Congratulations to Elham who successfully completed her PhD at JLU

We wish Elham all the best for her future career.

October 2020

IRTG postdoc receives the 2020 Von-Behring-Röntgen Young Researcher Award

The Von-Behring-Röntgen-Nachwuchspreis has been awarded for the twelvth time and recognises two junior scientists (one from Marburg and and from Giessen) who have demonstrated outstanding scientific research in their early career.

Christiane has been chosen for her excellent work in P1 and P9. The award will be conferred in a public ceremony in October.

It's a terrific achievement. Great job! Cheerio!

May 2020 /October 2020

Article published by Beatrix Stadler in Frontiers in Endocrinology

We are happy to annouce that Bea published an article about "Oxytocin in the Male Reproductive Tract; The Therapeutic Potential of Oxytocin-Agonists and-Antagonists". Congratulations! 

 October 2020

Liza O'Donnell project leader in P1

Liza O'Donnell will succeed Moira O'Bryan and become project leader in PA and Monash supervisor for Shashika Kothalawala. Thank you, Liza, for taking up this role.   October 2020

Moira O'Bryan becomes Dean of the Faculty of Science at Melbourne University

Moira O'Bryan, principal investigator in P1, is leaving Monash University to take up the role of Dean of the Faculty of Science at Melbourne University. Congratulations and all the best for this new phase of her amazing career. October 2020

Award at the Virtual Symposium on Advances in Gastrointestinal & Urogenital Research

Congratulations to Beatrix who received an award for the best oral presentation at the virtual ASCEPT symposium
Nice achievement!

September 2020

Paper published in Urology

Congrats to Hang Yan  for his paper The clinical application and potential roles of circulating tumor cells in bladder cancer and prostate cancer.

July 2020

Publications of Hiba

We are glad to annouce that Hiba published two articles:

1. Western diet aggravates neuronal insult in post-traumatic brain injury: Proposed pathways for interplay (Pubmed PMID: 32574954)

2. Autoantibodies in central nervous system trauma: new frontiers for diagnosis and prognosis biomarkers in the book Biomarkers for Traumatic Brain Injury 1st Edition

Congratulations - well done!

June and July 2020

Paper published by Beatrix Stadler

We are happy to annouce that Bea published an article about "Contractions transport exfoliated epithelial cells through the neonatal epididymis". Congratulations!

PubMed PMID: 32442962

April 2020

Paper published in Reproduction

Beatrix Stadler ist co-author of "Contractions transport exfoliated epithelial cells through the neonatal epididymis".

July 2020

Medical student in project 10      

Welcome to Anika who will spend the next 6 months in Andreas Meinhardt's lab to carry out research for her thesis project under supervision of Sudhanshu Bhushan. We wish her a fruitful stay and a succesful time here with us at the IRTG!

June 2020

Paper published in Cell and Tissue Research

We are very pleased about the new joint publication of the projects P7 and P9

"Region-specific immune responses to autoimmune epididymitis in the murine reproductive tract". 

April 2020

Review published in Human Reproduction Update

We are glad about Christiane Pleuger's new publication for P1 "Haploid male germ cells—the Grand Central Station of protein transport". Great job!

April 2020

Medical student in project 2

Welcome to Jannis who will spend the next months in Daniela Fitz's lab to carry out research for his thesis. We wish him a fruitful stay and a succesful time here with us at the IRTG!

March 2020

Congratulations to Rashidul for winning a poster award

Rashidul (IRTG project 2) won a poster award with his poster entitled "Tumour infiltrating T lymphocytes in human testis cancer - identification and functional analysis" on th 53th Annual Conference Physiology and Pathology of Reproduction and 45th Joint meeting of Human and Veterinary Medicine - Congratulations! February 2020

New doctoral student in the group of Monika Fijak

We cordially welcome Hiba Hasan, new student in project 7. We are looking forward to a fruitful cooperation.

February 2020

Medical student in project 9

Welcome to Minea who will spend the next 6 months in Andreas Meinhardt's lab to carry out research for her thesis. We wish her a fruitful stay and a succesful time here with us at the IRTG!

February 2020

Paper published in Molecular Human Reproduction

Another success in project 9 has been achieved with the publication of the Britta Klein's paper IRTG publication "Differential tissue-specific damage caused by bacterial epididymo-orchitis in the mouse"

January 2020

Mathias completed his PhD degree - Congratulations

Mathias is the ninth student to successfully finish his doctorate. Well done! Applause and all our best wishes for the new position!

January 2020

Congratulations for the next joint PhD

Christine is the eigth student to successfully complete the joint degree. We wish all the best for her promising future!

December 2019

Paper of IRTG student Pradeep Kumar Kudipudi

We are very pleased about the next paper in P3 "Betaglycan (TβRIII) is a Key Factor in TGF-β2 Signaling in Prepubertal Rat Sertoli Cells". Well done!

December 2019

Best Poster at the 8^th DVR Congress, 05-07- Dec 2019 in Leipzig

Again, Bea was rewarded for her good scientific performance, with the best poster award

Well done!

December 2019

2020 Society for Endocrinology

Congratulations to Beatrix who received that travel grant for attending the Annual  Meeting Society for Endocrinology BES  taking place virtually. Well done!

November 2020

New PhD student starting under supervision of Daniela Fietz

The IRTG cordially welcomes Shashika Kothalawala, new PhD student in project 1.

We are looking forward to a successful cooperation.

November 2019

DFG delegation meeting IRTG at Monash

On the occasion of his visit to Monash University Prof. Dr. Peter Strohschneider, the president of the German Research Foundation, and his entourage met with IRTG members to discuss about our training group and its achievements.

October 2019

Medical student in project 6   

Welcome to Dirk who will spend the next 6 months in Ralf Middendorff's lab to carry out research for his thesis. We wish him a fruitful stay and a succesful time here with us at the IRTG!

October 2019

Paper published in Scientific Reports

We are very proud of the IRTG publication of project 8 "Hyperglycemia induces spermatogenic disruption via major pathways of diabetes pathogenesis", a joint achievement of IRTG alumna Conni Maresch and medical student Dina Stute. Great job!

PubMed PMID: 31506549

September 2019

12^th NYRA Meeting - 23-24 September 2019

6^th International Molecular Andrology Workshop - 24-26 September 2019

50^th anniversary of the Urology department - 26-27 September 2019

More than 200 researchers and clinicians from nearly 30 countries came together to exchange latest insights in Andrology/ Urology research during the three events mainly organised by IRTG members.

Constanze Maresch, alumna from IRTG and NYRA board member, set up the meeting for the Network of Young Researchers in Andrology. Andreas Meinhardt and Hans-Christian Schuppe hosted the Molecular Andrology Workshop. And Florian Wagenlehner as head of the Urology Department invited for the 50th anniversary symposium.

On this occasion we were happy to also welcome IRTG members from Monash, Kate and Bruce Loveland as well as alumna Rukmali Wijayarathna.

More information:

NYRA

MolAndrol

September 2019