Ongoing Projects
Under the umbrella of the Zoonoses Platform, the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL) have funded pilot projects and cross-sectional projects. Interdisciplinary doctoral projects have also been funded since 2019.
If you are interested in cooperating or have questions about these projects, please contact the respective coordinators.
The projects funded since 2019 are presented in detail on the following pages:
- RubiZoo (pilot project)
- Generation of cDNA libraries to identify novel host factors involved in zoonotic virus propagation (pilot project)
- The importance of IL-33 signaling for immune tolerance to filovirus infections in bats (BatFIM) (pilot project)
- Zoonotic potential of rat hepatitis E virus in Germany (ZoRaHED) (PhD project)
- Determination of prevalence and predilection sites of Trichinella spp. in raccoons (Procyon lotor) in Germany (pilot project)
- Establishment and evaluation of organoid cultures from the gut of bats as a culture system for the isolation, propagation and characterization of bat viruses (pilot project)
- N protein as a predictor of hantaviral virulence (pilot project)
- Development of novel vaccines against zoonotic pulmonary diseases using the Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis Virus Replicon Particle vaccine platform (pilot project)
- Does an influenza A virus-triggered immune response induce growth factors for bacterial co-infection? (PhD project)
- In vitro system for characterizing the allergenic potential of human and animal pathogenic fungi Method for allergen screening of fungi (pilot project)
- Establishment of a complex cell culture system for the investigation of neuron-astrocyte-microglia-pathogen interactions: New frontiers between old enemies (NAMPatIn) (pilot project)
- User-oriented extension and automation of agent-based software for pathogen-specific modeling of epidemics (EPIPREDICT) (cross-sectional project)
- Irradiation of zoonotic Apicomplexa with low-energy electrons for the development of vaccine candidates (PhD project)
- iMINION - integrative mosquito intervention strategies (PhD project)
- Influence of biocides on the spread of antibiotic resistance in Escherichia coli (cross-sectional project)