New PhD student starts in the group of Florian Wagenlehner/ Undraga Schagdarsurengin

The IRTG cordially welcomes Tatjana Kuzenko, the new PhD student in project 5 (Andrology lab). We are looking forward to a fruitful cooperation.

October 2018

GGL (Giessen Graduate Center for the Life Sciences) conference held Sep 19 - 20, 2018

We are proud that both student talks in section 6 ‘Reproduction in Man and Animals’ were given by IRTG members, Christiane Pleuger (project 1) and Nils Nesheim (project 5).

Christiane Pleuger:
Molecular investigations of CBE1 (Ciliated broncial epithelium 1) in spermatogenesis

Nils Nesheim:
Prostate cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAF) promote macrophage CCL18 upregulation

September 2018

3^rd place Best Poster Award at the 11^th GGL Annual Conference

Bea from project 12 was awarded for one of the best posters at the conference. Posters are evaluated by a specially compiled committee.

Well done Bea!    

Poster title:
The difference in contractility between prostatic ducts and glands, and how oxytocin is involved

September 2018

New PhD student joining project 3 under supervision of Georgios Scheiner-Bobis and Lutz Konrad

The IRTG welcomes Hassan who has started his PhD in project 3.

We are looking forward to a successful collaboration!

September 2018

for the ICS 2018 in Philadelphia, USA

Mathias successful application for the ADB Travel Grant and the Monash Travel Grant (Study away) enabled him to attend the 48^th Annual Meeting of the International Continence Society. Congratulations!

August 2018

Poster Prize awarded at the ESA-SRB Conference, Adelaide, Australia, 19-22 Aug 2018

Congratulations to Christine (IRTG project 7) who won this year’s  Early Career Researcher Poster award with her poster entitled "Investigation of intratesticular inflammatory responses in humans and mice implicates activin A as a potential inducer of fibrosis in the testis". Bravo!

August 2018

Juliette joining project 2 under supervision of Daniela Fietz and Hans-Christian Schuppe

The IRTG welcomes Juliette who has started her work in project 2 this August.

We are looking forward to a successful collaboration!

August 2018

Congratulations to Sophie who successfully completed her PhD at Monash.

We wish her all the best for her promising future.

August 2018

Monash student on her way home

It was a pleasure to have Siv with us in Giessen. We hope you enjoyed your time here. Thank you for coming.

August 2018

IRTG fellow investigator awarded with the highest recognition of the Federal Republic of Germany

For his outstanding honorary commitment in the field of Medicine, Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Weider, dean of the Medical Faculty, received the Order of Merit first grade conferred by Volker Bouffier Minister-President of the state of Hesse.

August 2018

New doctoral student starts in the project of Undraga Schagdarsurenging and Klaus Steger

We cordially welcome Shanjid Shiplu, new PhD student in project 11, taking the place of Anton Müller to whom we send our best wishes for his future. We are looking forward to a successful collaboration.

July 2018

to attend the US Endocrine Society Meeting and its Early Career Forum Workshop

Congrats to Sophie who received the Early Career Forum Award and the Australasian Women in Endocrinology Early Career Travel Grant for her participation in both meetings, held March 17-19, 2018.

Well done, Sophie!

March 2018

Kate Loveland receives the Fuller W. Blazer SSR International Scientist Award

The Fuller W. Bazer SSR International Scientist Award recognises an outstanding international scientist who has consistently demonstrated excellence in research and graduate education at an institution outside of North America and who demonstrates outstanding potential for leading and directing scientific research overseas.

The award will be conferred to Kate at the SSR 2018 Annual Meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana, US.

It's a great achievement and a well-merited recognition of your superb performance, Kate.

Read more

June 2018

funded by CamBioScience

Congratulations to Elham who received a travel grant supporting her participation in the "CRISPR Genome Editing: Design & Strategy" workshop held 18-19 June 2018 at Cambridge, UK.

Nice going!

May 2018

funded by von-Behring-Roentgen Stiftung

Congratulations to Britta who secured a travel grant covering the cost for her participation in the 20^th European Testis Workshop held 23-27 May in Obidos, Portugal.

Nice going!

May 2018

for the "9^th Copenhagen Workshop on Testicular Germ Cell Cancer" in October 2018

Dana's successful application for a 2018 CRH Travel Award (Centre for Reproductive Health, Hudson Institute of Medical Research) enables her to attend one of the most interesting conferences in her field of research. Well done, Dana!

May 2018

ASRI Travel Grand Award for ASRI-CSI Annual Meeting,  June 28 - July 01 2018 in Shanghai (CN)

Congratulations to Siv and Dana (both IRTG project 2) who receive that travel grant to attend the ASRI-CSI Annual Meeting and to present their papers.

Siv's being entitled "Delineating the testicular leukocyte population in the adult mouse"

Dana's being entitled "The testicular germ cell tumor line (TCam-2) drives M0 and M1 macrophages (THP-1derived monocytes) into the immunosuppressive M2 phenotype"

This is a fantastic achievement  for IRTG with students taking home two of the 10 travel grants that were issued. Great job, ladies!

April 2018

New medical students joining IRTG

This spring, five students have taken a 'one semester timeout' from studying to do research work for their thesis within IRTG:

Deborah Dengler in project 5

Jessica Ott in project 1

Swapnila Pant in project 9

Felix Büdel in project 3

Till Kracht in project 7

We wish them a successful stay in IRTG!

April 2018

New student joining group of Ralf Middendorff

The IRTG welcomes Magdalena Kuchta in project 6 succeeding Mathias who just has submitted his thesis.

We are looking forward to a successful collaboration!

April 2019

Zlatko Skrbis visits Giessen to receive highest JLU recognition

Monash Senior Pro Vice-Chancellor (Academic) Professor Zlatko Skrbis is awarded with the Liebig Medal for his outstanding contribution to the institutional partnership between Monash Universtity and JLU. In the presence of Dr. Lauren Bain deputy ambassadress of Australia he receives the award by Prof. Dr. Mukherjee president of the JLU.

March 2018

Article on the advantages PhDs have over other job candidates brought to you by cheeky scientist.

Witten by Isaiah Hankel the article gets rid of the rumours of industry preferring to hire non-PhDs and explains the advantages of a PhD for this sector.

Go check it out on cheekyscientist.com

Mathias on his way to Melbourne

Working in project 6 Mathias has fled cold Germany to conduct his research in sunny Australia under supervision of Stuart Ellem. We wish him a lot of success and a pleasant stay in Australia.

Jan 2018

Anton joining project 11 under supervision of Undraga Schagdarsurengin

The IRTG welcomes Anton who started his work in project 11 this January.

We are looking forward to a successful collaboration!

January 2018

 First Monash based IRTG student to complete her Joint PhD

With an outstanding performance via video conference Rukmali passed her thesis defense, achieving the merit "summa cum laude".

Congratulations on this excellent result! Nice going! We are happy that you will be staying with "us".

December 2017

Mathias honoured with the best poster award at the 7th DVR-Congress held 7-9 Dec 2017 in Munich

 Congrats to Mathias who received an award for his poster then selected for oral presentation.

Title of poster: "Ejaculation disorders and treatment of BPH: Disturbed function of prostate ducts and seminal vesicles by alpha1-adrenergic receptor blocker tamsulosin but not by PDE5 inhibitors".

Nice going!

December 2017

PhD student in project 7 on her way to do research at Monash University

Christine will be hosted by Mark Hedger and carry out research on her project "Restoration of fertility in chronic testicular inflammation by blocking activin bioactivity: Effect of exogenous follistatin on duration of inflammation response, testicular impairment and germ cell recovery".

We wish Christine a lot of success and a pleasant stay in Australia!

December 2017

Various NHMRC grants for Monash investigators

Results of the 2017 NHMRC grant application round

Congrats to Gail Risbridger, Moira O'Bryan, Patrick Western and Rob McLachlan  for their successful acquisition of NHMRC project grants commencing in 2018.

November 2017

IRTG Melbourne Reproductive Health and Biology Workshop, Nov 29, 2017

Dana Püschl gave a talk with the title "Human testicular cancer and the functional
polarization of macrophage subsets" at this year's IRTG workshop on Nov 29^th.

We are very proud of her to be one of the speakers at the Melbourne Workshop.

November 2017

Britta Klein has been awarded for the best talk at the 1. Science Day of the medical department

Congratulations to Britta, who received an award for the best talk in the section "basic / theoretical research".
Britta agreed to be a speaker at the First Science Day of the medical department at JLU.

Good job!

November 2017

Beatrix starts in project 12 under supervision of Ralf Middendorff

We cordially welcome Beatrix Stadler, doctoral student in the new project 12.

We are looking forward to a successful collaboration!

October 2017