TATI - Tübingen Ageing and Tumour Immunology Group
The Tübingen Ageing and Tumour Immunology Group (TATI) conducts research in human immunosenescence, vaccination, tumor immunity, immunotherapy, Alzheimer disease, longevity, immunity and aging. Our expertise is in polychromatic flow cytometry, T cell cloning, confocal microscopy, proteomics, signal transduction, hypoxia, antigen identification, immune monitoring, cancer vaccination, influenza vaccination.
Recent Publications
Müller L, Fülöp T, Pawelec G.
Immunosenescence in vertebrates and invertebrates.
Immun Ageing. 2013 Apr 2;10(1):12 [Epub ahead of print]
Bertram L, Böckenhoff A, Demuth I, Düzel S, Eckardt R, Li SC, Lindenberger U, Pawelec G, Siedler T, Wagner GG, Steinhagen-Thiessen E.
Cohort Profile: The Berlin Aging Study II (BASE-II).
Int J Epidemiol.2013 Mar 14 [Epub ahead of print]
Shipp C, Weide B, Derhovanessian E, Pawelec G.
Hsps are up-regulated in melanoma tissue and correlate with patient clinical parameters. Cell Stress Chaperones. 2013 Mar;18(2):145-54 [PubMed]
Goldeck D, Low I, Shadan NB, Mustafah S, Pawelec G, Larbi A.
Multi-parametric phospho-flow cytometry: A crucial tool for T lymphocyte signaling studies. Cytometry A. 2013 Mar;83(3):265-72 [PubMed]
Marthandan S, Hyland P, Pawelec G, Barnett Y.
An investigation of the effects of the antioxidants, ebselen or N-acetyl cysteine
on human peripheral blood mononuclear cells and T cells.
Immun Ageing. 2013 Feb 21;10(1):7 [PubMed in process]
Naumova E, Ivanova M, Pawelec G, Constantinescu I, Bogunia-Kubik K, Lange A, Oguz F, Ozdilli K, Franceschi C, Caruso C, Mishra M, Middleton D.
16(th) IHIW: Immunogenetics of Aging.
Int J Immunogenet. 2013 Feb;40(1):77-81 [PubMed]
There is a complete list of the publication since 2012 of the TATI Group on the website.
Recent and Future Activities
March 2013: G. Pawelec will open the 4th International Workshop on CMV and Immunosenescence
in Parma, Italy, 25-27 March, 2013 (local organiser Prof. Paolo Sansoni, further details from him at paolo.sansoni@unipr.it).
March 2013: E. Derhovanessian will speak at the 4th International Workshop on CMV and Immunosenescence
in Parma, Italy, 25-27 March, 2013.
March 2013: K. Wistuba-Hamprecht will visit the 4th International Workshop on CMV and Immunosenescence
in Parma, Italy, 25-27 March, 2013.
April 2013: G. Pawelec is on the Organizing Committee and will speak at the 3rd International Cancer Immunotherapy and Immunomonitoring Conference (CITIM)
in Krakow, Poland, 22-25 April, 2013 (see http://www.canceritim.org/program.html).
May 2013: G. Pawelec will Co-Chair and speak at the NIA-sponsored Symposium "Aging, Cancer and Immunosenescence"
during the Centennial Annual Meeting of the AAI, Honolulu, Hawaii, 3-7 May, 2013 (see http://www.immunology2013.org/Program/index.html).
May 2013: H. Zelba & A. Martens will present posters at the 11. CIMT Annual Meeting (Cancer Immunotherapy)
14-16 May in Mainz, Germany (http://meeting.cimt.eu/).
June 2013: G. Pawelec organises the Presidential Symposium on Immunity and Infection
with the following speakers: Bonnie Blomberg, Miami; Janet Lord, Birmingham, UK; Arne Akbar, London, UK; Tamas Fülöp, Canada; at the 20th IAGG World Congress of Gerontology and Geriatrics in June 2013.
June 2013: K. Wistuba-Hamprecht at the 6th International Singapore Symposium of Immunology.
Kilian Wistuba-Hamprecht will be presenting a poster about “Differences in the distribution of γδ T-cells in peripheral blood are influenced both by age and CMV infection“ 5. & 6. June 2013, Singapore (see http://www.sgsi2013.org/).
June-December 2013: K. Wistuba-Hamprecht will be in Singapore with Prof. Ng Tze Pin (NUS) & Dr. Larbi (A*Star)
performing CyTOF-analysis of “immune-phenotyping studies” with unique cohorts. The CyTOF (Masscytometer) is the next generation of Cytometers and allows the observation of 35 markers in parallel. Kilians visit is part of his Ph.D thesis and granted by a scholarship of the “Baden-Württemberg Stiftung”.
August 2013: Satellite Meeting at the next ICI in 2013
G. Pawelec is co-organizing and speaking at the Satellite Meeting "Aging and the Immune System", 20-22 August, 2013, in Milan, Italy, shortly before the 15th International Congress of Immunology, 23-27 August, in Milan.
October 2013: G. Pawelec is on the organising committee of the PIVAC 2013 Annual Meeting
October 2-4, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
October 2013: J. Kini & A. Martens will take part in PIVAC 2013 Annual Meeting
October 2-4, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
You can find a complete list of future activites or previous activities on this website.






