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Welcome to Experimental Immunology Lab

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About us

Our lab focuses on the understanding of fine-tune regulation of homeostatic interaction between microbiota and host immune system. Specifically, how changes in microbiota composition and function are changing immune responses. Special attention is paid to the early postnatal period when both microbiota and immune system are developing, and mutual homoeostatic interactions are being set. Caesarean section delivery and early postnatal antibiotics administration impact microbiota development, thus delaying neonatal immune system maturation. Probiotic administration seems to be a rational way for promoting immune system maturation and/or a correction for dysbiosis.

Recent Publications

Probiotics

Extracellular vesicles of the probiotic bacteria E. coli O83 activate innate immunity and prevent allergy in mice
Schmid AM, Razim A, Wysmołek M, Kerekes D, Haunstetter M, Kohl P, Brazhnikov G, Geissler N, Thaler M, Krčmářová E, Šindelář M, Weinmayer T, Hrdý J, Schmidt K, Nejsum P, Whitehead B, Palmfeldt J, Schild S, Inić-Kanada A, Wiedermann U & 
Schabussova I

Cell Communication and Signaling (2024)
doi: 10.1186/s12964-023-01329-4

Parasitology

Suppression of the growth and metastasis of mouse melanoma by Taenia crassiceps and Mesocestoides corti tapeworms

Schreiber M, Macháček T, Vajs V, Šmídová B, Majer M, Hrdý J, Tolde O, Brábek J, Rösel D, Horák P

Frontiers in Immunology (2024)

 doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2024.1376907

Neonatal immunology

Immature neutrophils in cord blood exert increased expression of genes associated with antimicrobial function
Miková E, Černý V, Novotná O, Petrásková P, Boráková K, Hel Z, Hrdý J
Frontiers in Immunology (2024)
doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2024.1368624

Available Positions

Master student

Master students are welcome to apply to perform a diploma thesis in our laboratory. 
Master students can choose from multiple themes carried out in the laboratory to work on. 

Postgraduate students

Postgraduate students can choose from multiple themes based on the grants available and their research interests.

Current open project for Ph.D. students

  • The role of dysbiosis on proportional and functional characteristics of particular neutrophil subsets

  • Role of neutrophils in health and disease

  • Effect of early postnatal probiotic supplementation on maturation of neonatal immune system

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