Paper published in FASEB

 We are glad about Bea Stadler's new publication for P12 "Physiological and pharmacological impact of oxytocin on epididymal propulsion during the ejaculatory process in rodents amd men". Great job!

June 2021

Best Selected Miniposters Talk at the virtual European Testis Workshop 30 May-03 June 2021

Congrats to Christiane ( IRTG project 9) who's miniposter "Caput and cauda epididymides react fundamentally different during actue bacteral epididymitis"was selected for one of five oral presentations. The best selected miniposters talks are awarded with 400 EUR each. Well done, Christiane!

June 2021

Best Scientific Poster Award award at the 13^th NYRA Meeting

Rukmali received the well-deserved award for her outstanding poster presentation  at the at the virtual meeting of the "Network for Young Researchers in Andrology" taking place 29-30 May 2021. The award is linked to a registration fee grant for the European Testis Workshop.

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Congrats, Ruki!

May 2021

Poster Prize awarded at the (virtual) 46th ASA Annual Meeting, 23-25 April 2021

Congratulations to Rama (IRTG project 9) who received the  Thomas S.K. Chang Merit Award for her poster entitled "Distribution and phenotypes of mononuclear phagocyte population correlates with differential immune environments in the adult murine epididymis". Bravo!

April 2021

Associated medical student in P9

After 7 months in Andreas Meinhardt's Laura Winter is returning to  in the clinic. It was a great pleasure to have you with us. We wish you success for your further studies.

April 2021

Paper published in Science of Reproduction

Congrats to Sophie for her paper "Oxytocin receptor antagonists as a novel pharmacological agent for reducing smooth muscle tone in the human prostate".

March 2021

Paper published in FASEB

We are very pleased about the joint publication of P4 "Sperm proteins and cancer-testis antigens are released by the seminiferous tubules in mice and men".

March 2021

Award from the German Society of Andrology for project 3

For her oral presentation "Activin A modulates the pace of germ cell development at the onset of spermatogenesis" at the 12th International Congress of Andrology, Penny Whiley from Monash, was awarded the Lecture Prize in the Experimental Field. Congratulations  for this notable achievement!

December 2020

Review published in Frontiers in Immunology

Another success for Christiane Pleuger is the publication of "Differential Immune Response to Infection and Acute Inflammation along the Epididymis"

November 2020

Paper published in Reproductive Immunology

Congratulations to Siv for her first first author paper Testicular immune cell populations and macrophage polarisation in adult male mice and the influence of altered activin A levels.

https://hudson.org.au/latest-news/learning-how-infection-and-inflammation-can-affect-male-fertility/

November 2020

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