CIID Seminar Series

Heidelberg Virology Seminar

Supported by the Chica and Heinz Schaller Foundation Heidelberg
and the Collaborative Research Center SFB 1129

Tuesdays at 5.15 p.m., SR003/004, CIID

1st week of the month: Guest speaker hosted by Parasitology

2nd week of the month: Internal CIID seminar

3rd week of the month: Guest speaker hosted by Molecular Virology

4th week of the month: Guest speaker hosted by Virology

Next seminars:

17^th February: Emiliano Ricci, Lyon - Virus replication from the ribosome’s point of view

24th February: Anna Cereseto, Trento - tba

February 3, 2026: Anna Bachmann, Hamburg - P. falciparum virulence proteins as drivers of disease and persistence
January 27, 2026: Ran Taube, Ben Gurion University - Role of host non coding RNAs in regulating HIV gene expression
January 20, 2026: Marvin Tanenbaum, Utrecht - Dissecting viral infection dynamics by live-cell single-molecule imaging

December 16, 2025: Isabella Eckerle, Geneva Centre for Emerging Viral Diseases
University Hospitals of Geneva - Emerging viruses – where public health, diagnostics and translational research meet
December 2, 2025: Matt Marti, Zurich - Investigating the pathobiology of malaria across scales
November 25, 2025: Dirk Baumjohann, Bonn - Ex vivo modeling of T follicular helper cell differentiation and function
November 18, 2025: Jeppe Vinther, Copenhagen - FAD stacking enables selective RNA-dependent RNA polymerase elongation of HCV RNA
November 4, 2025: Iris Bruchhaus, Würzburg – Molecular Mechanisms of Host-Pathogen Crosstalk at Biological Barriers: From Entamoeba histolytica and Plasmodium falciparum
October 28, 2025: Peter Reuther, Freiburg – Leaving Scars? Fate-mapping and characterization of airway epithelial cells surviving an acute influenza A virus infection in vivo
October 21, 2025: Didier Trono, Lausanne – The endovirome, its epigenetic controllers and the species-specificity of human biology
September 30, 2025: Lorenzo Brusini, Geneva – A Modular Chromosomal Passenger Complex Rewires Chromosome Segregation in Plasmodium berghei
September 16, 2025: Frank van Kuppeveld, Utrecht – Dissection of enterovirus translation, replication and innate immune responses by live single-cell imaging
September 9, 2025: Vivek Thacker & Hans-Georg Kräusslich – HIV-1 Maturation: What, How and Why
September 3, 2025: Noam Stern-Ginossar, Weizmann Institue of Science - Profiling infection: from manipulation of gene expression to functional genomics
July 29, 2025: Christoph Zimmer, Würzburg - Shedding light on pathogens with advanced imaging or AI
July 15, 2025: Lena Allweiss, Hamburg - Host-virus and virus-virus interactions in HBV/HDV co-infected patients and humanized mice
July 1, 2025: Justin Boddey, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute - Chemovaccination with an antimalarial targeting late liver-stages induces durable immunity against malaria
June 24, 2025: Morgane Bomsel, Institut Cochin - HIV reservoirs in human macrophages and megakaryocytes and their cross talk
June 17, 2025: Troels Scheel, Copenhagen – Non-canonical capping protects viral RNA from innate immune sensing
June 3, 2025: Ger van Zandbergen, Paul-Ehrlich-Institut – Biomedicine regulation and basic research in Paul Ehrlich Institut
May 12, 2025: Peter Simmonds, Oxford – The evolution of HCV and other RNA viruses on micro- and macro-evolutionary timescales
May 6, 2025: Joel Rodriguez-Vega, NIH – How Mosquito Adaptation to Hematophagy Shaped the Transmission of Malaria Parasites
April 29, 2025: Wolfgang Kastenmüller, Würzburg – Cellular orchestration of antiviral immune responses
April 15, 2025: Friedemann Weber, Gießen: Anti-interferon strategies of phleboviruses
April 1, 2025: Gabriele Pradel, Aachen: What makes a man a man: Polygenic sex determination in malaria parasites
March 25, 2025: Linda Brunotte, Münster University: Immunology and evolution of highly pathogenic H5Nx viruses
March 18, 2025: Caroline Goujon, Montpellier: Intrinsic and innate immune defenses against RNA viruses
March 3, 2025: Steeve Boulant, University of Florida: Impact of the intestinal hypoxic environment on host / enteric pathogen interactions: a viral and eukaryotic parasite perspective
February 25, 2025: Kay Grünewald, CSSB Hamburg: Conformational flexibility and molecular plasticity in herpesvirus entry and egress
February 18, 2025: Thomas Baumert, Strasbourg: Claudin-1: from HCV entry to discovery of novel therapeutics for fibrosis and cancer
January 28, 2025: Linos Vandekerckhove, Ghent University: Challenges to link the viral reservoir to rebounding (HIV) virus upon treatment interruption

December 17, 2024: Anja Ehrhardt, Witten/Herdecke – Novel engineering platforms to improve efficacy and safety of adenoviral vectors in therapeutic applications
November 26, 2024: Jens Bosse, Hannover / CSSB Hamburg: From in silico to in cellulo: illuminating viral morphogenesis
November 5, 2024: Ron Dzikowsk, Hebrew University, Jerusalem – Surprises on the long path to understand Immune evasion by malaria parasites
October 22, 2024: Franziska Blaeschke, KiTZ: Pooled CRISPR Knockin Screens: Reprogramming Therapeutic T Cells
October 15, 2024: Stéphane Bressanelli, I2BC – Structural virology in the age of accurate protein structure predictions: Tough cases from membrane remodeling proteins of hepatitis E and human noroviruses
June 27, 2024: Marlene Dreux, Lyon: Antiviral response by Plasmacytoid dendritic cells against virally-infected cells
June 18, 2024,15.30-18.00: Tilman Friedland, BioNTech: mRNA vaccines: development - status - beyond
June 18, 2024: Ivan Nikolay Zheludev, Stanford University: Viroid-like colonists of human microbiomes
June 17, 2024: John Schoggins, Dallas: Interferon-mediated antiviral strategies in humans, bats, and beyond
May 28, 2024: Beatriz Escudero, BNI Hamburg: From the bench to the field: the study of emerging zoonotic viruses
May 21, 2024: Ben Hale, Zürich: Type I Interferon Autoantibodies and Severe Viral Disease
May 7, 2024: Philipp Olias, Gießen: The reprogramming and exploitation of host cells by transforming Theileria parasites
April 16, 2024: Norbert Tautz, Lübeck: Temporal regulation of polyprotein function in pestiviruses - how to switch between RNA replication and virion morphogenesis
April 23, 2024: Elena Jimenez Ruiz, Munich: Conoid Methylation: A Key Player in Motility Initiation in Toxoplasma gondii
March 26, 2024: Brad Jones, New York: Engaging cellular immunity to cure HIV
March 19, 2024: Karim Majzoub, Montpellier: Deltavirus infection in human and animal hosts
March 5, 2024: Christoph Grevelding, Gießen – Schistosome sex matters: peeking through the RNAseq keyhole on the dangerous love affair of a unique blood fluke
February 27, 2024: Andreas Schlitzer, Bonn: Spatial-temporal regulation of mononuclear phagocyte function during health and disease
February 20: Meike Dittmann, New York: From Innate Responses to Transmission Dynamics: Insights into Respiratory Virus Defense and Viral Antagonism
February 6: Benjamin Mordmüller, Nijmegen: vaccines with impact
January 30, 2024: Florian Klein, Cologne: Exploring humoral immunity to prevent and treat infectious diseases
January 23, 2024: Joey Verdi, Heidelberg: Using the unique antibody response to trypanosome parasites to… prevent opioid overdose?
January 16, 2024: Thomas Pietschmann, Hannover: “Transcriptional dynamics of primary human lung cells acutely infected by respiratory syncytial virus”

November 27, 2023: Matthias Lichterfeld, Boston: ‘Immune selection of HIV-1 reservoir cells'

November 28, 2023: Dominik Niopek, Heidelberg: ‘Engineering Precision Control of CRISPR Effectors’

November 7, 2023: Photini Sinnis, Baltimore: "When is an Infected Mosquito an Infectious Mosquito?"

October 31, 2023: Gran Logan, Sydney, on ‘Obstacles and potential benefits of antibodies to AAV capsids - the Sydney experience stemming from SMA gene therapy’

October 24, 2023: Mathias Munschauer, Würzburg, on ‚An RNA-centric perspective on respiratory RNA viruses‘

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