News and Press
Welcome Julia!
PhD student starts in new project at Andreas Meinhardt's group
We cordially welcome Julia Bender, who will carry out research on project 10 under supervision of Sudhanshu Bhushan and Andreas Meinhardt.
We are looking forward to a fruitful cooperation!
October 2017
Welcome Raouda!
New PhD student starting under supervision of Thorsten Diemer
The IRTG cordially welcomes Raouda Sgaier new PhD student in project 4.
We are looking forward to a successful cooperation.
October 2017
Pradeep off to Australia
Doctoral student in project 3 just started his research stay of 5 months at Monash University
As PhD student under supervision of Lutz Konrad he will be doing research work with Kate Loveland in project 3 during his time in Australia.
We wish him a lot of success and a pleasant stay!
October 2017
Best Talk Award for Sivanjah Indumathy
Sivanjah awarded as best speaker at the 10th GGL annual conference
Congratulations to Sivanjah winning the award for her outstanding talk "Deciphering the Immune Cell Composition in the Adult Mouse Testis"
All talks are evaluated via online voting by the complete audience. Well done, Siv!
September 2017
Oral presentation of Sivanjah Indumathy and Robert Kügler
GGL (Giessen Graduate Center for the Life Sciences) conference held Sep 27 - 28, 2017
We are proud of Sivanjah Indumathy (project 2) and Robert Kügler (project 6) who represented the IRTG by giving the doctoral talks for section 6 ‘Reproduction in Man and Animals’.
Sivanjah Indumathy:
Deciphering the Immune Cell Composition in the Adult Mouse Testis
Robert Kügler:
PDE5 Regulation in the Prostate: Relax your Way to Prostatic Health
September 2017
Poster Presentation at the Conference of American Society for Reproductive Immunology
Dana Püschl held a poster presentation at the 37th conference of the American Society For Reproductive Immunology
Dana participated at the 37th ASRI Conference, September 17-20, with a poster presentation on "Human testicular cancer: Evidence of a functional polarization of macrophage and dendritic cell subsets" At the conference she was also nominated as an imaging competition finalist.
Congratulations on that Dana!
September 2017
NYRA Board awarded two IRTG Alumni
Britta & Constanze have been honored with awards at the 10th Meeting of the NYRA
The Award for best abstract was awarded to both of them at the at the meeting of the "Network for Young Researchers in Andrology" taking place in Brussels, September 11-13.
The award is linked with a ISA Travel Grant over 500€ each.
Moreover, Conni's oral presentation of her doctoral research has been rewarded with the price best speaker!
Congratulations to Britta and Conni!
September 2017
Welcome back, Robert!
Robert back at the IRTG
After seven intensive months with his son Constantin, Robert is back from paternity leave to dedicate himself to his thesis now.
September 2017
Travel Grant for Dana Püschl
Dana Püschel received a travel grant to participate at the Annual Scientific Meetings of the Endocrine Society of Australia and the Society for Reproductive Biology 2017
Congrats to Dana for her travel grant to these annual meetings, August 27-30, in Perth where she held her oral presentation on "Neoplasia in human testis: potential role and functional polarization of M1 and M2 macrophages"
August 2017
Welcome to Lisa!
New doctoral student in group of Martin Bergmann
We cordially welcome Lisa Bertl, new student in project 2.
We are looking forward to a fruitful cooperation.
August 2017
First JLU National Degree for Qingkui Jiang
Congratulations to Qingkui who successfully completed his PhD at JLU.
We wish him all the best for his promising future in the US.
August 2017
Constanze Maresch to stay at Justus-Liebig-University
Constanze will stay in reproduction research at the JLU
We are happy to learn that Conni will stay in Giessen, starting her postdoc in Klaus Steger's lab at BFS next door.
July 2017
Welcome back, Elham!
Doctoral student of project 4 back home in Giessen
After a seven moth research stay in Monash under supervision of Peter Stanton, Elham has returned to now complete her thesis.
A warm welcome back!
July 2017
Award for Sophie Lee
Three Minutes Oral Thesis Award at the 8th Annual Australian Society for Medical Research.
Sophie gave a compelling presentation on her thesis in just three minutes. Congratulations to her for the highly commended presentation of her thesis the award!
June 2017
Welcome Sivanjah!
Monash PhD student working in project 2 visiting Giessen
We cordially welcome Sivanjah Indumathy of Kate Loveland's Group at the JLU. She will spend her research year in Giessen under supervision of Martin Bergmann and Hans-Christian Schuppe.
We wish her a lot of success and a pleasant stay in Germany!
June 2017
Travel Grant for Britta Klein
ISA Travel Grant for meeting in Denmark
Britta has secured the ISA travel grant to attend the 11th International Congess of Andrology, held 06-209 May 2017 in Copenhagen, Denmark
Good job!
May 2017
IRTG to continue until 2022
Second funding period of IRTG granted by the DFG
We are glad to announce that our renewal proposal has been approved by the DFG.
IRTG is to be continued with a total of 11 projects giving the opportunity to train more junior scientists in the field of reproduction.
Thanks again to all for their tremendous support!
May 2017
Andreas Meinhardt new ISA president
International Society of Andrology
At the occasion of the International Congress of Andrology, held May 07-09, 2017 in Copenhagen, Andreas Meinhardt has been elected new president for the next four years.
May 2017
Fourth Joint Degree for Constanze Maresch
Next Joint Degree completed
Conni is the fourth student to successfully finish her doctorate with "summa cum laude".
Well done! Great to have her in the IRTG!
April 2017
Travel Grant for Christine Kleinert
Christine obtained a travel grant by "Deutsche Gesellschaft für Andrologie"
Congratulations to Christine who received a travel grant covering the cost for attending her participation at the ICA2017 taking place Mai 06 - 09, 2017 in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Good job!
April 2017
Dana off and away to Australia
9th doctoral JLU student in Melbourne
Dana who is working in project 2 under supervision of Martin Bergmann and Hans-Christian Schuppe will be carrying out research on her project "Human testis cancer control by local factors: Interrogation of hedghog and activin signalling pathways and immune cells" in the labs of Kate Loveland and Mark Hedger.
We wish Dana a lot of success and a pleasant stay in Australia!
April 2017
Best Poster Award for Sophie Lee
Sophie Lee honoured with best poster award in London
Congratulations to Sophie who received the best poster award at the congress of the European Association of Urology, March 24-28, in London.
Title of the poster:
Myogenic tone is significantly increased in benign prostatic hyperplasia and can be attenuated by sildenafil and tamsulosin, with outcome associated to patient age and prostate volume
March 2017
Third Joint Degree for Nour Nicolas
Nour completed her PhD degree right in the run-up to the on-site review.
With an excellent oral defense, she achieved the best possible grade "summa cum laude".
Bravo! We take pride in her having been part in the IRTG.
March 2017
Successful IRTG On-site Review
IRTG recommended for continuation
Many of the IRTG members did shoulder a long journey (from Australia, Paris, Northern Italy and all over Germany) and not one local missed the date. All for one goal: to back the important DFG on-site review.
Moreover, the cooperation was endorsed by Australian Ambassador Lynette Wood, who graced us with her presence, and Prof. Zlatko Skrbis, Interim Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Vice-President (Education) of Monash University.
A heartfelt THANK YOU to all for your commitment! Together, we made it a success!
Fingers crossed for the final decision to be taken May 12!!!
March 2017
DFG Review of the IRTG 2017
DFG on-site review - March 22-23
The Monash partners have supported the IRTG office in Germany a great deal during review preparations during the past months. We want to thank them and are looking forward to welcoming them shortly!
March 2017
Professorship for Undraga Schagdarsurengin
Supervisor in project 5 has been appointed professor
Congratulations to Dr. Undraga Schagdarsurengin, who has been appointed Professor by the Institute of Genetics.
February 2017
Robert off duty
Doctoral student on paternity leave.
Our young father Robert has taken some time off his research to be at home with his little baby boy Constantin.
February 2017
Christine & Nils heading off to Melbourne
Doctoral students 7 & 8 sent off to Australia
As a doctoral student in the group of Martin Bergmann Christine will be hosted by Moira O'Bryan and carry out research within project 1 on her topic ‘CBE1, ciliated bronchial epithelium 1 in spermatogenesis‘.
Nils, who is working in project 5 under supervision of Undraga Schagdarsurengin and Florian Wagenlehner will spend his research year in the lab of Gail Risbridger, supervised by Stuart Ellem and Betty Exintaris.
We wish Christine & Nils a lot of success and a pleasant stay in Australia!
January 2017
Britta starting in Project 9
Membership within IRTG extended
After successful completion of her degree in project 2, Britta will stay with the IRTG as a Postdoc in project 9.
We are happy to keep her with us!
January 2017