Conference programme

5th Inflammation & Imaging Symposium | Münster, Germany, 8–10 September 2025

Meeting venue: Multiscale Imaging Centre, University of Münster, Röntgenstraße 16, D-48149 Münster
(The building is accessible.)

  • Call for posters and short talks (open until 20 June 2025): We cordially invite junior researchers to submit an abstract as part of their registration!
  • Monday, 8 September 2025

    Registration (from 13:00)

    Session: Immune cell imaging across scales
    (Host: CRC 1450)
    13:30 Welcome
    13:40-14:10 Title to be announced
    Bernd Neumaier, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany
    14:10-14:20 Selected talk 1 (tba)
    14:20-14:50 Advances in translational immunoimaging in cancer
    Johannes Schwenck, Werner Siemens Imaging Center, Tübingen, Germany
    14:50-15:00 Selected talk 2 (tba)
    15:00-15:30 Into the 3d dimension
    Danny Jonigk, Uniklinik RWTH Aachen, Germany

    Coffee break

    Keynote & Poster Session A
    (Host: CRC 1450)
    16:15-17:00 Keynote: Imaging the dead
    Niels Lynnerup, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
    17:00-17:30 Poster pitches (odd numbers): A lively overview about the multifaceted research projects from junior scientists in Münster!
    17:30-19:00 Poster walk (odd numbers): Grab something to drink and enjoy the scientific exchange!
    19:00 Reception
  • Tuesday, 9 September 2025

    Registration (from 8:30)

    Session: Cell dynamics in health and disease
    (Host: CRC 1450)
    09:00-09:30 Oligodendrocyte-blood vessel mode of interaction shapes brain development
    Carla Gomes da Silva, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
    09:30-09:40 Selected talk 3 (tba)
    09:40-10:10 Molecular mechanisms of epithelial (mal-)adaptation to organ damage
    Thomas Worzfeld, University of Marburg, Germany
    10:10-10:20 Selected talk 4 (tba)
    10:20-10:50 Danger signal regulation of leukocyte migration
    Pablo J. Sáez, UKE Hamburg, Germany

    Coffee break

    Session: Biomedical imaging & data analysis
    (Host: CRC 1450)
    11:20-11:50 Inverse problems for the identification of forces in biophysics
    Anne Wald, University of Göttingen, Germany
    11:50-12:00 Selected talk 5 (tba)
    12:00-12:30 Extended reality in the operating room and before the OR
    Gabriel Zachmann, University of Bremen, Germany
    12:30-12:40 Selected talk 6 (tba)

    Lunch

    Poster Session B
    13:40-14:00 Poster pitches (even numbers): A lively overview about the multifaceted research projects from junior scientists in Münster!
    14:00-15:00 Poster walk (even numbers): Grab something to drink and learn about the most recent research projects from junior scientists in Münster!

    Coffee break

    Session: Immune cell interactions in inflammation and cancer
    (Host: CRC 1450)
    15:30-16:00 On the role of platelets in dictating hepatitis and response to immunotherapy in liver cancer
    Mathias Heikenwälder, University Hospital and Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Germany
    16:00-16:30 Interactions and divergent functions of monocyte-derived cells during infection and tumour
    Andreas J. Müller, Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, Germany
    16:30-17:00 Inflammation in cardiovascular diseases
    Konstantin Stark, LMU Munich, Germany
  • Wednesday, 10 September 2025

    Registration (from 8:30)

    Session: Unlocking the power of spatial omics
    (Host: CRC/TRR 332)
    09:00-9:30 Investigating immune-fibroblast cross talk in cardiovascular diseases using spatial multi-omics and AI
    Sikander Hayat, Uniklinik RWTH Aachen, Germany
    9:30-10:00 Imaging mass spectrometry for the molecular analysis of immune cells at cellular and sub-cellular resolving power
    Jens Soltwisch, University Hospital Münster, Germany
    10:00-10:30 Title to be announced
    Harsharan S. Bhatia, Helmholtz Center Munich, Germany

    Coffee break

    Session: Sepsis
    (Host: CRU 342)
    11:00-11:30 Metabolic reprogramming – an ancient mechanism to survive sepsis
    Hernando Gómez Danies, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, US
    11:30-12:00 Sepsis – current and future therapy
    Mervyn Singer, University College London, London, UK
    12:00-12:30 Title to be announced
    Susanne Herold, Universitätsklinikum Gießen & University of Gießen, Germany
    12:30-13:00 Latent class analysis using plasma biomarkers identifies two inflammatory phenotypes with differential responses to therapy in a mouse model of ARDS
    Michael Matthay, University of California, San Francisco, US
    13:00 Closing remarks & poster prizes