Arturo Zychlinsky

Arturo Zychlinsky discovered Neutrophil Extracellular Traps (NETs) together with Volker Brinkmann. This scanning electron image shows a NET (green), ejected by a neutrophil (yellow) to capture bacteria (purple). A red blood cell (orange) is also trapped in the NET.

Arturo Zychlinsky (born 1962) is a biologist and since 2001 director at the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology.[1] His research focuses on Neutrophil Extracellular Traps (NETs) which he discovered together with Volker Brinkmann,[2] and the immune function of chromatin.

  1. ^ "Organization chart". www.mpiib-berlin.mpg.de. Retrieved 2021-05-07.
  2. ^ Brinkmann, Volker; Reichard, Ulrike; Goosmann, Christian; Fauler, Beatrix; Uhlemann, Yvonne; Weiss, David S.; Weinrauch, Yvette; Zychlinsky, Arturo (2004-03-05). "Neutrophil extracellular traps kill bacteria". Science. 303 (5663): 1532–1535. Bibcode:2004Sci...303.1532B. doi:10.1126/science.1092385. ISSN 1095-9203. PMID 15001782. S2CID 21628300.