Dr. Anton Windfelder

Thank you to the organizing team, everyone who contributed, and all our visitors, young and old, for bringing the day to life! https://www.wdrmaus.de/tuer_oeffner_tag/2026/index.php5 Gently holding a caterpillar, discovering new perspectives through a VR headset, and asking researchers questions: there was plenty to experience at “Türen auf mit der Maus” (“Opening Doors with the Mouse”) at Fraunhofer IME in Gießen. Under the theme “Small Wonders,” children and their families went behind the...

Last week, I had the great pleasure of welcoming my friend and scientific collaborator Prof. Benyamin Rosental and his family to Giessen. Benyamin and I share a scientific vision that has become central to our collaboration: bringing immunology and advanced imaging together. We want to use imaging not simply to visualize anatomy, but to make immune processes visible and measurable in vivo. An especially exciting part of this journey is comparative immunology – looking across species to better...

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...