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Research Funded by RWTH Aachen’s ERS Seed Fund Explores Microbes and Pain Perception

We are delighted to announce that Joel Selkrig (Institute for Medical Microbiology, Medical Faculty) and Gaia Tavosanis (Chair of Developmental Biology, Biology Faculty) have secured a competitive ERS…

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Success in Microbiome Research: Third-Party Funding Secured by Prof. Clavel and Prof. Selkrig within SPP 2474

Exciting news! Prof. Tom Clavel and Prof. Joel Selkrig have successfully secured grants within the SPP 2474 Priority Program “Illuminating Gene Functions in the Human Gut Microbiome”. SPP 2474, led by…

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Pint of Science in Aachen

We had an amazing time sharing their science at Pint of Science in Aachen—good beer and even better company! Joel Selkrig kicked things off with a talk about our bodies as bustling ecosystems, filled…

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Univ.-Prof. Dr. Thomas Clavel, Professor at the Institute of Medical Microbiology publishes an article in the renowned journal Nature Biotechnology

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Thomas Clavel, Professor at the Institute of Medical Microbiology at Uniklinik RWTH Aachen, and colleagues publish an article ‘Enabling next-generation anaerobic cultivation through…

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Publication in PNAS by Stefan Schlößer and Anna-Lena Ullrich

The research work of Stefan Schlößer, which was subsequently continued by Anna-Lena Ullrich, was accepted for publication in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) and appeared in…

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Scientific Symposium: Prof. Thomas Clavel als Speaker zu Gast in der Goethe Universität Frankfurt

Die Goethe-Universität Frankfurt lädt mit freundlicher Unterstützung der Friedrich-Merz-Stiftungsgastprofessur zum „Symposium Dietary and therapeutic microbiomemodulation: State of The Art and…

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MSA-Master Award 2024

Patricia Blum, MSc (AG Horz) has received the MSA-Master Award 2024 for her master’s thesis „Investigation of putative phage-encoded depolymerases targeting Klebsiella pneumoniae“. The profile area…

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Natalia Torow appointed as Assistant Professor at the HZI in Braunschweig

Natalia Torow from the Hornef group has been appointed on a W1 Juniorprofessorship at the Helmholtz-Centre for Infection Research in Braunschweig. She will accept the position and leave our institute…

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Paper of the Month for Natalia Torow

The recent publication in Immunity by Natalia Torow, PhD, characterising postnatal mucosal immune maturation has been selected as Paper of the Month of the Faculty of Medicine. Natalia explains her…

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Alina Bachmann successfully defended her PhD

Congratulations to Alina Bachmann. She defended successfully her PhD thesis entitled “Host Pathogen Interaction in a novel in vivo model of EPEC infection” on February 22nd 2024.  In this work, she…

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Enterocyte efferocytosis in the neonatal intestine

Kaiyi Zhang, PhD, from the Hornef group published her work on non-professional efferocytosis of Salmonella infected intestinal epithelial cells by neighboring enterocytes in the Journal of…

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Sondervorstellung des Films „Unser Mikrobiom – das unsichtbare Aussterben“ am 2. Februar 2024 mit anschließendem Publikumsgespräch

Am Freitag, den 2. Februar 2024 zeigt das Aachener Apollo Kino den Dokumentarfilm „Unser Mikrobiom – das unsichtbare Aussterben“ ab 18 Uhr im Rahmen einer Sondervorstellung. Im Anschluss an dem Film…

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