Major areas of research

  • Systems biological approaches for improved characterization of immune cells and the regulation of immune cells and neurocytes
  • Single-cell RNA-Seq for enhanced functional characterization of immune cells and neurocytes
  • Macrophages and other myeloide cells are in the focus of our research
  • Epigenetics of myeloide cells
  • Transcriptional regulation of myeloide cells
  • Development and application of bioinformatics and computational biology based approaches to improve our understanding of regulation in immune cells
  • Genomics of blood and discovery of biomarkers

Our research group is also involved in a variety of national and international research initiatives: