Pictures 2014

MBML students Alena Moiseenko (Bellusci Laboratory), and Salma Dilai (Bellusci Laboratory), chairing a session on late lung development.			Invited speaker Professor Robert Huber (Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry, Munich), recipient of the 1988 Nobel Prize for Chemistry, presenting his address.
MBML student Jordi Ruiz Camp (Morty Laboratory) presenting his work on lung alveolarization.			MBML Faculty member Professor Eveline Baumgart-Vogt (arm extended) raising a question during a session.
Programme Chairman Professor Werner Seeger (facing camera) raising a question in a presentations session.			Former MBML Student Dr Ðuro Kosanovic (arms extended) raising a question during a presentation session.
Invited speaker Professor Robert Huber (Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry, Munich) (l), the recipient of the 1988 Nobel Prize for Chemistry, discussing protein crystallography and protein structural analysis with Programme Director Dr Rory E. Morty (r).			Managing Director of the Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research Professor Didier Stainier (l) in discussion with MBML Programme Chairman and fellow Max Planck Institute Director Professor Werner Seeger (r).
Invited speakers at the 2014 Annual Retreat: (back row, l-r) Programme Tutor Dr Elie El Agha; Professor Sir Magdi H. Yacoub (Imperial College, London, United Kingdom); Professor James A. Frank (University of California at San Francisco, U.S.A.); Deputy Programme Director Dr Florian Veit; Programme Chairman Professor Werner Seeger; Professor Bart Haagmans (Erasmus University Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands); Programme Director Dr Rory E. Morty. (front row, l-r) Professor Sadis Matalon, Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Physiology – Lung Cell and Molecular Physiology (University of Alabama at Birmingham, U.S.A.); His Eminence Cardinal Willem Jacobus Eijk, Archbishop of Utrecht (Archdiocese of Utrecht, The Netherlands), himself also a medical doctor; Professor Harald zur Hausen (German Cancer Research Centre, Heidelberg, Germany), the recipient of the 2008 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine; Professor Maria G. Belvisi (Imperial College, London, United Kingdom), Professor Robert Huber (Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry, Munich, Germany), the recipient of the 1988 Nobel Prize for Chemistry, and Professor Aly Zaky (Ain Shaims University, Cairo, Egypt), who diagnosed the first case of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS).
Invited speaker Professor Robert Huber (Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry, Munich), recipient of the 1988 Nobel Prize for Chemistry, presenting his address.		Invited speaker His Eminence Cardinal Willem Jacobus Eijk, Archbishop of Utrecht (Archdiocese of Utrecht), himself also a medical doctor, presenting his address.		Invited speaker Professor Harald zur Hausen (German Cancer Research Centre, Heidelberg), recipient of the 2008 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, presenting his address.
The THREE MUSKATEERS (l-r) MBML students Martin Reichert (Grau Laboratory), Ujjwal Deo (Schermuly Laboratory), and class representative Mario Böhm (Schermuly laboratory), in the grounds of Rauischholzhausen Castle..			MBML faculty member and former tutor Dr Soni Pullamsetti (c) in conversation with two members of her laboratory: MBML students Elisabetta Gamen (l) and Dijana Iloska (r), in the grounds of Rauischholzhausen Castle.
MBML student Jordi Ruiz Camp (Morty Laboratory) (l) in conversation with Programme Director Dr Rory E. Morty (r) in the grounds of Rauischholzhausen Castle.			MBML Faculty member Professor Ralph T. Schermuly (l) with Programme Chairman Professor Werner Seeger (r) in the grounds of Rauischholzhausen Castle.
Invited speaker His Eminence Cardinal Willem Jacobus Eijk, Archbishop of Utrecht (Archdiocese of Utrecht, The Netherlands), himself also a medical doctor, presenting his address on ethical issues relating to euthenasia.
Participants at the Annual Retreat 2014.
Invited Students at the Annual Retreat 2014 (back row, l-r) Programme Tutor Dr Elie El Agha; Andrew Ferretti (University of South Alabama); Espen Groth (DZL Cluster North campus). (front row, l-r), Stephan Spahn (DZL Heidelberg campus); Chidiebere Awah (DZL Hannover campus); Petra Nathan (DZL Munich campus); Daphne Mous (Erasmus University Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands).
Invited speaker Professor Sadis Matalon, Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Physiology – Lung Cell and Molecular Physiology (University of Alabama at Birmingham, U.S.A.)		Invited speaker Professor Maria G. Belvisi (Imperial College, London, United Kingdom)		Invited speaker Professor James A. Frank (University of California at San Francisco, U.S.A.)
Deputy Programme Director Dr Florian Veit (seated, centre) seeing to the smooth running of the Annual Retreat; here with invited student Daphne Mous (Department of Paediatric Surgery, Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands) (l) and Amit Shrestha (Bellusci Laboratory) (r).			Invited speaker Professor Sadis Matalon, Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Physiology – Lung Cell and Molecular Physiology (University of Alabama at Birmingham, U.S.A.) listening to a lecture.
MBML student Alicia Madurga Hernández (Morty Laboratory) presenting her data at the Annual Retreat.			MBML student Shalini Venkatesan (Günther Laboratory) introducing Professor Robert Huber, prior to his giving The Basic Science Nobel Lecture.
Programme Director Dr Rory E. Morty (c) with invited speakers His Eminence Cardinal Willem Jacobus Eijk, Archbishop of Utrecht (Archdiocese of Utrecht, The Netherlands), himself also a medical doctor (l); and Professor Sadis Matalon, Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Physiology – Lung Cell and Molecular Physiology (University of Alabama at Birmingham, U.S.A.) (r).			Dr Sylvia Weissmann (DZL/ECCPS/UGMLC office) (l) with MBML Faculty members Professor Norbert Weissmann (c) and Professor Ralph T. Schermuly (r), in the grounds of Rauischholzhausen Castle.
MBML Faculty members Professor Jürgen Lohmeyer (l) and Professor Bernd Schmeck (r), during a coffee break.			Programme Chairman Professor Werner Seeger (l) in conversation with invited speaker Professor Robert Huber (Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry, Munich, Germany), the recipient of the 1988 Nobel Prize for Chemistry, during a coffee break.
Invited speaker Professor Sir Magdi H. Yacoub (Imperial College, London, United Kingdom).		Invited speaker Professor Bart Haagmans (Erasmus University Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands).		MBML Faculty member Dr Susanne Herold.
MBML statistics tutor Dr Jochen Wilhelm (l) in conversation with MBML student Mira Gökyildirim (Hattar Laboratory), during the poster session.			MBML student Dijana Iloska (Pullamsetti Laboratory) with visiting student Giovanni Fachada (Barreto Laboratory), and MBML students Agnieszka Pozarska (Morty Laboratory), Elisabetta Gamen (Pullamsetti Laboratory), and Poonam Tambe (Savai Laboratory), during a coffee break.
Programme Director Dr Rory E. Morty (l) and Programme Chairman Professor Werner Seeger (r) listening to questions.			Former MBML students Anuar Kalymbetov (Schermuly Laboratory) (l) and Elpidoforos (Akis) Sakkas (Morty Laboratory) (r), bonding!
Programme Director Dr Rory E. Morty (l) and invited speaker Professor Bart Haagmans (Erasmus University Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands) (c) in conversation over lunch with invited speaker Professor Harald zur Hausen (German Cancer Research Centre, Heidelberg, Germany), recipient of the 2008 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine (r). Behind Professor zur Hausen is Professor Aly Zaky (Ain Shaims University, Cairo, Egypt), who diagnosed the first case of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS).			Invited speaker His Eminence Cardinal Willem Jacobus Eijk, Archbishop of Utrecht (Archdiocese of Utrecht, The Netherlands) (l), himself also a medical doctor; in conversation over lunch with former MBML student Anuar Kalymbetov (Schermuly Laboratory) (r).
MBML students Agnieszka Pozarska (Morty Laboratory) and Aglaia Ntokou (Morty Laboratory) at lunch.			Programme Chairman Professor Werner Seeger (l) in conversation over lunch with invited speakers Professor Sadis Matalon, Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Physiology – Lung Cell and Molecular Physiology (University of Alabama at Birmingham, U.S.A.) (c) and Professor James A. Frank (University of California at San Francisco, U.S.A.) (r).
MBML statistics tutor Dr Jochen Wilhelm (l) in conversation with MBML student Paulina Gwozdzinska (Vadász Laboratory) and MBML Faculty member Dr István Vadász (r), during the poster session.			MBML student Addi Romero (Barreto Laboratory) (l) presenting his data to (l-r) invited speaker Professor James A. Frank (University of California at San Francisco, U.S.A.) and MBML students Cho-Ming Chao (Bellusci Laboratory), and Adriana Contreras (Barreto Laboratory), during the poster session.
MBML student Elsa Tadele (Weissmann laboratory) (l) presenting her data to (l-r) MBML students Diogo Silva and Claudio Nardiello (both Morty laboratory) and MBML Tutor Dr Elie El Agha, during the poster session.			MBML student Ana Ivonne Vasquéz Armendariz (Herold/Lohmeyer Laboratory) (l) presenting her data to (l-r) fellow MBML student Mariola Bednorz (Weissmann laboratory) and Programme Chairman Professor Werner Seeger, during the poster session.
MBML Faculty member Dr Veronika Grau (l) in discussion with MBML student Martin Reichert (Grau Laboratory) (r), during the poster session.			MBML student Claudio Nardiello (Morty Laboratory) (l) presenting his data, during the poster session. On the far right is MBML Faculty member Professor Ralph T. Schermuly.
MBML student Mario Böhm (Schermuly Laboratory) (l) discussing his data with fellow MBML student Balram Nepaume (Schermuly Laboratory) during the poster session.			MBML student Alberto Rodríguez-Castillo (Morty Laboratory) (l) in conversation with MBML Faculty member Dr Susanne Herold (r) during the poster session.
Deputy Programme Director Dr Florian Veit (r) apparently entertained by Programme Director Dr Rory E. Morty (l).			MBML Faculty members Professor Jürgen Lohmeyer (l) and Dr Soni Pullamsetti (r).
MBML Faculty member Dr István Vadász (l) in conversation with Dr Sylvia Weissmann (DZL/ECCPS/UGMLC office) (c) and MBML Faculty member Professor Norbert Weissmann, during the poster session.			Programme Director Dr Rory E. Morty with the youngest participant at the Annual Retreat, Elisabet!
Invited speaker Professor James A. Frank (University of California at San Francisco, U.S.A.) (l) in conversation with Programme Director Dr Rory E. Morty (r), during a coffee break.			Deputy programme Director Dr Florian Veit (l) tending to the smooth running of the Annual Retreat, in discussion with invited speaker His Eminence Cardinal Willem Jacobus Eijk, Archbishop of Utrecht (Archdiocese of Utrecht, The Netherlands), himself also a medical doctor; MBML student Anna Lena Merkel (Schmeck laboratory) (secodn fromright) who would introduce His Eminence, and MBML statistics tutor Dr Jochen Wilhelm (r).
MBML students Tatyana Likhoshvay (l) and Ivana Mižíková (r) (both Morty Laboratory) facilitating a questions-and-answers session on lung development.			Invited speaker His Eminence Cardinal Willem Jacobus Eijk, Archbishop of Utrecht (Archdiocese of Utrecht, The Netherlands) (l), himself a medical doctor, in conversation with programme Director Dr Rory E. Morty (r).
Meet-the-professor session with invited speaker Professor Bart Haagmans (Erasmus University Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands), with (clockwise from Professor Haagmans) MBML students Alicia Madurga Hernández and Alberto Rodríguez-Castillo (both Morty Laboratory); Professor Aly Zaky (Ain Shaims University, Cairo, Egypt), who diagnosed the first case of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS); N.N., N.N., MBML students Tatyana Likhoshvay (Morty laboratory), Mira Gökyildirim (Hattar Laboratory), Salma Dilai (Bellusci Laboratory), Marco Schlappkohl (Mayer Laboratory), Fransziska Kipper and Claudio Nardiello (both Morty Laboratory), and invited student Chidiebere Awah (DZL Hannover campus).
MBML students Adriana Contreras (Barreto Laboratory) (l) and Gayathri Viswanathan (Schermuly Laboratory) (r), preparing a chair a session.			MBML student Addi Romero (Barreto Laboratory) in conversation with Professor Robert Huber (Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry, Munich, Germany), the recipient of the 1988 Nobel Prize for Chemistry.
The Morty Laboratory plotting: Elpidoforos (Akis) Sakkas (l), Claudio Nardiello (c), and Jordi Ruiz Camp (r).			MBML Faculty member Dr István Vadász (l) in conversation with Professor Sadis Matalon, Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Physiology – Lung Cell and Molecular Physiology (r).
Meet-the-professor session with Professor Sir Magdi H. Yacoub (Imperial College, London, United Kingdom) (rear, r) with (anticlockwise from Sir Magdi) MBML students Alena Moiseenko (Bellusci Laboratory), Dijana Iloska (Pullamsetti Laboratory), N.N., and Martin Reichert (Grau Laboratory).			Meet-the-professor session with Professor Maria G. Belvisi (Imperial College, London, United Kingdom) (facing camera, gesticulating) with MBML student Monika Malczyk (Weissmann Laboratory) (r).
Meet-the-professor session with Professor Maria G. Belvisi (Imperial College, London, United Kingdom) (back to camera) with (anticlockwise from Professor Belvisi) MBML students Monika Malczyk (Weissmann Laboratory) and Elpidoforos (Akis) Sakkas (Morty Laboratory).			MBML Faculty member Professor Saverio Bellusci (l) with (clockwise from Professor Bellusci): MBML student Vahid Kheirollahi (Bellusci Laboratory), MBML statistics tutor Dr Jochen Wilhelm, and MBML Tutor Dr Elie El Agha.
Meet-the-professor session with invited speaker Professor Aly Zaky (Ain Shaims University, Cairo, Egypt), who diagnosed the first case of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) (facing camera, gesticulating); with (clockwise from Professor Zaky) N.N., N.N., MBML students Tatyana Likhoshvay (Morty laboratory), Mira Gökyildirim (Hattar Laboratory), Salma Dilai (Bellusci Laboratory), Marco Schlappkohl (Mayer Laboratory), Fransziska Kipper and Claudio Nardiello (both Morty Laboratory), and invited student Chidiebere Awah (DZL Hannover campus); invited speaker Professor Bart Haagmans (Erasmus University Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands), and MBML students Alicia Madurga Hernández and Alberto Rodríguez-Castillo (both Morty Laboratory).
Meet-the-professor session with invited speaker Professor Maria G. Belvisi (Imperial College, London, United Kingdom): clockwise, from far right, MBML students Anuar Kalymbetov (in white shirt; Schermuly Laboratory), Gayathri Viswanathan (Schermuly Laboratory), Maryam Keshavarz (Kummer Laboratory), Luciana Mazzocchi (Vadász Laboratory), Professor Belvisi, N.N., Elpidoforos Sakkas (Morty laboratory), Oleksiy Klymenko (Günther Laboratory), Agnieszka Pozarska and Anita Golec (both Morty Laboratory), and Zaneta Sibinska (Schermuly Laboratory).
Meet-the-professor session with Professor Sir Magdi H. Yacoub (Imperial College, London, United Kingdom) (l-r) MBML students Alena Moiseenko (Bellusci Laboratory), Diogo Silva (Morty Laboratory), Martin Reichert (Grau laboratory); Sir Magdi; and MBML students Ivana Mižíková (Morty Laboratory), Nefertiti El Nikhely (Savai Laboratory), Dijana Iloska and Elisabetta Gamen (both Pullamsetti laboratory).			Invited speaker Professor Harald zur Hausen (German Cancer Research Centre, Heidelberg, Germany) (l), recipient of the 2008 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, in conversation with Programme Director Dr Rory E. Morty (r), in the grounds of Rauischholzhausen Castle.
MBML Tutor Dr Elie El Agha (l) in conversation with invited speaker Professor Harald zur Hausen (German Cancer Research Centre, Heidelberg, Germany), recipient of the 2008 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine (r).			MBML student Balachandar Selvakumar (Herold/Lohmeyer Laboratory) (second from left) receiving his MBML certificate from Programme Chairman Professor Werner Seeger (l), MBML Tutor Dr Elie El Agha (second from right) and Deputy Programme Director Dr Florian Veit (r).
Meet-the-professor session with invited speaker Professor Harald zur Hausen (German Cancer Research Centre, Heidelberg, Germany), recipient of the 2008 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine (facing camera, pointing): clockwise, from Professor zur Hausen, Merlin Reinhardt (Weissmann Laboratory), MBML students Aleksandar Petrovic (Schermuly Laboratory), Poonam Tambe (Savai Laboratory), Ana Ivonne Vasquez Armendariz (Herold/Lohmeyer Laboratory), N.N., N.N., Jan Schneider (Schermuly Laboratory), invited student Andrew Ferretti (University of South Alabama), André Wesener and Anna Lena Merkel (both Schmeck Laboratory) and Mariola Bednorz (Weissmann Laboratory).
Meet-the-professor session with invited speaker Professor Robert Huber (Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry, Munich, Germany), recipient of the 1988 Nobel Prize for Chemistry, (front, right): clockwise, from Professor Huber: Amit Shrestha (Bellusci Laboratory), Christina Herkt (Schmeck Laboratory), Mario Böhm (Schermuly Laboratory), Paola López, Giovanni Fachada and Adriana Contreras (all Barreto Laboratory), and Irina Shalashova and Shalini Venkatesan (both Günther Laboratory).
Meet-the-professor session with invited speaker Professor Sadis Matalon, Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Physiology – Lung Cell and Molecular Physiology (University of Alabama at Birmingham, U.S.A.) (facing camera, in tie). Clockwise, from Professor Matalon: Nicholas Schön (Morty Laboratory), invited student Petra Nathan (DZL Munich campus); MBML students Changwu Lu (Schermuly Laboratory), Aglaia Ntokou (Morty Laboratory), Katrin Siebers (Grau Laboratory), Jordi Ruiz Camp (Morty Laboratory), and Addi Romero (Barreto Laboratory).
Meet-the-professor session with invited speaker Professor James A. Frank (University of California at San Francisco, U.S.A.) (far left, in jacket): clockwise, from Professor Frank: MBML students Natalia El-Merhie (Baumgart-Vogt Laboratory), N.N., Lina Jankauskaite (Herold/Lohmeyer Laboratory), Elsa Tadele (Weissmann Laboratory); invited student Stephan Spahn (DZL Heidelberg campus); MBML students Ujjwal Deo (Schermuly Laboratory), Balachandar Selvakumar (Herold/Lohmeyer Laboratory), and Balram Nepaume (Schermuly Laboratory).
Meet-the-professor session with invited speaker Professor Harald zur Hausen (German Cancer Research Centre, Heidelberg, Germany), recipient of the 2008 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine (facing camera, gesticulating): clockwise, from Professor zur Hausen, Merlin Reinhardt (Weissmann Laboratory), MBML students Aleksandar Petrovic (Schermuly Laboratory), Poonam Tambe (Savai Laboratory), Ana Ivonne Vasquez Armendariz (Herold/Lohmeyer Laboratory), invited students Espen Groth (DZL Cluster North campus) and Andrew Ferretti (University of South Alabama); and MBNL student Mariola Bednorz (Weissmann Laboratory).
Professor Harald zur Hausen (German Cancer Research Centre, Heidelberg, Germany), recipient of the 2008 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, presenting his address.
Professor Harald zur Hausen (German Cancer Research Centre, Heidelberg, Germany), recipient of the 2008 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine (standing), in discussion with MBML Faculty member Professor Eveline Baumgart-Vogt (right; standing), during a questions-and-answers session.
Professor Robert Huber (Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry, Munich, Germany), the recipient of the 1988 Nobel Prize for Chemistry, presenting his address.
The MBML graduate class of 2013, with their certificates! (back row, l-r) Deputy Programme Director Dr Florian Veit, programme Director Dr Rory E. Morty, and Programme Chairman Professor Werner Seeger. (middle row, l-r) Oleksiy Klymenko (Günther Laboratory), Alena Moiseenko (Bellusci Laboratory), Tatyana Likhoshvay, Alicia Madurga Hernández (both Morty Laboratory), and Adriana Contreras (Barreto Laboratory). (front row, l-r) Elisabetta Gamen (Pullamsetti laboratory), Balachandar Selvakumar (Herold/Lohmeyer Laboratory), Zaneta Sibinska (Schermuly Laboratory), Monika Malczyk (Weissmann Laboratory), and Anito Golec (Morty Laboratory).