December
Time to celebrate Christmas and time for a new group picture.
Congratulations to Julia who finished her Master‘s thesis and worked on our DFG-funded project on p8’s role during virus transmission.
Congratulations to Lisanne who finished her Bachelor’s thesis!
Time to connect! Thanks to Professor Ina Vorberg from the DZNE Bonn for visiting us and for presenting her work on our institute’s Friday seminar!
November
Welcome to Felix and Karla! Felix works with us to finish his „Forschungsmodul“ and later on he will conduct his Master‘s thesis focussing on nanobodies! Karla will assist our Milk-TV project as a student assistant!
Time to celebrate! Steffi defended her PhD thesis! Congratulations!
Congratulations to Philipp who finished his Bachelor’s thesis!
Time to connect! Thanks to Professor Daniel Todt from Ruhr University Bochum to present his research on Hepatitis E at our institute’s Friday seminar!
Welcome to Marine, Post-Doc at Institut Pasteur, who is visiting us to proceede with the BayFrance project
October
Letter of approval received! Our BMFTR-funded junior research group Milk-TV has been approved for funding for another 2+2 years! We are very excited to continue this project and thank all collaborators for their help and the BMFTR for funding!
Time to meet! Franzi, Melissa, Alex, Norbert, Laura and Andrea visited the meeting of the BMFTR-funded junior research groups in infection research in Jena. Thanks to Matt for organizing this great meeting! Andrea gave a talk on our progress during the first funding period.
What an honour! We were invited to present at the XVII International Symposium on HTLV in Brazil and Steffi presented our research on milk transmission of HTLV-1.
September
Welcome to our “new“ MD student Kristin! She will work on antiviral properties of milk towards HCMV.
Time to present! Laura is presenting her work on nanobodies and HTLV-1 at the Nanobody Conference in Utrecht.
Our institute is now officially called Harald-zur-Hausen Institute of Virology in honour of Professor Harald zur Hausen, the founding director of our institute!
Time to connect! The GRK2504 retreat at Schloß Hirschberg was a great opportunity for mentoring meetings and collaborations.
July
Time to celebrate! Flo defended his PhD thesis! Congratulations!
Time to meet! We were hosting the HTLV European Research Network (HERN 2025) with more than 70 participants in Erlangen. Thanks to all participants, our key note speakers and the organizing committee. A big thank you goes to Antje, who did a fantastic job!
Time to collaborate! Laura is visiting our collaborator Ignacio in Paris to expand her knowledge on structural virology. Thanks to BayFrance for funding.
Time to collaborate! Steffi is visiting our collaborator Lars Bode at the Human Milk Institute in San Diego to get deep insights into HMOs and human milk. Thanks to BaCaTeC for funding.
Welcome to Blanka from Imperial College London who is doing a short-term visit in our lab!
June
Congratulations to Julia G. who finished her Bachelor’s thesis!
Welcome to Julia S. who works on her Master’s thesis in our lab!
May
Abarna presents her project at the Retreat of GRK2504 at the Ragon Institute in Boston.
March
Busy times! Abarna, Alex, Norbert and Franzi present posters and Flo gives an oral presentation while Andrea is chairing a session at the GfV meeting in Hamburg! In the meantime, Steffi presents her latest work at the Human Milk Institute Symposium in San Diego.
Time to connect! Andrea presents on strategies to eliminate HTLV-1 mother-to-child transmission at the Infect-Net Meeting in Munich
February
Welcome to Jonas, our “new“ PhD student, who is member of our DFG funded GRK2504!
Welcome to Arezoo, PhD student from the University of Padova, who is doing an internship in our lab!
January
Time to connect! Thanks to Boris Bogdanow from the Institute of Virology at Charité Berlin for visiting us and for presenting his work on our institute’s Friday seminar!