At the University Hospital Essen: Annual Summer Academies

For the online programme 2022: 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.

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: 

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)

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

Monday
11 July

16:00h-19:00h
Beijing time

10:00h-13:00h
German time

Opening and Welcome address:
12th Summer Academy of the Medical Faculty, University of Duisburg-Essen 
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Lecture 1
Regulatiory T cells in viral infections
Lecture info & publications
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After the talk: introduction of the participants, short self presentations

Prof. Dr. Ulf Dittmer
Representative for the China Cooperation, Medical Faculty, UDE
Director of the Institute for Virology, head of the Sino-German Virtual Institute for Viral Immunology SGVIVI

 

all participants

Tuesday
12 July

16:00h-17:30h
(10:00h-11:30h)

Lecture 2
Immune control and pathogenesis of hepatitis B virus infection
Lecture info & publications

Prof. Dr. Mengji Lu
Institute for Virology; UDE

Wednesday
13 July

16:00h-17:30h
(10:00h-11:30h)

10 minutes break

17:40h-18:00h
(11:40h-12:00h)

Lecture 3
Tumor Immunology and Immunotherapy
Lecture info & publications

Short Introduction to BIOME
Graduate School of Biomedical Science: 
www.uni-due.de/biome

Prof. Dr. Sven Brandau
Experimental Research, Dept. of Otorhinolaryngology, UDE; Chair of BIOME - Graduate School of Biomedical Science

Delia Cosgrove
BIOME coordinator

Thursday
14 July

16:00h-17:30h
(10:00h-11:30h)

Lecture 4
Type I Interferons in viral infections
Lecture info & publications

PD Dr. Kathrin Sutter
Institute for Virology, UDE

Friday
15 July

16:00h-17:30h
(10:00h-11.30h)

18:00h-19:30h
(12:00h-13:30h)

Tutorial: discussion of the previous sessions, questions and answers (teachers and student forum)

Lecture 5
Calcium phosphate nanoparticles and their application in medicine
Lecture info & publications
Video: synthese of calcium phosphate nanoparticles

Ass.-Prof. Dr. Jia Liu
Wuhan Union Hospital, Dept. of Infectious diseases

Dr. Viktoriya Sokolova
Inorganic Chemistry, UDE

Week 2

Monday
18 July

16:00h-17:30h
(10:00h-11:30h)

10 minutes break

17:40h-19:00h
(11:40h-13:00h)

Lecture 6
Hepatic innate immunity - friend or foe in viral infections
Lecture info & publications

Tutorial: discussion of the previous sessions, questions and answers (teacher and student forum)

PD Dr. Ruth Broering
Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Prof. Dr. Jieliang Chen
Fudan University, Shanghai Medical College, Key Lab of Medical Molecular Virology

Tuesday
19 July

16:00h-17:30h 
(10:00h-11:30h)

Lecture 7
Principles of gene-based immunization and application in Sars-CoV-2 vaccine development
Lecture info & publications

PD Dr. Wibke Bayer
Institute for Virology, UDE

Wednesday
20 July

16:00h-17:30h
(10:00h-11:30h)

10 minutes break

17:40h-19:00h
(11:40h-13:00h)

Lecture 8
Computational discovery of HLA associated mutations in viral genomes
lecture info and publications

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
Dr. Jun Wang, Wuxi

(fellow UDE Medical Faculty until 5/2022, group Daniel Hoffmann)

Thursday
21 July

16:00h-17:30h
(10:00-11:30h)

Lecture 9
Immune Mechanisms of Virus Control
Lecture info & publications

Prof. Dr. Karl Lang
Institute of Immunology, UDE

Friday
22 July

16:00h-17:30h
(10:00h-11:30h)
Postponed ! 

 

 

 

10 minutes break

 

17:40h-19:00h
(11:40h-13:00h)

Lecture 10  (Postponed to Monday, 25 July, 17:00h! See programme overview ! )
Whole organ quantitative biology with light sheet microscopy uncovers healthy and pathologic physiology with unprecedented detail - A lecture on 3D microscopic techniques in science and for clinical diagnosis
Lecture info & publications

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Discussion, teacher and student forum

Closing and Farewell

Prof. Dr. Matthias Gunzer
Institute for Experimental Immunology and Imaging IMCES, UDE

 

 

Prof. Mengji Lu
and Chinese fellows at the University of Duisburg-Essen Medical Faculty             

               

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"

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.

lecture and tutoring programme 2020