20.04.2026
Roland gives seminar at the Robert Koch Institute
Roland visits the Robert Koch Institute for the Infectiological Seminar series and presents our work on “Host Determinants of Viral Infections”.
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A running archive of lab milestones, new team members, publications, awards, talks, collaborations, and events across the Schwarzer Lab.
Lab news archive
Updates from across the lab, grouped by year with the most recent entries first.
2026
17.04.2026
New iScience paper on pan-coronavirus inhibition
Our collaborative study on CGM23, a lipopeptide inhibitor with broad activity against coronavirus fusion, is now published in iScience.
21.03.2026
Orthohantavirus workflow paper published
Our standardized workflow for orthohantavirus production, detection, and antiviral screening is out in Virology Journal. A useful methods paper for making comparative hantavirus experiments more robust and reproducible.
10.03.2026
Nanocarrier study published
Our collaborative work on biocompatible polylactide- and chitosan-based nanocarriers for antiretroviral delivery has been published in AAPS PharmSciTech.
02.2026
Puumala virus cell biology paper published
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 final paper — and a central piece of our hantavirus work.
13.01.2026
Roland speaks at the 28th WZI Infectious Diseases Colloquium
Roland opens the year with a talk at the WZI Infectious Diseases Colloquium, presenting our work on HIV reservoirs and viral persistence.
2025
31.12.2025
Farewell to Eva Müller and Nahara Souza Leite
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.
01.12.2025
Roxadustat paper published in Journal of Immunology
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.
20.06.2025
Coronavirus nsp16 inhibitor study published
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.
01.04.2025
Luisa Betke joins the lab
Welcome, Luisa! Luisa joins us from the Fleischhauer group and will focus on quantifying HIV reservoir size and transcriptional activity in clinical samples.
26.03.2025
Visiting scientist: Nneoma Confidence Anyanwu
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.
20.03.2025
Two presentations at DÖAK 2025
Eva and Roland presented lab projects at DÖAK 2025: Eva spoke about lipids in HIV persistence, while Roland discussed mechanisms of HIV latency.
25.02.2025
HIV latency reactivation paper published
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.
13.01.2025
Broad-spectrum coronavirus entry inhibitor paper published
Our collaborative study on a natural-product-derived coronavirus entry inhibitor is published in Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy.
2024
15.10.2024
Two new team members
Paula Brennecke will explore Type I interferons in HIV persistence, while Nahara Souza Leite will investigate the regulation of TRIM5α expression by HERVs.
10.10.2024
DFG grant approved
We received three years of funding for Orthohantavirus research.
01.10.2024
Coronavirus entry inhibitor published
Together with the labs of Thomas Efferth and Kathrin Sutter, our study on a new coronavirus entry inhibitor was published in Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy.
19.09.2024
Talks at HIV Immunology, Vaccines & Cure
Two talks by Hannah and Eva at the 2nd Symposium on HIV Immunology, Vaccines and Cure Approaches organized by our institute.
29.08.2024
VBBN oral presentation
Eva gave another oral presentation at the 3rd annual Virus Biology and Biophysics Network in Braunschweig.
14.06.2024
Orthohantavirus cell biology study online
Our newest study on the cell biology of Orthohantavirus infections is online as a preprint. Exciting to see how Puumala virus remodels infected cells.
14.06.2024
Hannah wins Top Young Science Best Paper Award
Recognition from the Medical Faculty for the CD73 paper in Cell Reports.
15.04.2024
Lisa Weber joins
Lisa Weber joins the team for her Master’s project dealing with antivirals.
08.04.2024
Maria Leonhardt internship
Maria returned for a six-week internship after her Bachelor project in our lab.
01.04.2024
Welcome, Yasmin Yusuf
Yasmin joins as our newest Bachelor student contributing to Eva’s project.
31.03.2024
Goodbye Julia G.
We wish Julia all the best for her next steps.
15.02.2024
Zehra Karakoese joins as Postdoc
Zehra switched over from Kathrin’s lab to start as our newest postdoc.
14.01.2024
Goodbye Samson Folami
Wishing Samson success on his journey ahead.
2023
06.11.2023
New Master’s student: Nathalie Balog
Meet our newest Master’s student.
02.11.2023
DFG project approved
Funding for our Hypoxia/Purinergic Signaling project.
31.10.2023
CD73 paper online
Hannah’s CD73 paper is online. Applause to all co-authors.
17.10.2023
Welcome, Kristina Grgic
Kristina will work on ART-loaded nanoparticles and a TRIM5α promoter study with Carina Elsner.
09.10.2023
Two arrivals
Julia Graute’s first day as Master’s student; Sarah Oster visits for two weeks from TH Bingen.
28.09.2023
Poster prize at 2nd ITHF Poster Day
Jouly, Kathi and Eva presented their work. Eva won the poster award.
01.09.2023
Welcome, Samson Folami
Samson joins from Uppsala University.
31.08.2023
Farewell, Balkissa
Balkissa’s last day with our group.
19.08.2023
ART-loaded nanoparticles paper
First paper with Marek and the Polish Academy of Sciences collaboration.
15.08.2023
Rieke W. finishes Bachelor project
Congrats, Rieke!
07.06.2023
Roland’s return to the lab
Happy to be back at the bench.
17.04.2023
Kathi Hock joins for Master’s
Welcome, Kathi!
04.04.2023
Welcome, Rieke Wingenfeld
First day for our newest Bachelor student.
28.03.2023
Eva wins GfV Science Slam 2023
Great job, Eva!
29.02.2023
Forooz’s lab work concludes
All the best, FA!
2022
06.12.2022
Seamless transition in leadership
Hannah and Roland swap stay-home parent/PI positions.
15.11.2022
Maria L’s last day
End of an era — thank you, Maria!
10.10.2022
First ELAN student with Fandrey lab
Our first ELAN student starts.
04.10.2022
Forooz Afiuny starts Bachelor project
Welcome, Forooz!
04.10.2022
Eva rejoins as first doctoral student
The lost child returns — great to have you back, EM!
13.09.2022
PDC-109 antiviral study out
Joint work with Sutter lab, Karin Müller and Peter Müller.
08.09.2022
HIV-1 paper in mBio
With the Institute of Virology, Gladstone Institutes and Kim Hasenkrug’s group.
01.09.2022
Balkissa Mountessoumoun’s first day
Welcome, Balkissa.
22.08.2022
Novel Ca2+-binding motif in HIV Env
Check out our paper on a new calcium-binding motif in the HIV envelope protein.
06.06.2022
Laila Smaina’s last day
All the best!
04.04.2022
Carolin Kruth rejoins ITHF
Continues rotation project in collaboration with Sutter lab.
01.04.2022
Vivienne Schneider & Maria Leonhard join
Seamless replacement of E & F by Vivienne and Maria.
31.03.2022
Eva and Frederic left the house
Thank you both for your contributions!
23.02.2022
First lab paper published
Congrats to Hannah and Robert for their publication on Hantavirus N protein.
2021
15.11.2021
Frederic rejoins the lab
Once MVP, always MVP.
25.10.2021
Carolina van Gelder starts rotation
Welcome, Carolina!
06.09.2021
Laila Smaina joins from Italy
Buongiorno, Laila!
01.09.2021
Eva Müller joins for Master’s
Welcome, Eva.
27.07.2021
Frederic presents Praxisphasenbericht
And nailed it.
22.06.2021
Hannah defends PhD
Congrats, Dr. S!
01.05.2021
Frederic Borkamp joins
Welcome, KB!
01.04.2021
Tamara joins the lab
Welcome aboard.