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MOI V News

Congratulations, Rudy, on winning the award for best presentation!

Congratulations on winning the Best Talk Award (The Jahn-Bovee Award) at the international conference “Protistology Open 2026” in Prague, Czechia! The conference, held from April 19–23, brought together participants from 119 research and academic institutes. The award was presented for his outstanding talk titled “Origins and Molecular Mechanisms of the Host-derived Endosymbiont Division Machinery in Angomonas deanei.” This achievement is a wonderful recognition of excellent research and scientific contribution. We warmly congratulate Rudy on this well-deserved success!

The Graduate School "Molecules of Infection" MOI

Who we are

The Manchot Graduate School “Molecules of Infection” (MOI) maps complex host-pathogen interactions and explores new strategies for the elimination of pathogens in infectious diseases. Research projects focus on functionally characterizing molecules that play crucial roles in the infection process in carefully chosen model systems, e.g. HIV.

In April 2024 MOI V started and continues the successful research projects of the former MOI I - MOI IV funding rounds, which are funded since the beginning by the Jürgen Manchot Stiftung and supported by the "Strategischem Forschungsfonds" of Heinrich Heine University itselfs.

The 18 PhD projects of the Graduate School focus on important infectious molecules, that will be studied and characterised in specific model organisms. The gained scientific outcome of MOI V will make contribution to the current concepts of research in the field of infection. The scientific program of the 18 funded projects is separated in four deeply connected and in terms of content coordinated research areas.

Research Area 1

Mechanisms of viral infection

Research Area 2

Bacterial proteins in infection and infection control

Research Area 3

Molecular regulatory mechanisms in fungi

Research Area 4

Control of immune responses to infection

Associated Projects

Topics of the 6 MOI V associated projects

What is special about MOI Graduate School?

Our mission: to provide excellent scientific education in combination with personal development of young scientist at best since 2009! These are the central parts of our Graduate programme:

MOI V Curriculum

Here is the content of our MOI V Curriculum.

MOI V Events

Like to learn more about the MOI V events? Open the link.

Scientific Advisory Board

Four excellent scientists go with the Graduate School, - not only on the scientific level.

The core of the Graduate School:

Our young researchers

Besides the scholarship holders the Manchot Graduate School supports up to five talented PhD students from various projects of closely related topics to the MOI research areas. These so called "Colleagues" benefit from attending the whole MOI Curriculum as well as the organised events.

Current MOI V Fellows

Who are the current scholarship holders, who the colleagues? On the next webpage you'll find an overview and a brief introduction of our PhD students.