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Cluster of Excellence “Controlling Microbes to Fight Infections” (CMFI)

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New impulses for innate immunity research: NCII 2023 brings together researchers from around the world
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Alexander Weber reveives „Momentum“ funding by the Volkswagen Foundation
24.05.2023 Alexander Weber reveives „Momentum“ funding by the Volkswagen Foundation CMFI News
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24.05.2023 Combating salmonella infections with pathoblockers CMFI News

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Events

MicroPop Ausstellung Gramzow
06.05.2023 – 11.06.2023 MicroPop Ausstellung Gramzow 2:00 pm 8:00 pm Exhibition More
Novel virulence factors and secretion mechanisms of intracellularly adapted Salmonella enterica serovars
15.06.2023 Novel virulence factors and secretion mechanisms of intracellularly adapted Salmonella enterica serovars 12:30 pm 2:00 pm Joint Microbiological Colloquium Tobias Geiger More
72nd Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting
25.06.2023 – 30.06.2023 72nd Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting Conference Anupam Gautam More

About the CMFI

The surfaces of the human body host colonies of microorganisms, known as microbiomes. Along with bacteria which have a positive effect on human health, microbiomes contain potentially life-threatening pathogens. In the past, broad-spectrum antibiotics have often been used to tackle them. Nowadays it is known that this not only promotes resistance to antibiotics – in many cases it also damages the microbiome as a whole. 

 

CMFI researchers aim to develop new strategies to control microbial mechanisms and fight infections.

The Cluster of Excellence CMFI brings together researchers from different disciplines such as infection biology, immunology, bioinformatics, pharmaceutical biology, antibiotics research, molecular and medical microbiology, biotechnology, environmental biology, systems biology, chemistry, and medical history and ethics. Their common goal is to elucidate the mechanisms of interaction between beneficial and harmful bacteria and the host in order to develop novel targeted therapeutic and anti-infective treatments.

The CMFI is one of more than 50 Clusters of Excellence funded by German federal and state governments as part of the Excellence Initiative to sustainably strengthen Germany as a center of science, improve its international competitiveness and make cutting-edge research at German universities visible. In addition to the University of Tübingen, the Max Planck Institute for Biology and the University Hospital Tübingen are involved in the CMFI.

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