We are happy for this

At the ASA conference 2023, IRTG Monash alumna Rukmali was awarded  the Anna Steinberger Trainee Research Excellence Award for her presentation titled "Interferon epsilon: a novel anti-viral agent in the maile reproductive tract."

Congratulations! We are happy for this recognition of IRTG members.
May 2023

Congratulations to Shashika, student of  P1, for her achievement!

Her poster was chosen for the best poster award at the 56th Annual Conference Physiology and Pathology of Reproduction and 48th Joint meeting of Human and Veterinary Medicine. Well done!

March 2023

for her presentation at the 12^th European Congress of Andrology, Barcelona

Congratulations to Christiane (IRTG project 9) who won this year’s  Best Poster Award with her poster titled "Strategically positioned resident immune cells shape distinct immunological landscapes along the murine epididymis". Bravo!

October 2022

IRTG Medical students  receive one of the two best talk awards at the DGA 2022

Congratulations to Miriam and Jannis, both medical students in IRTG P2 for this achievement.
Working on the same project, they jointly gave an oral presentation of  their research at the 34th Annual Meeting of the German Society of Andrology (DGA), held 08 -10 Sep 2022 in Giessen.

Title: "Immune characteristics of testicular germ cell tumors: A comparative study of seminoma and embryonal carcinoma".Good job!
September 2022

Best Poster Prize awarded at the DGA Annual Conference, Giessen 08-10 Sep 2022

Congratulations to Rashidul (IRTG project 2) who received the best poster award for his presentation titled "Tumor infiltrating T lymphocytes in human testis cancer – identification and functional analysis". Well done!
September 2022

Paper accepted in Histochemistry and Cell Biology

Congratulations to Monash student Samira for her first first author paper "The changing landscape of immune cells in the fetal mouse testis" that has been accepted for publication,

June 2022

Applause for the next degree completion

Julia is the thirteenth student to successfully complete the joint PhD degree achieving the merit "magna cum laude". We wish all the best for her very promising future.

May 2022

Excellence Award to young researchers

At the ASA conference 2022, for her outstanding performance, Penny was awarded  the Anna Steinberger Trainee Research Excellence Award. Congratulations to this fantastic achievement!
May 2022

Congratulations to JLU based student Raouda to complete her Joint PhD

With a great performance via video conference Raouda passed her thesis defense. Applause to this excellent result! We wish her all the best for her promising future.

May 2022

Congratulations to medical student in P5 for her outstanding performance

Elena completed her doctoral degree in Medicine with the merit "summa cum laude".
Applause! We are proud of her being part of IRTG and wish her all the best for her future.

April 2022

Paper to be published in Tissue Barriers

We are very pleased about Hassan's new publication for P3 "Transmigration of macrophages through primary adult rat Sertoli cells". Well done!

Pubmed PMID: tba

April 2022

Hiba's paper to be published in Frontiers in Endocrinology

Congratulations to Hiba for her first IRTG paper in P7 "Mechanisms of inflammatory associated impairment of sperm function, spermatogenesis and steroidogenesis". Congrats, Hiba. Good job!

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March 2022

Paper of Monash student in P10 accepted

We are happy to annouce that Sneha's paper "Regulation of macrophage number and gene transcript levels by activin A and its binding protein, follistatin, in the testes of adult mice" has been accepted by the Journal of Reproductive Immunology. Well done!

PubMed PMID: tba

March 2022

Rashidul Islam, Magda Kuchta and Shashika Kothalwala at Monash

After nearly two years of travel restrictions due to the corona pandemic, Rashidul from P2 was the first student to be allowed to travel to Australia last November. He is working in Kate Loveland's group.

Magda, who is working in project 6 under supervision of Ralf Middendorff has started her research stay mid-February in the lab of Betty Exintaris.

Shashika, student in the group of  Daniela Fietz, is the third student to have left for Australia. She will be hosted by Liza O'Donnell and carry out research within project 1.

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

March 2022

Submission at Monash and JLU for Joint Award

Raouda Sgaier and Julia Bender, doctoral researchers in project 4 and project 10  have both submitted their thesis.
Well done, we're proud of them!

Nevember 2021

Felicitations to Bea for the completion of her joint doctorate

With an outstanding performance at her oral defense, Bea achieved the best possible merit "summa cum laude". Applause and our best wishes for the new challenge!

September 2021

Paper of project 3 published in Cells

Congrats to Hassan for his publication "Long-term maintenance of viable adult reat sertoli cells able to establish testis barrier components and function in response to androgens"
Great job!

September 2021

Paper published in International Journal of Molecular Sciences

We are very proud of our medical student Elena, first author of the IRTG publication in project 5 "Chronic prostatitis/ chronic pelvic pain syndrome leads to impaired semen parameters, increased sperm DNA fragmetation and unfavorable changes of sperm protamine mRNA ratio". Well done!

July 2021

First place in 3 Minute Thesis Competition for 'Very 'Importin' Proteins make Very Important People!'

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 Penny for her vivid presentation to win the 3MT of the SCS and also of the Faculty Final!

July 2021

 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