News
2023
December
Time to celebrate Christmas and time for a new group picture.
Time to meet: we had two days of great discussions with our external advisor Dr. Jean-Marie Péloponèse and his PhD student Laetitia. Thanks for visiting us!
Congratulations to Alexandra! She received funding for her first grant from the ELAN funds!
Abarna was selected as mentee of the programme "Geh Deinen Weg", congratulations!
November
Time to celebrate: The DFG approved prolongation of funding of GRK2504! We are very excited to be part of this great network and to continue our work. Thanks to the DFG, all doctoral researchers and the organization team of GRK2504!
Congratulations to Hanna who finished her master's thesis!
October
Time to travel: Team Milk-TV in Berlin! Meeting of the BMBF junior research groups in infection research at the RKI. Thanks to the organisation team of Max v. Kleist!
Welcome to our new MD student Peter! He received a stipend from the IZKF to work on mechanical properties of T cells. Congratulations!
September
HTLV European Research Network (HERN) Meeting in Madrid. A great meeting with many interesting discussions. And the next HERN meeting takes place in.... ERLANGEN in 2025! We are looking forward to host this exciting meeting.
Welcome to Franzi, our "new" PhD student!
July
Time to celebrate: Stephan defended his PhD thesis! Congratulations!
Congratulations to Pauline who finished her master's thesis!
Congratulations to Carolin who finished her bachelor's thesis!
Paper accepted! Our review on Milk transmission on mammalial retroviruses is published.
June
Congratulations to Franzi who finished her master's thesis!
May
Welcome to Carolin, who works on a new compound to manipulate HTLV-1 transcription during her bachelor's thesis.
Retreat of the GRK2504 in Waischenfeld. Abarna, Steffi and Louisa presented their recent progress.
Congress of the European Society for Virology in Danzig. Steffi presents her project.
Welcome to our RISE intern Eduardo and congratulations to Steffi for being selected with her project.
April
The first German website informing people infected with HTLV-1 is online. Thanks to Laura for translating HTLV Aware and thanks to Shaan for making this possible. Now, we have htlvinfo.de.
Welcome to Hanna! She will work on HTLV-1 Env during her Master's thesis.
March
Time to meet colleagues and friends: AG Thoma-Kress visits the Annual Meeting of the German Society of Virology in Ulm! Abarna was selected to participate in the ACHIEVE workshop of Junge GfV, congrats!
Paper accepted! Thanks to our collaborators from Dresden and Hamburg. The paper about the evolution of a recombinase excising HTLV-1 is in press.
February
Congratulations to Lara who finished her bachelor's thesis!
Time to travel: Alex learns how to work with organs on a chip. We are looking forward to establish this novel and cool technique in our lab.
January
Welcome back to Annika. After her studies abroad, Annika joins our MILK-TV project as student assistant ("HiWi").
Welcome back to Franzi and Pauline! After their internships, they now start to work on their master's theses and support the MILK-TV project.
Congratulations to Patrick who finished his master's thesis!
2022
December
Christmas Party of AG Thoma-Kress. It's time for a new photo of our group. Merry Christmas.
Our technician Norbert visits our collaborator in Ghent and learns how to isolate nanobodies.
Lena, who did her bachelor's thesis earlier this year with us, comes back to join us as research assistant ("HiWi"). Welcome back!
November
Welcome to our new PhD student Abarna! She works on transcriptional regulation of HTLV-1 and is member of the DFG-funded GRK2504.
November 10th is World HTLV Day. It is very important to rise public awareness about HTLV and to find strategies to combat HTLV and its associated diseases.
Welcome to Lara, who does her bachelor's thesis with us!
October
Welcome to our new Post-Doc Alexandra! She works on the MILK-TV project and the initial steps of HTLV-1 mother-to-child transmission.
AG Thoma-Kreß goes North! We presented our MILK-TV project at the 2nd Meeting of the BMBF Junior research groups at the BNI in Hamburg. Thanks to Maria Rosenthal and Reenke Lühken for organizing this fantastic meeting.
September
Welcome to Melissa, who supports our MILK-TV project as technician!
Welcome to Louisa, who started the experimental phase of her MD project, which is funded by the DFG (GRK2504).
Congratulations to Alexandra who finished her bachelor's thesis!
August
Congratulations to Lena and Anna who finished their bachelor's theses!
July
Congratulations to Annika! Her manuscript dealing with the impact of HDAC-inhibitors on HTLV-1 transcription was accepted for publication by Frontiers in Immunology! Thanks to all collaborators and all patients who donated blood.
June
Congratulations to our MD student Annika! She received the "Best Presentation Award" (1st place) at the Retreat of the GRK2504 in Waischenfeld (27.-29.06.2022).
Pauline and Lara joined our group! Pauline is master student (Cell and Molecular Biology) and supports our Milk-TV project, she is currently doing her "Forschungsmodul". Lara is bachelor student (Molecular Medicine) and works as student assistant with us. Welcome!
Good news! The DFG approved funding of our proposal dealing with virus host interaction during HTLV-1 transmission. We will continue our exciting project! Thanks to the reviewers and the DFG. A special "thank you" to Norbert, Flo and Laura for preparatory work for the proposal and to our collaborators.
May
Lena and Alexandra joined our team! Lena and Alexandra study Molecular Medicine and Biology , respectively. Both of them do their bachelor's thesis with us. Welcome!
Poster Award at HTLV22 Conference. Andrea received one of three poster awards at the HTLV2022 conference in Melbourne, Australia (online). The poster is a collaboration between the Bucholz lab (TU Dresden), the Hauber lab (Hamburg) and our group. Thanks to all collaborators for their great job!
March
Franzi joined our team as research assistant. Franzi studies Cell and Molecular Biology and supports our Milk-TV project.