A running archive of lab milestones, new team members, publications, awards, talks, collaborations, and events across the Schwarzer Lab.
Our latest paper is now published in Molecular Biology Reports. The study presents a rapid and accessible method for concentrating lentiviral particles in just 15 minutes using a standard tabletop centrifuge.
Roland presented our hantavirus research in his talk “Cellular Determinant of Hantavirus Infections” at the 5th VIRAL NRW Retreat in Eitorf.
We are happy to welcome Thea, who joined the Schwarzer Lab at the beginning of May. Welcome to the team!
Roland visits the Robert Koch Institute for the Infectiological Seminar series and presents our work on “Host Determinants of Viral Infections”.
Our collaborative study on CGM23, a lipopeptide inhibitor with broad activity against coronavirus fusion, is now published in iScience.
Our standardized workflow for orthohantavirus production, detection, and antiviral screening is out in Virology Journal. The study provides a practical framework for making comparative hantavirus experiments more robust and reproducible.
Our collaborative work on biocompatible polylactide- and chitosan-based nanocarriers for antiretroviral delivery has been published in AAPS PharmSciTech.
Our study on how Orthohantavirus puumalaense remodels P-bodies and the cytoskeleton is now published in Journal of General Virology. A long road from cell biology observations to the final paper and a central piece of our hantavirus work.
Roland opens the year with a talk at the WZI Infectious Diseases Colloquium, presenting our work on HIV reservoirs and viral persistence.
At the end of 2025, Eva Müller and Nahara Souza Leite leave the lab for their next steps. Thank you both for your work, energy, and contributions to the group. We wish you all the best.
Our collaborative study with the Fandrey and Winning groups is out in Journal of Immunology. The paper explores how roxadustat affects oxygen sensing, inflammation, and metabolic reprogramming in human leukocytes.
Another collaborative coronavirus paper is out in Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy, identifying FDA-approved drug candidates targeting nsp16 across SARS-CoV-2, SARS-CoV-1, and MERS-CoV.
Welcome, Luisa! Luisa joins us from the Fleischhauer group and will focus on quantifying HIV reservoir size and transcriptional activity in clinical samples.
We are happy to welcome Nneoma Confidence Anyanwu for a three-month lab exchange funded by DFG and TWAS. During her stay, she will explore the role of miRNAs in HIV persistence.
Eva and Roland presented lab projects at DÖAK 2025: Eva spoke about lipids in HIV persistence, while Roland discussed mechanisms of HIV latency.
Our collaborative work with the Sauter lab is published in Journal of Virology, showing that the glucocorticoid receptor modulator AZD9567 can reactivate latent HIV-1.
Our collaborative study on a natural-product-derived coronavirus entry inhibitor is published in Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy.
Paula Brennecke will explore Type I interferons in HIV persistence, while Nahara Souza Leite will investigate the regulation of TRIM5α expression by HERVs.
We received three years of funding for Orthohantavirus research.
Together with the labs of Thomas Efferth and Kathrin Sutter, our study on a new coronavirus entry inhibitor was published in Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy.
Two talks by Hannah and Eva at the 2nd Symposium on HIV Immunology, Vaccines and Cure Approaches organized by our institute.
Eva gave another oral presentation at the 3rd annual Virus Biology and Biophysics Network in Braunschweig.
Our newest study on the cell biology of Orthohantavirus infections is online as a preprint. Exciting to see how Puumala virus remodels infected cells.
Recognition from the Medical Faculty for the CD73 paper in Cell Reports.
Lisa Weber joins the team for her Master’s project dealing with antivirals.
Maria returned for a six-week internship after her Bachelor project in our lab.
Yasmin joins as our newest Bachelor student contributing to Eva’s project.
We wish Julia all the best for her next steps.
Zehra switched over from Kathrin’s lab to start as our newest postdoc.
Wishing Samson success on his journey ahead.
Meet our newest Master’s student.
Funding for our Hypoxia/Purinergic Signaling project.
Hannah’s CD73 paper is online. Applause to all co-authors.
Kristina will work on ART-loaded nanoparticles and a TRIM5α promoter study with Carina Elsner.
Julia Graute’s first day as Master’s student; Sarah Oster visits for two weeks from TH Bingen.
Jouly, Kathi and Eva presented their work. Eva won the poster award.
Samson joins from Uppsala University.
Balkissa’s last day with our group.
First paper with Marek and the Polish Academy of Sciences collaboration.
Congrats, Rieke!
Happy to be back at the bench.
Welcome, Kathi!
First day for our newest Bachelor student.
Great job, Eva!
All the best, FA!
Hannah and Roland swap stay-home parent/PI positions.
End of an era — thank you, Maria!
Our first ELAN student starts.
Welcome, Forooz!
The lost child returns — great to have you back, EM!
Joint work with Sutter lab, Karin Müller and Peter Müller.
With the Institute of Virology, Gladstone Institutes and Kim Hasenkrug’s group.
Welcome, Balkissa.
Check out our paper on a new calcium-binding motif in the HIV envelope protein.
All the best!
Continues rotation project in collaboration with Sutter lab.
Seamless replacement of E & F by Vivienne and Maria.
Thank you both for your contributions!
Congrats to Hannah and Robert for their publication on Hantavirus N protein.
Once MVP, always MVP.
Welcome, Carolina!
Buongiorno, Laila!
Welcome, Eva.
And nailed it.
Congrats, Dr. S!
Welcome, KB!
Welcome aboard.
