Marc Beyer
PD Dr. Marc Beyer
Affiliations
  • Deutsches Zentrum für Neurodegenerative Erkrankungen e. V. (DZNE)
Research topics
  • T-cell biology
  • autoimmunity
  • CNS pathology
The group of Dr. Beyer is highly interested in unraveling the molecular events in innate and adaptive immune cells resulting in their activation and functional reprogramming contributing to the development of neurodegenerative disorders. One main research focus is the characterization of regulatory T cells, T cell differentiation and T cell exhaustion. Seminal work of the group could show the importance Satb1 for the function of T cells and its influence on the development of autoimmunity. Following up on these observations, the group is currently assessing the importance of T cells for CNS pathology., An additional research focus is the understanding of myeloid cell activation and differentiation using TALEN and CRISPR/Cas9 technology to perform gain- and loss-of-function experiments.
Selected publications

Schmidleithner L, Thabet Y, Schönfeld E, Köhne M, Sommer D, Abdullah Z, Sadlon T, Osei-Sarpong C, Subbaramaiah K, Copperi F, Haendler K, Varga T, Schanz O, Bourry S, Bassler K, Krebs W, Peters AE, Baumgart AK, Schneeweiss M, Klee K, Schmidt SV, Nüssing S, Sander J, Ohkura N, Waha A, Sparwasser T, Wunderlich FT, Förster I, Ulas T, Weighardt H, Sakaguchi S, Pfeifer A, Blüher M, Dannenberg AJ, Ferreirós N, Muglia LJ, Wickenhauser C, Barry SC, Schultze JL, Beyer M. Enzymatic Activity of HPGD in Treg Cells Suppresses Tconv Cells to Maintain Adipose Tissue Homeostasis and Prevent Metabolic Dysfunction. Immunity. 2019 May 21;50(5):1232-1248.e14.

Mass E, Ballesteros I, Farlik M, Halbritter F, Günther P, Crozet L, Jacome-Galarza CE, Händler K, Klughammer J, Kobayashi Y, Gomez-Perdiguero E, Schultze JL, Beyer M*, Bock C*, Geissmann F*. Specification of tissue-resident macrophages during organogenesis. Science. 2016 Sep 9;353(6304). pii: aaf4238. * shared last authors.

Sommer D, Peters A, Wirtz T, Mai M, Ackermann J, Thabet Y, Schmidt J, Weighardt H, Wunderlich FT, Degen J, Schultze JL, Beyer M. Efficient genome engineering by targeted homologous recombination in mouse embryos using transcription activator-like effector nucleases. Nat Commun. 2014 Jan 13;5:3045.

Beyer M, Thabet Y, Müller RU, Sadlon T, Classen S, Lahl K, Basu S, Zhou X, Bailey-Bucktrout SL, Krebs W, Schönfeld EA, Böttcher J, Golovina T, Mayer CT, Hofmann A, Sommer D, Debey-Pascher S, Endl E, Limmer A, Hippen KL, Blazar BR, Balderas R, Quast T, Waha A, Mayer G, Famulok M, Knolle PA, Wickenhauser C, Kolanus W, Schermer B, Bluestone JA, Barry SC, Sparwasser T, Riley JL, Schultze JL. Repression of the genome organizer SATB1 in regulatory T cells is required for suppressive function and inhibition of effector differentiation. Nat Immunol. 2011 Aug 14;12(9):898-907.

Marc Beyer
PD Dr. Marc Beyer
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