News
2023
February
Congratulations to Lara who finished her bachelor's thesis!
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!
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.