Research
- The focus of our research
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Ongoing Projects
- DFG project: Deciphering the molecular machinery of translational control in Plasmodium falciparum gametocytes
- DFG Project: Vesicle dynamics during the egress of malaria gametocytes from the red blood cell
- DFG Project: Histone methylation during Plasmodium falciparum sexual differentiation
- DFG project: The scaffolding protein WLP1 in maintaining MPCs of malaria gametocytes
- DFG project: Factor H-mediated complement evasion by the malaria parasite
- DFG project: Functional characterization of epigenetically regulated zinc finger proteins important for malaria parasite transmission
- DAAD project: Histone methylation in the blood stages of Plasmodium falciparum
- DAAD project: Characterization of HDAC-regulated zinc finger proteins crucial for Plasmodium falciparum transmission
- DFG SPP2225
- BMBF Infect-Net
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Closed Projects
- DFG project: Epigenetic control of gene expression in malaria gametocytes
- DFG project: The assembly of multimeric protein complexes in the sexual stages of the human malaria parasite
- DFG project: The egress of malaria gametocytes from the red blood cell following parasite transmission to the mosquito
- DFG poject: Characterization of a novel multi-adhesion protein family expressed in the sexual stages of the human malaria pathogen Plasmodium falciparum
- DFG project - SFB 479
- DFG project - IRTG 1522
- MALSIG project
- CAPES project: complement evasion
- DAAD project: Investigate the role of the 7-transmembrane proteins of malaria parasites
- Methods of research
- Collaborations
- Publications
The Research Group
- Team
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Announcements
- ZAI represented at the RWTH night of science
- *** Frauen müssen sich viel besser vernetzen - ein Interview ***
- "EXIT strategies" Special Issue Announcement (08/22)
- Network Women in Infection Sciences funded by BMBF (07/2022)
- KeyNote Lecture Prof. Dr. Melanie Brinkmann (05.05.2022)
- *** Status Workshop 05.05.2022 - 06.05.2022 ***
- Interview with Prof. Gabriele Pradel and students of the Leibniz-Gymnasium Berlin
- Emilie Joelle Tchoufack Njila hat Doktorarbeit erfolgreich abgeschlossen
- *** Neue RP Kolumne ist online ***
- DFG priority programme first project meeting
- MSc projects available
- *** Dr. Sandra Bennink erhält ERS Start-up Stipendium ***
- Prof. Pradel is DJ at Nacht der Professoren
- Afia Farrukh joins the lab
- Prof. Gabriele Pradel is nominated for the PAULA Award 2019
- Dr. Sandra Bennink receives Theodore-von-Kármán fellowship for Outgoing Scientists
- Borja Hanhsen joins the lab
- Sandra Bennink receives the DGHM Research Award
- Approval of the DFG priority programme "Exit strategies of intracellular pathogens".
- Jean Pierre Musabyimana joins the lab
- Experts visit the biology class
- *** Masterarbeiten zu vergeben ***
- *** Frau Prof. Gabriele Pradel mit dem Hauptpreis der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Hygiene und Mikrobiologie ausgezeichnet ***
- November 2017 - ZAI at RWTH Aachen University Science Night
- November 2017 - Dr. Julius Ngwa was awarded by the Association des Camerounais d’Aix-la-Chapelle
- September 2017 - ZAI Running Team at Firmenlauf Aachen
- *** Juli 2017 - Prof. Pradel und Dr. Singheiser erhalten bei der PAULA 2017 den 2. Platz ***
- November 2016 - Prof. Pradel published in Cell Host & Microbe
- *** September 2016 - Professorin Pradel auf dem Tunneling Nanotube Meeting in den USA ***
- December 2015 - Dr. Julius Ngwa wins the RWTH ERS Start-up grant 2016
- December 2015 - Dr. Bismarck Dinko visits the ZAI as a DAAD fellow for one year
- *** Statusworkshop Eukaryontische Krankheitserreger 2016 ***
- October 2015 - PhD student Emilie Joelle Njila joins the lab
- September 2015 - New topics for master theses on molecular parasitology
- August 2015 - New labs ready to move in
- February 2015 - Prof. Pradel has been elected in the boards of two scientific societies
- April 2014 - PD Gabriele Pradel was appointed as a Heisenberg-Professor
- Vacancies
- AOB