Meet the team
Scientific Staff
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Mine Altinli (-452)
Mine works on the project regarding MSV-arbovirus interaction, MSV-mosquito interaction and the antiviral RNAi response in mosquitoes.
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Mayke Leggewie (Lucks) (-452)
Mayke works on the project of her DZIF maternity re-entry grant with the topic:
Development of a live-attenuated vaccine candidate against Chikungunya virus.
Technical staff:
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Marlis Badusche (- 452)
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Bernhard Zibrat (- 452)
PhD-students:
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András Bencsik (-473)
He works together with the group of Muñoz-Fontela (funded by the Joachim-Herz-Stiftung) on the project:
What role does the transmission by mosquitoes play in the course of an arbovirus infection?
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Swati Jagtap (-889)
She works on the project:
A study of interference of insect-specific viruses from Bunyavirales with rift valley fever virus (RVFV) and a comparative assessment of various RVFV transmission routes
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Melinda Reuter
She works on the DFG funded project:
RNAi-based adaptive immunity in Aedes aegypti against arboviruses.
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Sarah Gothe
She works on the Culifo3 (BMBL-financed) project:
Influence and molecular mechanisms of insect-specific viruses on (co)infection of arboviruses in Culex mosquitoes.
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Philipp Böhmer
He works on the collaboartive project between our lab and the lab from Dr. Sarin Chimnarnok (Mahidol University, Thailand), funded by NSTDA-DFG:
Identification and characterisation of NS5-interacting factors involved in anti-flaviviral response in Aedes mosquito.
Svea Frank
She works on a collaborative project between our lab and INI-Research:
Adaptation, transmission and infection of West Nile virus in the mammalian host.
Students/ Visiting Students:
Bianca Weber (-452); University Hamburg