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Welcome to Shanjid!

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

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Two Grants for Sophie Lee

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

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International Scientist Award for Kate Loveland

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

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Travel Grant for Elham Savadi Shiraz

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

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Travel Grant for Britta Klein

funded by von-Behring-Roentgen Stiftung

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

Nice going!

May 2018

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Next Travel Grant for Dana

for the "9th 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

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Travel Grants for Siv Indumathy and Dana Püschl

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

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Welcome to Deborah, Jessica, Swapnila, Felix and Till!

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

 

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Welcome to Magdalena!

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

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Justus Liebig Medal for Zlatko Skrbis

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

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7 Advantages PhDs have

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

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Mathias off to Australia

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

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Welcome to Anton!

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

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Fifth Joint Degree for Rukmali Wijayarathna

 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

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Best Poster Award for Mathias Seidensticker

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

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Christine on her way to Melbourne

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

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Monash - Successful NHMRC Grant Applications

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

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IRTG speaker Dana Püschl

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 29th.

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

November 2017

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Best Talk Award for Britta Klein

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

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Welcome Beatrix!

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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