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At the University Hospital Essen: Annual Summer Academies
For the on-site programme 2024: please scroll down !
The student exchange with the partner universities is additionally supported by the Essen Summer Academies on “Infection and Immunity”, which started in 2011. The structured training program is aimed to recruit excellent students on an annual basis from the partner universities. The annual academies offer an ambitious two-week program of lectures and lab visits. Young scientists learn about the latest studies in the field of infection and immunity and carry out productive exchanges with the researchers of the University of Duisburg-Essen. Cultural activities are an inherent part of the program.
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Online programme 2022
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Online programme 2021
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Online programme 2020
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On site (Essen, Germany) programme 2019
group pictures of the participants 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011
Events in China (since 2018)
In the last few years we initiated and coordinated the participation of our faculty members in the following events in China:
19-22 June 2024, Wuhan Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College
2nd Mobility Programme Annual Workshop & the 7th Sino-German Joint Symposium
16-18 June 2024, Fudan University Shanghai Medical College
Sino-German Symposium on Infection and Immunity, organized by Key Lab of Medical Molecular Virology, Shanghai Medical College and Shanghai Medical Association, Medical Virology Branch
25-26 April 2020, Wuhan Union Hospital
4th Joint Medical Symposium and SGVIVI Annual Workshop (cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic)
June 2018, Wuhan Union Hospital HUST
2nd Wuhan-Essen Joint Medical Symposium:
Infection and Immunology, Neurosurgery, Proton Therapy
Events in Germany (since 2018)
Our China Cooperation organized the following events (since 2018):
28-29 May 2024, Essen
Delegation of Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hospital
Scientific talk within the Faculty Seminar Series by SYSMH President Prof. Erwei Song
22 April 2024, Essen
Delegation of HUST Tongji Medical College
22-23 April 2021, organized by Essen (online)
5th Wuhan-Essen Joint Medical Symposium
as part of the 3rd SGVIVI Anual Meeting,
Viral Immunology, Covid-19
9 November 2020, Essen and Wuhan (online)
4th Wuhan-Essen Joint Medical Symposium:
Proton Therapy
11-12 October 2019, Hamburg
The Annual Meeting 2019 of the German Chinese Society for Medicine DCGM:
Session on "Emerging Diseseas" with China CDC, Robert-Koch-Institute, Shanghai Pasteur Institute (see page 8)
18-19 June 2019, Essen
Delegation of Wuhan Union Hospital HUST
3rd Wuhan-Essen Joint Medical Symposium:
Hematology & Infectious Diseases
6 November 2018, Essen
Delegation of Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hospital:
Symposium on Oncology, Radiation Biology and Virology
20 September 2018, Essen
Visit of the Hubei Province Delegation
at the UDE Science Support Center
2 July 2018, Essen
Visit of a Beijing Sino-German Center students group at the Medical Faculty
13 June 2018, Essen
Visit of Jiangnan University and Wuxi No.5 People's Hospital at the University Hospital Essen
On-site in Essen, 19-30 August 202413th Summer Academy "Infection and Immunity"
Lecture and tutoring programme 19-30 August, 2024:
lecture and tutoring programme 2024
Reading material for lecture preparation:Lecture 1, Immune control and pathogenesis of hepatitis B virus infection, Prof. Mengji Lu
Lecture 2, Hepatic innate imunity - friend or foe in viral infections, Prof. Dr. Ruth Bröring
Lecture 3, Principles of Hepatitis E virus replication, resistance and chronic persistance, Dr. André Gömer
Lecture 4, Whole organ quantitative biology with light sheet microscopy, Prof. Matthias Gunzer
Lecture 5 Tumor Immunology and Immunotherapy, Prof. Sven Brandau
Lecture 6, How cytomegaloviruses fool innate immunity, Prof. Trilling & Dr. Le-Trilling
Lecture 7, Antiviral Stewardship in herpesvirus infections, Prof. Sebastian Voigt
Lecture 8, Genetic Vaccines, PD Dr. Wibke Bayer
Lecture 9, Interplay between Hypoxia and Viral Infections, Dr. rer. nat. Anna Malyshkina
Lecture 10
Lecture 11, HIV pathogenesis and persistence, Dr. R. Schwarzer & Dr. H. Schwarzer-Sperber
Lecture 12, Effector mechanisms of virus specific T cells, Dr. Gennadiy Zelinskyy
Lecture 13, Interferon Subtypes, PD Dr. Kathrin Sutter
Lecture 14, Natural killer cells - friend or foe?, PD Dr. Elisabeth Littwitz-Salomon
Lecture 15, Immune mechanisms of virus control, Prof. Karl Lang
Lecture 16, CMV and BKV infection in ranal transplantation, Prof. Benjamin Wilde
Lecture 17, Molecular Biology of Influenza Viruses, Dr. med. Melanie Fiedler
Lecture 18, Regulatory T cells in viral infections, Prof. Ulf Dittmer
Lecture 19, Vaccination of immunocompromised patients, Dr. Frank Mosel
Lecture 20
Essen, Wuhan, Shanghai, Guangzhou (online), 11-22 July 2022 (online)12th Summer Academy "Infection and Immunity"
Interested students are kindly asked to register with their international offices. The number of particpants is limited to 25 selected students. Upon admittance you will be provided with the ZOOM access code for the daily sessions.
registration for participants from HUST Tongji Medical College
registration for participants from Fudan University, Shanghai Medical School
registration for participants from Sun Yat-Sen University, Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hospital and Shenzhen Campus
for general questions and students at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Duisburg-Essen
Lecture and tutoring programme 11-22 July 2022:
lecture and tutoring programme 2022
Week 1
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Monday |
16:00h-19:00h 10:00h-13:00h |
Opening and Welcome address: |
Prof. Dr. Ulf Dittmer
all participants |
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Tuesday |
16:00h-17:30h |
Lecture 2 |
Prof. Dr. Mengji Lu |
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Wednesday |
16:00h-17:30h 10 minutes break 17:40h-18:00h |
Lecture 3 Short Introduction to BIOME |
Prof. Dr. Sven Brandau
Delia Cosgrove |
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Thursday |
16:00h-17:30h |
Lecture 4 |
PD Dr. Kathrin Sutter |
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Friday |
16:00h-17:30h
18:00h-19:30h |
Tutorial: discussion of the previous sessions, questions and answers (teachers and student forum) Lecture 5 |
Ass.-Prof. Dr. Jia Liu Dr. Viktoriya Sokolova |
Week 2
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Monday |
16:00h-17:30h 10 minutes break 17:40h-19:00h |
Lecture 6 Tutorial: discussion of the previous sessions, questions and answers (teacher and student forum) |
PD Dr. Ruth Broering Prof. Dr. Jieliang Chen |
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Tuesday |
16:00h-17:30h |
Lecture 7 |
PD Dr. Wibke Bayer Institute for Virology, UDE |
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Wednesday |
16:00h-17:30h 10 minutes break 17:40h-19:00h |
Lecture 8 Tutorial: discussion of the previous sessions, questions and answers (teacher and student forum) with aa special focus on bioinformatics in infectious diseases research |
Prof. Dr. Daniel Hoffmann
Prof. Dr. Mengji Lu |
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Thursday |
16:00h-17:30h |
Lecture 9 |
Prof. Dr. Karl Lang |
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Friday |
16:00h-17:30h
10 minutes break
17:40h-19:00h |
Lecture 10 (Postponed to Monday, 25 July, 17:00h! See programme overview ! ) ----------------------- Discussion, teacher and student forum Closing and Farewell |
Prof. Dr. Matthias Gunzer
Prof. Mengji Lu
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Essen, Wuhan, Shanghai, Guangzhou (online), 16-27 August 202111th Summer Academy "Infection and Immunity"
lecture and tutoring programme 2021
After a very successful first online academy in 2020 we decided to offer additional places to our Chinese partners. Still, during the programme, it proved to be the right approach to limit the number of particpants to 25 alltogether. Among these were 14 participants from Wuhan, 6 from Shanghai and 5 from Sun-Yat-Sen campi in Guangzhou and Shenzhen.
Essen, Wuhan, Shanghai, Guangzhou (Online), 17-28 August 2020 10th Summer Academy: "Infection and Immunity in times of COVID-19"
lecture and tutoring programme 2020
The summer academy for students from our three Chinese partner universities has been successfully established over the last few years and was celebrating its 10th anniversary in 2020. Unfortunately, due to the Corona crisis, it could not take place in Essen with the physical attendance of the students. However, this crisis has proved the tremendous importance of a sound education in infectious diseases and understanding of the research field of infection and immunity. Therefor we offered this summer programme as a two-weeks webinar with selected talks by virologists and infectious disease specialists from our faculty. The sessions were organized via ZOOM. 18 advanced medical and master students from our partner universities with a special research interest in infection and immunity took part in the programme.