Plasmacytoid dendritic cells control homeostasis of megakaryopoiesis
F.R. Gärtner, H. Ishikawa-Ankerhold, S. Stutte, W. Fu, J. Weitz, A. Dueck, B. Nelakuditi, V. Fumagalli, D. Van Den Heuvel, L. Belz, G. Sobirova, Z. Zhang, A. Titova, A.M. Navarro, K. Pekayvaz, M. Lorenz, L. Von Baumgarten, J. Kranich, T. Straub, B. Popper, V. Zheden, W. Kaufmann, C. Guo, G. Piontek, S. Von Stillfried, P. Boor, M. Colonna, S. Clauß, C. Schulz, T. Brocker, B. Walzog, C. Scheiermann, W.C. Aird, C. Nerlov, K. Stark, T. Petzold, S. Engelhardt, M.K. Sixt, R. Hauschild, M. Rudelius, R.A.J. Oostendorp, M. Iannacone, M. Heinig, S. Massberg, Nature 631 (2024) 645–653.

Single platelet and megakaryocyte morpho-dynamics uncovered by multicolor reporter mouse strains in vitro and in vivo
L. Nicolai, R. Kaiser, R. Escaig, M.L. Hoffknecht, A. Anjum, A. Leunig, J. Pircher, A. Ehrlich, M. Lorenz, H. Ishikawa-Ankerhold, W.C. Aird, S. Massberg, F.R. Gärtner, Haematologica 107 (2022) 1669–1680.

Neutrophil cpluckingd on megakaryocytes drives platelet production and boosts cardiovascular disease
T. Petzold, Z. Zhang, I. Ballesteros, I. Saleh, A. Polzin, M. Thienel, L. Liu, Q. Ul Ain, V. Ehreiser, C. Weber, B. Kilani, P. Mertsch, J. Götschke, S. Cremer, W. Fu, M. Lorenz, H. Ishikawa-Ankerhold, E. Raatz, S. El-Nemr, A. Görlach, E. Marhuenda, K. Stark, J. Pircher, D. Stegner, C. Gieger, M. Schmidt-Supprian, F.R. Gärtner, I. Almendros, M. Kelm, C. Schulz, A. Hidalgo, S. Massberg, Immunity 55 (2022) 2285–2299.e7.

WASp triggers mechanosensitive actin patches to facilitate immune cell migration in dense tissues
F. Gaertner, P. Dos Reis Rodrigues, I. de Vries, M. Hons, J. Aguilera, M. Riedl, A.F. Leithner, S. Tasciyan, A. Kopf, J. Merrin, V. Zheden, W. Kaufmann, R. Hauschild, M.K. Sixt, Developmental Cell 57 (2022) 47–62.e9.

Vascular surveillance by haptotactic blood platelets in inflammation and infection
L. Nicolai, K. Schiefelbein, S. Lipsky, A. Leunig, M. Hoffknecht, K. Pekayvaz, B. Raude, C. Marx, A. Ehrlich, J. Pircher, Z. Zhang, I. Saleh, A.-K. Marel, A. Löf, T. Petzold, M. Lorenz, K. Stark, R. Pick, G. Rosenberger, L. Weckbach, B. Uhl, S. Xia, C.A. Reichel, B. Walzog, C. Schulz, V. Zheden, M. Bender, R. Li, S. Massberg, F.R. Gärtner, Nature Communications 11 (2020).

Cellular locomotion using environmental topography
A. Reversat, F.R. Gärtner, J. Merrin, J.A. Stopp, S. Tasciyan, J.L. Aguilera Servin, I. de Vries, R. Hauschild, M. Hons, M. Piel, A. Callan-Jones, R. Voituriez, M.K. Sixt, Nature 582 (2020) 582–585.

Patrolling the vascular borders: Platelets in immunity to infection and cancer
F.R. Gärtner, S. Massberg, Nature Reviews Immunology 19 (2019) 747–760.

Platelets in host defense: Experimental and clinical insights
L. Nicolai, F.R. Gärtner, S. Massberg, Trends in Immunology 40 (2019) 922–938.

Platelet migration and bacterial trapping assay under flow
S. Fan, M. Lorenz, S. Massberg, F.R. Gärtner, Bio-Protocol 8 (2018).

Chemokines and integrins independently tune actin flow and substrate friction during intranodal migration of T cells
M. Hons, A. Kopf, R. Hauschild, A.F. Leithner, F.R. Gärtner, J. Abe, J. Renkawitz, J. Stein, M.K. Sixt, Nature Immunology 19 (2018) 606–616.

Migrating platelets are mechano scavengers that collect and bundle bacteria
F.R. Gärtner, Z. Ahmad, G. Rosenberger, S. Fan, L. Nicolai, B. Busch, G. Yavuz, M. Luckner, H. Ishikawa Ankerhold, R. Hennel, A. Benechet, M. Lorenz, S. Chandraratne, I. Schubert, S. Helmer, B. Striednig, K. Stark, M. Janko, R. Böttcher, A. Verschoor, C. Leon, C. Gachet, T. Gudermann, M. Mederos Y Schnitzler, Z. Pincus, M. Iannacone, R. Haas, G. Wanner, K. Lauber, M.K. Sixt, S. Massberg, Cell Press 171 (2017) 1368–1382.