RTG Co-Supervisor in the steering committee of the BMBF funded Project MESINFLAME

20 Oct, 2020

Funding obtained by the ‘Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung’ (BMBF): Two projects of an interdisciplinary research consortium “MESINFLAME” are performed at the Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology “Integrative preclinical strategies for targeting the local mesenchyme as a regulator of tissue specificity in inflammatory musculoskeletal disorders (IMDs)" – this is...

An integrated personal and population-based Egyptian genome reference

15 Oct, 2020

A German-Egyptian team under the lead of Saleh Ibrahim and Hauke Busch of Lübeck University together with Mohamed Salama of the American University in Kairo and the University Mansoura set up the first Egyptian genome reference. A small number of de novo assembled human genomes have been reported to date,...

The RTG1743 Doc's Day, an online event

7 Oct, 2020

On the 2nd of October 2020, the doctoral candidates of the RTG1743 Research Training Group gathered for the "Doc´s Day", a meeting exquisitely designed for doctoral researchers only. The event started by planning the upcoming RTG1743 Symposium where the main co-ordinators, Adina-Malin Tietje and Jana Seidel, explained the major execution...

Robert Koch Advancement Award for Prof. Dr. Petra Bacher

5 Oct, 2020

Dr. Petra Bacher , supervisor of several RTG doctoral researchers is awarded the Robert Koch Advancement Award 2020 for her fundamental work in the field of immunology. Four patent applications underline how relevant her research is with regard to the development of new therapies. Read more: Ärzteblatt Cluster of Excellence...

Instructional lectures and 9th RTG meeting - two-day online event

24 Sep, 2020

Due to the ongoing COVID-19 crisis, a two-day event which included the 9th RTG 1743 meeting was organized on 17-18 September 2020 via the online platform Zoom. The first half of 17 September was themed across " Nutrition, Environment, and Microbiome ". Prof. Dr. med. Christian Sina who is the...

Dr. Konrad Aden was awarded the Martin-Gülzow-Price of the German Medical Society of Gastroenterology

21 Sep, 2020

Dr. Konrad Aden , co-supervisor of several doctoral researchers in Medicine of the RTG 1743, was awared the Martin-Günzow Price 2020 of the German Medical Society of Gastroenterology (DGVS Deutsche Gesellschaft für Gastoenterologie, Verdauungs- und Stoffwechselkrankheiten). He received the price for his fundamental and future-looking research "The metabolic function of...

Online Training: Parallel programming in Julia

16 Sep, 2020

Bioinformatics is evolving rapidly into a data-oriented field, especially with the rise of omics and multi-omics studies where a single experiment can produce a few gigabytes of data. A second field that also relies heavily on data is Artificial-intelligence, specifically, machine-learning and deep learning where huge datasets are usually needed...

Cluster Lecture: “Gut Feelings- Translational approaches to Studying the Role of the Microbiota-Gut-Brain Axis in Modulating Brain & Behaviour

15 Sep, 2020

Cluster Lecture online High Profile Researchers connecting with the Cluster of Excellence Prof. John Cryan Department of Anatomy & Neuroscience University College Cork, Ireland More information and link to ZOOM-Webinar (available on September 15, 2020)

Online Training: Introduction to Neo4j 4.0

29 Jun, 2020

In June 2020 I finished an online training on using Neo4J database management system along with its query language, Cypher. Neo4j is a non-SQL graph database that has emerged over the last couple of years as a major player in analyzing highly connected data. Graph-databases enable faster queries of highly...

First large genome wide study – Team of RTG speaker identifys first gene variants associated with severe Covid-19

17 Jun, 2020

IKMB lab and analyst team, work group Prof. Dr. Andre Franke, © UKSH, photo: Maximilian Hermsen The ABO blood group is associated with severe Covid-19. Why do some people become severely ill of Covid-19, while others are asymptomatic or have mild symptoms? One answer could be found in the different...

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