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 DFG Research Training Group

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

Cooperation partners

  • Cooperation partner
    UniversityGermany

    Charité – Berlin University Medicine

  • Cooperation partner
    UniversityGermany

    Free University of Berlin

  • Cooperation partner
    Non-university research institutionGermany

    Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research

  • Cooperation partner
    Non-university research institutionGermany

    Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology

  • Cooperation partner
    Non-university research institutionGermany

    Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces

  • Cooperation partner
    Research instituteGermany

    Robert Koch Institute