Research Topic: Immunological determinants driving liver cirrhosis in chronic HDV infection
Supervisor: Dr. Helenie Kefalakes, Dpt. of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Endocrinology, MHH
Academic Background: Biochemistry, FU Berlin
 

Research Topic: Role of membrane trafficking proteins involved in pathogen-exploited host organelle contact site formation
Supervisor: Dr. Lina Herhaus, Immune Signalling, HZI
Academic Background: Molecular Microbiology, Leibniz University Hannover

Research Topic: Regulation of tRNA biogenesis by Human Cytomegalovirus infections
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Dan Depledge, Institute of Virology, MHH
Academic Background: Immunology, Universidad de Granada, Spain

Research Topic: The role of gut microbiota on infection susceptibility in liver cirrhosis patients
Supervisor: PD Dr. Marius Vital, Institute for Medical Microbiology and Hospital Epidemiology, MHH
Academic Background: Biomedicine, MHH

Research Topic: Immune evasive and assembly functions of the tegument protein pUL37 during Herpes Simplex Virus skin infection
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Beate Sodeik, Institute of Virology, MHH
Academic Background: Immunology/ Immunotechnology, Wageningen University & Research, The Netherlands

Research Topic: Cell type-specific HCMV gene expression and its consequences for the MHC-I immunopeptidome
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Lars Dölken, Institute of Virology, MHH
Academic Background: Surgery, Beijing Neurosurgical Institute of Capital Medical University

Research Topic: Epigenetic profiling of inflammation-induced memory in type 2 innate lymphoid cells in the lung
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Matthias Lochner, Institute for Medical Microbiology and Hospital Epidemiology
Academic Background: Genetics, University of Delhi, India

Research Topic: Signatures of Immune Cells in Patients after Chronic HCV Infections in the Long Term Follow Up
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Heiner Wedemeyer, Dpt. of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Endocrinology
Academic Background: Microbiology & Infection Biology, Uni Würzburg

Research Topic: Development and benchmarking of an MCMV-based vaccine vector in species-discordant target hosts
Supervisor: prof. Dr. Luka Cicin-Sain, Viral Immunology, HZI
Academic Background: MD, Novosibirsk State Medical University

Research Topic: Neuropeptides as modulators of signal transduction and cell state in monocytes and macrophages
Supervisor: Dr. Caroline Perner, Hematology, Hemostasis, Oncology and Stem Cell Transplantation, MHH
Academic Background: Infection biology and immunology, Uni Greifswald

Research Topic: Astrocyte-specific function of the lymphotoxin beta receptor in Experimental cerebral malaria
Supervisor: Dr. Nishanth Gopala, Institute for Medical Microbiology and Hospital Epidemiology, MHH
Academic Background: Infectious Diseases and One Health, Erasmus, Tours, Barcelona, MHH

Research Topic: Immunity- and virus-derived determinants of betacoronavirus transmission
Supervisor: Dr. Julia Port, Dept. of Viral Immunology (VIRI), Laboratory of Transmission Immunology (LOTI), HZI
Academic Background: Molecular Biology, Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain

Research Topic: Epigenetic profiling of infection- and inflammation-induced memory in intestinal epithelial stem cells
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Matthias Lochner, Institute for Medical Microbiology and Hospital Epidemiology, MHH
Academic Background: Otorhinolaryngology, Chongqing Medical University, China

Research Topic: Functional Inhibition of the Human Cytomegalovirus Immunoevasin pUL11
Supervisor: Dr. Penelope Kay-Fedorov, Institute of Virology, MHH
Academic Background: Biochemistry, MHH

Research Topic: Determinants of Innate Immune Control and Species Tropism of Hepatitis C virus (HCV)
Supervisor: Dr. Julie Sheldon, Institute for Experimental Virology, Twincore
Academic Background: Virology and Cell Culture, University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences (UVAS), Lahore-Pakistan

Research Topic: Elucidating the mode-of-action of the human RNase 7 against herpes simplex virus type 1
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Thomas Werfel, Clinic for Dermatology, Allergology and Venerology, MHH
Academic Background: Molecular Biology, Georg-August-University of Göttingen

Research Topic: The function and longevity of B-cell residency and secretory IgA in betacoronavirus transmission blockage and viral evolution
Supervisor: Dr. Julia Port, Dept. of Viral Immunology (VIRI), Laboratory of Transmission Immunology (LOTI), HZI
Academic Background: Veterinary Medicine, University of Evora, Portugal

Research Topic: Characterization of RNA-binding proteins in the antiviral interferon response
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Nora Schmidt, Institute of Virology, MHH
Academic Background: Molecular Biology and Physiology, University of Greifswald

Research Topic: Understanding the Mode of Action of a novel broadly acting antiviral inhibitor
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Thomas Schulz, Institute of Virology, MHH
Academic Background: Oncology, Sichuan University, China

Research Topic: Development of a screening platform for fine mapping of functional herpes simplex virus gene elements by MuA transposon mutagenesis
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Lars Dölken, Institute of Virology, MHH
Academic Background: Infection Biology: Virology, Immunology, Philipps University Marburg

Research Topic: Functional analysis of cytomegalovirus gene products and cellular effectors during lytic infection
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Lars Dölken, Institute of Virology, MHH
Academic Background:Medicine, Beijing Neurosurgical Institute of Capital Medical University