Moritz Baur

Immune priming in the insect gut: a dynamic response revealed by ultrastructural and transcriptomic changes

This paper investigates immune priming in the gut of Tribolium castaneum using RNA sequencing and transmission electron microscopy, showing that priming leads to gut damage, stress response, and gene upregulation that enhances protection against subsequent infection.

Experimental evolution of a pathogen confronted with innate immune memory increases variation in virulence

This study shows that innate immune memory in hosts does not increase average virulence but increases variation in virulence among pathogens evolved in primed hosts.