Visualising the membrane proteome of Mycoplasma pneumoniae and its role in infection

Decoding the mechanisms of bacterial pathogenesis in the gut

Role of X-chromosome inactivation in macrophage polarisation

How bacterial infection elicits epigenetic memory in immune T cells

Correlative X-ray electron microscopy to characterise pathogenic signatures of cerebral malaria

Exploiting the microbiome composition to counter-select antibiotic resistant mutants

Understanding the link between the antiviral activity, RNA binding, and E3 ligase activity of TRIM25

Maame Ekua Acquah

University of Ghana

Maame Ekua Acquah studies host-pathogen interactions in SARS-CoV-2. She will learn protein expression and structural biology techniques at EMBL Grenoble to advance her research in West Africa.

Oluwaremilekun Grace Ajakaye

Adekunle Ajasin University

Oluwaremilekun Grace Ajakaye studies neglected tropical diseases in Nigeria. She will enhance her bioinformatics skills at EMBL-EBI to advance genomic research in Africa.

Tendai Washaya

University of Zimbabwe

Tendai Washaya studies multi-resistant HIV-1 and why some patients develop greater resistance to treatment. She will join researchers at EMBL-EBI to develop her next-gen sequencing & bioinformatics skills.

Adwoa Padiki Nartey

University of Ghana

Adwoa Padiki Nartey studies how microbes become resistant to antibiotics. She will tap the expertise and technology at our Heidelberg site in cell, genome, and computational biology to further her work.

Translation in cellular context: elucidating function, organisation and regulation with near-atomic models in whole cells

Resolving the unique mechanism of endocytosis of Giardia lamblia

Understanding cerebral malaria using 3D blood-brain barrier models

Study of vascular signalling pathways disrupted in cerebral malaria using 3D blood-brain barrier models

Computational methods for pandemic-scale genomic epidemiology

Viola Introini

Bernabeu Group (Barcelona)

Viola Introini studies tissue-specific microvascular models to understand the physical determinants of cerebral malaria.

Michael Knopp

Typas Group (Heidelberg)

Michael Knopp will study the intrinsic and extrinsic constrains that determine the dissemination of plasmid-born antibiotic resistance.