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In vivo regulation of macrophage phenotypes in neuroinflammation
In neuroinflammatory conditions like multiple sclerosis macrophages are major effectors of tissue damage but can also contribute to tissue repair. This can be explained by the remarkable phenotypic plasticity of macrophages that can quire both lesion-promoting and lesion-resolving phenotypes. Here I want to present some of our recent work that aimed to (i) reveal the in vivo evolution of phagocyte phenotypes during the formation and resolution of neuroinflammatory lesions and (ii) dissect the molecular regulation of phagocyte phenotypes in MS models and MS patients.
About the speaker
Martin Kerschensteiner is the Chair for Neurosciences and Clinical Neuroimmunology and the Director of the Institute of Clinical Neuroimmunology at LMU Munich. He received his postdoctoral training at the Brain Research Institute of ETH Zurich, at Washington University St. Louis and at Harvard University before returning to Germany where he was promoted to Associate Professor in 2008 and to Full Professor at LMU Munich in 2013.
The Neuroscience Lecture Series is supported by the Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR) RESCOM Program (RESCOM24/18810230/Neurosciences_LS).
