Funding from the DFG
Dr. Daniel Achukwi behind his new dissecting microscopeZeiss Stemi 2000, bought for IRAD from our DFG-grant. (photo by Albert Eisenbarth)
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Dr. Daniel Achukwi behind his new dissecting microscopeZeiss Stemi 2000, bought for IRAD from our DFG-grant. (photo by Albert Eisenbarth)
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A very warm welcome to the homepage of Programme Onchocercoses. Our research network in Ngaoundéré, Cameroon, is based on over 35 years of successful partnership between research institutes in Germany, Great Britain, France and many other countries. It combines resources, know-how and skills of the participating partners to answer key questions and improve the understanding of fundamental mechanisms underlying host-parasite interaction, pathogenesis and population biology of filarial parasites.
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DFG-Meeting in Accra, Ghana, 23rd – 27th of March 2011.
The second meeting of German-African research partners in Accra brought together more than 25 research projects. Our work was presented by an oral talk and 5 posters.
DAAD-grant received for Stephanie in November 2010
Starting in January 2012, they will stay for 2 (or three months) in Cameroon to work in our project and to collect data for the thesis of diploma. Their work shall focus on the population biology of Onchocerca worms and their arthropod vectors.
This is likely for the first time that you see a microfilaria moving in its natural way, as it wanders through the skin. It was made posible by embedding the living microfilariae in a medium soft enough to allow movement and strong enough to provide a solid ground for its movements. One can see how it uses its tail to move ahead. Any macrophages etc. trying to attack on its cuticula, can easily be sweeped off.
In most cases one sees a living microfilaria, it is in a drop of saline, and the microfilaria moves on the spot by helpless wrigglings, but without making any distance.
Auftakt-Treffen im Rahmen der „DFG-Afrika-Initiative”
http://www.dfg.de/dfg_magazin/aus_der_wissenschaft/infektiologie_afrika/index.jsp
Insbesondere vor dem Hintergrund des Austauschs ist nun das Auftakt-Treffen in Berlin initiiert und gestaltet worden. Neben den Fachvorträgen gehört auch ein Besuch der gemeinsam von DFG und Robert Koch-Institut entwickelten Ausstellung „MenschMikrobe – Das Erbe Robert Kochs und die moderne Infektionsforschung” zum Programm. Im Anschluss daran findet am Dienstag, 22. Juni 2010, um 18 Uhr im Thaer-Saal der Humboldt-Universität, Invalidenstraße 42, 10115 Berlin, eine Podiumsdiskussion in englischer Sprache zum Thema „Armutskrankheiten in Afrika” statt.
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