Team

Stephanie is a tenured W2 Professor of Cellular Virology at the Institute of Cardiovascular Immunology, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn. She studied Human Biology (Theoretical Medicine) and completed her doctorate at Philipps University Marburg. Funded by the Helmholtz Postdoctoral Program, she conducted research at the University of Chicago and the Helmholtz Zentrum München before establishing her group in Bonn. Her current research focuses on innate immunity, virology, RNA biology and extracellular vesicles.

Julia holds a Master’s degree in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from the Christian-Albrechts University to Kiel and started her Ph.D. thesis, embedded in the BIGS Immunosciences and Infection, in 2021. She works on the recognition of Hepatitis Delta Virus (HDV) infections by the innate immune system, as well as on the role of Extracellular Vesicles in HDV infection.

Laura studied Human Biology at the Philipps-Universty of Marburg with a focus on Virology. Her Ph.D. thesis, started in April of 2023, is concerned with the roll of Extracellular Vesicles during Hepatits B infections, as well as the innate immunological response to Hepatits B and D co-infections.

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Huijuan completed her undergraduate studies in Biological Sciences at Sichuan University and is currently enrolled in the Master’s programme in Molecular Cell Biology at the University of Bonn. Her research project focuses on the regulation of innate immune signalling by endogenous cellular metabolites.