RTG 2046/1: Parasite Infections; From Experimental Models to Natural Systems (SP A04)
At a glance
Project duration
04/2015
– 09/2019
DFG classification of subject areas
Microbiology, Virology and Immunology
Funded by
DFG Research Training Group
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Project description
The research training group studies molecular, ecological and evolutionary aspects of parasite infections of mammals. It scrutinizes whether laboratory models of parasite infections truly mirror the processes observed in natural systems. The research training group closely cooperates with a similar group in Edinburgh (UK).
Project head
- Person
Dr. Nishith Gupta
- Faculty of Life Sciences
- Department of Biology
- Person
Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Emanuel Heitlinger
- Faculty of Life Sciences
- Department of Biology
Cooperation partners
- Cooperation partnerUniversityGermany
Charité – Berlin University Medicine
- Cooperation partnerUniversityGermany
Free University of Berlin
- Cooperation partnerNon-university research institutionGermany
Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research
- Cooperation partnerNon-university research institutionGermany
Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology
- Cooperation partnerNon-university research institutionGermany
Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces
- Cooperation partnerResearch instituteGermany
Robert Koch Institute