2nd Call (2014)

Through the second Infect-ERA joint transnational call, eight projects involving 38 partners from 11 countries will be funded.

 

Project AMOEBAC

Title: Entamoeba histolytica-bacterium interaction and the role of this interaction in intestinal pathogenesis 

Related to: protozoa

Partners:

Prof. Serge Ankri - Technion  Israel Institute of Technology (IL)

Dr. Nancy Guillen - Pasteur Institute (FR)

Prof. Alok Bhattacharya - Jawaharlal Nehru University (IN)

Prof. Michael Lalk - Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-University Greifswald (DE)

Dr. Jean Yves Coppee - Pasteur Institute (FR)

Duration: 36 months

Start date: early 2015

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Project BactInfectERA

Title: Bacterial interaction with the microvasculature, a target for therapeutic intervention during septicaemia 

Related to: bacteria

Partners:

Dr. Sandrine Bourdoulous - INSERM (FR)

Prof. Xavier Nassif - INSERM (FR)

Prof. Thomas Rattei - University of Vienna (AT) 

Dr. Andrés Hidalgo Alonso - Fundacion CNIC/Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (ES)

Duration: 36 months

Start date: early 2015

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Project CampyRNA

Title: Combining high-throughput and single-cell analyses to study RNA regulators important for the early steps of Campylobacter infection 

Related to: bacteria

Partners:

Dr. Cynthia Mira Sharma - Research Center for Infectious Diseases, University of Würzburg (DE)

Dr. Ana Eulalio - Institute for Molecular Infection Biology, University of Würzburg (DE)

Dr. Miguel Mano - Center for Neurosciences and Cell Biology, University of Coimbra (PT)

Dr. Kristine Schauer - CNRS/Curie Institute (FR)

Duration: 36 months

Start date: early 2015

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Project eDEVILLI

Title: early Determinants of DNA-Virus Lytic or Latent Infection 

Related to: virus

Partners:

Prof. Luka Cicin-Sain - Helmholtz-Zentrum für Infektionsforschung (DE)

Prof. Maria Masucci - Karolinska Institutet (SE)

Prof. Mathias Müller - University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna (AT)

Dr. Harald Wodrich - CNRS/ Bordeaux University (FR)

Dr. Lars Dölken - Würzburg University (DE)

Duration: 36 months

Start date: early 2015

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Project ERASE

Title: Evaluating antiviral properties of viral RNA/DNA Associated proteins across Species Evolution 

Related to: virus

Partners:

Dr. Andreas Pichlmair - Max-Planck Institute of Biochemistry (DE)

Prof. Jean-Luc Imler - CNRS/Institut de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire (FR)

Dr. Jacques Colinge - INSERM/Montpellier 1 University (FR)

Prof. Soren Paludan - Aarhus University (DK)

Dr. Jürgen Hausmann - Bavarian Nordic (DE)

Dr. Giulio Superti-Furga - Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (AT)

Duration: 36 months

Start date: early 2015

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Project ESCential

Title: Haploid embryonic stem cell screen to identify host factors essential  for highly pathogenic RNA viruses 

Related to: virus

Partners:

Prof. Ali Mirazimi - SVA (SE)

Prof. Friedemann Weber - Philipps-University Marburg (DE)

Prof. Josef Martin Penninger - IMBA/Institut fuer Molekular Biotechnologie (AT)

Prof. Johan Neyts - KU Leuven (BE)

Duration: 36 months

Start date: early 2015

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Project FunComPath

Title: From fungal commensalism to pathogenicity:dissection of the colonization-to-infection shift of Candida albicans 

Related to: bacteria

Partners:

Prof. Bernhard Hube - Hans Knöll Institute (DE)

Dr. Christophe d'Enfert - Pasteur Institute (FR)

Prof. Joachim Ernst - Heinrich Heine University Duesseldorf (DE)

Prof. Jesús Pla - Universidad Complutense de Madrid (ES)

Prof. Jens Nielsen - Chalmers University of Technology (SE)

Duration: 36 months

Start date: early 2015

Website http://www.funcompath.eu

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Project The nice bug

Title: Commensalism versus disease? Asymptomatic carriage or urosepsis 

Related to: bacteria

Partners:

Prof. Catharina Svanborg - Lund University (SE)

Prof. Eliora Ron - Tel Aviv University (IL)

Prof. Jörg Vogel - Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (DE)

Prof. Ulrich Dobrindt - Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster (DE)

Prof. Alberto Mantovani - Fondazione Humanitas per la Ricerca (IT)

Duration: 36 months

Start date: early 2015

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