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Professor Alexander Weber, Ph.D.

Address Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
Interfakultäres Institut für Zellbiologie
Abteilung Immunologie
Auf der Morgenstelle 15
72076 Tübingen

Projects

As Applicant
- Current projects
  - Principles of extra- and intracellular chitin perception by mammalian pattern recognition receptors (Priority Programmes)
  - STAPHEX II: Dissecting Staphylococcus aureus macrophage exit (Priority Programmes)
- Completed projects
  - Structure-function relationships of Toll-like receptors, key mediators of antiviral innate immunity, in Human Papillomavirus 16 infection and cervical cancer (Emmy Noether Independent Junior Research Groups)
  - Molecular Sensing of Chitin by Toll-like Receptors (Research Grants)
  - Molecular Role of Bruton’s Tyrosine Kinase (BTK) in NLRP3 Inflammasome Activation (Research Grants)
  - ImMiGeNe - Interplay of immune parameters, microbiota and host genetics during childhood stem cell transplantation (Research Grants)
As Leader
- Completed projects
  - Spinning disk confocal microscope for visualizing and quantifying host-bacteria interactions (Major Research Instrumentation)
As Project Head
- Current projects
  - Microbe and host RNA-mediated immune activation in the skin (CRC/Transregios)
  - Platelets as novel contributors to psoriasis skin autoinflammation (CRC/Transregios)
- Completed projects
  - Functional characterization and therapeutic targeting of MyD88 and Interleukin-1 receptor-associated kinases (IRAKs) in lymphoma and leukemia (Collaborative Research Centres)

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