Scientific Publications in the Field of Theoretical Immunology

• "Automated Image Analysis of the Host-Pathogen Interaction between Phagocytes and Aspergillus fumigatus",
  F. Mech, A. Thywißen, R. Guthke, A.A. Brakhage, M.T. Figge
  PLoS ONE 6(5): e19591 (2011). doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0019591
  
  
• "Toll-Like Receptor 4 signaling by FDC is pivotal for delivering the consequences of germinal center responses",
  A. Garin, M. Meyer-Hermann, M. Contie, M.T. Figge, V. Buatois, M. Gunzer, K.-M. Toellner, G. Elson, M.H. Kosco-Vilbois
  Immunity 33, 84-95 (2010).
  
  
• "Modelling intravital two-photon data of lymphocyte migration and interaction",
  M.T. Figge and M. Meyer-Hermann
  book chapter in "Current Mathematical Models in T Cell and B Cell Biology", Springer, accepted for publication (2010).
  
  
• "Modelling cellular aggregation induced by chemotaxis and phototaxis",
  H. Fatehi, M. Meyer-Hermann, and M.T. Figge
  Mathematical Medicine and Biology 27, 373-384 (2010).
  
  
• "Optimization of immunoglobulin substitution therapy by a stochastic immune response model",
  M.T. Figge
  PLoS ONE 4 (5), e5685 (2009).
  
  
• "Mathematical modeling of circadian rhythm of key neuroendocrine immune players in rheumatoid arthritis: A systems biology approach",
  M. Meyer-Hermann, M.T. Figge, and Rainer H. Straub
  Arthritis & Rheumatism 60, 2585-2594 (2009).
  
  
• "Germinal centres seen through the mathematical eye: B cell models on the catwalk",
  M. Meyer-Hermann, M.T. Figge, and K.-M. Toellner
  Trends in Immunology 30, 157-164 (2009).
  
  
• "Modeling receptor-ligand binding kinetics in immunological synapse formation",
  M.T. Figge and M. Meyer-Hermann,
  European Physical Journal D 51, 153�160, topical issue "Bio Macromolecules" (2009).
  
  
• "Deriving a germinal center lymphocyte migration model from two-photon data",
  M.T. Figge, A. Garin, M. Gunzer, M. Kosco-Vilbois, K.-M. Toellner, and M. Meyer-Hermann,
  Journal of Experimental Medicine 205, 3019-3029 (2008).
  
  
• "Geometrically Repatterned Immunological Synapses Uncover Formation Mechanisms",
  M.T. Figge and M. Meyer-Hermann,
  PLoS Computational Biology 2, e171 (2006).
  
  
• "Stochastic Discrete Event Simulation of Germinal Center Reactions",
  M.T. Figge,
  Physical Review E 71, 051907 (2005) and
  Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research 9 (11), (2005).
  
  
• "Statistical Model for Receptor-Ligand Binding Thermodynamics",
  M.T. Figge,
  Physical Review E 66, 061901 (2002) and
  Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research 4 (12), (2002).