Prof. Dr. Björn Lillemeier

Focus of Research
- Immunology
- Signal Transduction
- Immunotherapy
CV
- Since 2020 Professor, Albert Ludwigs Universität Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
- 2016–2020 Associate Professor, Salk Institute for Biological Studies La Jolla, USA
- 2010–2016 Assistant Professor, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, USA
- 2002–2009 Postdoctoral Research, Laboratory of Mark M. Davis, Stanford University, Stanford, USA
- 1997–2001 Ph.D. in Biochemistry, Laboratory of Ian M. Kerr, Cancer Research UK and University College, London, UK
- 1991–1997 Study of Biochemistry, Free University Berlin, Germany and Cancer Research UK London, UK
Recent publications
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Larange, A., Takazawa, I., Kakugawa, K., Thiault, N., Ngoi, S., Olive, M. E., Iwaya, H., Seguin, L., Vicente-Suarez, I., Bécart, S., Verstichel, G., Canonigo Balancio, A. J., Altman, A., Chang, J. T., Taniuchi, I., Lillemeier, B. F., Kronenberg, M., Myers, S. A., & Cheroutre, H. (2023). A regulatory circuit controlled by extranuclear and nuclear retinoic acid receptor α determines T cell activation and function. Immunity, 56(9), 2054–2069.e10. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.immuni.2023.07.017
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Russ, M., Ehret, A. K., Hörner, M., Peschkov, D., Bohnert, R., Idstein, V., Minguet, S., Weber, W., Lillemeier, B. F., Yousefi, O. S., & Schamel, W. (2023). Opto-APC: Engineering of cells that display phytochrome B on their surface for optogenetic studies of cell-cell interactions. Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences, 10, 1143274. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmolb.2023.1143274
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Gunasekara, H., Munaweera, R., Novotná, L., Lillemeier, B. F., & Hu, Y. S. (2022). Chaotropic perturbation of noncovalent interactions of the hemagglutinin tag monoclonal antibody fragment enables superresolution molecular census. ACS Nano, 16(1), 129–139. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.1c04237
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Gunasekara, H., Munaweera, R., Novotná, L., Lillemeier, B. F., & Hu, Y. S. (2022). Correction to Chaotropic perturbation of noncovalent interactions of the hemagglutinin tag monoclonal antibody fragment enables superresolution molecular census. In ACS nano (Vol. 16, Issue 12, pp. 21645–21645). Soc. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.2c10526
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Lillemeier, B. F. (2020). CARs need a jump start to get going. Nature Immunology, 21(8), 823–824. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41590-020-0735-0