Dr. Anton Windfelder

This marks my first official poster as senior author, highlighting the continued development of our imaging-based platform for studying inflammation in alternative model systems. 🧠 What we show In this study, we demonstrate the first AI-supported quantification of intestinal wall thickness in the invertebrate model Manduca sexta , combining: clinical CT micro-CT and deep learning-based segmentation (U-Net) This enables non-invasive, quantitative readouts of gut inflammation across...

Last week, my Master’s student Stefan Schmidt presented a truly creative and exceptional thesis. As part of his work, he developed a novel reactor system that now allows us to maintain our model organism Manduca sexta  under germ-free conditions. This is a major step forward and opens the door to “humanizing” the microbiome—bringing our model closer to human physiology. With this, we significantly improve the translational potential of our system to study chronic inflammatory bowel diseases...

Today we had the pleasure of welcoming special guests at the Fraunhofer Institute for Molecular Biology and Applied Ecology IME  in Giessen. As part of her visit to the local science hub, Dorothee Bär  learned about current developments in insect biotechnology and research at Fraunhofer IME. I had the opportunity to present our research to Frederik Bouffier (Member of the German Bundestag, CDU)  and Prof. Dr. Constantin Häfner (Member of the Executive Board for Research and Transfer of the...