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!