Inhaltsbereich

•   Immune surveillance of the nervous system

•   Mechanisms of demyelination and tissue destruction in inflammatory demyelinating diseases

•   Pathogenesis of Multiple Sclerosis

•   Alzheimer's Disease

•   Epilepsy

•   Immune reactivity in the myelin-degenerating central nervous system (CNS)

•   Development and differentiation of microglia cells

•   Contribution of microglia cells to CNS inflammation and tissue repair

•   Identifying pathways of tissue destruction in human inflammatory and degenerative CNS disease   and corresponding experimental models

•   the role of peripheral nerves in inflammation and autoimmune diseases

•   the immune microenvironment of neuro-glial tumors

•   the role of enteric nervous system (and other neural crest-derived PNS components) in establishing gut-brain axis and transmitting microbiota-derived signals