European Veterinary Immunology Group

18/05/2026

Well....we do know it since a long time that mice are....”useless”. Ask me what you kind of result you want and I find you the correct mouse strain. But it is even worse:

A survey of more than 300 mouse strains has found widespread discrepancies between how mutant mice are reported and their actual genetic make-up.

20/02/2026

Sometimes, there are these really great articles.
If this works...what an improvement could this be for BRDC?

Traditional vaccines target specific pathogens, limiting their scope against diverse respiratory threats. We describe an intranasal liposomal formulation combining toll-like receptor (TLR) 4 and 7/8 ligands with a model antigen, ovalbumin, that provided ...

10/11/2025

Interesting article....
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03623-2

What is your opinion?

Researchers feel that pressures to publish are increasing, but the time and resources available to do research are decreasing, according to a survey by Elsevier.

01/09/2025

Yeap.....thats how it is :-)
What we see at the surface quite often is a Swan...graciously gliding through the water.
Noone looks at the legs!

25/08/2025

Please see these two job adverts in the group of , now in Munich.
Nice environment, nice Uni, and more importantly: great science

https://job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/0b4b175ffdc0ee0c57cbc6b72304c803d28ff4f40?ref=homepage

https://job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/f2571939d33251c6da6bffa79376c54b154a5b460?ref=homepage

Der Lehrstuhl für Biochemie und Chemie bearbeitet experimentelle Forschungsprojekte auf dem Gebiet der (Glyko-)Veterinärbiochemie. Wir nutzen biochemische und immunologische Methoden zur Bearbeitung von Forschungsfragen an der Schnittstelle zwischen Veterinär- und Humanmedizin (One Health-Ansatz)...

25/08/2025

In this "series" of two new articles, a group at the The Royal Veterinary College (RVC) has shown that veterinary medicine can actually be a "trail blazer”. by emploing 3D organ explants. Here, VetMed can be a “trail-blazer” as VetMed can do a lot more than what can be done in human medicine. This will not only impact on our understanding of processes that are yet a "black box", but will change these into5 0 shades of grey, it will also aid the reduction of animals used for in-vivo studies as well as potentially reducing the use of fetal calf serum. And it will become even more meaningful when we start combining different approaches, incl organ-on-a-chip technologies

In the first publication, the group shows the development of precision cut gut slices in chicken.
José M. Jaramillo-Ortiz, Samruddhi A. Deosthali, Damer P. Blake, Dirk Werling,
Short communication: Recombinant yeast as an oral vaccine carrier - direct in vivo interaction with chicken gut epithelium, Research in Veterinary Science,
Volume 195, 2025, 105845,
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0034528825003194

In the second publication, they demonstrated the establishment of bovine precision cut udder slices and the impact fetal calf serum has on the immune response:

Filor V, Myslinska J, Saliani A, et al. Pre-stimulation of precision-cut bovine udder slices with zymosan before LPS exposure indicates aspects of trained immunity especially in the absence of FCS. Innate Immunity. 2025;31. doi:10.1177/17534259251360484

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/17534259251360484

16/08/2025

And in other news: a heartfelt congratulations to colleagues from Vetmeduni for creating a recombinant Haemonchius vaccine. Two outstanding papers:
https://doi.org/10.1093/glycob/cwaf044
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41541-025-01249-z
Great work! Katharina Lichtmannsperger

Haemonchus contortus is a highly pathogenic nematode in small ruminants, causing major production losses and animal welfare concerns. With increasing anthelmintic resistance, vaccination offers a more sustainable control strategy. This study evaluated a novel glycoengineered vaccine produced in Hi5....

16/08/2025

After a long time of silence, we are back in business. definitely brought the mojo back.
Here a slide from Prof Entrican acceptance speech...These are important points! Be kind to each other, and help another! Science is more fun and successful if we work together!

16/08/2025

What a great event in Vienna was. Thanks again to the organisers, and congratulations to Prof Gary Entrican for being awarded the Distinguished Veterinary Immunologist award.
See you all in 2028 in Montreal!

06/03/2025

The innate immune system never ceases to amaze me:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08615-w
How cool is that!

Proteasomal degradation of cellular proteins generate defence peptides constitutively and in response to bacterial infection. Such peptides might provide a source of natural antibiotics that could lead to biotechnology applications and therapeutic interventions.