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Jan Böttcher

@jboettcherlab.bsky.social
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Professor of Experimental Immunology at the University of Tübingen, M3 Research Center & Institute of Immunology. 🧪🔬 Interested in immunity in cancer and infection. Fascinated by dendritic cells, T cells and NK cells

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Jan Böttcher @jboettcherlab.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
I had the pleasure of presenting concepts of T cell immunity and our work on cancer immune evasion at the @dgfi-org.bsky.social Spring School in Ettal, Bavaria. Inspiring talks & great exchanges with talented junior researchers across Germany—thank you for the invitation! #dgfispringschool
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Jan Böttcher @jboettcherlab.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Excited to share our new collaborative study with the Sebastian Kobold lab! www.nature.com/articles/s41... By deleting the PGE2 receptors EP2/EP4, we render CAR T cells resistant to suppression in solid tumors - boosting persistence and anticancer activity in preclinical models and patient samples.
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Ablation of prostaglandin E2 signalling through dual receptor knockout in CAR T cells enhances therapeutic efficacy in solid tumours - Nature Biomedical Engineering
Targeted ablation of prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) signalling in CAR T cells enhances their activity in PGE2-rich solid tumours, with demonstrations of efficacy in vitro, in mouse xenografts and in patient-...
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Jan Böttcher @jboettcherlab.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Thrilled to share that my #ERCCoG EICO-CODE has been selected for funding!🚀 We will study how eicosanoids shape T cell immunity across tissues. 🧬🔬🧪✨ I am deeply grateful for this recognition of the team’s work - and to everyone supporting us in our research. Exciting years ahead!
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Timo Rückert @timorckert.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Less than one week left to apply 🔜
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Jan Böttcher @jboettcherlab.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Very happy to join the team of the CRC 1479 initiative for the 2nd funding period to study mechanisms of immune evasion in cancer! www.sfb1479.uni-freiburg.de/news/great-n...
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Jan Böttcher @jboettcherlab.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
🚨Our lab has a new review article out today! We revisit prostaglandins in cancer—how they’re produced, how PGE₂ reshapes immune responses in tumors, and what this means for future therapies. Work led by team members Erik Müller & Bastian Kruse @bkru.bsky.social 🔗 doi.org/10.1182/bloo...
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Prostaglandins in cancer revisited: principles of production, mechanisms of immune regulation, and therapeutic perspectives
The cyclooxygenase (COX) signaling pathway is frequently dysregulated in cancer, resulting in aberrant production of prostaglandins - a distinct class of b
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natimmunol.nature.com @natimmunol.nature.com · 20/08/2025
Idoyaga and colleagues suggest that pDCs can lose the ability to secrete IFN-I and acquire the transcriptional, epigenetic and functional features of cDCs. Read it here: rdcu.be/eBB5e www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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TNF and type I interferon crosstalk controls the fate and function of plasmacytoid dendritic cells
Nature Immunology - Plasmacytoid dendritic cells are type 1 interferon (IFN-I)-producing antiviral specialists that have been shown to be able to differentiate into conventional dendritic cells....
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Caetano Reis e Sousa @reisesousalab.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Wonderful to see Klaus Rajewsky honored with the first ever EFIS Lifetime Achievement Award! #iIUIS2025 in Vienna.
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Jan Böttcher @jboettcherlab.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
🍾Many congratulations to former PhD student Philippa Meiser - now Postdoc with Laura Mackay @thedohertyinst.bsky.social - for receiving this years PhD award 🥇 from @dgfi-org.bsky.social at @iuis-online.bsky.social !
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Jan Böttcher @jboettcherlab.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Interesting study by @reisesousalab.bsky.social, highlighting functionally distinct states of activated cDC1s in tumors. 🔬🧪
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Jan Böttcher @jboettcherlab.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Looking forward to great talks and discussions with friends and colleagues in London👇!
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Mauro Gaya @maurogaya.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
🚨🦠🔬 Last month to register to the EMBO workshop on Adaptive Immunity in Barrier Tissues. 📍 Where: Basel, Switzerland 📅 When: 26th–29th August 2025 📝 Registration deadline: 30th May 2025 Childcare support & travel grants from @embo.org and @efis-immunology.bsky.social #EMBOBarrierTissues
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Adaptive immunity in barrier tissues
Immune responses lie at the heart of almost every aspect of human health, including host responses to infection, autoimmunity, cancer, metabolism and aging. While adaptive immune responses by B and T…
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Jan Böttcher @jboettcherlab.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
thrilled to share that I’ve officially been appointed as Professor of Experimental Immunology @unituebingen.bsky.social, with the lab based at both the M3 Research Center and the Institute of Immunology, continuing interdisciplinary and translational research in cancer and tissue immunology 🧪🧫🧬🔬
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Katrin Böttcher @kboettcherlab.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
📣 !! JOB ALERT for PhD students !! My lab is moving to the M3 Research Center at the University of Tübingen and is looking for PhD students who are enthusiastic about translational research. If you are, read on below ⬇️
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Colleen M. Lau @collau.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
We're hiring at all levels! Feel free to reach out if you have questions: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/29722
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Cornell University, Microbiology & Immunology
Full service online faculty recruitment and application management system for academic institutions worldwide. We offer unique solutions tailored for academic communities.
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Pandemia @pandemia.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Unsere Recherchen zu den Auswirkungen des US-Hilfsstopps sind heute bei Zeit Online nachzulesen mit Stimmen aus den USA, Kenia, Thailand, Südafrika und dem Sudan: #USAID #PEPFAR www.zeit.de/gesundheit/2...
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USAid: Die Zerstörung hat schon begonnen
Ob Projekte gegen HIV, Malaria oder vernachlässigte Tropenkrankheiten: Die USA streichen ihre medizinische Entwicklungshilfe. Die Folgen sind schon jetzt dramatisch.
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Kai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
„Anyone who has studied science under the Nazis, as I did for my book Serving the Reich, cannot fail to be dismayed and alarmed at the parallels in the response so far of scientific institutions and academies to the purges and abuses of power following Trump’s executive orders“ 🧪
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Scientific institutions have a long history of anticipatory obedience
Societies should learn from this and speak up to support inclusion
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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
NIH has cut billions of dollars in biomedical funding, effective immediately The move halts a large slice of money for most universities and research institutions virtually overnight, imperiling vital research in everything from cancer to heart disease. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
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NIH cuts billions of dollars in biomedical funding, effective immediately
The move halts a large slice of money for most universities and research institutions virtually overnight, imperiling vital research in everything from cancer to heart disease.
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Some learnings about our immune system from Covid @nature.com —importance of T cells (not just neutralizing antibodies) —key role of interferons, the first line of defense —hybrid immunity —underpinnings of Long Covid www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Four lessons COVID taught us about the immune system
In the midst of pandemic upheaval, researchers have gained fundamental insights about how the body fends off infections.
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The American Association of Immunologists @aai.org · 13/01/2025
Join the next #globalimmuno talk this Wednesday, January 15th, at 9 am PST, 12 Noon EST, 4 pm GMT featuring AAI Member Jenny Ting! We look forward to hearing many more impactful Global ImmunoTalks from other AAI members in 2025. ucsd.zoom.us/j/91053505061
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Jan Böttcher @jboettcherlab.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
🧪 elegant study using rabies-based retrograde tracing to map and manipulate GBM-neuron networks. www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
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Characterizing and targeting glioblastoma neuron-tumor networks with retrograde tracing
Rapid integration of glioblastoma into neuronal circuits promotes glioblastoma invasion and growth, as shown by rabies-based retrograde tracing. Targeting of neuron-tumor networks with pharmacological or rabies-mediated disconnection offers therapeutic potential.
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Rod Rahimi @rodrahimi.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Friends, it's fun to see the #immunology community continue to grow! I created a 4th Starter Pack to help folks find each other. If you're an immunologist and you don't see yourself on the lists, let me know 🧪 go.bsky.app/PY5tCas go.bsky.app/FmERUoD go.bsky.app/6aT6qDS go.bsky.app/QSEPDoj
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Jan Böttcher @jboettcherlab.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
🧪Cross-Dressing intratumoral monocytes fulfill the job of cDC1s in supporting tumor-infiltrating CD8 T cells in their anti-cancer functions. Great to have contributed some 🔬&🧫 to this tour de force study by @obenaufa.bsky.social
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Jan Böttcher @jboettcherlab.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
🧪Exciting read on the role of dendritic cells supporting CAR T cells in tumors 👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Johanna Joyce @johannajoyce.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Both #Cancer #Research starter packs are now completely full! ~300 researchers, oncologists, students, postdocs, patient advocates, and organizations supporting cancer research 🧪🔬⚕️ I hope you'll find these useful to build our community here Pack 1: go.bsky.app/FEoaJMc Pack 2: go.bsky.app/6EcjWNA
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Jan Böttcher @jboettcherlab.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Vaccines save lives and reduce health care costs. Those are facts.“ www.nytimes.com/2024/11/20/o...
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Opinion | What R.F.K. Jr. Might Do on Vaccines
As the nation’s top health official, he could discourage vaccine research and production, and dissuade Americans from getting shots.
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Anna Obenauf @obenaufa.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Pls share 🌟Join the IMP as a Group Leader We are 👀 for a colleague, ready to lead a groundbreaking research program. Enjoy generous funding, outstanding facilities & a vibrant scientific community in one of the world's most livable cities @impvienna.bsky.social 👉https://tinyurl.com/impgl2025
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Jan Böttcher @jboettcherlab.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
🧪 A pathogenic interplay between CD103+ CTLs and X-presenting macrophages in the liver limits the efficacy of ICB treatment against HCC. dlvr.it/TGGwVv
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Pericancerous cross-presentation to cytotoxic T lymphocytes impairs immunotherapeutic efficacy in hepatocellular carcinoma
Whether cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs) exert protumorigenic effects remains elusive. Huang et al. reveal that macrophages cross-present to clonally expanded CD103+ CTLs in the pericancerous area in he...
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Jan Böttcher @jboettcherlab.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
A short intro to the many new followers gained at 🦋: 🧪🔬we are a diverse team of researchers driven by curiosity, dedicated to understanding immune regulation in disease & cancer & exploring new strategies for immunotherapies 🩺⚕️ ❤️ all things spatial; DCs, T cells, NK cells & single cell analyses.
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Jan Böttcher @jboettcherlab.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Adipocytes maintain epigenetically imprinted ‘obesogenic memory’ www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Adipose tissue retains an epigenetic memory of obesity after weight loss - Nature
Stable epigenetic changes indicate the existence of an obesogenic memory in mouse adipocytes that primes cells for pathological responses in an obesogenic environment and potentially contributes to th...
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Jan Böttcher @jboettcherlab.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
next #globalimmuno talk is on this Wednesday, November 20th at 9am PST, noon EST, 5pm GMT by Dr. Padmanee Sharma. Title: “Mechanisms of Response and Resistance to Immune Checkpoint Therapy” LINK: ucsd.zoom.us/j/91053505061 Current schedule : www.globalimmunotalks.org/schedule
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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: GLOBAL IMMUNOTALKS . After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
Virtual immunology seminar series 2024 Organizers: Miriam Merad, Kazuyo Moro, Bali Pulendran, Gabriel Rabinovich, Caetano Reis e Sousa, Asya Rolls and Dietmar Zehn Q&A via X (former Twitter) @glob...
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Jan Böttcher @jboettcherlab.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Fresh initiatives to improve antibody validation 👇 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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The antibodies don’t work! The race to rid labs of molecules that ruin experiments
Poorly performing antibodies have plagued biomedical sciences for decades. Several fresh initiatives hope to change this.
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Johanna Joyce @johannajoyce.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Inspired by the other amazing starter packs - here's one for cancer researchers! I tried to make this broad - from immunology to genomics to cell biology and so much more.. This list also includes organizations & institutes supporting cancer researchers 🧪🔬⚕️🩺 Hope its useful! go.bsky.app/FEoaJMc
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Rod Rahimi @rodrahimi.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Wonderful to see the #immunology community growing here. The first starter pack is full (they cap at 150), so I created a second one. Let me know if you'd like to be added go.bsky.app/PY5tCas go.bsky.app/FmERUoD
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Jan Böttcher @jboettcherlab.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Excited to share that our story on PGE2-mediated control of NK cell metastasis surveillance in lung tissue is now published in @Cell Reports 🤝 Thanks to the many great colleagues who helped conduct this study! 👏Congratulations to first author Anna-Marie Pedde
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