Prof. Dr. Jens Bosse participates in RESIST research project D3.

My Research Interest in RESIST

Our research focus in RESIST is illuminating the rules that govern the dynamic assembly of herpesviruses in infected cells. Right now, we know little about the virus particle intermediates in their native cellular environment. Using live-cell microscopy and three-dimensional electron microscopy, we can define how and where viruses assemble at single-particle precision. Using this knowledge will enable our colleagues and us in RESIST to identify potential bottlenecks in viral productivity as specific pharmacological target structures. 

Prof. Bosse about his scientific work

This Video was recorded in 2021.

Prof. Dr. Jens Bosse – Curriculum Vitae

Current Position

  • Since 2020 Junior Professor, RESIST at CSSB Hamburg

Undergraduate and Postgraduate Training

  • 2002 – 2008 Studies in Molecular Biotechnology, RWTH Aachen

  • 2005 B.Sc. in Molecular Biotechnology, RWTH Aachen

  • 2008 M.Sc. in Molecular Biotechnology, RWTH Aachen

  • 2011 PhD (Dr. rer. nat.; Supervisor Prof. Dr. med. U. Koszinowski)

Academic and Research Posts

  • 2011 – 2015 Post-doctoral research fellow at Princeton University, USA  (with Lynn Enquist)

  • 2015 – 2016 DFG Return Fellow at Heinrich Pette Institute (HPI), Hamburg

  • 2016 – 2020 Head of subgroup “Quantitative Virology” in the Dept. Of Structural Cell Biology of Viruses

  • 2018 – 2020 Head of Light microscopy core and Nikon Center of Excellence, Heinrich Pette Institute (HPI), Hamburg

Other Scientific Roles

  • Since 2022 Ad hoc Reviewer for DFG, Institute Pasteur, ANR and SNF

  • Since 2018 Member of the advisory board of the UKE Microscopy Imaging Facility, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg 

  • Since 2015 Peer reviewer for Nature Microbiology, Journal of Virology, PLoS Pathogens, Scientific Reports, FEBS letters, mSphere, Viruses etc.

Awards and Prizes

  • 2006 Heinrich-Hertz Foundation visiting fellowship, University of Cambridge, UK

  • 2006 – 2008 German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung) Student Fellowship

  • 2009 – 2011 German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung) Graduate Student Fellowship

  • 2013 – 2015 DFG Postdoctoral Fellowship

  • 2015 DFG Return Fellowship

  • 2016 Robert-Koch Postdoctoral Award

  • 2018 – 2025 Wellcome Trust Collaborative Award

Recommended Links

For further information about Prof. Bosse’s scientific work please check the following links:

10 Selected Publications

Sterrenberg VT, Stalling D , Knaack JIH, Soh TK., Bosse JB*, Meier C*. A TriPPPro-Nucleotide Reporter with Optimized Cell-Permeable Dyes for Metabolic Labeling of Cellular and Viral DNA in Living Cells. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 18; 62(38): e202308271 (2023). Open access.

Flomm F, Soh TK, Britt H, Schneider C, Wedemann L, Britt HM, Thalassinos K, Pfitzner S, Reimer R, Grünewald K, Bosse JB (2022) Intermittent bulk release of Human Cytomegalovirus. PLoS Pathogens, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1010575

Caragliano E, Bonazza S, Frascaroli G, Tang J, Soh TK, Grünewald K, Bosse JB*, Brune W* (2022) Human cytomegalovirus forms phase-separated compartments at viral genomes to facilitate viral replication. Cell Reports, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2022.110469

Bosse JB, Hogue IB, Feric M, Thiberge SY, Sodeik B, Brangwynne CP, Enquist LW (2015) Remodeling nuclear architecture allows efficient transport of herpesvirus capsids by diffusion. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 112:E5725–E5733.

Hagen C*, Dent KC*, Zeev-Ben-Mordehai T*, Grange M*, Bosse JB*, Whittle C, Klupp BG, Siebert CA, Vasishtan D, Bäuerlein FJB, Cheleski J, Werner S, Guttmann P, Rehbein S, Henzler K, Demmerle J, Adler B, Koszinowski U, Schermelleh L, Schneider G, Enquist LW, Plitzko JP, Mettenleiter TC, Grünewald K (2015) Structural Basis of Vesicle Formation at the Inner Nuclear Membrane. Cell 163:1692-701.

Bosse JB, Virding S, Thiberge SY, Scherer J, Wodrich H, Ruzsics Z, Koszinowski UH, Enquist LW, Racaniello VR (2014) Nuclear Herpesvirus Capsid Motility Is Not Dependent on F-Actin. mBio 5:429-14.

Hogue IB, Bosse JB, Hu J-R, Thiberge SY, Enquist LW (2014) Cellular mechanisms of alphaherpesvirus egress: live-cell fluorescence microscopy of pseudorabies virus exocytosis. PLoS Pathog 10:e1004535.

Granstedt AE, Bosse JB, Thiberge SY, LW Enquist (2013) In vivo imaging of alphaherpesvirus infection reveals synchronized activity dependent on axonal sorting of viral proteins. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 110: E3516-25.

Bosse JB, Bauerfeind R, Popilka L, Marcinowski L, Taeglich M, Jung C, Striebinger H, von Einem J, Gaul U, Walther P, Koszinowski UH, Ruzsics Z (2012) A Beta-herpesvirus with fluorescent capsids to study transport in living cells. PLoS One 7:e40585.

Maninger, S*, Bosse JB*, Lemnitzer F, Pogoda M, Mohr CA, von Einem J, Walther P, Koszinowski UH, Ruzsics Z (2011) M94 Is Essential for the Secondary Envelopment of Murine Cytomegalovirus. J Virol 85:9254-67.

Contact

  Prof. Dr. Jens Bosse
  Centre for Structural Systems Biology (CSSB)
Quantitative Virology, HPI Hamburg
  Notkestraße 85
22607 Hamburg
  +49 40 899887645
  bosse.jens
@mh-hannover.de