Roman Sankowski
@rsankowski.bsky.social
Neuropathologist | #clinicianScientist | #singleCell | Neuro-immunologist | Neuro-oncologist @ University Clinic of Freiburg
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Roman Sankowski
@rsankowski.bsky.social
· May 20
#microglia and other tissue #macrophages are highly plastic. This makes them look differently depending on their respective context. Granular methods like #single-cell sequencing are merely snapshots that may simplify the complexity found in the tissue. In our perspective in @natneuro.nature.com
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📢 Are you interested in working on interdisciplinary research projects in the context of EMBL’s programme ‘Molecules to Ecosystems’?
Join our webinar on 26 November at 14:00 CET to learn about the EIPOD-LinC postdoctoral programme!
👉 Register: embl-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Join our webinar on 26 November at 14:00 CET to learn about the EIPOD-LinC postdoctoral programme!
👉 Register: embl-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
November 12, 2025 at 8:26 AM
📢 Are you interested in working on interdisciplinary research projects in the context of EMBL’s programme ‘Molecules to Ecosystems’?
Join our webinar on 26 November at 14:00 CET to learn about the EIPOD-LinC postdoctoral programme!
👉 Register: embl-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Join our webinar on 26 November at 14:00 CET to learn about the EIPOD-LinC postdoctoral programme!
👉 Register: embl-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Read ‘A non-canonical lymphoblast in refractory childhood T-cell leukaemia’ from @sangerinstitute.bsky.social, @cuh.nhs.uk, @greatormondst.bsky.social, @ucl.ac.uk and others in @natcomms.nature.com, here ⤵️
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A non-canonical lymphoblast in refractory childhood T-cell leukaemia - Nature Communications
T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia is a highly aggressive disease with varying recurrence rates. Here, the authors build a single cell transcriptomic atlas of childhood T-cell acute lymphoblastic leu...
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November 12, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Read ‘A non-canonical lymphoblast in refractory childhood T-cell leukaemia’ from @sangerinstitute.bsky.social, @cuh.nhs.uk, @greatormondst.bsky.social, @ucl.ac.uk and others in @natcomms.nature.com, here ⤵️
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Great career opportunity at @viennabiocenter.bsky.social: The @impvienna.bsky.social is looking for a new Junior Group Leader in cell and molecular biology, synthetic biology, genomics, gene regulation, development, cancer, immunology or infection biology.
More: www.imp.ac.at/career/open-...
More: www.imp.ac.at/career/open-...
Junior Group Leader Positions | Research Institute of Molecular Pathology
www.imp.ac.at
November 10, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Great career opportunity at @viennabiocenter.bsky.social: The @impvienna.bsky.social is looking for a new Junior Group Leader in cell and molecular biology, synthetic biology, genomics, gene regulation, development, cancer, immunology or infection biology.
More: www.imp.ac.at/career/open-...
More: www.imp.ac.at/career/open-...
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Apply here ➡️ www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/53219/
November 10, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Apply here ➡️ www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/53219/
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5 more days to apply for bioimage analyst position at the beautiful city of Helsinki
🚀Join Helsinki BioImaging as an Image Analysis Specialist🖥️to support cross-disciplinary image analysis projects. If you love coding and are interested in working at the crossroads of computer science and biology, apply by 🗓️ November 15, 2025⤵️
jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
#jobopening
jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
#jobopening
Image Analysis Specialist/Engineer/Coordinator, Helsinki Bioimaging
Image Analysis Specialist/Engineer/Coordinator, Helsinki Bioimaging
jobs.helsinki.fi
November 10, 2025 at 8:19 AM
5 more days to apply for bioimage analyst position at the beautiful city of Helsinki
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Therapeutic VEGFC treatment provides protection against traumatic-brain-injury-driven tauopathy pathogenesis in a mouse model www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Therapeutic VEGFC treatment provides protection against traumatic-brain-injury-driven tauopathy pathogenesis
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) increases one’s risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease and tauopathy. Yet, the mechanisms linking TBI to neurodegenerativ…
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November 10, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Therapeutic VEGFC treatment provides protection against traumatic-brain-injury-driven tauopathy pathogenesis in a mouse model www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The new frontier in understanding human and mammalian brain development | Nature
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The new frontier in understanding human and mammalian brain development - Nature
Recent studies integrating multi-omics data with cell atlases across development for brains of humans and model organisms are revealing conserved and divergent patterns of brain development at the mol...
www.nature.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:19 PM
The new frontier in understanding human and mammalian brain development | Nature
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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We are looking for: PhD Student (starting as Research Assistant) and Postdoctoral Researcher in Stem Cell Biology and Mechanobiology. Please RT💕
🔗 About our lab: renew.science/principal_in...
🎓 PhD position: jobportal.ku.dk/phd/?show=15...
🧪 Postdoc position: jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...
🔗 About our lab: renew.science/principal_in...
🎓 PhD position: jobportal.ku.dk/phd/?show=15...
🧪 Postdoc position: jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...
November 3, 2025 at 7:05 PM
We are looking for: PhD Student (starting as Research Assistant) and Postdoctoral Researcher in Stem Cell Biology and Mechanobiology. Please RT💕
🔗 About our lab: renew.science/principal_in...
🎓 PhD position: jobportal.ku.dk/phd/?show=15...
🧪 Postdoc position: jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...
🔗 About our lab: renew.science/principal_in...
🎓 PhD position: jobportal.ku.dk/phd/?show=15...
🧪 Postdoc position: jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...
STORIES: learning cell fate landscapes from spatial transcriptomics using optimal transport | Nature Methods
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
STORIES: learning cell fate landscapes from spatial transcriptomics using optimal transport - Nature Methods
By learning a differentiation potential using an optimal transport-based approach, STORIES models and infers cell fate trajectories using spatiotemporal omics data.
www.nature.com
November 3, 2025 at 9:13 PM
STORIES: learning cell fate landscapes from spatial transcriptomics using optimal transport | Nature Methods
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Microglial activation and alpha-synuclein oligomers drive the early inflammatory phase of Parkinson's disease https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.25.671921v1
August 28, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Microglial activation and alpha-synuclein oligomers drive the early inflammatory phase of Parkinson's disease https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.25.671921v1
Major study on the #development of human #immunity: Systemic immune activity occurs during human immune system maturation: Cell
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www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Systemic immune activity occurs during human immune system maturation
Profiling of immune cells from consecutive developmental time points in second-trimester
fetuses and adults reveals that immune activation, immune tolerance, and hematopoiesis
occur in a systemic way ...
www.cell.com
October 31, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Major study on the #development of human #immunity: Systemic immune activity occurs during human immune system maturation: Cell
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Fascinating perspective on immune cells as structural cells. Though in Freiburg we have used this term rather for structural/stromal cells exhibiting immune functions.
Structural immunity: immune cells as architects of tissue barriers | Nature Reviews Immunology
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Structural immunity: immune cells as architects of tissue barriers | Nature Reviews Immunology
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Structural immunity: immune cells as architects of tissue barriers - Nature Reviews Immunology
This Perspective presents a framework of ‘structural immunity’ that positions immune cells as architects of tissue structure. Beyond their roles in antimicrobial defence, we posit that immune cells co...
www.nature.com
October 28, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Fascinating perspective on immune cells as structural cells. Though in Freiburg we have used this term rather for structural/stromal cells exhibiting immune functions.
Structural immunity: immune cells as architects of tissue barriers | Nature Reviews Immunology
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Structural immunity: immune cells as architects of tissue barriers | Nature Reviews Immunology
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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We are looking for curious undergrads to join our research team next summer!
If you study in the UK, USA, or Canada, you might be eligible for the DAAD-RISE program 🇩🇪🧬
Learn more 👉 www.izmb.uni-bonn.de/en/pbb/news#DR
Come do science in Bonn next summer!
@puckerlab.bsky.social @unibonn.bsky.social
If you study in the UK, USA, or Canada, you might be eligible for the DAAD-RISE program 🇩🇪🧬
Learn more 👉 www.izmb.uni-bonn.de/en/pbb/news#DR
Come do science in Bonn next summer!
@puckerlab.bsky.social @unibonn.bsky.social
October 26, 2025 at 8:44 AM
We are looking for curious undergrads to join our research team next summer!
If you study in the UK, USA, or Canada, you might be eligible for the DAAD-RISE program 🇩🇪🧬
Learn more 👉 www.izmb.uni-bonn.de/en/pbb/news#DR
Come do science in Bonn next summer!
@puckerlab.bsky.social @unibonn.bsky.social
If you study in the UK, USA, or Canada, you might be eligible for the DAAD-RISE program 🇩🇪🧬
Learn more 👉 www.izmb.uni-bonn.de/en/pbb/news#DR
Come do science in Bonn next summer!
@puckerlab.bsky.social @unibonn.bsky.social
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More details on our group website: agimkeller.github.io/recruit.html
Open positions - AG Imkeller
agimkeller.github.io
September 10, 2025 at 8:29 AM
More details on our group website: agimkeller.github.io/recruit.html
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🔴 The registration deadline has been extended!
Apply by 3 November 👉 humantechnopole.it/en/trainings...
Apply by 3 November 👉 humantechnopole.it/en/trainings...
October 20, 2025 at 7:46 AM
🔴 The registration deadline has been extended!
Apply by 3 November 👉 humantechnopole.it/en/trainings...
Apply by 3 November 👉 humantechnopole.it/en/trainings...
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Hohe Motorhauben schränken die Sicht der Fahrer ein. Kinder sind in diesem Bereich nicht sichtbar.
Belgischen Unfalldaten zufolge erhöht eine 10 cm höhere Motorhaube das Todesrisiko für Fußgänger und Radfahrer um 27 %. cleancitiescampaign.org/research-lis...
Belgischen Unfalldaten zufolge erhöht eine 10 cm höhere Motorhaube das Todesrisiko für Fußgänger und Radfahrer um 27 %. cleancitiescampaign.org/research-lis...
October 18, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Hohe Motorhauben schränken die Sicht der Fahrer ein. Kinder sind in diesem Bereich nicht sichtbar.
Belgischen Unfalldaten zufolge erhöht eine 10 cm höhere Motorhaube das Todesrisiko für Fußgänger und Radfahrer um 27 %. cleancitiescampaign.org/research-lis...
Belgischen Unfalldaten zufolge erhöht eine 10 cm höhere Motorhaube das Todesrisiko für Fußgänger und Radfahrer um 27 %. cleancitiescampaign.org/research-lis...
Amazing work by Julia Kolter and Philipp Hennecke from @uni-freiburg.de - Sensory neurons shape local macrophage identity via TGF-β signaling: Immunity
www.cell.com/immunity/ful...
www.cell.com/immunity/ful...
Sensory neurons shape local macrophage identity via TGF-β signaling
Specialized macrophages are known to persist within tissue niches, but the molecular
mechanisms guiding their sustained functional adaptation remain unclear. Kolter and
Döring et al. show that local i...
www.cell.com
October 16, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Amazing work by Julia Kolter and Philipp Hennecke from @uni-freiburg.de - Sensory neurons shape local macrophage identity via TGF-β signaling: Immunity
www.cell.com/immunity/ful...
www.cell.com/immunity/ful...
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New podcast episode 🚨 we hear from Andreas Trumpp & Vera Thiel about trace-n-Seq, a new technology that enables the molecular characterisation at single cell resolution of neurons, innervating any organ or tumour in preclinical models.
Listen or read: magazine.eacr.org/unlocking-ca...
Listen or read: magazine.eacr.org/unlocking-ca...
October 15, 2025 at 8:01 AM
New podcast episode 🚨 we hear from Andreas Trumpp & Vera Thiel about trace-n-Seq, a new technology that enables the molecular characterisation at single cell resolution of neurons, innervating any organ or tumour in preclinical models.
Listen or read: magazine.eacr.org/unlocking-ca...
Listen or read: magazine.eacr.org/unlocking-ca...
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You gently run your hand through the rack. You can feel it—pure cotton, rich wool, Irish linen. The plump buttonholes are handsewn; the buttons attached with a firm shank. You flip the price tag over. It's affordable
You buy the jacket and go home, which is only 15 mins away. Your apt is $600/month
You buy the jacket and go home, which is only 15 mins away. Your apt is $600/month
October 15, 2025 at 7:00 AM
You gently run your hand through the rack. You can feel it—pure cotton, rich wool, Irish linen. The plump buttonholes are handsewn; the buttons attached with a firm shank. You flip the price tag over. It's affordable
You buy the jacket and go home, which is only 15 mins away. Your apt is $600/month
You buy the jacket and go home, which is only 15 mins away. Your apt is $600/month
Immune signatures link myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein antibody–associated disease to other autoantibody-mediated conditions | Science Translational Medicine
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Immune signatures link myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein antibody–associated disease to other autoantibody-mediated conditions
Single-cell immunoprofiling uncovered systemic immune cell signatures of neurological MOG antibody–associated disease.
www.science.org
October 9, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Immune signatures link myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein antibody–associated disease to other autoantibody-mediated conditions | Science Translational Medicine
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Nimbus predicts the likelihood of marker positivity from multiplexed image data in single cells.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Automated classification of cellular expression in multiplexed imaging data with Nimbus - Nature Methods
Nimbus, a deep learning model, uses a large multiplexed imaging dataset to predict the likelihood of marker positivity in single cells.
www.nature.com
October 8, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Nimbus predicts the likelihood of marker positivity from multiplexed image data in single cells.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Preprint: The Autoantibodyome Neuroimmune Signature of Neurodegeneration
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papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
October 7, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Preprint: The Autoantibodyome Neuroimmune Signature of Neurodegeneration
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papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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On this week’s cover of The Lancet, a new letter: “Gaza’s healthocide: medical societies must not stay silent”.
Read the letter and more in our latest issue: tinyurl.com/5n85x448
Read the letter and more in our latest issue: tinyurl.com/5n85x448
![Cover of The Lancet's Oct 4, 2025 issue. Cover quote reads: "Most medical and surgical societies worldwide have remained silent or issued vague statements about Gaza's healthocide [...] Staying silent while pretending to be neutral is, in effect, a form of complicity."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ypu6bwefbbzhcvojdj7mz657/bafkreih3gz5fes4mk4pbviqqus2zo2bqyrx3cgbgqb7xg2skvpvl52tj5i@jpeg)
October 6, 2025 at 5:28 AM
On this week’s cover of The Lancet, a new letter: “Gaza’s healthocide: medical societies must not stay silent”.
Read the letter and more in our latest issue: tinyurl.com/5n85x448
Read the letter and more in our latest issue: tinyurl.com/5n85x448
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Review @sciimmunology.bsky.social @platten-lab.bsky.social
@dkfz.bsky.social
The immunology of brain tumors
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
@dkfz.bsky.social
The immunology of brain tumors
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
October 3, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Review @sciimmunology.bsky.social @platten-lab.bsky.social
@dkfz.bsky.social
The immunology of brain tumors
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
@dkfz.bsky.social
The immunology of brain tumors
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...