Early Stage Researchers

Gabriel Lovate

Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany

Deciphering the RNA genome packaging code of influenza A viruses

Supervisors:
Prof. Dr. Manja Marz,
Prof. Dr. Andreas Henke

Rithu Paul Stansilaus

National Center for Scientific Research, France

Mechanism of coordinated incorporation of segmented virus genomes into viral particles

Supervisors:
Dr. Roland Marquet,
Prof. Laurence Despons

Lara Fuhrmann

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Switzerland

Development of new computational methods for characterisation and analyses of intra-host viral populations

Supervisors:
Prof. Dr. Niko Beerenwinkel,
Prof. Dr. Karin Metzner

Harshit Prajapati

Free University of Berlin, Germany

Experimental evolution of Deformed wing virus in bees

Supervisors:
Prof. Dr. Dino McMahon,
Prof. Dr. Bernhard Renard

Xue Peng

Helmholtz Zentrum München, Germany

Bacteriophage–host relationships prediction

Supervisors:
Dr. Li Deng,
Prof. Dr. Caroline Friedel

Lygeri Sakellaridi

Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg, Germany

Conservation of regulatory elements and effector mechanisms in lytic and latent cytomegalovirus infection

Supervisors:
Prof. Dr. Florian Erhard,
Prof. Dr. Lars Dölken

Berta Puig Collderram

University of Zurich, Switzerland

Generation of datasets for phage-bacterial interactions in complex communities and mutational spectra analysis following exposure to selective pressure

Supervisors:
Dr. Shawna E. McCallin,
Prof. Dr. Niko Beerenwinkel

Liuwei Wang

Robert Koch Institute, Germany

Genotype-Phenotype mapping and inference of epistatic interactions driving adaptation in viral hosts

Supervisors:
Dr. Max von Kleist,
Prof. Dr. Dino McMahon

Óscar Morales Lezcano

Radboud University Medical Center, Netherlands

Impact of host immune pathways on virus evolution

Supervisors:
Prof. Dr. Ronald van Rij,
Prof. Dr. Martijn Huijnen

Dan Liu

University of Glasgow, United Kingdom

Computational prediction of virus-host interactions in the microbiome

Supervisors:
Prof. Dr. David Robertson,
Prof. Dr. José R Penadés

Nikolas Basler

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium

Development of more quantitative viral metagenomics approaches to investigate the role of bacteriophages in the honey bee gut and their effects on health and development

Supervisors:
Prof. Dr. Jelle Matthijnssens,
Prof. Dr. Philippe Lemey

Yasas Wijesekara

University Medicine Greifswald, Germany

A machine learning pipeline to identify and characterise novel viruses in metagenome data

Supervisors:
Prof. Dr. Lars Kaderali,
Prof. Dr. Martin Beer

Mikhail Fofanov

Utrecht University, Netherlands

Functional inferences from colinear crAssphage genomes

Supervisors:
Prof. Dr. Bas E. Dutilh,
Dr. Pieter-Jan Haas

Lovro Trgovec-Greif

University of Vienna, Austria

Computational methods for the analysis of metagenomic datasets to extract viral sequences within the context of commercial data-mining

Supervisors:
Prof. Dr. Thomas Rattei,
Prof. Dr. Matthias Horn

Ali Movasati