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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
Redmond Smyth
Genome Architecture and Evolution of RNA Viruses
Thomas Dandekar
Bioinformatics
Markus Engstler
Molecular and Physical Parasitology
Caroline Kisker
RVZ - Structure-based Drug Design
Marco Metzger
Human 3D Tissue Models to Study Host-Pathogen Interactions in Infectious Research
Jürgen Seibel
Chemistry of Living Systems
August Stich
Tropical Medicine
Dorothee Viemann
Translational Pediatrics