Katrin Kleinmanns

Characterization of DC subsets in the thymus to study the role of dendric cell subset in thymocyte development including negative selection and regulatory T cell differentiation using different transgenetic models. The tasks include isolation of thymic dendritic cells and thymocytes, antibody staining and FACS analysis.

Immunology and toxicology; Master thesis: Activation of Natural killer cells and CD8 T cells during early MCMV infection in vivo. Methods: 2-photon microscopy, FACS analysis und immunohistochemistry.

genetics, neurology, medical microbiology; External BA thesis at the Zoological Institute, University of Cologne: In vivo activity monitoring of the Crayfish’s stomatogastric and abdominal nerves. Methods: in vivo nerve preparation, nerve activity analysis (ProAnalyst & Spike2)