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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.

Recent publications

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Degn, S. E. & Tolar, P. (2025). Towards a unifying model for B-cell receptor triggering. Nature Reviews Immunology, 25(2), 77-91. Artikel 976. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41577-024-01073-x
He, M., D'Aulerio, R., Pinho, L. G., Doukoumopoulos, E., Yong, T., Vieira, R. C., Oliveira, M. M. S., Eiben, L., Termote, M., Galvani, R. G., Sedimbi, S., Seitz, C., Kuznetsov, N. V., Zuriaga, M. A., Kitamura, D., Fuster, J. J., Cotta-de-Almeida, V., Ström, L., Dosenovic, P. ... Westerberg, L. S. (2026). AID and TET2 cooperate to demethylate Irf4 for plasma cell fate in germinal center B cells. The Journal of Experimental Medicine, 223(6). https://doi.org/10.1084/jem.20260096
Wang, F., Ren, J., Zhou, Y., Huo, W., Liu, H., Qin, M., Jing, Y., Yin, Z., Shi, T., Shan, H., Tan, G., Wang, H., Guo, X., Mei, J., Yue, Z., Hou, Z., Zhou, H., Song, J., Degn, S. E. ... Jiang, Y. (2026). Cross-species comparison of amniote single-cell transcriptomes reveals evolutionary conservation and divergence in the chicken immune system. Nature Communications, 17(1), Artikel 6031. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-72642-y
Sirinian, C., de Lastic, A. L., Zaverdas, H., Nifora, M., Georgakopoulou, D., Samiotaki, M., Argentou, M. I., Peroukidis, S., Degn, S. E., Rusan, M., Theofilatos, K., Mavroudi, S., Papanastasiou, A. D. & Koutras, A. (2026). Dual Role of Cancer Epithelial-Specific TRAF3 in Regulating Breast Cancer Cell Survival and Lymphocyte Activity. International Journal of Molecular Sciences , 27(10), Artikel 4414. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms27104414

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