PD Dr. Anne Schumacher

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PD Dr. Anne Schumacher

Scientist, Deputy Head of the Department, Head of the Laboratories of the Environmental Immunology in Saxonian Incubator for Clinical Translation (SIKT), Theme Coordinator of Perinatal exposure of chemicals having pregnancy/birth effects and Environmental factor-driven immune dysbalances during pregnancy and Platform Coordinator of In-vivo-Modelle

Helmholtz Centre for
Environmental Research – UFZ
Department of Environmental Immunology
Permoserstr. 15
04318 Leipzig, Germany

Phone: +49 341 235-1542
Email

Research Interests

Our research focuses on hormone-driven changes on the immune system during pregnancy. In particular, we are interested in endocrine effects on adaptive immune cells in healthy and pathological pregnancies. We also aim to investigate disorders of the endocrine system caused by environmental factors that affect the regulation of the immune system during pregnancy and consequently comprise the development of the child.

Curriculum vitae / Scientific career

since August 2020

Scientist, Deputy Head of the Department of Environmetal Immunology at the Helmholtz Centre for Envrionmental Research - UFZ

2017

Habilitation at the Otto von Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany; Degree: PD Dr. rer. nat. habil.

2007 - 2011

PhD at the Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany; Degree: Dr. rer. nat. (Summa cum laude)

2000 - 2006

Graduand at the Humboldt University Berlin, Germany; Degree: Diploma of Biology (Final grade: excellent; Diploma thesis: excellent)

1993 - 2000

Coubertin Gymnasium, Berlin, Germany

Awards

2015, 2016, 2017 and 2019

Travel grant by Otto von Guericke University

2014 and 2018

Travel grant by Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD)

2016

Karin Witte award for female scientists

2015

HEXAL award for junior researchers

2014

Poster award at the “60. DGGG-Kongress” in Munich, Germany

2013 and 2014

Travel grant by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Immunologie (DGfI)

2013

„Schumacher et al, Journal of Immunology“ mentioned as Research Highlight in Nature Reviews Immunology

2008 - 2010

Doctoral fellowship by Otto von Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany

2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009

Travel grant by GlaxoSmithKline foundation

2008

“Outstanding New Investigator Award” by American Society for Reproductive Immunology

2006/07

Research fellowship by Charité, Berlin, Germany

2005 and 2007

Travel grant by Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany

Memberships

since 2018

American Society for Reproductive Immunology

since 2013

The American Association of Immunologists

Deutscher Hochschulverband (DHV)

since 2007

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Immunologie (DGfI)

Publications

PubMed

Department News

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Since recently you can follow us on the platform. There you will find interesting information about our working group, but also everything about our research activities and publications.

@UFZ_Immu

Congratulations to our medical doctoral students Elisabeth and Lukas for their successful application for PhD scholarships provided by the Medical Faculty, University of Leipzig!

The 25th Interdisziplinäre Kinderimmunologische Arbeitstreffen (KIAT) took place on November 11th in Leipzig. Prof. Ana Zenclussen and Dr. Gunda Herberth gave talks about immunology during pregnancy, the role of T cells and current results from cohort studies.

f.l.t.r.: Prof. Dr. Ulrich Sack, Dr. Gunda Herberth, Prof. Ana C. Zenclussen, Prof. Dr. Michael Borte
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We welcome our new project coordinator Susann Hähnel and the new medical doctoral students Elisabeth, Jonas and Lukas in our team!

Congratulations to our colleague Dr. Violeta Stojanovska for being the 3rd winner of the Participants Choice Awards at the Helmholtz Imaging Conference 2022!

https://helmholtz-imaging.de/

The first joint workshop with our Argentinian cooperation partners took place on 11 and 12 July. The participants were able to discuss the progress of the DFG project "Influence of endocrine disruptors on reproductive processes mediated by immune cells of the innate immune system", methods and to-dos. There was also space to plan further joint collaborations. We thank all participants for the exciting and productive exchange!

Back: Tobias Kretschmer, Anne Schumacher, Horacio Rodriguez, Ana Zenclussen, Nicole Meyer, Maria Zenclussen, Florence Fischer
Front: Violeta Stojanovska, Ambra Maddalon, Ningjuan Zhang, Federica Romanelli
Photo: Ana Zenclussen/UFZ

Congratulations to our colleague Dr. Violeta Stojanovska for being the 1st prize European Organoid Research Grant winner!

@biotechne

To what extent do older siblings influence the healthy development of children? Answers from our LiNA study can be found in our latest press release.

We congratulate Prof. Ana Zenclussen on her appointment as a member of the BfR Commission on Contaminants in the Food Chain for the session period 2022 to 2025 and wish her every success!

We may present: the Helmholtz portrait of Prof. Ana Zenclussen.

Latest publications

2023

Index:

2023 (6)

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2023 (6)

Hofsink, N., Dijkstra, D.J., Stojanovska, V., Scherjon, S.A., Plösch, T. (2023):
Preeclampsia-induced alterations in brain and liver gene expression and DNA methylation patterns in fetal mice
J. Dev. Orig. Health Dis. 14 (1), 146 - 151
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Kilanowski, A., Thiering, E., Wang, G., Kumar, A., Kress, S., Flexeder, C., Bauer, C.-P., Berdel, D., von Berg, A., Bergström, A., Gappa, M., Heinrich, J., Herberth, G., Koletzko, S., Kull, I., Melen, E., Schikowski, T., Peters, A., Standl, M. (2023):
Allergic disease trajectories up to adolescence: Characteristics, early-life, and genetic determinants
Allergy 78 (3), 836 - 850
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Kotsakis Ruehlmann, A., Sammallahti, S., Cortés Hidalgo, A.P., Bakulski, K.M., Binder, E.B., Campbell, M.L., Caramaschi, D., Cecil, C., Colicino, E., Cruceanu, C., Czamara, D., Dieckmann, L., Dou, J., Felix, J.F., Frank, J., Håberg, S.E., Herberth, G., Hoang, T.T., Houtepen, L.C., Hüls, A., Koen, N., London, S.J., Magnus, M.C., Mancano, G., Mulder, R.H., Page, C.M., Räikkönen, K., Röder, S., Schmidt, R.J., Send, T.S., Sharp, G., Stein, D.J., Streit, F., Tuhkanen, J., Witt, S.H., Zar, H.J., Zenclussen, A.C., Zhang, Y., Zillich, L., Wright, R., Lahti, J., Brunst, K.J. (2023):
Epigenome-wide meta-analysis of prenatal maternal stressful life events and newborn DNA methylation
Mol. Psychiatr.
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Krause, J.L., Pierzchalski, A., Chang, H.D., Zenclussen, A.C., Bauer, M., Herberth, G. (2023):
Bisphenols, but not phthalate esters, modulate gene expression in activated human MAIT cells in vitro
Toxicol. Rep. 10 , 348 - 356
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Thürmann, L., Klös, M., Mackowiak, S.D., Bieg, M., Bauer, T., Ishaque, N., Messingschlager, M., Herrmann, C., Röder, S., Bauer, M., Schäuble, S., Faessler, E., Hahn, U., Weichenhan, D., Mücke, O., Plass, C., Borte, M., von Mutius, E., Stangl, G.I., Lauener, R., Karvonen, A.M., Divaret-Chauveau, A., Riedler, J., Heinrich, J., Standl, M., von Berg, A., Schaaf, B., Herberth, G., Kabesch, M., Eils, R., Trump, S., Lehmann, I. (2023):
Global hypomethylation in childhood asthma identified by genome-wide DNA-methylation sequencing preferentially affects enhancer regions
Allergy
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Wang, M., Flexeder, C., Kilanowski, A., Kress, S., Herberth, G., Schikowski, T., Peters, A., Standl, M. (2023):
Changes in sleep duration and sleep difficulties from adolescence to young adulthood and the risk of obesity: Bidirectional evidence in the GINIplus and LISA studies
Sleep Med. 101 , 401 - 410
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Projects

We participate in the joint research project SaxoChiLD.

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We participate in the joint research project
CoViPa.

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