at the 8th Annual GGL Conference 2015

Congratulations to Britta ( IRTG project 2) who won the award for her outstanding talk "To What Extent Can Human Testicular Cancer Cells Actively Shape Their Immunological Microenvironment?"

The talks are evaluated via online voting by the complete audience. Well done, Britta!

October 2015

New PhD student in project 2

We cordially welcome Dana, the new associated doctoral student in the group of Martin Bergmann/ Hans-Christian Schuppe. We are looking for a fruitful cooperation.

October 2015

at the 8th GGL Annual Conference to be held Sep 30 – Oct 01, 2015

Much to our regrets, Stuart Ellem couldn't attend the GGL conference. In his stead Sebastian Galuska gave the keynote talk for section 6 "The role of glycocalyx in the reproductive system"

October 2015

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Monash investigator Stuart Ellem will contribute to the 8th Annual Conference of the Giessen Graduate Center for the Life Sciences (GGL). Keynote speaker for section 6 ‘Reproduction in Man and Animals’ he will give the talk “Estrogen and Mast Cells are Key Components of the Prostate Cancer Microenvironment”.
We are happy that he will stay a couple of days more to intensify project work with Ralf Middendorff's and Florian Wagenlehner's/ Undraga Schagdarsurengin's group.

September 2015

GGL (Giessen Graduate Center for the Life Sciences) conference to be held Sep 30 - Oct 01, 2015

We are proud of Anna-Lena Hempfling (project 1) and Britta Klein (project 2) who will represent IRTG by giving the doctoral talks for section 6 ‘Reproduction in Man and Animals’.

Anna-Lena Hempfling: Identifying Localisation, Interactors and Function of HENMT1 in Mouse and Human Testis

Britta Klein: To What Extent Can Human Testicular Cancer Cells Actively Shape Their Immunological Microenvironment?

September 2015

New doctoral student starts in the group of Lutz Konrad/ Sebastian Galuska

We sincerely welcome Pradeep Kumar Kudipudi , new student in project 3, taking the place of Kai-Hui Chan to whom we send our best wishes for her future. We are looking forward to a successful collaboration.

September 2015

New PhD student starts in the group of Martin Bergmann/ Klaus Steger

The IRTG cordially welcomes Christiane Pleuger, the new associated doctoral student in project 1. We are looking forward to a successful collaboration.

September 2015

Doctoral students of project 1 and project 2 return to Giessen

Having successfully completed their research year at Monash Anna-Lena Hempfling and Britta Klein return to JLU to continue their project work in Martin Bergmann’s group. A very warm welcome back!

September 2015

Poster Prize awarded at the ESA-SRB Conference, Adelaide, Australia, Aug 23-26, 2015

Congratulations to Nour (IRTG project 7) who won this year’s  Early Career Researcher Poster award with her poster entitled "Testicular activin A during the development of autoimmune orchitis in mice". Bravo!

August 2015

Travel grant for annual meeting

Conni has been awarded with a travel grant to participate at the Annual Scientific Meeting of the Endocrine Society of Australia (ESA) and the Society of Reproductive Biology (SRB) in Adelaide (AUS).

August 2015

Honoured through Travel Grant as well as Poster Award by the Society for Reproductive Biology (SRB)

We are happy to announce that Nour Nicolas has been awarded with a travel grant by the Society for Reproductive Biology (SRB).

Moreover she received an Early Career Research Poster Award from the SRB and Hudson Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne, Australia.

August 2015

New PhD student starts in the group of Florian Wagenlehner/ Undraga Schagdarsurengin

The IRTG cordially welcomes Nils Nesheim, the new PhD student in project 5 (Andrology lab). We are looking forward to a fruitful cooperation.

August 2015

Three Minutes Competition between Center of Reproductive Health and Center of Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases at Monash

The competition asks PhD students to give a compelling presentation on their thesis in just three minutes in language appropriate to a non-specialist audience. Congratulations to Nour for the vivid presentation of her thesis in 3 minutes and the award! Fingers crossed for the next level!

July 2015

New medical student in project 5

Christina Hagenkötter will carry out research in the lab of Florian Wagenlehner/ Undraga Schagdarsurengin for her thesis. We wish her a fruitful time in IRTG!

July 2015

Paper of IRTG student Kai-Hui Chan accepted in Cell Signal

Shihan M, Chan KH, Konrad L, Scheiner-Bobis G
Non-classical testosterine signaling in spermatogenic cell line GC-2 is mediated through ZIP9, a GPCR interacting with Gnα 11
Cell Signal; 2015 Jul 21; epub ahead of print

PubMed PMID: 26208885

July 2015

Student change in project 6 under direction of Ralf Middendorff

Robert Kügler, doctoral student associated to the project since September 2014, will replace Yudy Tjahjono whom we wish all the best for the future. We are looking forward to a successful collaboration.

June 2015

First Monash PhD student at JLU!

A warm welcome to Maciej Szarek (of Kate Loveland’s group) for his research year in the labs of Lutz Konrad/ Sebastian Galuska (project 3) and Martin Bergmann (project 2). We hope you enjoy your stay in Germany!

June 2015

3rd and 4th JLU doctoral student at Monash!

Nour Nicolas (project 7 under direction of Monika Fijak/Sudhanshu Bhushan) and Constanze Maresch (project 8 under direction of Thomas Linn) have started their research stay abroad. At Monash, both will be hosted by Mark Hedger. We wish a lot of success and a pleasant stay in Australia.

May 2015

SOBS Travel Grant for the EMBL Australia PhD Symposium, Sidney, Australia, Dec 03-05, 2014

Congratulations to Anna-Lena (IRTG project 1) who won a Travel Grant for her poster contribution at the EMBL Australia PhD Symposium. Nice going!

December 2014

IRTG Melbourne Reproductive Health and Biology Workshop, Dec 09, 2014

Instead of Brooke who unfortunately was unable to attend, Anna-Lena gave a talk at the IRTG workshop.

December, 2014

We are very proud of Britta and Brooke who agreed to be speakers at the Melbourne Workshop!

Britta's talk:

Crosstalk in human testicular cancer - interaction between cancer cells, immune cells, cytokines and the Hedgehog signalling pathways

Brooke's talk:

3D in vitro models to investigate the role of the tumour microenvironment in localised prostate cancer progression

December 2014

VI. Epididymis Workshop, Shanghai, Oct 31 - Nov 03, 2014

Vera Michel, Andreas Meinhardt and Mark Hedger met in Shanghai for a joint data presentation of P9.

P6 supervisor Ralf Middendorff also took part in the meeting.

November 2014

Poster Prize awarded at MIMR-PHI Postgraduate Symposium, Clayton, AUS, Oct 2014

Congratulations to Rukmali (IRTG project 9) who won this year's MIMR-PHI Postgraduate Student Prize for the best poster!

The poster entitled "Activin and follistatin are important for the structure and function of the murine male reproductive tract" had been chosen among the posters that all first and second PhD students as well as Master students had presented. Well done!

October 2014

 JLU spokesperson becomes honorary lecturer at Monash!

Andreas Meinhardt has been offered a new adjunct appointment as a professor with the Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology at Monash University. He is very glad to accept this honour.

It's already the second Adjunct Appointment at Monash. His appointment with MIMR-PHI in the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences has just been extended until December 2017.

Congratulations!

October 2014

Awards ceremony during  JLU delegation's visit at Monash University, Sep 25, 2014

Press

Gießener Anzeiger, Oct 04,2014

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With the award that reminds of the most famous researcher and eponym of the university, Justus Liebig, JLU wants to honour renowned scientists for their outstanding achievements and to intensify international scientific relationship.

It's a great pleasure for us that IRG member Kate Loveland has been elected.

September 2014

Kate Loveland honoured at the dinner reception hosted by the JLU International Office

Press Release JLU (in German)

In the presence of the Australian Ambassador  H.E. Lynette Wood and Monash University Vice-Provost Prof. Zlatko Skrbis,  JLU president Prof. Joybrato Mukherjee conveyed the new certificate to Prof. Kate Loveland.

With the award that reminds of the most famous researcher and eponym of the university, Justus Liebig, JLU wants to honour renowned scientists for their outstanding achievements and to intensify international scientific relationship.

This honour is reapproval of Kate's outstanding contribution to the Monash-JLU relationship. Great!

March 2017

 JLU president Joybrato Mukherjee and Head of JLU International Office Julia Volz accompanied by Andreas Meinhardt visit Australia - Sep 21 - Oct 01

Press

Gießener Anzeiger, Oct 04, 2014

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Among Sidney and Canberra, the JLU delegation will also visit Monash University to enhance the relationship between both universities.

The visit includes several meetings with representatives of Monash University and DAAD as well as an awards ceremony. On this occasion, Kate Loveland will be awarded the JLU honorary Liebig Professorship and Andreas Meinhardt will be conferred the extension of his adjunct appointment as Professor at the Monash Institute of Medical Research and Prince Henry's Institute of Medical Research.

IRTG

Andreas Meinhardt will also take the opportunity to meet the IRTG students, join the Monash journal club and give a lecture.

September 2014

The German Society for Andrology (DGA) meets in Giessen - Sep 18 - 20

Venue: BFS Biomedizinisches Forschungszentrum Seltersberg , Schubertstr. 81, Giessen

more information

Press

Gießener Anzeiger, Sep 29, 2014

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IRTG

The DGA conference will be chaired by our IRTG investigator Klaus Steger. On this occasion we are very pleased to welcome the IRTG investigators David de Kretser and Peter Stanton from Monash.

Programme

The organizing team has assembled a very interesting lecture and course programme for scientific interchange and interdisciplinary advanced training. programme

September 2014

Annual Conference of the Giessen Graduate Centre for the Life Sciences (GGL)

Dater:  Sep 17-18

Venue: Physics Lecture Hall, Heinrich-Buff-Ring 14, 35392 Giessen

more information

IRTG

At this occasion, IRTG Monash supervisor David de Kretser will come from Australia to participate as invited speaker for section 6 "Reproduction in Man and Animals" organized by IRTG supervisor Ralf Middendorff.

Our doctoral students will also represent IRTG by submitting an abstract or a poster for the conference.

The programme

will comprise recent results presented by all doctoral researchers from the nine research sections of GGL. The sessions will be opened by invited speakers who are experts in their field and who will set the stage for the talks by the GGL members.

Further, GGL members will have the chance to get conference coaching, intensive training for the presentation of their poster or talk as well as for chairing sessions.

September 2014

Male Infertility - MicroBiology and Inflammation in Urogenital Infections (MIBIE)

Date:    Jul 31 - Aug 02

Venue: Biomedical Research Centre (BFS), Schubertstr. 81, D- 35392 Giessen

more information

 Press

Gießener Allgemeine Zeitung, Aug 01, 2014

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IRTG

We are very happy to welcome the PhD students Brooke Pereira and Sophie Lee from Monash at the MIBIE Summer School!

July, 2014

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Registration deadline: May 31, 2014

For IRTG students registration is free of charge!

July 2014

2nd JLU student at Monash!

Our second doctoral student, Britta Klein of Martin Bergmann's research group in Giessen, has started her research stay at Monash. In the lab of Kate Loveland she will work on local factors for human testis cancer control. We wish Britta a lot of success and a pleasant stay in Australia!

July 2014

First JLU student at Monash! 

Anna-Lena is the first of our doctoral students who leaves Germany for a research stay at Monash. PhD student in the group of Martin Bergmann in Giessen, she will be hosted by Moira O'Bryan and carry out research on her project "Hypospermatogenesis in men: HEN1 expression and pathway function in human testicular biopsies".

We wish Anna-Lena a lot of success and a pleasant stay in Australia!

June, 2014