Brain integrative spatial data to generate new engineered 3D cerebral malaria models and treatments

Exploring Novel Drivers of Anti-Microbial Resistance

MSCA DN coordinated by EMBL

Translation in cellular context: elucidating function, organisation and regulation with near-atomic models in whole cells

Computational methods for pandemic-scale genomic epidemiology

Resolving the unique mechanism of endocytosis of Giardia lamblia

Study of vascular signalling pathways disrupted in cerebral malaria using 3D blood-brain barrier models

Understanding cerebral malaria using 3D blood-brain barrier models

Unraveling extreme parasite biology – the role of VEX1 as splicing enhancer in kinetoplastid parasites

Eva Kowalinski (EMBL Grenoble), Mikhail Savitski (EMBL Heidelberg), Lucy Glover (Institut Pasteur), Joana Faria (University of York)

Expanding the frontiers of thermal proteome profiling in infection biology

Mikhail Savitski (EMBL Heidelberg), Agathe Subtil (Institut Pasteur), Barbara Susanne Sixt (MIMS)

Decoding lipid droplet remodeling in adipocyte-mediated host defense

Simone Mattei (EMBL Heidelberg), Caroline Demangel (Institut Pasteur), Luisa Figueiredo (GIMM)

Delineating membrane dynamics and its molecular players in model eukaryotic intracellular pathogens

Simone Mattei (EMBL Heidelberg), Ellen Bushell (MIMS), Richard Lundmark (MIMS)

Scalable phylodynamics for responsive epidemic analysis of data (SPREAD) from genomic surveillance for pandemic preparedness

Nick Goldman (EMBL-EBI), Nicola De Maio (EMBL-EBI), Sebastian Duchene (Institut Pasteur), Anna Zhukova (Institut Pasteur), Frédéric Lemoine (Institut Pasteur), Alice Carolyn McHardy (HZI)

Towards a mechanistic understanding of NK cell memory

Judith Zaugg (EMBL Heidelberg), Matthieu Boulard (EMBL Rome), Melanie Hamon (Institut Pasteur)

Exploring the role of translation landscapes in Salmonella pathogenicity and antibiotic resistance during the colonization of diverse host intracellular niches

Julia Mahamid (EMBL Heidelberg), Jost Enninga (Institut Pasteur)

Bioengineering vascularized human microlivers for malaria infection

Maria Bernabeu (EMBL Barcelona), Liliana Mancio-Silva (Institut Pasteur)

Exploring new therapeutic opportunities against mpox virus

Jose Antonio Marquez (EMBL Grenoble), Pablo Guardado-Calvo (Institut Pasteur)

Data-driven exploration of the chemical and genomic space of bacterial capsules

John Lees (EMBL-EBI), Stephen Bentley (Wellcome Sanger Institute)

Investigating the antimicrobial activity of inflammation-induced human antimicrobial peptides against commensal gut bacteria

Michael Zimmermann (EMBL Heidelberg), Björn O. Schröder (MIMS)

Personalizing gut decolonization of MDR Enterobacteria through a systems biology approach

Athanasios Typas (EMBL Heidelberg), Till Strowig (HZI), David Bikard (Institut Pasteur), André Mateus (MIMS)

Visualising the membrane proteome of Mycoplasma pneumoniae and its role in infection

Decoding the mechanisms of bacterial pathogenesis in the gut

Role of X-chromosome inactivation in macrophage polarisation

How bacterial infection elicits epigenetic memory in immune T cells

Correlative X-ray electron microscopy to characterise pathogenic signatures of cerebral malaria

Exploiting the microbiome composition to counter-select antibiotic resistant mutants

Understanding the link between the antiviral activity, RNA binding, and E3 ligase activity of TRIM25

Maame Ekua Acquah

University of Ghana

Maame Ekua Acquah studies host-pathogen interactions in SARS-CoV-2. She will learn protein expression and structural biology techniques at EMBL Grenoble to advance her research in West Africa.

Oluwaremilekun Grace Ajakaye

Adekunle Ajasin University

Oluwaremilekun Grace Ajakaye studies neglected tropical diseases in Nigeria. She will enhance her bioinformatics skills at EMBL-EBI to advance genomic research in Africa.

Tendai Washaya

University of Zimbabwe

Tendai Washaya studies multi-resistant HIV-1 and why some patients develop greater resistance to treatment. She will join researchers at EMBL-EBI to develop her next-gen sequencing & bioinformatics skills.

Adwoa Padiki Nartey

University of Ghana

Adwoa Padiki Nartey studies how microbes become resistant to antibiotics. She will tap the expertise and technology at our Heidelberg site in cell, genome, and computational biology to further her work.

Ines Ngoh

University of Bamenda

Ines Ngoh studies how malaria parasites adapt to diverse environments, especially as climate change is shifting malaria transmission and disease dynamics in many countries. With the generous support of the EFU, European Foundation for Urology.

Prisca Asiimwe Kweyamba

Ifakara Health Institute

Prisca Asiimwe Kweyamba studies aim to find novel insecticides to tackle malaria.

Tania Bishola Tshitenge

University of Kinshasa

Tania Bishola Tshitenge research focuses on understanding the emergence and dissemination of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) from environmental sources, particularly wastewater.

Viola Introini

Bernabeu Group (Barcelona)

Viola Introini studies tissue-specific microvascular models to understand the physical determinants of cerebral malaria.

Michael Knopp

Typas Group (Heidelberg)

Michael Knopp will study the intrinsic and extrinsic constrains that determine the dissemination of plasmid-born antibiotic resistance.