Best picture award at "9th GGL Annual Conference"

Christine, doctoral researcher in project 7 has ben awarded with a price for the best picture within the category research for her photograph ‚Peritubular Cells‘.

Congrats on that!

September 2016

3rd place Best Poster Award at the 9th GGL Annual Conference

Mathias from project 6 was awarded for one of the best posters at the conference. Posters are evaluated by a specially compiled committee.

Well done Mathias!    

Poster title:
Visualization of PDE5 inhibitor effects in the prostate: no evidence for disturbances of ejaculation

September 2016

Co-Supervisor from Monash University is visiting Giessen - Sept 20 - 21

Betty Exintaris, Co-Supervisor in projects 5 & 6, has been invited as the speaker of section 6 for the "9th GGL Annual Conference". Her talk on "Spontaneous contractile activity in the human prostate gland: implications for a more personalised treatment approach for benign prostatic hyperplasia" will take place in the afternoon of September 20.

We are happy to welcome her here and wish her a pleasant stay.

September 2016

Saying goodbye to Postdoc in project 9

Vera has been offered an attractive permanent position in private enterprise and is embracing this opportunity.
We want to say thank you for the good job and her outstanding team spirit.

All the best for your future Vera!

September 2016

Two travel grants for conferences in Australia obtained

Sivanjah received grants to participate at the Inflammation in Reproduction, Pregnancy and Development Symposium in Palm Cove, Australia as well as the Joint Conference of the Society for Reproductive Biology/Endocrine Society of Australia at Gold Coast were she contributed with a talk.

August 2016

Submission Monash and JLU for joint award

Conni, conducted her doctoral research within project 8 and just now submitted her thesis.
Well done, we're proud of her!

Thesis title Conni:
Hyperglycaemia is associated with male infertility and activin dysregulation in type 1 diabetes

August 2016

Erasmus+ grant for international staff mobility

His visit offers a great opportunity to discuss prospective IRTG collaboration with Undraga Schagdarsurengin and Klaus Steger.
We are looking forward to welcoming him here and having him with us.

July 2016

Medical student in project 5        

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

July 2016

Doctoral Student of project 6 on his way back home to Giessen  

After a 3 months research stay in Monash under supervision of Stuart Ellem Robert Kügler is on his way back home from Australia.
A warm welcome back!

July 2016

Doctoral Student in project 8 joined IRTG       

We are happy about Qingkui's decision to join the IRTG after already working in Thomas Linn's group for some time. We are looking forward to a successful collaboration.

July 2016

from DAAD and the Larry Ewing Memorial Trainee Travel Fund (375 US$)

To attend and give a long oral presentation at the SSR 2016 meeting (Society for the Study of Reproduction) Rukmali has secured two travel grants this June.

Title of presentation:
Activin over-expression is associated with androgen deficiency and structural alterations in the murine male reproductive tract

June 2016

Anna-Lena awarded as best speaker in Rennes 

The 9th meeting of the International Network for Young Researchers in Male Fertility (INYRMF) took place in Rennes, France.

Congratulations to Anna-Lena!

June 2016

Submission Monash and JLU for joint award

Anna-Lena and Britta, working within project 1&2, submit their thesis. Both carried out research within the field of veterinary medicine and completed their work within 3 years, fantastic job!

Thesis title Anna-Lena:
Hypospermatogenesis in men: Investigation regarding HENMT1 expression and pathway function in human testicular biopsies

Thesis title Britta:
Immunocharacteristics of testicular germ cell cancers – revelation of a new key network?

June 2016

Monash supervisors visiting JLU

We are looking forward to welcoming Kate Loveland and Mark Hedger in Giessen to discuss their projects and plan the IRTG renewal application.

May 2016

Vera Michel's paper to be published in Journal of Pathology

We are pleased about the new publication in IRTG project 9 "Uropathogenic Escherichia coli cause fibrotic remodelling of the epididymis."

Pubmed PMID: 27218225

May 2016

Centre for Reproductive Health PhD Student Travel Grant

Congratulations to Rukmali (IRTG project 9) who received that travel grant covering the cost for attending the European Testis Workshop taking place June 11- 15, 2016 in St. Malo, France and for lab visits in USA. Good job!

May 2016

INYRMF and ISA Grant  for ETW, St. Malo, France, June 11-15, 2016

The International Network for Young Researchers on Male Fertility has selected Anna-Lena's abstract for a talk at their meeting in Rennes, France to be held June 09-10, 2016.

With the support of the International Society of Andrology, these abstracts are awarded with a free registration for the ensuing European Testis Workshop in St. Malo. Compliments on this new success, Anna-Lena!

May 2016

New position for Sebastian Galuska

One of our Supervisors in project 3 has obtained an attractive permanent position as a group leader in Glycobiology at the well-known Leibniz Institute for Farm Animal Biology.
Though up in the far North of Germany he will continue supervision of doctoral student Pradeep Kumar Kudipudi.

All the best to Sebastian for this new position and his future!

May 2016

Doctoral student of project 7 and 8 return to Giessen

After successful completion of their research year at Monash Nour Nicolas and Constanze Maresch return to Giessen and enter the final stage of their doctoral project. A warm welcome back!

May 2016

"Snapshots of the Immune System"

Sivanjah's photo visualising macrophages in the adult mouse testis has been selected to be displayed at the inaugural Day of Immunology photography exhibition. Congratulations on your success!

April 2016

Monash University Postgraduate Travel Grant for the ETW, St. Malo, France, June 11-15, 2016

Congratulations to Nour (IRTG project 7) who won the travel grant for the European Testis Workshop where she will be presenting her research results in a 5 minutes talk. Well done!

April 2016

New doctoral student in the group of Ralf Middendorff

We cordially welcome Mathias Seidensticker, new associated student in project 6. We are looking forward to a fruitful cooperation.

April 2016

2 Monash students on their way home

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

March 2016

"Opportunities for German Australian Research Cooperation" on March 16, 2016

At this event, organised by the Australian Ebassy, Austrade and GOstralia!, Andreas Meinhardt was invited to speak about the "Research Cooperation with Australia: From the individual project via group funding to university partnership"
March 2016

5^th JLU doctoral student at Monash!

Robert Kügler, doctoral student in Ralf Middendorff's group has gone to Melbourne for a 3 months research visit. Hosted by Stuart Ellem and Gail Risbridger he will carry out research on project 6 "Hormonal regulation of cGMP pathways in the prostate - Impact for sperm transport and fertility".

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

March 2016

Postgraduate Travel Grant Award

Nour has been awarded with the Postgrad Tavel Grant Award by Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.

March 2016

Medical student in project 6

Welcome to Nina Brunner who will spend the next months in Ralf Middendorff's lab to carry out research for her medical thesis. We wish her a successful time in IRTG!

March 2016

First prize of the DGRM (German Society of Reproductive Medicine) Abstract Awards

The award is connected with an oral presentation at the ceremony held at the 41^th Joint conference of Veterinary and Human Medicine (in the context of the 49^th Annual Conference "Physiology and Pathology of Reproductions 2016").

Our congratulations to Anna-Lana for this success! Great job!

February 2016

Christiane Pleuger awarded with the German Society of Reproduction Abstract Prize

Congratulations to Christiane for receiving this Abstract Prize at the Annual Meeting of Physiology and Pathology of Reproduction, Munich.

Well done!

February 2016

Review about activins published in Human Reproduction Update

We are glad about the new IRTG publication "Activins in reproductive biology and beyond" of Rukmali Wijayarathna and David de Kretser.

PubMed PMID: 26884470

February 2016