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RESIST researchers highly regarded

RESIST members Prof. Li, Prof. McHardy and Prof. Werfel are among the most cited scientists in the world. This was the result of the latest analysis of scientific publications by Clarivate Analytics. The annual list of "Highly Cited Researchers" shows which publications in each discipline are among the one percent that have been cited the most in the past ten years. Prof. Li, Prof. McHardy and Prof. Werfel are listed in the "Cross-Field" category, which includes researchers who have an impact on science beyond their actual field of work. The entire list of "Highly Cited Researchers 2023" and further [...]

2023-11-29T12:29:45+01:00 16. November 2023|

RESIST at school

As part of the LeibnizLAB at the University of Hanover, RESIST research inspires schoolchildren What infectious agents are there? How big are they? How do they spread from person to person? The first lecture of the LeibnizLAB of the University of Hanover on the subject of infection biology, which focused on RESIST research, started with very vivid and exciting experiments on these questions as well as on transmission routes of viruses and bacteria and their detection. At this premiere on November 14, the two Master's students of Teaching and Plant Biotechnology, Torben and Dorian, presented the LeibnizLab on infection [...]

2023-11-15T13:29:10+01:00 15. November 2023|

RESIST at the MHH’s Open Day

At the stand of our Cluster of Excellence RESIST at the MHH Open Day on Saturday, November 11, guests were able to rub their hands with a special disinfectant that fluoresces under black light and check for themselves how well they had done. They could also win a prize in a quiz and take part in a guided tour of the MHH central laboratory. "I found the automation super exciting, the microscopic images of the urine and blood samples and the whole tour as a whole was vivid and engaging," said Maylin. Around 2,500 guests attended the open day, [...]

2023-11-13T12:44:59+01:00 13. November 2023|

Help with the analysis of large data sets

RESIST research teams who are generating large volumes of data now can get help analyzing these complex biomedical data. That’s because Hanan Begali recently joined the RESIST team as a bioformatician, where she is mentored by Prof. Depledge, Prof. Lauber and Prof. Galardini in the RESIST Biomedical Data Analysis Group (BDAG). Hanan Begali’s current projects include analyzing data sets generated by high-throughput sequencing and mass spectrometry. She will also analyze image data using certain artificial intelligence techniques, such as machine learning and deep learning approaches. She will further handle the development and maintenance of bioinformatics workflows, discuss data analysis [...]

2023-11-06T12:55:05+01:00 2. November 2023|

The second RESIST Satellite Symposium

This year's RESIST Satellite Symposium took place on October 5 at the Courtyard Hotel am Maschsee - as part of the international conference "Delta-Cure". This conference on hepatitis D virus infections was organized by the MHH Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, Infectiology and Endocrinology under the direction of Prof. Wedemeyer. This year, the satellite symposium was populated not only by researchers from the RESIST Cluster of Excellence but also from the D-Solve consortium. RESIST speaker Prof. Schulz and RESIST researcher Dr. Kefalakes welcomed the numerous guests and also guided them through the program, which consisted of seven lectures and two [...]

2023-11-06T10:59:15+01:00 17. October 2023|

16th Mini Herpesvirus Workshop

More than 100 enthusiastic herpesvirus researchers from 33 institutions and six countries participated at the 16th Mini Herpesvirus Workshop, held for the first time at the MHH on September 29, 2023. This annual meeting was organized by Prof. Depledge and Prof. Viejo-Borbolla from the MHH Institute of Virology. The scientific program, centered around virus-host interactions, gene expression and replication, latency and pathogenesis, included presentations from 35 participants – many of them young researchers. In addition, Dr. Hannah Burgess from the University of Surrey, UK, and Dr. Jia Zhu, Fred Hutch Cancer Centre & University of Washington, USA, each gave [...]

2023-10-05T10:10:54+02:00 5. October 2023|

Kaposi’s sarcoma herpesvirus: researchers develop inhibitors

Herpes viruses usually remain in the body permanently: they nest in the cells and also manage to be transferred from the mother to the daughter cells during cell division. In the case of Kaposi's sarcoma herpesvirus (KSHV), a specific viral protein called LANA is essential for the process of passing it on to daughter cells. It links the virus' DNA to the host cell's chromosomes, which are then divided and pass into the daughter cells. A team of scientists, including many RESIST researchers, has now succeeded in further developing substances that prevent LANA from binding to the viral DNA. [...]

2023-10-04T15:41:32+02:00 4. October 2023|

Welcome in RESIST

As a new member of RESIST we welcome PD Dr. Sabine Pirr. Why are newborns and especially premature infants so susceptible to severe infections compared to older children or adults? PD Dr. Sabine Pirr is investigating this question. In particular, she is focusing on the role of breast milk in the development of the immune system and microbiome of preterm infants. "Of particular interest to me are the cellular composition of breast milk, with changes over the course of breastfeeding, and the mechanisms of transmission and consecutive neonatal infections with human cytomegalovirus," she says. PD Dr. Pirr is a [...]

2023-10-05T16:35:20+02:00 26. September 2023|

RESIST visits CSSB

The team of the Center for Structural Systems Biology (CSSB) gave a warm welcome to seven RESIST members who came to visit on 29 August. First, the guests received general information about the center in the lecture hall from Prof. Kay Grünewald, the Scientific Director of the CSSB, who is also a RESIST researcher. Afterwards, the research of the 18 CSSB (including five associated) research groups and the four central facilities was presented to them in an interesting and descriptive way by the respective group leaders in short lectures. Prof. Blanche Schwappach-Pignataro, Chair of the CSSB Council and Dean [...]

2023-09-07T18:51:30+02:00 7. September 2023|

RESIST Summer Network Meeting

The 50 or so guests who came to this year's summer RESIST network meeting, which took place in and around TWINCORE on August 25, were lucky with the weather. Because shortly before it started in the afternoon, the sun replaced the rain and it shone until the evening. So RESIST co-speaker Prof. Förster could welcome all present on the terrace and meadow, after which everyone could enjoy a delicious barbecue buffet and have a relaxed chat. RESIST members exchanged ideas, made new and deepened existing contacts, while the children who had brought along were perfectly integrated into a fun [...]

2023-09-06T12:25:37+02:00 6. September 2023|
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