Pictures 2017

MBML Programme Director Rory E. Morty opening the Annual Retreat.

MBML student Chanil  Valasarajan (Pullamsetti laboratory) delivering his lecture.

An apparently entertained MBML Programme Chairman Werner Seeger, in the audience!

MBML students Nicole Krause (left) and Nabham Rai (right) serving as session chairs.

Attendees at the 2017 MBML Annual Retreat.

A captive audience in the front rows!

MBML Programme Director Rory E. Morty (right) in conversation with invited students Flavia R. Greiffo (DZL CPC-M campus; left) and Draginja Kovačević (DZL ARCN campus; centre).

MBML Faculty member Ralph T. Schermuly (left) in conversation with invited speaker Anna R. Hemnes (Vanderbilt University, Nashville, U.S.A.; right).

MBML Programme Director Rory E. Morty (centre) with laboratory members David Surate Solaligue (left) and Claudio Nardiello (right).

Some of our invited speakers: (back row, l-r) MBML Programme Tutors Janine Koepke and Ivana Mižíková; Deputy Programme Director Elie El Agha; Programme Chair Werner Seeger; and Anna R. Hemnes (Vanderbilt University, Nashville, U.S.A.). (front row, l-r) Programme Director Rory E. Morty; Daniel B. Jernigan (Director of the Influenza Division, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, U.S.A.); Monsignor Tomasz Trafny (Director of the Science and Faith Department at the Pontifical Council for Culture, Vatican City); Guy Joos (University of Ghent, Belgium), President of the European Respiratory Society; Xin Sun (University of California at San Diego, San Diego, U.S.A.); and Jay Kolls (Tulane University, New Orleans, U.S.A.).

The poster session gets underway: MBML students Marija Gredić (Weißmann laboratory) explaining her poster to MBML Programme Chairman Werner Seeger.

MBML Programme Director Rory E. Morty (left) in conversation with invited speaker Monsignor Tomasz Trafny (Director of the Science and Faith Department at the Pontifical Council for Culture, Vatican City; right).

MBML students (l-r) Marija Gredić (Weißmann laboratory) and Cheng-Yu Wu (Weißmann laboratory).

MBML Faculty member Wolfgang Kummer (left) in conversation with MBML student Alisa Agné (Grau laboratory; right).

Invited speaker Monsignor Tomasz Trafny (Director of the Science and Faith Department at the Pontifical Council for Culture, Vatican City; left) in conversation with MBML student Alberto Rodríguez Castillo (Morty laboratory; right).

Our invited external students and fellows: (Back row, l-r) MBML Programme Director Rory E. Morty; Karthik Suresh (Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, U.S.A.); Programme Chair Werner Seeger; (Middle row, l-r) Programme Tutors Janine Koepke and Ivana Mižíková; Deputy Programme Director Elie El Agha. (Front row, l-r) MBML alumnus Mario Böhm (Stanford University, Stanford, U.S.A.); Preston Anderson (University of Iowa, Iowa city, U.S.A.); James Lambert (University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, U.S.A.); and Meghan E. Rebuli (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, U.S.A.).

Our invited local students: (Back row, l-r) MBML Programme Tutor Janine Koepke; Programme Director Rory E. Morty; Programme Tutor and Ivana Mižíková; Deputy Programme Director Elie El Agha; and Programme Chair Werner Seeger; (Front row, l-r) medical students Christopher Strahle (University of Heidelberg); Philipp Jung (University of Göttingen); Nadja Batora (DZL TLRC campus), Berenice Rath (DZL BREATH campus), Rebecca Bodenstein-Sgró (DZL ARCN campus), Draginja Kovačević (DZL ARCN campus), Flavia R. Greiffo (DZL CPC-M campus).

Guy Joos (University of Ghent, Belgium), President of the European Respiratory Society (centre) sharing a joke with MBML Programme Director Rory E. Morty (left) and Deputy Programme Director Elie El Agha (right).

Invited speaker Jesús Pérez Gill (Universidad Complutense Madrid, Madrid, Spain; centre, facing camera) in conversation with MBML Programme Chairman Werner Seeger (left, gesticulating) and MBML Faculty member Andreas Günther (right).

Invited speaker Jay Kolls (Tulane University, New Orleans, U.S.A.) (top left corner) holding a meet-the-professor session.

Invited speaker Daniel B. Jernigan (Director of the Influenza Division, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, U.S.A.; at distant head of table) holding a meet-the-professor session.

Guy Joos (University of Ghent, Belgium), President of the European Respiratory Society (centre) with MBML Programme Director Rory E. Morty (left) and Deputy Programme Director Elie El Agha (right).

Monsignor Tomasz Trafny (Director of the Science and Faith Department at the Pontifical Council for Culture, Vatican City; second from right, gesticulating), holding a meet-the-professor session.

Guy Joos (University of Ghent, Belgium), President of the European Respiratory Society (centre, gesticulating), holding a meet-the-professor session.

Jesús Pérez Gill (Universidad Complutense Madrid, Madrid, Spain) presenting his keynote lecture.

Daniel B. Jernigan (Director of the Influenza Division, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, U.S.A.) during his meet-the-professor session. 

Selfie time! (l-r) MBML students Margarhida Barroso (Herold laboratory), Akis Panagiotidis (Weber laboratory), and David Pérez Bravo (Morty laboratory).

Selfie time! (l-r) MBML students Claudia Fernanda García Castro (Weißmann laboratory), Cheng-Yu Wu (Weißmann laboratory), and Andrés Alberro-Braga  (Vadász laboratory).

Selfie time! (l-r) MBML students Cheng-Yu Wu (Weißmann laboratory) and Claudia Fernanda García Castro (Weißmann laboratory).

Camera issues anyway….! (l-r) MBML Deputy Programme Director Elie El Agha, Programme Tutor Ivana Mižíková, and incoming Programme Tutor Claudia Fernanda García Castro (Herold laboratory). 

The poster session continues……

Meet-the-professor sessions get underway……

Invited speaker Monsignor Tomasz Trafny (Director of the Science and Faith Department at the Pontifical Council for Culture, Vatican City) presenting his keynote lecture.

(l-r; facing camera) MBML students Ettore Lignelli (Morty laboratory) and Andrés Alberro-Braga  (Vadász laboratory), in disucssion at the posters.

Invited medical students Christopher Strahle (University of Heidelberg; left) and Philipp Jung (University of Göttingen; right), in discussion.

Miša Gunjak (Morty laboratory, left) in conversation with invited student Preston Anderson (University of Iowa, Iowa city, U.S.A.; right).

Invited student Flavia R. Greiffo (DZL CPC-M campus) in discussion with Nabham Rai (Schermuly laboratory; right). 

Invited speaker Fiona Godlee, Editor-in-Chief of The British Medical Journal, delivering her keynote address.

MBML student Miša Gunjak (Morty laboratory, right) in conversation with invited speaker Xin Sun (University of California at San Diego, San Diego, U.S.A.; left), at her poster.

MBML students David Surate Solaligue (Morty laboratory) and Despoina Myti (Morty laboratory), in discussion at the posters.

MBML Faculty member Wolfgang Kummer in conversation with invited speaker Xin Sun (University of California at San Diego, San Diego, U.S.A.; left).

MBML students (l-r) Miša Gunjak (Morty laboratory), Agnieszka Pozarska (Morty laboratory), and Sara Taghizadeh (Bellusci laboratory).

MBML student Maroua Ghoul (Samakovlis laboratory; left) in discussion with MBML Programme Tutor Janine Koepke (right).

MBML Chairman Werner Seeger (left) in discussion with MBML student Zeki İlker Kanbağlı (Weißmann laboratory; right).

MBML Programme Tutor Ivana Mižíková (right) in conversation with invited fellow Karthik Suresh (Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, U.S.A.; left) while on the move!

Meet-the-professor sessions get underway!

Invited speaker Anna R. Hemnes (Vanderbilt University, Nashville, U.S.A.) delivering her keynote address.