Meet the team
Scientific Staff
Mine Altinli (-452)
Mine works on the project regarding MSV-arbovirus interaction, MSV-mosquito interaction and the antiviral RNAi response in mosquitoes.
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:
Marlis Badusche (- 452)
Bernhard Zibrat (- 452)
PhD-students:
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?
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
Melinda Reuter
She works on the DFG funded project:
RNAi-based adaptive immunity in Aedes aegypti against arboviruses.
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.
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