Seminar: Host Mechanisms in Emerging Viral Infections
Scheel Group from Copenhagen Hepatitis C Program (CO-HEP) welcomes Professor Stephanie Pfänder from Leibniz Institute of Virology, Hamburg, Germany.
Professor Stephanie Pfänder is giving a talk about Host Dependency and Antiviral Defense Mechanisms in Emerging Viral Infections.
Her research focuses on how emerging RNA viruses interact with host cells, including host dependency and antiviral restriction factors. Read more here.
Speaker biography
Stephanie Pfänder did her PhD at the TWINCORE Centre for Experimental and Clinical Infection Research in Hannover, Germany, where she worked on animal models for hepatitis C virus and transmissible liver disease in horses. For her postdoc, she shifted her focus to coronaviruses at the Institute of Virology and Immunology, Bern, Switzerland.
In 2020, Dr. Pfänder started her own group at Ruhr University, Bochum, and has since 2024 been Professor at the Leibniz Institute of Virology, Hamburg, and University of Lübeck.
Here, her group works on unraveling the intricate interactions of viruses with the cellular repertoire of host cells focusing in particular on RNA viruses such as coronaviruses and flaviviruses.
For this they leverage authentic, complex cellular model systems, such as three-dimensional organoids, that better mimic the multicellular architecture, cellular diversity, and tissue-specific functions of native tissues. With these model systems, they aim to decode virus-host interactions, focusing on host dependency factors and host restriction factors.
Contact: Troels Kasper Høyer Scheel, tscheel@sund.ku.dk