick.ac.uk/news-and-repor…

#OpenBiology is delighted to announce our latest competition, celebrating innovation in cell and #MolecularBiology through our unique article type, Open Questions. Submit your article before 31 October 2024 for the chance to win £1000 ow.ly/vGWm50SBxKu #CellBiology

Working with a great team to organize @KeystoneSymp #Tuberculosis : Heterogeneity from Models to Human Disease, this August! Join us to explore emerging research in Boston! keysym.us/KSTB25 #KSTB25

New preprint! We have developed an experimental system to induce organelle damage in a spatiotemporal manner. Congratulations, Nagashima-san! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

@ThurstonLab @Dunn_School Congrats and good luck with the transition!

I’m incredibly excited to be joining the Dunn School this Sep! Can’t wait to join the fantastic environment and many groups working on the cellular mechanisms underlying human health and disease @Dunn_School

Lovely kickoff to our new science neighborhood (3rd floor!!!) in Ragon 2.0. Lots of us are recruiting for new lab members at the @ragoninstitute — get in touch!