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Has it really been 2 years….? Indeed, it has, which made the Rafie lab’s trip to attend this year’s international adenovirus meeting even more exciting!! Together Ana, Xiaoyu, Martina, and Karim travelled to Cardiff for a week’s long conference that promised to feature great research, amazing people, and lots of fun. Topics covered basic adenovirology, structures, vaccines, and biotechnological tools, highlighting the tremendous versatility of these viruses. Ana presented her work on human adenovirus C5 and how it alters mitochondrial morphology over the course of infection, a topic that attracted a large number of researchers asking many questions. Ana did a fantastic job and we are all very proud of her. Finally, as a cherry on top of a brilliant experience, Groningen was selected as the site of the 17th IAM and we are very excited to welcome everyone in 2027!!
In early July Xiaoyu and Karim attended the EMBO/FEBS meeting on Physical Virology: across length scales, which brings together researchers that work on better understanding the different stages of a viral infection cycle by utilising structural and biophysical methods. Xiaoyu presented her work on UL12.5 and was constantly busy during her session with a lot of people asking questions and discussing her results. Well done and congrats on a your first poster presentation at an international conference Xiaoyu!!! Besides the fantastic science presented and discussed during the meeting we were also very lucky to have the meeting at the beautiful Costa Brava, close to Barcelona. Thanks again to the organisers and we are looking forward to the next meeting in 2027!!
I am Xiaoyu Wan, a PhD student from China, working on the structural and functional characterization of viral proteins (Adenovirus and Herpes Simplex Virus 1).
Qiwen Tang is a PhD student in the Department of Molecular Pharmacology at the University of Groningen. She is from China and obtained her master’s degree in Clinical Medicine (Neurology) from Zhejiang University, School of Medicine, China. Her PhD projects focus on the impact of environmental factors on Parkinson’s disease.
My name is Ana Laura. I am from Mexico, where I did my bachelor’s degree in Biochemistry at the Universidad de las Américas Puebla (UDLAP). After completing my bachelor studies, I did my master degree in Molecular Medicine at the University of Sheffield in the UK. In 2022 I joined the Department of Molecular Pharmacology as a PhD candidate, focusing my research on understanding the molecular mechanisms of respiratory viruses and air pollution on the lung epithelium.
My name is Alessandra Tosato and I come from Turin, Italy. I obtained my Bachelor’s degree in Biotechnology in Italy, and now I am in my second year of the Master’s degree in Medical Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. I am working under the supervision of Karim for the second research project of the Master’s which focusses on investigating the double hit of Diesel Exhaust Particles and Human Adenovirus type C5 on adenocarcinomic human alveolar basal epithelial cells (A549).
