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SØREN DEGN: Lymphocyte Biology

Søren Degn’s lab focuses on the role of B and T lymphocytes in health and disease, with a particular emphasis on tolerance and autoimmunity. B and T lymphocytes are the main constituents of the adaptive immune system, a branch of the immune system with the remarkable abilities of ‘learning’ and ‘memory’. The lab investigates these phenomena with a combination of molecular techniques, mouse models, flow and imaging cytometry, cell sorting, and advanced imaging techniques, including confocal and two-photon microscopy. This work has implications for the development of treatments for autoimmune diseases, cancer, and infectious diseases, as well as vaccine design.

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Degn, S. E., van der Poel, C. E. & Carroll, M. C. (2017). Targeting autoreactive germinal centers to curb autoimmunity. OncoTarget, 8(53), 90624-90625. https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.21701
Degn, S. E. & Tolar, P. (2025). Towards a unifying model for B-cell receptor triggering. Nature Reviews Immunology, 25(2), 77-91. Article 976. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41577-024-01073-x
Chatterjee, P., Agyemang, A. F., Alimzhanov, M. B., Degn, S. E., Tsiftsoglou, S. A., Alicot, E., Jones, S. A., Ma, M. & Carroll, M. C. (2013). Complement C4 maintains peripheral B-cell tolerance in a myeloid cell dependent manner. European Journal of Immunology, 43(9), 2441-50. https://doi.org/10.1002/eji.201343412

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