CIID Seminar Series

October 10, 2023: Hanna Lotter, Bernhard-Nocht-Institute Hamburg, on ‘Myeloid cells and sex difference in parasitic diseases’

October 17, 2023: CIID Seminar: Frauke Mücksch & Alexander Dalpke

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June 27, 2023: Thomas Otto, Glasgow: Exploring host-pathogen interaction with single cell transcriptomics - What are we missing?

June 20, 2023: Eike Steinmann, Ruhr-University Bochum: ‘Molecular Mechanisms of Hepatitis E Virus Replication’

June 6, 2023: Gary Ward, University of Vermont: ‘A multiscale approach to understanding the motility of Toxoplasma tachyzoites’

May 30, 2023: Mohsan Saeed, NEIDL/Boston University: ‘Defining viral and host factors of SARS-CoV-2 pathogenesis’

May 16, 2023: Nihal Altan-Bonnet, NIH: ‚What Viruses do to Infect YOU!‘

May 9, 2023: Internal CIID seminar: Markus Ganter & Marco Binder

May 2, 2023: Michael Elbaum, Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel, on ‚New methods of electron cryo-tomography and their application to the Plasmodium asexual cell cycle‘

April 25, 2023: Nicolas Chaumont, Montreal: ‘Characterization of HIV reservoirs’

April 18, 2023: Christine Goffinet, Berlin: Interferon, drugs and viral antagonism: A complex triad in SARS-CoV-2 therapy and HIV-1 cure

April 4, 2023: Florence Margottin-Gouget, Paris: ‘Molecular conflict between HUSH and divergent lentiviral proteins of the Vpr/Vpx family’

March 28, 2023: Simone Reber, Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology: ‘Microtubule dynamics: functional adaptation to temperature’

March 21, 2023: Heinrich Hoffmann, Rockefeller University New York: A tale of betrayal: TMEM41B's role in flavivirus and coronavirus replication

March 14, 2023: CIID Seminar: Alessia Ruggieri & Vibor Laketa

February 28, 2023: Axel Roers, Heidelberg: ‘Immune mis-regulation resulting from aberrant chronic activation of cell-intrinsic anti-viral immunity’

February 21, 2023: Eric Westhof, Strasbourg: ‘The 5'UTR RNA in coronaviruses and initiation of translation’

February 14, 2023: Marina Lusic, Heidelberg: ‘HIV-1 integration and latency in microglia, brain reservoir cells’

February 7, 2023: Nicolai Siegel, LMU Munich: ‘The benefit of being different: understanding cell-to-cell heterogeneity in pathogens’

January 31, 2023: Ulrike Lange, Hamburg: Crosstalk between proviral and human DNA in chronic HIV-1 infection

January 17, 2023: Martin Beer, Greifswald: Panzootic highly pathogenic avian influenza - what has changed?

• January 18: Wolfgang Schamel, Freiburg: Blocking the virus-induced translation shutdown in CoV-infected cells

• January 25: 2022: Joachim Rocklöv, Institute of Global Health, Heidelberg: Infectious Disease and Climate Change

• February 15, 2022: Barbara Rehermann, NIH: Immunology of chronic hepatitis B and D: beyond virus specific T cells

• February 22, 2022: Chase Beisel, HIRI Würzburg: From CRISPR biology to versatile technologies

• March 15, 2022: Björn Mexer, Magdeburg: Defective viral particles: what we have learned from RNAs and proteins – a work in progress’

• March 26, 2022: Oliver T. Keppler, LMU Munich: CD32 drives autoantibody-enhanced trogocytosis to facilitate HIV-1 infection of resting CD4 T cells

• May 17, 2022: Michael Diamond, St. Louis: ‘Innate and adaptive immune protection against emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants’

• June 7, 2022: Tal Amon, Oxford: ‘Spatiotemporal regulation of adaptive immune responses’

• June 21,2022: Justin Bailey, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore: ‘Convergent evolution of human bNAb lineages associated with control of HCV infection’

• September 20: Lars-Anders Carlsson, Umea. ‘In situ structural studies of the different replication strategies used by enteroviruses and alphaviruses’

• October 18: Pietro Scaturro, Hamburg: Orthogonal proteomics to unlock (Re-)Emerging viruses

• October 25: Jonathan Carn, Cleveland: ‘Control of HIV latency and reactivation in T-cells and microglia cells: Two sides of the same coin

• November 15: Georg Wolff, EMBL Heidelberg: Cellular cryo-tomography of nidovirus replication organelles

• November 29: Stephen Goff, Columbia University New York: Silencing of Retroviral DNA Expression Before and After Integration.

• 26.01.2021
  Mamuka Kvaratskhelia, University of Colorado, Denver
  "HIV-1 capsid: why flexibility is important"
• 02.02.2021
  Jude Przyborski, Gießen
  "What a knob: Co-chaperone involvement in host cell modification by malaria parasites"
• 23.02.2021
  Brinda Emu, Yale University, New Haven
  "HIV and cancer"
• 23.03.2021
  Frauke Mücksch, Rockefeller University, New York
  "Human antibody responses against Sars-CoV-2"
• 30.03.2021
  Florian Krammer, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York
  "Antibody responses to Sars-CoV-2 infection and vaccination"
• 01.04.2021
  John Schoggins,
  "Host-based antiviral mechanisms targeting coronaviruses and flaviviruses"
• 20.04.2021
  Volker Thiel, Bern
  "Sars-CoV-2: from genome to function"
• 27.04.2021
  Xu Tan, Bejing
  "Proteomics and functional genomics of virus-host interaction"
• 06.-07.05.2021:
• International symposium of SFB1129
• 18.05.2021
  Paul Ahlquist, Madison
  "Mechanistic insights from structure-function studies of positive-strand RNA virus replication complexes"
• 27.05.2021
  Erwin Fodor, Oxford
  "The multifunctional RNA polymerase of influenza virus"
• 15.06.2021
  Jean-Laurent Casanova, New York
  "Genetic and immunological causes of life-threatening COVID-19"
• 28.06.2021
  Morgan Huse, New York
  "Mechanoregulation of lymphocyte cytotoxicity"
• 29.06.2021
  David Jacques, Sydney                                                                                                                                "Navigating the Nups: how HIV mediates its own nuclear entry"  
• September 21, 2021                                                                                                                                      Konstantin Sparrer, Ulm: "Sars-CoV-2 versus innate immunity
• September 28, 2021                                                                                                                                            Seema Lakdawala, Pittsburgh: "Visualizing Influenza virus assembly"
• October 19, 2021                                                                                                                                                   Akiko Iwasaki, Yale University: "Immune reactions to Sars-CoV-2"
• October 26, 2021                                                                                                                                                   Peter Mullen, USC: "Metabolic sensing in viral infections"
• November 30, 2021                                                                                                                                                   Stefanie Karst, University of Florida: "Host and microbial regulation of Norovirus pathogenesis"

• 15.12.2020
  Thomas Decker, Wien
  "A new look at interferon signalling"
• 01.12.2020
  Matthias Garten, Bethesda
  "Transport at the Malaria-red blood cell interface"
• 29.09.2020
  Stephanie Pfänder, Bochum
  "Coronavirus immune control and stability"
• 25.02.2020
  Jason Mercer, Birmingham UK
  "28h later: Pox viruses manipulate cell motility to promote viral spread"
• 18.02.2020
  Thomas Pietschmann, Hannover
  "Heterogeneity and plasticity: keys for HCV vaccine research"
• 29.01.2020
  Maria Joao Amorin, Oeiras
  "Dialogue between membrane-bound and liquid organelles during Influenza A virus infection"
• 21.01.2020
  Marco Vignuzzi, Paris
  "Experimental and comutational approaches to predict or alter virus evolution and population dynamics"

• 10.12.2019 – CIID Seminar
  Viet Loan Dao Thi, Virology Heidelberg
  "Hepatitis E Virus: enveloped or non-enveloped, which is more appealing?"
• 10.12.2019
  Daniel Sauter, Ulm
  "Inhibition of viral glycoprotein processing by guanylate binding proteins 2 and 5"
• 26.11.2019
  Musa Mhlanga, Cape Town
  "The epigenetics of innate immune memory"
• 19.11.2019 – CIID Seminar
  Barbara Müller, Virology Heidelberg
  "The Ins and Outs of HIV-1"
• 13.09.2019
  Jan Carette, Stanford
  "Genetic dissection of host factors essential for viral pathogens"
• 28.05.2019
  Anette Oxenius, ETH Zürich
  "Regulation of adaptive immunity in face of chronic viral infection"
• 23.04 2019
  Lars Dölken, Würzburg
  "scSLAM-seq and GRAND-SLAM reveal core features of the intrinsic immune response in single virus infected cells"
• 02.04.2019
  Nathalie Grandvaux, Montreal
  "Role of redox metabolism in the regulation of the antiviral response"
• 26.03.2019
  Peter Cherepanov, London
  "No loose ends, or how retroviruses integrate"
• 26.02.2019
  Matthias Fischer, Max Planck Institute for Medical Research Heidelberg
  "Genomic approaches for unraveling host-virophage coevolution in protozoa"
• 19.02.2019
  Thomas Hönen, Greifswald
  "Studying the molecular biology of filoviruses with reverse genetics"
• 29.01.2019
  Jeroen Kortekaas, Wageningen
  "Rift Valley Fever"

• 18.09.2018
  Hisashi Akiyama, Boston
  "Innate immune activation in HIV infection"
• 03.07.2018
  John Doorbar, Cambridge
• 29.05.2018
  Vincent Parissi, Bordeaux
• 24.04.2018
  Harald Wodrich, Bordeaux
  "In vivo labeling of adenovirus DNA identifies Chromatin anchoring and biphasic Genome replication"
• 26.03.2018
  Jan Münch, Ulm
  "Exploiting the human peptidome for novel antiviral and anticancer agents"
• 13.03.2018
  Bryan Cullen, Duke University
  "Viral epitranscriptomics"
• 06.02.2018
  Florian Greten
  "Inflammatory signalling in early and late stages of tumorigenesis"
• 30.01.2018
  Kashif Sadiq, Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies
  "Modelling Protease-triggered activation of HIV-1"

• 07.11.2017
  Denise Galloway
  "Preventive and therapeutic approaches for DNA Tumor viruses"
• 17.10.2017
  Peter Sarnow
  "Role of miRNA122 and circular RNA in the HCV life cycle"
• 10.10.2017
  Dahai Luo
  "Biogenesis and detection of flaviviral RNA"
• 09.10.2017
  Eric O. Freed, Frederick
  "HIV-1 assembly and maturation"
• 19.09.2017
  Eelco van Anken
  "ER stress and homeostasis"
• 05.09.2017
  Nicolas Locker
  "Unraveling the multifacted regulation of mRNA life by norovirus"
• 18.07.2017
  Stefan Wieland
• 20.06.2017
  Alexander Ploss
  "New insights into the biology of HEV and HDV host tropism"
• 25.04.2017
  Andrew Griffiths, Paris
  "High-throughput single cell Analysis"
• 20.04.2017
  Roberto Cattaneo
  "Insights into measles virus biology"
• 18.04.2017
  Adolfo Garcia-Sastre, New York
  "Influenza virus host interactions"
• 11.04.2017
  Melanie Ott, San Francisco
  "Epigenetic control of HIV latency"
• 14.03.2017
  Antonio Bertoletti
  "Engineering T-cells for the therapy of chronic HBV infection"
• 28.02.2017
  Yves Gaudin, Gif-sur-Yvette
  "Rabies virus replication factories are membrane-less organelles"

• 12.12.2016
  Peter Nagy, Lexington
  "Assembly of tombovirus replicase"
• 06.12.2016
  Luka Cicin-Sain, Braunschweig
  "Strategies for optimizing anti-tumoral CMV based vectors".
• 02.12.2016
  Petr Chlanda, Bethesda
  "Influenza Virus hemagglutinin: to fuse or to break trying"
• 08.11.2016
  Alexander Hoffmann, Los Angeles
  "Dynamics and noise of NFkappaB signalling"
• 25.10.2016
  Melanie Brinkmann, Braunschweig
  "Evasion of type I IFN Response by CMV"
• 18.10.2016
  Terry Dermody, Pittsburgh
  "A neural targeting receptor for reovirus"
• 11.10.2016
  Hal Drakesmith, Oxford
  "The role of iron and hepcidin in global health and antiviral immunity"
• 04.10.2016
  Michael Weekes, Cambridge
  "Insights into CMV immune evasion from quantitative multiplexed proteomics"
• 27.09.2016
  Gunnar Schotta, Munich
  "Chromatin based restriction of endogenous retroviruses"
• 15.09.2016
  Wesley Sundquist, Salt Lake City
  "Mechanistic studies of the ESCRT pathway"
• 06.09.2016
  Adam Grundhoff, Hamburg
• 29.07.2016
  Tim Lämmermann, Freiburg
  "Innate immune cell Dynamics at sites of inflammation and infection"
• 12.07.2016
  John Ziehbuhr
  "Nidovirales: special enzymes for very special viruses"
• 05.07.2016
  Julie Pfeiffer
  "How gut microbes enhance virus infectivity"
• 29.06.2016
  Charles M. Rice
  "HCV and beyond"
• 21.06.2016
  Christian Drosten, Bonn
  "Coronavirus evolution"
• 31.05.2016
  Hendrik Streeck, Essen
  "T follicular helper cells in chronic HIV-1 infection"
• 19.04.2016
  Martin Schwemmle
  "Reverse genetics of bat influenza viruses"
• 22.03.2016
  Musa Mhlanga, Pretoria
  "A tale of two lncRNAs in infection and immunity"
• 15.03.2016
  Ian Goodfellow, Cambridge
  "Control of innate immune response in  Norovirus infection"
• 24.02.2016
  Eric O. Freed, Frederick
  "HIV-1 assembly and maturation"
• 26.01.2016
  Torsten Schaller, Heidelberg
  "TypeI IFN induced post-entry blocks to HIV-1"

• 15.12.2015
  Stephan Becker, Marburg
  "Replication and Assembly of filoviruses"
• 17.11.2015
  Jens Bukh
  "Adaptation and neutralization studies of HCV"
• 27.10.2015
  Walther Mothes, Yale University
  "Visualizing individual steps in the retroviral life cycle in living animals and at the single molecule Level"
• 29.9.2015
  Massimo Pizzato, Trento
  "SERINC5, a transmembrane Inhibitor ofg retroviral replication"
• 26.05.2015
  Anna Cereseto, Trento
  "3D analysis of retrovirus nuclear interactions"
• 12.05.2015
  Friedemann Weber
  "Induction and Suppression of IFN Response by RNA viruses"
• 14.04.2015
  Misha Kozlov, Tel Aviv
  "A model for ER morphologies"
• 07.04.2015
  Robert Garcea, Boulder
  "Virus assembly factories in polyoma virus infected cells"
• 27.01.2015
  Greg Towers, London
  "HIV versus intracellular innate immunity"
• 13.01.2015
  Alexander Khromykh, Brisbane
  "Viral factors determining the outcome of West Nile Virus infection"

• 16.12.2014
  Christiane Wobus, Ann Arbor
  "What murine norovirus teaches us about norovirus biology"
• 25.10.2014
  Stuart Neil, London
  "The Ys and wherefores of tetherin's action and HIV-1 counteraction"
• 07.10.2014
  Gerald Hammond
  "The complex role of inositol lipids in cell biology"
• 30.09.2014
  Kay Grünewald, Oxford
• 23.09.2014
  Andrew Mouland
  "HIV-1 induced disassembly of stress granules"
• 22.07.2014
  Baek Kim, Atlanta
  "Restricting HIV-1 reverse transcription kinetics by SAMHD1"
• 15.07.2014
  Mario Schelhaas
  "Human papillomavirus entry into host cells"
• 29.04.2014
  Leo James, Cambridge
• 25.03.2014
  Marina Lusic, Trieste
  "Regulation of HIV-1 integration site selection through chromatin structure"
• 14.01.2014
  Paul Walther, Ulm
  "3D imaging of high-pressure frozen cells with SEM"

• 19.11.2013
  Stanley Lemon
  "Membrane hijacking and the pathogenesis of Hepatitis A"
• 12.11.2013
  Ulf Dittmer, Essen
  "The role of Tregs in retroviral infections"
• 15.10.2013
  Michael Diamond
  "Immune evasion and host control of alphavirus and flavivirus infection"
• 16.07.2013
  Ali Amara, Paris
  "Dengue viruses expolit TIM and TAM for virus entry"
• 02.07.2013
  Itay Rousso, Beer Sheva
  "Physical properties of retroviruses"
• 11.06.2013
  Thomas Peters, Lübeck
  "Insights into virus infections from NMR"
• 28.05.2013
  Matthias Hornef, Hannover
  "The intestinal epithelium in host-microbial interaction"
• 30.04.2013
  Renate König, Langen
  "Restriction of HIV-1 replication in myeloid cells"
• 16.04.2013
  Ari Helenius, Zürich
  "Five pathways of virus entry"

• 11.12.2012
  Bryan Cullen, Duke University
  "Viruses and miRNAs"
• 04.12.2012
  John Schoggins, Dallas
  "Antiviral IFN effectors"
• 20.11.2012
  Javier Martinez-Picado, Barcelona
  "Rapid HIV-1 disease progression"
• 13.11.2012
  Roberto Cattaneo, Mayo Clinic
  "New receptors for old viruses"
• 06.11.2012
  Jan Rehwinkel
  "How RIG-I and SAMHD1 protect against viruses"
• 30.10.2012
  Roberto Speck, Zürich
  "Humanized Mice for studying HIV"
• 23.10.2012
  Chae-Ok Jun
  "Smart nanoconjugate platforms for administration of adenoviruses"
• 17.07.2012
  Eva Harris, Berkeley
  "Natural and therapeutic antibodies and B-cell response against Dengue virus"
• 26.06.2012
  Steeve Boulant, Virology Heidelberg
  "From virus entry to innate immune sensing"
• 17.04.2012
  Andrew Bowie
  "Activation and evasion of host pattern recognition receptor signalling by viruses"
• 10.04.2012
  Michael Hoelscher, Munich
  "From bedside to bench: how clinical studies can inspire basic research"
• 28.02.2012
  Nicolas Manel, Paris
  "Innate sensing of HIV by dendritic cells"
• 21.02.2012
  Raffaele DiFrancesco, Milan
  "Interaction of HCV with host cell lipids"
• 31.01.2012
  Andrew Lever, Cambridge
  "HIV RNA packaging and assembly"
• 17.01.2012
  Richard Kuhn, West Lafayette
  "Assembly and replication of Dengue virus"

• 13.12.2011
  Amalio Telenti, Lausanne
  "HIV restriction factors"
• 18.10.2011
  Brett Lindenbach, New Haven
  "Genetics, biochemistry and imaging of HCV assembly"
• 27.09.2011
  Matthias Fischer, Heidelberg
  "The puzzling evolution of giant DNA viruses"
• 21.06.2011
  Hansjörg Hauser, Braunschweig
  "Dynamics of IFN signalling"
• 03.05.2011
  Michael Kozlov, Tel Aviv
  "Modeling membrane shaping by proteins"
• 19.04.2011
  Richard Vile, Rochester
  "Oncolytic virotherapy and tumor immunology"
• 12.04.2011
  Robert Thimme, Freiburg
  "Adaptive immune responses to HIV infections"
• 29.03.2011
  Marc Sitbon, Marseille
  "Retroviral receptors and nutrient transporters"
• 15.03.2011
  Andrew Davidson, Bristol
  "Dengue virus pathogenesis"
• 01.03.2011
  Philip Stevenson, Cambridge
  "Tracking herpesvirus entry"
• 26.02.2011
  Adam Grundhoff, Hamburg
  "Epigenetic determinants of KSHV latency"
• 15.02.2011
  Pablo Gastaminza, Madrid
  "HCV infection in tissue culture"
• 01.02.2011
  Thomas Baumert, Strasbourg
  "HCV and hepatocellular carcinoma"
• 26.01.2011
  Zeger Debyser, Leuven
  "Cellular cofactors of HIV integrase"

• 16.12.2010
  Stefan Taube, Ann Arbor
  "The role of glycans in Norovirus entry"
• 14.12.2010
  Eliane Meurs
  "HCV and the control of IFN induction"
• 30.11.2010
  Veit Hornung, Bonn
  "Inflammasomes: IL-1 mediated inflammation and beyond"
• 16.11.2010
  Mark Harris, Leeds
  "Dysregulation of cellular metabolic pathways by HCV"
• 03.11.2010
  George Banting, Bristol
  "Links between tetherin, the actin cytoskeleton and lipd rafts (with a mention of Vpu)"
• 26.10.2010
  Alessandro Marcello, Trieste
  "Virus replication dynamics: Insights from HIV and flaviviruses"
• 21.09.2010
  Volker Thiel
  "Coronaviruses – more than SARS"
• 20.09.2010
  Eckhardt Wimmer, Stony Brook
• 20.07.2010
  Jane McKeating, Birmingham
  "The complexities of HCV entry"
• 13.07.2010
  Christian Eggeling, Göttingen
  "Nanoscale membrane dynamics revealed by far-field STED fluorescence microscopy"
• 29.06.2010
  Cristina Risco, Madrid
  "Studying virus factories and cell architecture with new high resolution imaging techniques"
• 15.06.2010
  Klemens Rottner, Braunschweig
  "Dissection of cortactin function in cell motility and host-pathogen interaction"
• 29.03.2010
  Felix Rey, Paris
  "Structural organisation of the Chikungunya virus surface glycoprotein shell: allosteric activation for entry upon interactions with receptor"
• 16.03.2010
  Otto Haller, Freiburg
  "Innate immunity to influenza viruses"
• 26.01.2010
  Beate Sodeik, Hannover
  "Herpes simplex virus: a hitch hiker's guide trough the cell"
• 19.01.2010
  Detlev Krüger, Berlin
  "Evolution and molecular virology of Dobravavirus"
• 12.01.2010
  Andreas Pichelmair, Vienna
  "Exploiting viral know how to study antiviral immunity"

• 15.12.2009
  Jolanda Smit, Groningen
  "Early events in flavivirus replication"
• 24.11.2009
  David Teis, Innsbruck
  "The regulated assembly of ESCRT-III machinery controls MVB vesicle formation"
• 03.11.2009
  Michaela Gack, Southborough
  "RIG-I- and TRIM25-mediated antiviral innate immunity and viral evasion of Influenza virus"
• 27.10.2009
  Fabian Leendertz, Berlin
  "Zoonotic Potential of Pathogens from Tropical Rainforests"
• 06.10.2009
  Peter Tattersall, New Haven
  "Role of capsid structure and dynamics in the parvovirus life cycle"
• 08.09.2009
  Bryan Cullen, Durham
  "Viruses and miRNAs"
• 30.06.2009
  Christof von Kalle, Heidelberg
  "Genetic modification of blood forming stem cells with viral and synthetic vectors"
• 26.05.2009
  Clare Jolly, London
  "HIV-1 cell transmission"
• 19.05.2009
  Peter Aichele
  "Direct impact of type I interferons and IL-12 on CD8 cells in the context of viral and bacterial infections"
• 21.04.2009
  Luis Enjuanes, Madrid
  "Gene expression and protection in coronaviruses"
• 07.04.2009
  Charles Bangham, London
  "How does HTLV-1 persist in vivo?"
• 31.03.2009
  Markus Thali, Burlington
  "Tetraspanin functions in HIV replication"
• 24.02.2009
  Teunis Geijtenbek, Amsterdam
  "Dendritic subsets in HIV infection"
• 17.02.2009
  Glen Randall, Chicago
  "Illuminating HCV replication"
• 27.01.2009
  Ludger Johannes, Paris
• 20.01.2009
  Greg Towers, London
  "Catch me if you can – innate restriction of viral infection"

• 16.12.2008
  Bruno Carnard, Marseille
  "Structural and functional studies of flavivirus replicases and their use for drug design"
• 18.11.2008
  Volker Haucke, Berlin
  "Regulation of adapter-mediated endosomal membrane dynamics"
• 28.10.2008
  Thomas Lengauer, Saarbrücken
  "Chasing the virus: computer help for treating AIDS patients"
• 21.10.2008
  Camille Sureau, Paris
  "Viral entry determinants of the HBV envelope proteins"
• 02.10.2008
  Mike Summers, Baltimore
  "NMR studies of retroviral genome packaging and assembly"
• 24.07.2008
  Beatrice Hahn, University of Alabama
  "Tracing AIDS to its zoonotic routes"
• 08.07.2008
  Heinrich Leonhardt, Munich
  "Visualization and Manipulation of the Invisible with Tools from the Desert and a bad Illumination"
• 17.06.2008
  Andrew Bowie, Dublin
  "Learning from viruses about host immune signalling pathways"
• 10.06.2008
  Adolfo Garcia-Sastre, New York
  "Induction and inhibition of the type I interferon response by RNA viruses"
• 27.05.2008
  Frank Buchholz, Dresden
• 20.05.2008
  Tero Ahola, Helsinki
  "Structure and function of the membraneous replication complex of alphaviruses"
• 05.05.2008
  Ramon Alemany, Barcelona
• 29.04.2008
  Santos Manes, Madrid
• 15.04.2008
  Thilo Stehle, Tübingen
  "How do viruses engage their receptors?"
• 25.03.2008
  Jürgen Haas, Edinburgh
  "Systems Virology"
• 26.02.2008
  Kay Grünewald, Munich
  "Approaching cell biology of virus infection by cryo-electron tomography"
• 19.02.2008
  Georg Kochs, Freiburg
  "Factors leading to high virulence of an exceptional mouse-adapted human influenza A virus"
• 29.01.2008
  Klaus Überla, Bochum
  "Role of the lentiviral Rev protein in genomic RNA packaging and novel immunization strategies against HIV"

• 18.12.2007
  Michael Nassal
  "Chaperone-dependent protein-primed reverse transcription by hepatitis B viruses"
• 11.12.2007
  Mario Schelhaas, Zürich
  "Probing the entry of the small DNA viruses, SV40 and HPV16:From cell surface motion to uncoating"
• 27.11.2007
  Hartmut Hengel, Düsseldorf
  "Cytomegalovirus evasion from innate and adaptive immune responses"
• 30.10.2007
  Alexandra Trkola, Zürich
  "HIV immunization – neutralization and beyond"
• 25.09.2007
  Johnson Mak, Melbourne
  "HIV assembly – from a probe of lipid membrane biology to manipulating the evolution of HIV-1"
• 25.04.2007
  Jonathan Yewdell, Bethesda
  "Generating MHC classI ligands from DRiPs"
• 24.04.2007
  Urs Greber, Zürich
  "Time resolved imaging of viral infection processes"
• 27.03.2007
  Ulrike Protzer, Cologne
  "How cytokines and T-cells control hepatitis B virus"
• 27.02.2007
  Ben Berkhout, Amsterdam
  "Towards an RNAi gene therapy of HIV-1"
• 30.01.2007
  Steve Fuller, Oxford
  "Electron microscopy reveals how HIV cheats during assembly and infection"

• 28.11.2006
  Dirk Lindemann, Dresden
  "Foamy virus egress"
• 31.10.2006
  Juan Martin-Serrano, London
  "The role of cellular proteins in enveloped virus budding and endosomal sorting"
• 18.07.2006
  Jonathan Stoye, London
  "A collection of retroviral restriction factors"
• 30.05.2006
  Nicole Fischer, Hamburg
  "Identification of a novel gammaretrovirus in prostate tumors homozygous for a RANSL variant using DNA microarrays"
• 25.04.2006
  Thomas Menees, Kansas City
  "Host factors and retroviral RNA dynamics"
• 21.03.2006
  Hans-Dieter Klenk, Marburg
  "Interspeziestransmission und Wirtsadaption bei Influenzaviren"
• 14.02.2006
  Charles Bangham, London
  "How does HTLV-I persist?"
• 31.01.2006
  Jeremy Luban, New York
  "TRIM5, Cyclophilin A and Innate Resistance to HIV-1"

• 17.11.2005
  Peter Palese, New York
  "Reconstruction and characterization of the extinct 1918 Influenza virus"
• 25.10.2005
  Christopher Baum, Hannover
  "Retroviral transgenesis and oncogenesis"
• 27.09.2005
  Simon Wain-Hobson, Paris
  "Genetic editing of retroviruses to death"
• 19.07.2005
  Winfried Weissenhorn, Grenoble
  "Structures of cellular factors implicated in multivesicular body formation and enveloped virus budding"
• 05.07.2005
  Francois-Loic Cosset, Lyon
  "Retrovirus pseudotyping: assembly mechanisms, engineering and properties Birke Bartosch, Lyon4717 Infectious HCV pseudo-particles: New insights into HCV cell-entry and neutralisation"
• 26.04.2005
  Quentin Sattentau, Oxford
  "T-cell complicity in HIV spread"
• 12.04.2005
  Bryan Cullen, Durham
  "Expression and function of human microRNAs"
• 29.03.2005
  Michael Malim, London
  "Natural resistance to HIV infection: the Vif-APOBEC interaction"
• 22.02.2005
  Axel Rethwilm, Würzburg
  "Molecular Biology of Foamy viruses"
• 18.01.2005
  Maik Lehmann, New Haven
  "Actin- and myosin-driven surfing of viruses along filopodia precedes their entry into cells"

• 30.11.2004
  Egbert Flory, Langen
  "Mitogenic signaling pathways involved in lentivirus-induced acute lethal enteropathy"
• 26.10.2004
  Olivier Schwartz, Paris
  "HIV, dendritic cells and lymphocytes: virological and immunological interactions"
• 01.10.2004
  Eric O. Freed, Frederick
  "Novel insights into HIV assembly and maturation"
• 30.09.2004
  Wes Sundquist, Salt Lake City
  "Biochemistry of HIV budding"
• 28.09.2004
  Albert Osterhaus, Rotterdam
  "Emerging virus infections in a changing world"
• 06.07.2004
  Jitka Forstova, Prague
  "Mouse polyomavirus: Interactions of virions with host cell structures"
• 01.06.2004
  Stefan Pöhlmann, Erlangen
  "Functional analysis of the S protein of the SARS coronavirus"
• 27.04.2004
  Franz Heinz, Vienna
  "The tick-borne encephalitis virus model of flavivirus envelope glycoprotein structure and function"
• 23.03.2004
  Felix Rey, Gif-sur-Yvette
  "Crystal Structures of the low-pH triggered membrane-fusion form of the alpha- and flavivirus envelope proteins"
• 24.02.2004
  Mark Marsh, London
  "Intracellular assembly of HIV"
• 04.02.2004
  John Briggs, Oxford
  "Determining the quantity of Gag in the HIV virion"
• 27.01.2004
  Carsten Münk, Langen
  "Post-entry restrictions of HIV-1 in simian cells"

• 25.11.2003
  Ari Helenius, Zürich
  "Pathways of virus entry into animal cells"
• 18.10.2003
  Christian Drosten, Hamburg
  "SARS"
• 14.10.2003
  Eckard Wimmer, Stony Brook
  "Replication and pathogenesis of a chemical called poliovirus"
• 30.09.2003
  Urs Greber, Zürich
  "Adenovirus entry"
• 22.07.2003
  Ulrich Koszinowski, Munich
  "Genome wide and gene specific approaches to cytomegalovirus functions"
• 21.07.2003
  Nat Landau, La Jolla
  "Restrictions to HIV replication in small animal models"
• 14.07.2003
  Art Alberts, Grand Rapids
  "Formin dynamics in cytoskeletal remodeling"
• 17.06.2003
  Harald Wodrich, La Jolla
  "Nuclear transport in adenoviral replication: Functional roles for proteins VI and VII"
• 20.05.2003
  Stephan Becker, Marburg
  "VP40, the matrix protein of filoviruses: molecular characterization and intracellular transport"
• 29.04.2003
  Wolfgang Hammerschmidt, Munich
  "Molecular functions of latent genes in Epstein-Barr virus-infected human B cells"