Institutions of the ZINF

The Research Center for Infectious Diseases (ZINF) is a MULTI-DISCIPLINARY NETWORK of researchers in Würzburg addressing molecular principles of host-pathogen interactions. It brings together experts from MICROBIOLOGY, PARASITOLOGY, VIROLOGY, IMMUNOLOGY, CHEMISTRY, and CLINICAL PRACTICE and facilitates cross-faculty communication, initiation of joint research activities, as well as recruitment of extramural funding.

Institut of Molecular Infection Biology

Jörg Vogel
RNA-Biology

Cynthia Sharma
Deep Sequencing Approaches to Pathogenesis

Joachim Morschhäuser
Mycology

Knut Ohlsen
Gram-positive Cocci

Wilma Ziebuhr
Nosocomial Infections by Staphylococci

Sina Bartfeld (associated)
Host response to infections

Institute for Hygiene and Mikrobiologiy

Oliver Kurzai
Medical Microbiology and Mycology

Klaus Brehm
Helminth Infections

Franziska Faber
Microbial Interactions

Christoph Schoen
Molecular Diagnostics and Functional Genomics of Human Pathogenic Bacteria

Alexandra Schubert-Unkmeir
Host-Pathogen Interactions

Institut for Virology and Immunology - Virology

Lars Dölken
Systems Biology of Herpesvirus Infections

Florian Erhard
Computational Systems Virology

Bhupesh Prusty
Medical Microbiology and Mycology

Jürgen Schneider-Schaulies
Morbillivirus Pathogenesis

Dept. of Microbiology, Biocenter

Thomas Rudel
Infection Biology of Bacteria

Martin Fraunholz
Cellular Microbiology

Vera Kozjak-Pavlovic
Bacterial Invasion and Intracellular Survival

Alexander Westermann
Host-Pathogen-Microbiota-Interaction

Dept. of Internal Medicine II

Hermann Einsele -
Interaction of Aspergillus fumigatus with Human Natural Killer Cells and Dendritic Cells

Andreas Beilhack -
Experimental Stem Cell Transplantation

Jürgen Löffler -
Immunity against Aspergillus spp.

Institute of Systems Immunology

Wolfgang Kastenmüller
Lecocyte Dynamics

Georg Gasteiger
Tissue Immunity

Mercedes Gomez de Agüero
Host-Microbial Interactions

Martin Vaeth
Metabolism and Immune Cell Signalling

Helmholtz Institute for RNA-based Infection Biology

Lars Barquist
Integrative Informatics for Infection Biology

Chase Beisel
RNA Synthetic Biology

Neva Caliskan
Recoding Mechanisms in Infection

Mathias Munschauer
Decoding RNA-Protein Interactomes of Regulatory RNA in Infection

Antoine-Emmanuel Saliba
Single-cell Analysis