Aloulou Annunziato Bacher Barata Barone Baumjohann Becher Beilhack Berberich-Siebelt Berod Bohle Bopp Borghans Brenner Buchholz Cumano Daniel De Sousa Delacher Diaz-Munoz Eberl Edinger Ellmeier Elo Fazilleau Gerlach Graca Gratz Heissmeyer Ho Hoffmann Hofmann Hogan Huber Huehn Huppa Iannacone Jeker Joller Kekäläinen Klein Krueger Lahesmaa Linterman Liston Martins McNamee Meerwijk Meyer-Hermann Mittrücker Müller Pace Perucha Peterson Piaggio Prinz Richard Roychoudhuri Rudin Salomon Samson Schlenner Schober Schumann Schurich Silva-Santos Soares Sparwasser Stein Stepanek Strid Vaeth Van Wijk Veldhoen Walker Wekerle Whithers Wolkers Zielinski

Ludger Klein

Professor for Cellular Immunology

Email:

ludger.klein@med.lmu.de

Institute for Immunology, BioMedical Center (BMC)
University of Munich (LMU)

Großhaderner Str. 9
82152 Planegg-Martinsried
Germany

Lab Website:

www.immunologie.med.uni-muenchen.de/research_neu/klein1

Research Interests:

Tolerance to the body’s own organs is a fundamental property of the immune system; its breakdown can lead to autoimmune diseases such as multiple sclerosis and diabetes. Selection processes in the thymus are essential for the generation of a self-tolerant T cell repertoire, either through removal of potentially dangerous T cells or through the induction of regulatory T cells. Our aim is to understand how the thymic microenvironment orchestrates these cell fate decisions.