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Past events
2023
Tomohiro Kurosaki / Andreas Radbruch
Sho Yamasaki / Eicke Latz
Chiara Romagnani / Yukinori Okada

2024
Kazuyo Moro / Tim Sparwasser
Michael Reth / Takeshi Tsubata
Akira Shibuya/ Adelheid Cerwenka
Christine Falk / Hiroshi Ohno
Motoko Y. Kimura / Vigo Heissmeyer
Mir-Farzin Mashreghi / Masato Kubo
Yoshihiro Baba / Bertram Bengsch
Magdalena Huber / Kazuhiro Suzuki

2025
Hiroshi Kawamoto / Andreas Diefenbach
Ari Waisman / Noriko Komatsu
Keishi Fujio / Ulf Panzer
Friederike Berberich-Siebelt / Hisashi Arase
Ichiro Taniuchi / Carmen Gerlach
Immo Prinz / Minako Ito
Yosuke Togashi / Markus Feuerer
Carolin Daniel / Kiyoshi Takeda
Yoko Hamazaki / Jürgen Wienands
Elvira Mass / Shohei Hori

2026
Akihiko Yoshimura / Susana Minguet

In this bilateral Immunology Seminar Series leading immunologists from the German and Japanese immunology societies will share their exciting research and engage in interactive discussions with their virtual audience.

Lecture 23

March 18, 2026
9am (Germany)/ 5pm (Japan)
(Attention: Daylight Saving in Europe ends Oct 26, thus 9am in Germany is 5pm in Japan)

Prof. Dr. Alexander Flügel
Director, Institute for Neuroimmunology and Multiple Sclerosis Research, University Medical Center Göttingen, Germany

BIOGRAPHY

Professor Alexander Flügel took up his current position as Director of the Institute for Neuroimmunology and Multiple Sclerosis Research at the University Medical Center Göttingen, Georg August University, Germany, in 2008. His main research interest is the mechanisms and factors that allow immune cells to enter the central nervous system, to communicate in this milieu and to influence brain tissue, particularly in relation to multiple sclerosis. He is an expert in applying and optimizing intravital imaging technologies such as two-photon laser scanning microscopy to analyze the autoimmune attack of the CNS in models of experimental autoimmune encephalitis (EAE), an animal model for multiple sclerosis.

Prof. Dr. Akinori Takaoka
Division of Signaling in Cancer and Immunology, Institute for Genetic Medicine, Hokkaido University, Japan

BIOGRAPHY

Akinori Takaoka, M.D., Ph.D. has pursued understanding antiviral defense, specifically through focusing on nucleic acid sensor-mediated signalings in the innate immune system. The starting point of his study is when he began to work as a post-doctoral fellow and a Research Associate in Professor Tadatsugu Taniguchi’s laboratory (Department of Immunology, Graduate School of Medicine & Faculty of Medicine, the University of Tokyo). There, he was engaged in the IRF (IFN-regulatory factor)-IFN research. In this department he was appointed as an Assistant Professor in 2000 and as a Lecturer in 2002. In 2007, he moved to a current position to initiate a new laboratory in the Institute for Genetic Medicine, Hokkaido University. His current focus of research interests is on the characterization of molecular mechanisms underlying host defense against viral infection and cancer.

 

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Please register via the form below for the lecture on March 18, 2026, speakers: Prof. Dr. Alexander Flügel/Prof. Dr. Akinori Takaoka. The lectures are held online and free of charge. You are cordially invitated to attend.

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