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COMBINE MARV Project @combinemarvproject.bsky.social · 28d

📆 Interesting event for German speakers❗

Join our coordinator @christian-7.bsky.social at his science talk!

📍 phaeno Science Theatre & Online
🗓 18 September | 18:30
🔗 Learn more: lnkd.in/emnVeBVZ
🖥️ Livestream: lnkd.in/e5DkKcQe

#combineMARV #Marburgvirus #pandemicpreparedness #science

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COMBINE MARV Project @combinemarvproject.bsky.social · Jul 7

🦠 What do Influenza, Rabies, Ebola and Marburg virus have in common? 💡 They are all zoonoses!

We want to take #WorldZoonosesDay as an opportunity to promote understanding of the key terms when talking about zoonotic diseases.

#combineMARV #Zoonosis #PandemicPreparedness #MarburgVirus

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COMBINE MARV Project @combinemarvproject.bsky.social · Jun 17

💡Learn more about EURICE’s role in COMBINE by watching the video or visit our website 🔗 combine-marv.eu/team/eurice

#combineMARV #MarburgVirus #PandemicPreparedness

COMBINE MARV Project @combinemarvproject.bsky.social · Jun 17

In COMBINE the team at EURICE will drive various tasks ensuring consistent communication and dissemination of project endeavours and strategic planning of exploitation and IP management activities. In addition, they will support the consortium in all aspects of project management.

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COMBINE MARV Project @combinemarvproject.bsky.social · Jun 17

🖥️ Meet Laura Zernickow 🤝

Laura is a Communications Manager at EURICE – European Research and Project Office GmbH.

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COMBINE MARV Project @combinemarvproject.bsky.social · Jun 16

🗣️❔ Always wanted to have a conversation with a scientist?

💡 Take the chance & talk one-to-one with @christian-7.bsky.social at Salon der Wissenschaft (Salon of Science) in Braunschweig.

Register (free of charge)
🔗 www.salonderwissenschaft.de/en/

#combineMARV #pandemicpreparedness #science

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COMBINE MARV Project @combinemarvproject.bsky.social · Jun 10

💡Learn more by watching the video or visit our website 🔗 combine-marv.eu/team/ibra

#combineMARV #MarburgVirus #PandemicPreparedness #Biochemistry

COMBINE MARV Project @combinemarvproject.bsky.social · Jun 10

🧪 Meet Costin-Ioan Popescu 🤝

In COMBINE his team at the Institute of Biochemistry of the Romanian Academy will use their expertise to develop vaccine candidates formulation and support the host-pathogen interaction studies.

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COMBINE MARV Project @combinemarvproject.bsky.social · Jun 3

💡Learn more about Erdinc’s role in COMBINE by watching the video or visit our website 🔗 combine-marv.eu/team/ki

#combineMARV #MarburgVirus #PandemicPreparedness #Biophysics

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COMBINE MARV Project @combinemarvproject.bsky.social · Jun 3

🔬 Meet Erdinc Sezgin 🤝

@sciezgin.bsky.social is leading CSI:Nano Lab located at @ki.se‬.

In COMBINE his team will focus on the biophysics of host-pathogen interactions by using advanced imaging tools and synthetic biology.

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COMBINE MARV Project @combinemarvproject.bsky.social · May 27

💡Learn more about Lennart’s role in COMBINE by watching the video or visit our website 🔗 combine-marv.eu/team/vib

#combineMARV #MarburgVirus #PandemicPreparedness #Virology #Proteomics #AI

COMBINE MARV Project @combinemarvproject.bsky.social · May 27

In COMBINE his team will lead WP3 to reprocess various types of proteomics data generated in the project to discover novel protein modifications and interactions.

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COMBINE MARV Project @combinemarvproject.bsky.social · May 27

🦠 Meet Lennart Martens 🤝

Lennart is leading the Computational Omics and Systems Biology (CompOmics) group at ‪@viblifesciences.bsky.social‬.

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COMBINE MARV Project @combinemarvproject.bsky.social · May 20

💡Learn more about Tuula’s role in COMBINE by watching the video or visit our website 🔗 combine-marv.eu/team/uio

#combineMARV #MarburgVirus #PandemicPreparedness #Proteomics

COMBINE MARV Project @combinemarvproject.bsky.social · May 20

🔬 Meet Tuula Nyman 🤝

Tuula is leading the research group Proteomics at the University of Oslo.

In COMBINE her team will perform advanced proteomic analysis of MARV-infected host cell samples to identify signalling cascades activated by MARV-cell binding.

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COMBINE MARV Project @combinemarvproject.bsky.social · May 13

💡Learn more about Nadine’s role in COMBINE by watching the video or visit our website 🔗 combine-marv.eu/team/umr

#combineMARV #MarburgVirus #PandemicPreparedness #Virology

COMBINE MARV Project @combinemarvproject.bsky.social · May 13

In COMBINE her team is responsible for carrying out the Marburg virus infections in a BSL-4 lab, providing the essential samples and groundwork for the identification of MARV cell signatures.

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COMBINE MARV Project @combinemarvproject.bsky.social · May 13

🧪 Meet Nadine Biedenkopf 🤝

@biedenkopflab.bsky.social is a junior group leader at the Institute of Virology at the @unimarburg.bsky.social.

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COMBINE MARV Project @combinemarvproject.bsky.social · May 7

📢 New findings help scientists understand how viruses enter host cells in unprecedented detail!

💬 “The methodology we have developed to investigate the virus entry process can be applied to many other viruses,” says @christian-7.bsky.social.

👀 Check out the article: shorturl.at/UJFRM

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COMBINE MARV Project @combinemarvproject.bsky.social · May 6

💡Learn more about Christian’s role in COMBINE by watching the video or visit our website 🔗 combine-marv.eu/team/hzi

#combineMARV #MarburgVirus #PandemicPreparedness #Virology #InfectiousDiseases

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COMBINE MARV Project @combinemarvproject.bsky.social · May 6

In COMBINE three groups from HZI are contributing to different work packages of the project.

1️⃣ identification of proteins within the virus host interface,
2️⃣ screening of antivirally active small molecules,
3️⃣ cell biology of virus infection.

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COMBINE MARV Project @combinemarvproject.bsky.social · May 6

🦠Meet Christian Sieben 🤝

@christian-7.bsky.social is our project coordinator in COMBINE and leading a young research group at @helmholtzhzi.bsky.social, Germany's largest state research institution addressing global challenges in infectious diseases.

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COMBINE MARV Project @combinemarvproject.bsky.social · May 2

🦠 Meet the #combineMARV partners! 🤝

📆 Over the coming weeks all our consortium partners will introduce themselves to you & explain their role in COMBINE.

👀 If you cannot wait to learn more visit our website & watch our meet the partners video 🔗 combine-marv.eu

#MarburgVirus #PandemicPreparedness

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COMBINE MARV Project @combinemarvproject.bsky.social · Apr 29

💉This week marks #EuropeanImmunisationWeek.

🦠In COMBINE we strive to strengthen #PandemicPreparedness by advancing our understanding of virus host-cell interaction & cellular uptake mechanisms, using #MarburgVirus as a model, and developing novel inhibitors & vaccine candidates against #MARV.

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COMBINE MARV Project @combinemarvproject.bsky.social · Mar 31

❕ Great news! We launched our website! 🦠

🔗 Visit combine-marv.eu to learn more about our project, objectives, and the great minds behind #combineMARV.

👀 Stay tuned for more news!

#MARV #MarburgVirus #EUresearch

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