Current and important events

The information on this page is arranged chronologically. Recent events are always at the top, past and possibly expired events are therefore further down.

News 2024

Re-election to the board of the jGfV

Nele Villabruna and jGfV

Dr. Nele Villabruna was re-elected to the jGfV (Young Society for Virology) board.

Congratulations Nele!

 

Keystone Symposia: HIV and (Re)Emerging Viruses: Aligning Lessons Across Pandemics, Hannover

Conference Lisa and Miriam

From April 09 to 11, 2024 the Keystone Symposium: HIV and (Re)Emerging Viruses: Aligning Lessons Across Pandemics will take place in Herrenhausen, Hannover.

Dr. Miriam Becker and Dr. Lisa Lasswitz from AG Gerold will participate in the symposium with poster contributions. Dr. Lisa Lasswitz will also give a talk on the topic: "CD81 is a host factor for chikungunya virus replication"

More information can be found here

Gisa Gerold as guest speaker at the University of Freiburg

On April 9th, 2024, Gisa Gerold gives a guest lecture at the University of Freiburg. Thank you for the invitation!

 

Gisa Gerold is Keynote Speaker at the GSEV Autumn Meeting in Hamburg

The German Society for Extracellular Vesicles (GSEV) Autumn Meeting will take place from October 1 to 2, 2024 in Hamburg. Prof. Gisa Gerold will give a keynote lecture in the session on "Extracellular vesicles in immunity & infection".

More information can be found here

 

Gisa Gerold as guest at the Herrenhausen Science Movie Night Panel Discussion

Herrenhausen Gisa Gerold

Gisa Gerold takes part in the panel discussion "Contagious - yesterday Hollywood, today the whole world" at the Volkswagen Foundation's Herrenhausen Science Movie Night on April 5th 2024.

More information can be found here

 

The 33rd Annual Meeting of the Society of Virology (GfV)

GfV Gisa und Nele

The 33rd Annual Meeting of the Society of Virology (GfV) will take place from March 25-28, 2024 in Vienna, Austria. Prof. Gerold will give a keynote lecture and Dr. Villabruna from AG Gerold will moderate the "young GfV" event that precedes the conference.

Find out more about the conference here.

Gisa Gerold as guest speaker at the Leibniz Institute of Virology (LIV), Hamburg

On February 15, 2024, Gisa Gerold gave a guest lecture at the Leibniz Institute of Virology (LIV), followed by a lively discussion. Many thanks for the invitation!

Love Data Week

This week is Love Data Week - it includes a comprehensive range of further training courses on research data. Click here for the event overview: https://forschungsdaten.info/fdm-im-deutschsprachigen-raum/love-data-week-2024/.
The lectures and workshops are particularly interesting for doctoral students and research assistants.

New addition to the Gerold Group - Daniel Jiménez Soto

We are pleased to welcome Daniel Jiménez Soto to the AG on 15.02.2024.

Daniel Jiménez Soto will complete an internship in the period from 15.02.2024 - 30.04.2024 in our group. He is taking part in the DAAD's ISAP exchange program, which supports exchange between the TiHo and the partner university in Costa Rica. Daniel is supervised by Dr. Lasswitz and is working with her on the project "Characterization of CD81 Interaction Partners with a Role in Alphavirus Replication".

Welcome!

New addition to the Gerold Group - Charushila Paul

Charushila Paul

We are pleased to welcome Charushila Paul to our group from 15.01.2024 until July 2024.  Charushila is currently completing the IDOH program and will work on the topic "Evaluation of Host Factors in Alphavirus Infection" as part of this program. We wish her every success! 

IDOH (Infectious Diseases and One Health) is a partnership of some of Europe's leading research-intensive universities in the field of infectious diseases and the "One Health" concept. The three founding partners are the Université de Tours, the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, and the Hannover Medical School.

Welcome!

 

Further information on the IDOH Master Program can be found here

News 2023

New addition to the Gerold Group - Jule Hupfeld

Jule hupfeld

We are pleased to welcome Jule Hupfeld in our working group as of 16.10.2023.  Jule Hupfeld starts her master thesis with the topic "Proteome analysis of in vitro infection models of two zoonotic neurotropic viruses". The project is supervised by Karsten Cirksena.

Welcome!

New addition to the Gerold Group - Anja Ziolek

Anja Ziolek

We are pleased to welcome Anja Ziolek to the Gerold group as of 16.10.2023. Anja Ziolek will support Cora Stegmann in the project "Model for arbovirus infection of the skin - Mozart".

Welcome!

Engaging discussions at our GfV workshop on new and re-emerging zoonotic viruses

Zusammenfassung der GFV Tagung

Friedemann Weber, Seema Laldawala, Martin Beer and Alison Groseth gave engaging keynotes and all participants contributed with top notch short talks. Thanks to all participants for three days of exciting scientific exchange. 

The prize for the best short talk was awarded to Peter Reuther from Freiburg. Congratulations Peter!

Gisa Gerold and Yvonne Börgeling
Workshop chairs
 

New addition to the Gerold group - Anja de Bruin

Anja de Bruin

We are pleased to welcome Anja de Bruin to our working group as of 01.10.2023.

Anja will be working on the project "Understanding fundamental mechanisms of membrane deformability in insect cells" (HFSP) as a PostDoc.

Welcome!

8th workshop of the Society of Virology (GfV)

The 8th workshop of the Society of Virology (GfV) took place on 29.09.2023. The topic was arboviruses. Gisa Gerold and the GfV board were able to attract eight internationally renowned speakers. With more than 200 participants and an active discussion round, the event was a complete success!

 

Gisa gerold was keynote speaker at the Viral NRW Retreat

Keynote lecture by Gisa Gerold

On August 17th, 2023, Gisa presented our work on HCV and CHIKV as a keynote lecturer at the VIRAL NRW retreat in Kamp-Lintfort.

Institute excursion

Collage of the Canoetour

On August 01, 2023, the institute excursion of the AG Gerold took place. This excursion served to bring the working group together after taking over the management of the Institute of Biochemistry. Nine members of the AG paddled in teams of 3 over the river Leine and Ihme. At the end of the day, we had a snack at the L'Osteria, which was joined by other members of the working group to finish the great excursion.

Thank you very much for this beautiful day. We are looking forward to a successful, further cooperation.

 

Prof. Raul Andino on SARS-CoV2 transmission and the emergence of new variants

Prof. Raul Andino will give a lecture on the transmission of SARS-CoV2 viruses and the emergence of new variants on 19.07.2023. The lecture will take place in the small Patho course room at Bünteweg 17, 30559 Hannover at 3 pm. You can also participate via MS Teams.

For more information click here

Conference of the Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology e.V.

From 05.09.2023 to 06.09.2023 the conference of the Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology e.V. will take place in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

This conference will focus on different areas of proteomics. Thus, an overview of proteomics methods shall be created in order to contribute to new scientific knowledge.

GMB conference

Gisa Gerold is the plenary speaker at the UK hepacivirus and flavivirus meeting

Rydal Hall
©Rydal Hall

We are very pleased to confirm that Gisa Gerlold is the plenary speaker for the 2023 Hepacivirus and Flavivirus meeting.

More infromation can be found here:

The UK Hepacivirus and Flavivirus Meeting

New addition to the Gerold group

Julia Leonardy

We are pleased to welcome Dr. Julia Leonardy to our working group as of 01.06.2023. 

Julia will be responsible for grant writing and coordination of an EU consortium.

Welcome!

Julia Leonardy
© Julia Leonardy

Second One Health Workshop of the Society of Virology

Second One Health Workshop of the Society of Virology

We are pleased to announce that another workshop of the Society of Virology (GfV) will take place. The topic will be "New and recurrent zoonotic diseases". The workshop will be held from 06/09/2023 to 08/09/2023 at the conference center Kloster Wöltingerode in Goslar, Germany. 
At the workshop, students and postdocs will be brought together with experts in the field of "one health" to promote and support scientific interdisciplinary exchange. In particular, we encourage infection biologists, cell biologists, veterinarians, and medical doctors to share their work on zoonotic infections. The interdisciplinary nature of the workshop aims to stimulate new collaborations in One Health and viral zoonotic research.
Four keynote speakers will present the latest developments in the field. Seema S. Lakdawala (University of Pittsburgh, USA), Martin Beer (Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut Riems, Germany), Friedemann Weber (Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany) and Allison Groseth (Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut Riems, Germany) will share their unique experiences and visions.
All participants will have the opportunity to present their work in the form of a full presentation or elevator pitch. Prizes will be awarded for the best oral presentation and the best elevator pitch. We will encourage a lively atmosphere with open discussions. We look forward to seeing old faces and meeting new colleagues who share our enthusiasm for viruses and zoonotic diseases.

Registration is open now through June 30. Please find attached the detailed announcement.

One health save the date

Gisa Gerold is now Member of the Board of Directors of the GfV

Following her membership on the Advisory Board, Gisa Gerold has now been elected to the Board of Directors of the Society of Virology.

Website GfV

New addition to the Gerold group

Nele Villabruna

Dr. Nele Villabruna

We are pleased to welcome Dr. Nele Villabruna to our working group as of 02.05.2023. 

Nele Villabruna completed her Bachelor of Biology in Basel, Switzerland in 2013 and subsequently her Master at the University of Plymouth, UK, with a focus on "Research in Applied Marine Biology". 

In 2022, Nele Villabruna successfully completed her PhD with the topic "Emergence and spread of human norovirus in humans and animals" in the Department of Virology at Erasmus University in Rotterdam.

In the Gerold group she will be able to excellently contribute her expertise and work on the project "Development of an ex-vivo model to study zoonotic transmission of noroviruses".

Welcome!

The 32nd Annual Meeting of the Society of Virology March 2023

The 32nd annual meeting of the Society of Virology (GfV) will be held in Ulm, Germany, March 28-31, 2023. For the first time since the onset of the Corona Pandemic the meeting will be held in presence.

At this meeting, the latest findings in virology will be presented by national as well as international experts in plenary sessions and workshops. Also the recently founded "young GfV" will organize a workshop and present new activities of these young scientists.

https://virology-meeting.de