GRK 2046 Closing Symposium 2024, June 25-26

Our Research Training Group "Parasite Infection terminates in 2024. On June 25-26, 2024, we will have our closing symposium with invited speakers, PIs current and former doctoral students. You can download the program here . For RTG-external scientists a virtual participation will be possible via WebEx.

Location: Freie Universität Berlin Campus Düppel Veterinarium Progressum (House 9), 1st floor Robert-von-Ostertag-Str.7 14163 Berlin

BPS: Brian Lund Fredensborg

Guest Associate Professor Brian Lund Fredensborg, Ph.D. (University of Copenhagen, Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences Section for Organismal Biology, Frederiksberg C, Denmark) The art of zombification - Ecology of behavior-manipulating parasites Host Kai Matuschewski (Humbold-Universität zu Berlin)

Location: Molecular Parasitology (Humboldt-University Berlin) seminar room Philippstr. 13, House 14 10115 Berlin

BPS: Chandra Ramakrishnan

Guest Dr. Chandra Ramakrishnan (University of Zurich, Institute for Parasitology, Switzerland) Homes Sweet Homes - Host and niche diversity in coccidian parasites Host David Warschkau (Robert Koch Institute)

Location: Robert Koch Institute Seestr. 10, Seminar room S06.A.O1.011 13353 Berlin

BPS: Benjamin G. Dewals

Guest Prof. Dr. Benjamin G. Dewals (Liege University, Belgium) tba Host Alexandra Laubschat (Freie Universität Berlin)

Location: Freie Universität Berlin Campus Düppel RvO (Haus 35), SR 0.42 Robert-von-Ostertag-Str.7 14163 Berlin

Change of date! BPS: Franco Falcone

Change of date!! Guest Prof. Dr. Franco H. Falcone (Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, Germany) Scabies mites: what's itching? Does the interplay between parasitic pruritogens and host MRGPRX2/X4 explain the intense itching in scabies and the Mazzotti reaction? Host Toni Aebischer (Robert Koch Institute Berlin)

Location: Molecular Parasitology (Humboldt-University Berlin) seminar room Philippstr. 13, House 14 10115 Berlin

POSTPONED to 2024 - BPS: Joseph Turner

BPS postponed to 2024 Guest Prof. Joseph Turner, PhD (Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK) tba Host Luis Elizalde (Freie Universität Berlin)

Location: remote (WebEx Video conference)

ZIBI Students' Day GRK 2046-2

ZIBI Students' Day GRK 2046 / IMPRS-IDI Today, PhD students of GRK 2046 and IMPRS-IDI will give a talk about their progress in their scientific project and 3 PhD students will give a pitch talk about their projects' topic in parasitology research.

Location: Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology Seminar room 1/2 Charitéplatz 1 (internal address: Virchowweg 12) 10117 Berlin

German-African-Workshop "Parasite Infections in Global Health"

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Location: Freie Universität Berlin, Campus Düppel Veterinarium Progressum (Haus 9) Oertzenweg 19b 14163 Berlin

GRK 2046 Workshop Funding / Grant writing

Grant applications for postdoc fellowships Coach: Leonie Ringrose (ScienceKitchen) More information will follow.

Location: Freie Universität Berlin, Campus Düppel Veterinarium Progressum Oertzenweg 19b 14163 Berlin

Research Training Group 2046: Retreat 24. + 25.10.2023

Location: t.b.a.

BPS: Marc Faber (Disruptive technologies in veterinary GI-nematodes: From 3D organoid culture to spatial transcriptomics)

Guest Marc Nicholas Faber, Ph.D. (Moredun Research Institute, Midlothian, Scotland) Disruptive technologies in veterinary GI-nematodes: From 3D organoid culture to spatial transcriptomics Host Marta Silva Muniz (Freie Universität Berlin)

Location: Freie Universität Berlin Campus Düppel RvO (Haus 35), SR 0.42 Robert-von-Ostertag-Str.7 14163 Berlin

Postponed to Sept 26! BPS: Lisa Reynolds (Helminth infection-induced changes in intestinal metabolites and the consequences for intestinal immunity)

POSTPONED TO SEPTEMBER 26, 2023!!! Guest Assist.-Prof. Lisa Reynolds, PhD (University of Victoria, Victoria BC, Canada) Helminth infection-induced changes in intestinal metabolites and the consequences for intestinal immunity Host Philipp Höfler (Freie Universität Berlin)

Location: remote (WebEx Video conference)

ZIBI Students' Day GRK 2046-1

ZIBI Students' Day GRK 2046 Today, 3 GRK 2046 PhD students will give a talk about their progress in their GRK 2046 scientific project and 3 GRK 2046 students will give a pitch talk about their projects' topic in parasitology research. Afterwards, a summer BBQ will take place in Düppel, right before the summer break :-).

Location: Veterinarium Progressum, Oetzenweg 19b, 14163 Berlin (Freie Universität Berlin, Campus Düppel)

BPS: Miguel Soares (Metabolic reprogramming as a defense strategy against infection)

Guest Miguel Soares, Ph.D. (Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras, Portugal) Metabolic reprogramming as a defense strategy against infection Host Susana Soares (Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research)

Location: Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research LECTURE HALL Alfred-Kowalke-Str. 17 10315 Berlin

NEW DATE! Role Models in Infection Biology: Sarah Benhaiem

NEW DATE!!! Guest Dr. Sarah Benhaiem (Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research, Berlin, Germany) Host-pathogen interactions in the wild: the value of long-term, individual-based studies of animals Host Susana Soares (Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research, Berlin)

Location: Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research seminar room 1.1.06 Alfred-Kowalke-Str. 17 10315 Berlin

Role Models in Infection Biology: Mohamed-ali Hakimi

Guest Mohamed-ali Hakimi, Ph.D. (Institute for Advanced Biosciences Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France) tba Host David Warschkau (Robert Koch Institute Berlin) More information about Mohamed-ali Hakimi here .

Location: Robert Koch Institute Berlin Lecture hall Nordufer 20 13353 Berlin

BPS: Silvia Portugal

Guest Silvia Portugal, PhD (Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Berlin, Germany) Survival strategies of malaria parasites in the dry season Host Marly Erazo Lugo (Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology), project C6

Location: Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology seminar room 1/2 Charitéplatz 1 (internal address: Virchowweg 12) 10117 Berlin

BPS: Ulrike Blohm

Guest Dr. Ulrike Blohm (Institut für Immunologie, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Greifswald, Germany) Monocytes and antigen presentation in response to African swine fever virus infection in pigs Host Susanne Hartmann (Freie Universität Berlin, Veterinärmedizin)

Location: Freie Universität Berlin Campus Düppel RvO (Haus 35), SR 0.42 Robert-von-Ostertag-Str.7 14163 Berlin

POSPONED BPS: David Schneider

POSTPONED to end of the year. Guest Prof. David Schneider (Standford University, Standford, CA, USA) tba Host Fay Webster (Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)

Location: preliminary Molecular Parasitology Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin seminar room Philippstr. 12 10115 Berlin

Afrika Workshop Namibia

Eleven PhD Students of the RTG 2046 together with 7 supervisors will go on a field work workshop to Namibia in Afrika. With a combination of lectures, seminars and practical work, they will learn how a field study has to be prepared, organized and conducted. Also, they will learn to face wild life animals to acquire and analyse samples from wild animals. All PhD students had to apply for this workshop with a brief proposal for a small project in Namibia. For future scientists in Parasitology, field work might be an important necessary tool to learn. In at least two more meetings, the Africa workshop in March 2023 will be prepared in detail.

Location: Witvlei (Namibia)

GRK 2046 Workshop at DGP conference

Title tba GRK 2046 Workshop at DGP conference online Keynote speakers : tba 30th Annual Meeting of the German Society for Parasitology 15–17 March 2023

Location: Gießen

WEDNESDAY! BPS: Andrew Williams

Guest Prof. Andrew Williams, Ph.D. (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) Diet, gut microbes and immunity to helminth infection Host Larissa Oser + Philipp Höfler (Freie Universität Berlin, projects C9 + B4 associated) Please note: WEDNESDAY!

Location: Freie Universität Berlin Campus Düppel RvO (Haus 35), SR 0.42 Robert-von-Ostertag-Str.7 14163 Berlin

POSTPONED! Role Models in Infection Biology: Sarah Benhaiem

Event is postponed due to illness of our speaker! No RM talk tomorrow! Guest Dr. Sarah Benhaiem (Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research, Berlin, Germany) Host-pathogen interactions in the wild: the value of long-term, individual-based studies of animals Host Susana Soares (Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research, Berlin)

Location: Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research seminar room Alfred-Kowalke-Str. 17 10315 Berlin

BPS meets Career Options: Anja Heckeroth (MSD)

Guest Dr. Anja Heckeroth (Director Research Antiparasitics, MSD Animal Health Innovation GmbH, Schwabenheim, Germany) Translating science into practice: Career opportunities in the animal health pharmaceutical industry Host Marko Janke (Freie Universität Berlin) Please note: BPS meets Career Options. A new format! Here, guests from industry and other employers will introduce non-academical job options after completing your PhD. Today, Anja Heckeroth from MSD Animal Health Innovation will talk about her job, though you can check out job options in a pharmacytocal company, which produces medicals, vaccines and biologocals for animal health.

Location: Freie Universität Berlin Campus Düppel RvO (Haus 35), SR 0.42 Robert-von-Ostertag-Str.7 14163 Berlin

BSfRR: Stefan Jordan (Institute of Microbiology, Infectious Diseases and Immunology, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin)

“ Microbiome, Metabolism, Inflammation: Dietary Energy in Immunoregulation and Inflammatory Disease ” Host: Ankur Midha

Location: Institut für Immunologie im Zentrum für Infektionsmedizin (RvO, Haus 35) room no.: SR 0.42 (ground floor) Robert-von-Ostertag-Straße 7 14163 Berlin-Düppel

BPS: Peter Geldhof

Guest Peter Geldhof, PhD (Universiteit Gent, Belgium) Anti-nematode vaccine development and the use of serology to diagnose worm infections in animals and humans Host Larissa Oser (Freie Universität Berlin)

Location: CHANGE OF LOCATION: Campus Düppel, Robert-von-Ostertag Haus (RvO), Haus 35, Seminarraum 0.42, Robert-von-Ostertag-Str. 7, 14163 Berlin-Düppel

BPS: Jennifer Keiser

Guest Jennifer Keiser, PhD (Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland) Improved treatment options for helminth infections Host Zaneta Kidiavai (Freie Universität Berlin, Fachbereich Veterinärmedizin, Institut für Immunologie)

Location: Campus Düppel, Robert-von-Ostertag Haus (RvO), Haus 35, Seminarraum 0.42, Robert-von-Ostertag-Str. 7, 14163 Berlin-Düppel

BPS: Daniel Fernandez Ruiz

Guest Daniel Fernandez Ruiz (The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia) Harnessing liver-resident T cell immunity for protection against malaria Host Tinghuan Song (Molecular Parasitology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, project B1)

Location: Molecular Parasitology, Seminar room, Humboldt University Berlin, Philippstr. 13, Haus 14, 10115 Berlin

Research Training Group 2046: Retreat 27. + 28.10.2022

Location: (preliminary) Veterinarium Progressum

NEW DATE! BPS: Mathilde Gendrin

Guest Mathilde Gendrin, PhD (The Institut Pasteur de la Guyane, Paris, France) A toolbox for mosquito microbiota studies Host Marly Erazo Lugo (Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Vector Biology Unit)

Location: Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, seminar room 1/2, Charitéplatz 1 (internal address: Virchowweg 12), 10117 Berlin

POSTPONED to Dec 13, 2022

POSTPONED to December 13, 2022!!!

ZIBI Students' Day GRK 2046

ZIBI Students' Day GRK 2046 Today, 3 GRK 2046 PhD students will give a talk about their progress in their GRK 2046 scientific project in parasitology research.

Location: FU Berlin, Henry-Ford-Bau, Garystr. 35, Dahlem, lecture hall B

BPS: Markus Ganter

Guest Dr. Markus Ganter. (Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany) Plasmodium  proliferation in the blood: how, why, and who? Host Otto Netzel (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Dept. of Molecular Parasitology)

Location: Molecular Parasitology HUB, seminar room, Philippstr. 12, 10115 Berlin

Research Training Group 2046: PhD student Symposium "Parasite Infections" August 3-5

Location: Gut Klostermühle

ZIBI Students' Day GRK 2046

ZIBI Students' Day GRK 2046 Today, 3 GRK 2046 PhD students will give a talk about their progress in their GRK 2046 scientific project in parasitology research. Afterwards, a summer BBQ is planned (depending on the whether condition and pandemic rules).

Location: (preliminary) Veterinarium Progressum, Oetzenweg 19b, 14163 Berlin (Freie Universität Berlin, Campus Düppel)

POSTPONED to Nov 22!! BPS: Jennifer Keiser

POSTPONED to November 22, 2022!!!

Mini Symposium on Africa field trip workshop

Mini Symposium on the GRK 2046 Africa field trip workshop of the 3rd generation of PhD students in 2023 with BBQ afterwards!

Location: Veterinarium Progressum Oertzenweg 19b 14163 Berlin Düppel

Role Models in Infection Biology: Sophie Armitage

Postponed to May 10, 2022! Guest Sophie Armitage, Ph.D. (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany) Evolutionary ecology of insect-pathogen interactions: Resistance, tolerance, virulence and the "wild" Host Maria Serocki (Leibniz-Institut für Zoo- und Wildtierforschung Berlin)

Location: Veterinarium Progressum FUB, Oertzenweg 19b, 14163 Berlin-Düppel

BPS: Michael J. Yabsley

Guest Prof. Michael J. Yabsley, PhD (University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA) The wild world of Guinea Worms: a One Health approach to Guinea worm eradication Host Irina Diekmann (Freie Universität Berlin, Veterinary Medicine, Institute for Parasitology and Tropical Medicine)

Location: Online only (For the meeting link, please send a note to grk2046@fu-berlin.de)

PILS 2021 lecture 17

Parasite Infections Lecture Series Lecture 17 Heribert Hofer "Impact of parasite infections on free-ranging spotted hyenas"

Location: Online, WebEx video conference for link please send a note to: grk2046@fu-berlin.de

PILS 2021 lecture 16

Parasite Infections Lecture Series Lecture 16 Bettina Wachter "Parasite load and immune responses in cheetah"

Location: Online, WebEx video conference for link please send a note to: grk2046@fu-berlin.de

PILS 2021 lecture 15

Parasite Infections Lecture Series Lecture 15 Emanuel Heitlinger "Resistance and tolerance of hybrid hosts against parasite co-infections"

Location: Online, WebEx video conference for link please send a note to: grk2046@fu-berlin.de

BPS: Jakob von Moltke

Guest Jakob von Moltke, Ph.D. (University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA) Small Intestinal Tuft Cells: sentinels and effectors of type 2 immunity Host Joshua Adjah (Freie Universität Berlin)

Location: Hybrid in Person: RvO Seminar room 0.42 (3G rules!!!), GRK 2046 PhD students only and ONLINE WebEx Video conference For Meeting number and password send an e-mail to grk2046@fu-berlin.de.

PILS 2021 lecture 14

Parasite Infections Lecture Series Lecture 14 Frank Seeber "(Wild) rodents as models for protozoan parasite infections"

Location: Online, WebEx video conference for link please send a note to: grk2046@fu-berlin.de

PILS 2021 lecture 13

Parasite Infections Lecture Series Lecture 13 Georg von Samson-Himmelstjerna "Intestinal helminth communities of wild and domestic horses"

Location: Online, WebEx video conference for link please send a note to: grk2046@fu-berlin.de

PILS 2021 lecture 12

Parasite Infections Lecture Series Lecture 12 Friederike Ebner "Helminth infections of pigs and the pig as immunological model for humans"

Location: Online, WebEx video conference for link please send a note to: grk2046@fu-berlin.de

BPS: Pedro H Gazzinelli-Guimaraes

Guest Pedro H Gazzinelli-Guimaraes, PhD (National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA) IL-11 regulates innate mucosal immunity in helminth infections Host Ivet Yordonova (Freie Universität Berlin)

Location: ONLINE Video conference WebEx Please send a note to grk2046@fu-berlin.de to get the link.

PILS 2021 lecture 11

Parasite Infections Lecture Series Lecture 11 Sebastian Rausch "Helminth coinfections and its immunological consequence"

Location: Online, WebEx video conference for link please send a note to: grk2046@fu-berlin.de

PILS 2021 lecture 10

Parasite Infections Lecture Series Lecture 10 Jürgen Krücken "Interaction of target site changes and metabolic pathways leading to drug and multi-drug anthelmintic resistance"

Location: Online, WebEx video conference for link please send a note to: grk2046@fu-berlin.de

PILS 2021 lecture 9

Parasite Infections Lecture Series Lecture 9 Susanne Hartmann "Innate and adaptive immune regulation in helminth infections"

Location: Online, WebEx video conference for link please send a note to: grk2046@fu-berlin.de

PILS 2021 lecture 8

Parasite Infections Lecture Series Lecture 8 Christian Klotz / Toni Aebischer "Of Giardia parasites and the disease they cause"

Location: Online, WebEx video conference for link please send a note to: grk2046@fu-berlin.de

PILS 2021 lecture 7

Parasite Infections Lecture Series Lecture 7 Frank Mockenhaupt "Antimalarial drug resistance development"

Location: Online, WebEx video conference for link please send a note to: grk2046@fu-berlin.de

BPS: Aimee Taylor

Guest Aimee Taylor, Ph.D. (Institut Pasteur, Paris, France) Estimating the cause of recurrent P. vivax malaria: relapse, reinfection or recrudescence Host Welmoed van Loon (Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin)

Location: ONLINE Video conference WebEx

PILS 2021 lecture 6

Parasite Infections Lecture Series Lecture 6 Elena Levashina "Current approaches to Vector Biology"

Location: Online, WebEx video conference for link please send a note to: grk2046@fu-berlin.de

PILS 2021 lecture 5

Parasite Infections Lecture Series Lecture 5 Oren Moscovitz "Glycan mediated interactions of plasmodium with host cells"

Location: Online, WebEx video conference for link please send a note to: grk2046@fu-berlin.de

Role Models in Infection Biology: Sophie Duraffour

Guest Dr. Sophie Duraffour (Bernhard-Nocht-Institut für Tropenmedizin, Hamburg) Title tba Host Welmoed van Loon (Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin)

Location: (preliminary) Veterinarium Progressum (FU Berlin) OR ONLINE Video conference WebEx Meeting number (access code): tba Meeting password: tba

PILS 2021 lecture 4

Parasite Infections Lecture Series Lecture 4 Nishith Gupta "Metabolic basics of obligate intracellular parasitism"

Location: Online, WebEx video conference for link please send a note to: grk2046@fu-berlin.de

PILS 2021 lecture 3

Parasite Infections Lecture Series Lecture 3 Kai Matuschewski "Immune correlates of protection against Plasmodium infection"

Location: Online, WebEx video conference for link please send a note to: grk2046@fu-berlin.de

BPS: Elia Tait Wojno

Guest Elia Tait Wojno, Ph.D. (University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA) "Prostaglandin regulation of type 2 inflammation during helminth infection" Host Luis Elizalde (Freie Universität Berlin)

Location: Hybrid RvO Seminar room 0.42 (GRK 2046-PhD students only, 3G rules!!!) and ONLINE WebEx Video conference For Meeting number and password send an e-mail to grk2046@fu-berlin.de.

ZIBI Students' Day GRK 2046

ZIBI Students' Day GRK 2046 Today, 3 GRK 2046 PhD students will give a talk about their GRK 2046 scientific project in parasitology research.

Location: Online WebEx video conference

PILS 2021 lecture 2

Parasite Infections Lecture Series Lecture 2 Alyssa Ingmundson "Exploiting host vesicular transport by intracellular protozoan parasites"

Location: Online, WebEx video conference for link please send a note to: grk2046@fu-berlin.de

Workshop Networking

Online workshop for 13 GRK 2046 PhD students for "Networking in the academic context: Building and cultivating contacts by traditional and digital means".

Location: Online, zoom-meeting

Research Training Group 2046: Retreat 28. + 29.10.2021

Location: Veterinarium Progressum OR ONLINE WebEx video conference

BPS: Guillaume Salle

Guest Guillaume Salle, PhD (INRAE · Université de Tours, Nouzilly, France) Exploring genetic variation in host – strongyle systems Host Irina Diekmann (Freie Universität Berlin)

Location: ONLINE WebEx Video conference For Meeting number and Meeting password send a note to: grk2046@fu-berlin.de.

Role Models in Infection Biology: Dame Sally Davies

Guest Dame Sally Davies (Trinity College Cambridge, UK) Local, National and Global leadership in health Host Welmoed van Loon (Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin)

Location: Hybrid Charité Campus Virchow-Klinikum (CVK) Forum 3, HS (3G rules!!!) and ONLINE Video conference Microsoft Teams Link: t.b.a.

PILS 2021 lecture 1

Parasite Infections Lecture Series Lecture 1 Richard Lucius "General features of parasite infections"

Location: Online, WebEx video conference for link please send a note to: grk2046@fu-berlin.de

Role Models in Infection Biology: Kerstin Mair

Guest Kerstin Mair (University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna) Peculiarities of porcine NK cells and challenges in species comparability Host Benjamin Hamid (Freie Universität Berlin)

Location: Hybrid RvO Seminar room 0.42 (GRK 2046-PhD students only, 3G rules!!!) and ONLINE WebEx Video conference For Meeting number and password send an e-mail to grk2046@fu-berlin.de.

Role Models in Infection Biology: Flaminia Catteruccia

Guest Prof. Flaminia Catteruccia (Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA) Sex, blood and parasites: uncovering malaria transmission by the Anopheles mosquito Host Welmoed van Loon (Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin) Please note: Change of time!

Location: ONLINE Video conference Microsoft Teams Link: Please send an e-mail to grk2046@fu-berlin.de, and we will send you the Microsoft Teams link.

BPS: Tim Geary

Guest Tim Geary, PhD (McGill University Montreal, Canada) Macrocyclic lactone resistance in Dirofilaria immitis Host Natalie Jakobs (Freie Universität Berlin)

Location: ONLINE Video conference WebEx Meeting number (access code): tba Meeting password: tba

BPS: Kara Filbey

Guest Dr Kara Filbey (The University of Manchester, UK) "The diverse systemic effects of gastrointestinal helminth infection" Host Ivet Yordonova (Freie Universität Berlin)

Location: ONLINE Video conference WebEx Meeting number (access code): tba Meeting password: tba

BPS: Roz Laing

Guest Dr Roz Laing (University of Glasgow, Scotland) Title tb.a Host Natalie Jakobs (Freie Universität Berlin)

Location: ONLINE Video conference WebEx Meeting number (access code): tba Meeting password: tba

BPS: Stephen Doyle

Guest Dr Stephen Doyle (Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge, UK) "Using genomics to map drug resistance genes in a globally important gastrointestinal parasite" Host Natalie Jakobs (Freie Universität Berlin)

Location: ONLINE Video conference WebEx Meeting number (access code): tba Meeting password: tba

GRK 2046 "Wildlife" Workshop at DGP conference

" Wildlife Parasitology " Workshop at DGP conference online Keynote speakers : Eleanor Riley (The University of Edinburgh, Scotland) Joseph Jackson (University of Salford, Manchester, England) 29th Annual Meeting of the German Society for Parasitology 15–17 March 2021 • DIGITAL

Location: Digital https://www.parasitology-meeting.de/

BPS: Olivier Duron

Guest Olivier Duron, PhD (French National Centre for Scientific Research, Montpellier, France) " Tick-Borne Microbes: Why Non-Pathogenic Microbes Matter " Host Nina Militzer (Freie Universität Berlin)

Location: ONLINE Video conference WebEx Meeting number (access code): 121 429 1509 Meeting password: PcRHfMw8Y73

UPDATE: Change of time! BPS: Bang Shen (Huazhong Agricultural University)

"Flexibility and vulnerability of carbon metabolism in the ubiquitous parasite Toxoplasma gondii " Host: Dimitrios Alexandros Katelas (HUB)

Location: Video-Seminar (WebEx)

BPS: Thomas Jacobs (Bernhard-Nocht-Institute für Tropenmedizin, Hamburg)

title: Immunregulation in Malaria: A balance between protection and pathology Host:  Calvin Hon (HUB)

Location: Video-Seminar (WebEx)

ZIBI Students' Day Nov 6, 2020 (GRK 2046 organized)

Location: ONLINE WebEx video conference

RTG 2046: Assessment Center Nov 01-06, 2020

Location: ONLINE WebEx video conference

Research Training Group 2046: Retreat 29. + 30.10.2020

Location: ONLINE WebEx video conference

BPS: Jeroen Saeji (University of California, Davis)

Title: Identification of novel Toxoplasma virulence factors using CRISPR/Cas9-mediated loss-of-function screens Host: Benedikt Fabian (RKI)

Location: Video-Seminar (WebEx)

Role Models: Paul Selzer (Boehringer Ingelheim)

Title: Antiparasitics: A Personal Perspective Scientific talk follwowed by breakfast and career briefing Host: Irina Diekmann + Natalie Jakobs (FUB; Institut für Parasitologie und Tropenmedizin)

Location: NEW: Video-Seminar (WebEx)

BPS: Kerri Coon (University of Wisconsin Madison)

"Gut microbial diversity and function in mosquitoes" Host: Robin Benter (MPI-IB)

Location: Video-Seminar (WebEx)

POSTPONED - BPS: Francis Ndung’u (KEMRI)

The seminar is postponed due to municipal measures against the corona virus epidemic! (updated: 12.03.2020) "Dissecting memory B cell responses to malaria" Host: Susanne Hartmann (FUB)

Location: Institut für Immunologie im Zentrum für Infektionsmedizin room no.: 042 (Groundfloor) Robert-von-Ostertag-Straße 7-13 14163 Berlin

BSfRR: Yang Wang (China Agricultural University, College of Veterinary Medicine Bejing) - POSTPONED

Unfortunately due to the virus incident in China Yang Wang will not be able to come and present his work as part of the BSfRR series. This talk will be postponed until we have any news. (updated: 27.02.2020) "One Health approach for exploring the emergence and spread of resistances against last-resort antibiotics” Host: Stefan Schwarz

Location: Institut für Immunologie im Zentrum für Infektionsmedizin room no.: 042 (Groundfloor) Robert-von-Ostertag-Straße 7-13 14163 Berlin

Role Models: Christina Strube (Stiftung Tierärztliche Hochschule Hannover)

"Worms and brains - an excursion into zoonotic pet roundworms and neuroinfection" Scientific talk follwowed by breakfast and career briefing Contact: Benjamin Hamid (FUB)

Location: Institut für Immunologie im Zentrum für Infektionsmedizin room no.: 042 (Groundfloor) Robert-von-Ostertag-Straße 7-13 14163 Berlin

BPS: Ulrike Blohm (FLI, Bundesforschungsinstitut für Tiergesundheit, Insel Riems)

" New insights into cellular immunity to African swine fever virus in pigs" host: tba

Location: Institut of Immunology in the Center for Infection Medicine room no.: 042 (Groundfloor) Robert-von-Ostertag-Street 7-13 14163 Berlin

BSfRR: William A. Eaton (The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), Bethesda, Maryland, USA)

"Using physical chemistry to find a drug for the treatment of sickle cell disease” Host: Susanne Hartmann

Location: Institut für Immunologie im Zentrum für Infektionsmedizin room no.: 042 (Groundfloor) Robert-von-Ostertag-Straße 7-13 14163 Berlin

Role Models: Amy Buck (University of Edinburgh, UK)

title: tba   Host: Bhavya Kapse

Location: Veterinarium Progressum (VP) Freie Universität Berlin Oertzenweg 19b 14163 Berlin

BSfRR: Andreas Herrmann (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Institut für Biologie)

Tailored multivalent biomolecules for an optimal interaction with influenza A virus hemagglutinin – From in silico modeling to in vivo viral infection inhibition Host: Benedikt Kaufer

Location: Institut für Immunologie im Zentrum für Infektionsmedizin room no.: 042 (Groundfloor) Robert-von-Ostertag-Straße 7-13 14163 Berlin

Role Models: Dragana Jankovic (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, Maryland)

Infection-driven immune responses and hematopoiesis Scientific talk follwowed by breakfast and career briefing Host: Benjamin Hamid (FUB)

Location: Veterinarium Progressum (VP) Freie Universität Berlin Oertzenweg 19b 14163 Berlin

BPS: Peter Geldhof and Aurélie Gagnaire (Ghent University)

IL-17A as a central regulator in the immunity against Giardia   Host: Ivet Yordanova (Freie Universität Berlin)

Location: Institute for Immunology Freie Universität Berlin Centre for Infection medicine Robert-von-Ostertag-Straße 7-13/ room no. 164 (1st floor) 14163 Berlin

Role Models: Malin Johansson

"Mucus: a goblet cell product with protective function" Guest: Prof. Malin Johansson Scientific talk follwowed by breakfast and career briefing Host: Totta Ehret Kasemo

Location: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Institut für Biologie Molekulare Parasitologie Philippstr. 13, Haus 14 10115 Berlin

BPS: Bernd Lepenies (Tierärztliche Hochschule Hannover)

“C-type lectin receptors as targets for immune modulation in (parasitic) infections” Host: Ankur midha

Location: Humboldt Graduate School Luisenstr. 56, room 144 10117 Berlin-Mitte

Role Models: Laura Knoll

tile: tba Prof. Laura Knoll Scientific talk follwowed by breakfast and career briefing Host: Benedikt Fabian

Location: Humboldt Graduate School (HGS) Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Luisenstr. 56, 10117 Berlin

BSfRR: Sofia Forslund (MDC, Berlin)

"Disease and drug signatures in the gut microbiome"

Location: Institut für Immunologie im Zentrum für Infektionsmedizin room no.: 042 (Groundfloor) Robert-von-Ostertag-Straße 7-13 14163 Berlin

BSfRR: Robert Wawrzinek(MPI-CI, Potsdam)

“Langerhans-Cells – A Targeted Delivery System for Immune Modulation”

Location: Institut für Immunologie im Zentrum für Infektionsmedizin room no.: 042 (Groundfloor) Robert-von-Ostertag-Straße 7-13 14163 Berlin

BPS: Holger Stark (Technische Universität Berlin)

"An in silico model for African Trypanosome" Host: Susanne Hartmann

Location: Veterinarium Progressum (VP) Freie Universität Berlin Oertzenweg 19b 14163 Berlin

BPS: Iain B. H. Wilson und Katharina Paschinger (Universität für Bodenkultur, Wien)

Decoding the Tarnhelm: the sugary coats of parasitic worms Host: Susanne Hartmann (Freie Universität Berlin)

Location: Institut für Immunologie im Zentrum für Infektionsmedizin room no.: 042 (Groundfloor) Robert-von-Ostertag-Straße 7-13 14163 Berlin

BPS: Matthew R. Hepworth (University of Manchester, UK)

"Innate lymphoid cell (ILC) regulation of mucosal immune responses and host- microbiota crosstalk" Host: Susanne Hartmann (Freie Universität Berlin)

Location: Veterinarium Progressum (VP) Freie Universität Berlin Oertzenweg 19b 14163 Berlin

BPS: Tobias Steinfeldt (Universitätsklinikum Freiburg)

"Resistance and virulence mechanisms at the Toxoplasma gondii-host cell interface" Host: Estefanía Delgado-Betancourt ( delgado-betancourtE@rki.de )

Location: Humboldt Graduate School (HGS), Luisenstraße 56, 10117 Berlin, Room 144