Cell-autonomous immunity

PI: Barbara Susanne Sixt, Ph.D., assistant professor
Department of Molecular Biology
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Introducing MIMS-EMBL group leaders: interview with Barbara Susanne Sixt (Link to interview).

The Sixt lab strives to uncover the hid­den protective potential of pathogen-suppressed cellular defense path­ways, to identify the mo­lecular determinants of host de­fense and pathogenic countermeasures, and to find means to disturb their balance to the ben­efit of the host. Our main experimental model is the interaction of human cells with the obligate intracellular bacterial pathogen Chlamydia trachomatis.

Please visit this site Sixt Lab Website for updated information on our group, our research, open positions, and opportunities for student projects.

Photo credit: Mattias Petterson.