Panel Discussion "Neue Erreger bändigen – Virusforschung mit KI"
In recent years, novel infectious diseases have repeatedly emerged, some of them spreading rapidly. Covid-19 is the latest of these - but hardly the last. When viruses, bacteria, parasites enter the body, they can transmit or cause disease. The body defends itself in many different ways, not always successfully. Understanding the strategies of the pathogens enables us to influence the disease process, perhaps even stop and cure it.
But who are these pathogens? What does their fine structure look like? How do they manipulate human cells? How can we study their movements on and in cells? Can 'artificial intelligence' help? If so, how?
Panel Members
Prof. Dr. Maya Topf
Group Leader of the Centre for Structural Systems Biology (CSSB)
Leibniz Institute for Virology (LIV)
University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE)
Prof. Dr. Blanche Schwappach-Pignataro
Dean of the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE)
Member of the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
Prof. Dr. Kay Grünewald
Scientific Director of the Centre for Structural Systems Biology (CSSB)
Leibniz Institute for Virology (LIV)
University of Hamburg (UHH)
Member of the Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Hamburg (AdWHH)
at the invitation of the Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Hamburg (AdWHH) and the Centre for Structural Systems Biology (CSSB) on September 20 from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. at Baseler Hof, Gartensaal, Esplanadae 15, 20354 Hamburg.
Moderated by Angela Grosse, science journalist.
If you want to follow this event on site, a binding registration for this event is required: www.cssb-hamburg.de/ki
Panel discussion
Taming new pathogens - virus research with AI.
Tuesday, September 20, 2022
7:00-21:00 pm
Baseler Hof, Garden Hall, Esplanade 15, 20354 Hamburg, Germany.
Press registration and further information:
Melissa Prass
Centre for Structural Systems Biology (CSSB)
+49 40 89 98-87502 | melissa.prass(at)cssb-hamburg.de
Dagmar Penzlin
Academy of Sciences in Hamburg
+49 40 42948669-24 | press(at)awhamburg.d
Centre for Structural Systems Biology (CSSB)
Infection biology is the focus of the work of the new interdisciplinary Centre for Structural Systems Biology CSSB on the DESY campus in Hamburg-Bahrenfeld. In particular, it uses state-of-the-art imaging techniques to understand, for example, interactions of human cells with microbes and to trace the pathways of infections down to the smallest detail. Three universities and seven research institutes are working together on these questions in CSSB. They are thus facing international competition and their goal is to gain new fundamental insights in infection biology in an integrative approach. CSSB is a cooperation without legal personality. All partners act exclusively in their own name and on their own responsibility.
Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Hamburg
The Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Hamburg is made up of outstanding scientists from all disciplines in northern Germany. It helps to intensify cooperation between subjects, universities and other scientific institutions. It promotes research on socially important issues of the future and fundamental scientific problems and makes it its special task to provide impulses for the dialogue between science and the public. The basic funding of the Academy is provided by the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg. The President of the Academy is Prof. Dr. Mojib Latif. The Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Hamburg is a member of the Union of the German Academies of Sciences and Humanities.
German Press Release
https://www.awhamburg.de/aktuell/presse/pressemitteilungen/detailseite/18-2022-podiumsdiskussion-neue-erreger-baendigen-virusforschung-mit-ki.html
