The Vienna ImmunoLectures (VIL) are a series of lectures that take place approximately once a month in the Art Nouveau lecture hall of the Medical University of Vienna and are supported by the Immunology Research Cluster (IRC) and the Young Scientists Association (YSA) of the the Medical University of Vienna together with the Next Generation Immunologists of the Austrian Association of Allergologists and Immunologists (ÖGAI).
Two outstanding immunologists will present their research in the form of lectures. The lecture series is held as a "hybrid meeting" and is intended to offer immunologists in Austria a platform to present their research and exchange ideas with other researchers. Before the talks, there will be the possibility for personal meetings with the speakers for students and scientists (registration required). A relaxed get-together after the lectures will provide opportunities for interactions and networking.
We look forward to welcoming a large number of participants.
- 16:30 - 17:15 Uhr | “Fine-Tuning the Balance: The Modulation of B Cell Activation in Autoimmunity and Viral Escape“
Marta Rizzi, Institute of Immunology, Center for Pathophysiology, Infectiology and Immunology (CePII), Medical University of Vienna - 17:15 - 18:00 Uhr | “Massively parallel serology to deciphe human antibody repertoires against the microbiome in health and disease”
Thomas Vogl, Cellular and Molecular Tumor Biology, Center for Cancer Research, Medical University of Vienna - 18:00 - 18:30 Uhr | Get-together
Marta Rizzi, Medical University of Vienna
Fine-Tuning the Balance: The Modulation of B Cell Activation in Autoimmunity and Viral EscapeAfter studying Medicine at the University of Genoa/Italy, Marta Rizzi completed her PhD in Clinical and Experimental Immunology in Genoa/Italy and San Diego/California in 2004. In 2007, she completed her residency training in Allergology and Clinical Immunology. After her Postdoc, she started her group in 2014 at the University Medical Center Freiburg. In 2014, she was awarded the prestigious Margarete von Wrangell fellowship.
Since 2022 she is Professor of Clinical and Experimental Immunology at the Medical University of Vienna.
She has been awarded the prestigious Heisenberg Professorship of the German Research foundation (DFG) and since 2023 she is also Professor for Experimental and Translational Rheumatology at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Freiburg.
Marta Rizzi’s research focus is human B-lymphocytes development, maturation and activation in physiological and pathological conditions. She has developed unique expertise in in vitro modelling of early and late human B cell development.fter studying Medicine at the University of Genoa/Italy, Marta Rizzi completed her PhD in Clinical and Experimental Immunology in Genoa/Italy and San Diego/California in 2004. In 2007, she completed her residency training in Allergology and Clinical Immunology. After her Postdoc, she started her group in 2014 at the University Medical Center Freiburg. In 2014, she was awarded the prestigious Margarete von Wrangell fellowship.
Since 2022 she is Professor of Clinical and Experimental Immunology at the Medical University of Vienna.
She has been awarded the prestigious Heisenberg Professorship of the German Research foundation (DFG) and since 2023 she is also Professor for Experimental and Translational Rheumatology at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Freiburg.
Marta Rizzi research focus is human B-lymphocytes development, maturation and activation in physiological and pathological conditions. She has developed unique expertise in in vitro modelling of early and late human B cell development.
Thomas Vogl, Medical University of Vienna
Massively parallel serology to deciphe human antibody repertoires against the microbiome...Thomas Vogl obtained a PhD at the Graz University of Technology in Austria in the field of 'Molecular Biomedical Sciences and Biotechnology'. Having worked mostly on classical molecular biology "hands on pipetting" experiments during his initial training, he focused on bioinformatics and machine learning during postdoctoral work in Australia and Israel. Particularly in his work at the Weizmann Institute of Science he applied robotic pipelines to generate large datasets on the interplay of the human immune system and the microbiome (a summary term for all the microbes colonizing our bodies).
Since August 2022 Dr. Vogl is a group leader at the Medical University of Vienna and was awarded an assistant professorship. His work is funded by prestigious grants such as a Start Grant by the European research council, and is the coordinator of an EU funded research consortium "ID-DarkMatter-NCD" including partners from the Sorbonne in Paris, and the Karolinska institute in Sweden.
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We thank the speakers and participants for successful events
Registration
Please register by October 16th 2025.
Kontakt
Nicole Boucheron
Immunology Research Cluster
Lazarettgasse 19, 1090 Vienna
Tel: 01 40160 33297
ImmunoLectures@meduniwien.ac.at
The VIL organizing committee
- Taras Baranovsky (MedUni Wien, Young Scientist Association)
- Nicole Boucheron (MedUni Wien)
- Lisabeth Pimenov-Reifeltshammer (MedUni Wien, Next Generation Immunologists)
- Katarina Repiska (MedUni Wien, Next Generation Immunologists)
- Piyal Saha (MedUni Wien Young Scientist Association)
- Philipp Starkl (MedUni Wien)
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