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

Congratulations for the next joint PhD

Christine is the eigth student to successfully complete the joint degree. We wish all the best for her promising future!

December 2019

Paper of IRTG student Pradeep Kumar Kudipudi

We are very pleased about the next paper in P3 "Betaglycan (TβRIII) is a Key Factor in TGF-β2 Signaling in Prepubertal Rat Sertoli Cells". Well done!

December 2019

Best Poster at the 8^th DVR Congress, 05-07- Dec 2019 in Leipzig

Again, Bea was rewarded for her good scientific performance, with the best poster award

Well done!

December 2019

2020 Society for Endocrinology

Congratulations to Beatrix who received that travel grant for attending the Annual  Meeting Society for Endocrinology BES  taking place virtually. Well done!

November 2020

New PhD student starting under supervision of Daniela Fietz

The IRTG cordially welcomes Shashika Kothalawala, new PhD student in project 1.

We are looking forward to a successful cooperation.

November 2019

DFG delegation meeting IRTG at Monash

On the occasion of his visit to Monash University Prof. Dr. Peter Strohschneider, the president of the German Research Foundation, and his entourage met with IRTG members to discuss about our training group and its achievements.

October 2019

Medical student in project 6   

Welcome to Dirk who will spend the next 6 months in Ralf Middendorff'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!

October 2019

Paper published in Scientific Reports

We are very proud of the IRTG publication of project 8 "Hyperglycemia induces spermatogenic disruption via major pathways of diabetes pathogenesis", a joint achievement of IRTG alumna Conni Maresch and medical student Dina Stute. Great job!

PubMed PMID: 31506549

September 2019

12^th NYRA Meeting - 23-24 September 2019

6^th International Molecular Andrology Workshop - 24-26 September 2019

50^th anniversary of the Urology department - 26-27 September 2019

More than 200 researchers and clinicians from nearly 30 countries came together to exchange latest insights in Andrology/ Urology research during the three events mainly organised by IRTG members.

Constanze Maresch, alumna from IRTG and NYRA board member, set up the meeting for the Network of Young Researchers in Andrology. Andreas Meinhardt and Hans-Christian Schuppe hosted the Molecular Andrology Workshop. And Florian Wagenlehner as head of the Urology Department invited for the 50th anniversary symposium.

On this occasion we were happy to also welcome IRTG members from Monash, Kate and Bruce Loveland as well as alumna Rukmali Wijayarathna.

More information:

NYRA

MolAndrol

September 2019

HIMR Hudson/ Harold Mitchell Grant

Congratulations to Rukmali Wijayarathna, alumna of project 9 and associated IRTG member, who received that travel grant for attending the 6th International Molecular Andrology Workshop taking place Sep 24-26, 2019 in Giessen. Well done!

May 2019

Andreas Meinhardt accompanying JLU president to Monash

As part of their Australia tour JLU president Prof. Joybrato Mukherjee and Julia Volz, Head of the JLU International Office, visited Monash University. With the objective of scheming future collaborative programme between both institutions, the meeting was supported by Kate Loveland and Andreas Meinhardt, the IRTG spokespersons of Monash and JLU.

September 2019

New PhD student to start in project 2

The IRTG cordially welcomes Rashidul Islam, PhD student in Dani Fietz's lab. Rashidul is succeeding Juliette whom we wish all the best for her future back in France. We are looking forward to a fruitful cooperation.

September 2019

CBE1 Paper accepted in Endocrinology

 Another success in project 1 has been achieved with the publication of the Christiane's paper "CBE1 is a manchette and mitochondria associated protein with a potential role in somatic cell". Well done!

PubMed PMID: 31504408

August 2019

Next student to stay at Monash

Julia Bender from project 10 under supervision of Sudhanshu Bushan and Andreas Meinhardt will spend her research year in Mark Hedger's lab and carry out research on the "Regulation of immune responses in the normal and infected testis: role of Sertoli cell-derived activins.

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

August 2019

Submission at Monash and JLU for joint award

Nils conducted his PhD research within project 5 and now has submitted his thesis. Well done! We're proud of him.

Thesis title:Inflammatory gene regulation in chronic prostatitis/ chronic pelvic pain syndrome (CP/CPPS) and prostate cancer.

August 2019

Medical student in project 9       

Welcome to Daniel who will spend the next 6 months in Andreas Meinhardt'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!

July 2019

Next success within IRTG!

Congratulations to Maciej for the successful completion of his PhD at Monash.Well done!

July 2019

Congratulations to Pradeep for the next doctoral degree

Pradeep is the eleventh student to successfully complete his degree within our IRTG. Applause and all the best for his new position.

June 2019

New PhD student to start in project 5

The IRTG cordially welcomes Hang Yan, PhD student in the group of Florian Wagenlehner/ Undraga Schagdarsurengin. Hang will take over from Tatjana whom we wish all the best for her medical studies. We are looking forward to a fruitful cooperation.

June 2019