📆 Interesting event for German speakers❗ 👉 Join the science talk with our coordinator Christian Sieben in person or online and learn more about virus cell interaction! 📍 phaeno Science Theatre & Online 🗓 18 September | 18:30 🎟 Free of charge, no registration needed 🔗 Learn more: https://lnkd.in/emnVeBVZ 🖥️ Join the livestream: https://lnkd.in/e5DkKcQe 💡 The science talks are lectures or panel discussions aiming to foster dialogues on future topics with the best researchers in the region. The talks are offered in hybrid form (in presence & YouTube livestream) in order to make them accessible to a broader interested audience outside the region. #combineMARV #Marburgvirus #pandemicpreparedness #science
COMBINE MARV Project
Research Services
Towards Improved Pandemic Preparedness - Advancing Our Understanding of Virus Cell Entry Using Marburg Virus as a Model
About us
The EU-funded project COMBINE (“Comparative Signature of Marburg Virus Cell Activation as a Blueprint for the Identification of Antiviral Targets against Newly Emerging Viruses”) acknowledges that understanding how viruses infiltrate host cells is crucial to combating emerging infectious diseases. The project sets out to advance our understanding of how viruses enter cells, using the Marburg Virus (MARV) as a model. Beyond unveiling crucial insights into MARV cell entry, the project will break new ground and develop an innovative experimental pipeline for identifying and targeting proteins involved in the virus attachment process, a critical factor in combating viral outbreaks. COMBINE seeks to create a versatile, adaptable blueprint that facilitates cross-country collaborations to develop novel drugs and vaccines against emerging viruses – a critical cornerstone of pandemic preparedness.
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- Research Services
- Company size
- 11-50 employees
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- 2025
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🚀 DEFENDER 2025: International Symposium 🚀 Join us Thursday, 6 November 2025 at HBC Eppendorf, Hamburg for a cutting-edge symposium on pandemic preparedness and response! 🎤 Keynotes by: • Adriano Aguzzi – UZH, Switzerland • Andrea Marzi – RML, USA • Christian Sieben – EU Project COMBINE MARV Project • Mark Broenstrup Brönstrup – HZI, Germany • Ujjwal N. – EU Project COMBAT Dengue Organized by Stephanie Pfänder (LIV, Germany). 💡 Don’t miss this opportunity to network, share ideas, and explore the latest in the field. 🔗 Register here: https://lnkd.in/eY9JwzXY *Sharing is caring!* 🇪🇺 #EUfunded by European Health and Digital Executive Agency (HaDEA)
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🦠 What do Influenza, Rabies, Ebola and Marburg virus have in common? 💡 They are all zoonoses! Every year #WorldZoonosesDay raises awareness for zoonotic diseases and highlights the importance of vaccination, responsible animal care, food safety, and environmental hygiene in controlling zoonotic threats. We want to take this day as an opportunity to promote understanding of the key terms when talking about zoonotic diseases. Swipe through the post to learn more! 📲 In COMBINE we are using Marburg virus - a zoonotic disease - as a model to advance our understanding of how viruses enter cells. Marburg virus (MARV) is a hemorrhagic fever virus and member of the filovirus family. It is a highly infectious and lethal pathogen with substantial epidemic potential. MARV reservoir are fruit bats, widely distributed across Africa. Humans get infected via direct contact with contaminated body fluids or consumption of bush meat. #combineMARV #PandemicPreparedness #MarburgVirus #Zoonosis
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🖥️ Meet Laura Zernickow 🤝 Laura is a Communications Manager at EURICE – European Research and Project Office GmbH. In COMBINE the team at EURICE will drive various tasks ensuring consistent communication and dissemination of project endeavours and strategic planning of exploitation and IP management activities. In addition, they will support the consortium in all aspects of project management. 💡 Learn more by watching the video & visit our website 🔗 https://lnkd.in/e_ZfZWMC #combineMARV #MarburgVirus #PandemicPreparedness
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🗣️❔ Always wanted to have a conversation with a scientist and ask any question? 💡 Take the chance and talk one-to-one with Christian Sieben at Salon der Wissenschaft (Salon of Science) in Braunschweig. 📍 TRAFO Hub Braunschweig 🗓 18 June | 18:30 🎧 Talks at individual tables or listen in via headphones 🎟 Register (free of charge) 🔗 https://lnkd.in/e8cBmEia #combineMARV #Marburgvirus #pandemicpreparedness #science
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🧪 Meet Costin-Ioan Popescu 🤝 In COMBINE his team at the Institute of Biochemistry of the Romanian Academy will use their expertise to develop vaccine candidates formulation and support the host-pathogen interaction studies. 💡Learn more by watching the video & visit our website 🔗 https://lnkd.in/eXuUNWiq #combineMARV #MarburgVirus #PandemicPreparedness #Biochemistry
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🔬 Meet Erdinc Sezgin 🤝 Erdinc is leading CSI:Nano Lab located at SciLifeLab and Karolinska Institutet. In COMBINE his team will focus on the biophysics of host-pathogen interactions by using advanced imaging tools and synthetic biology. 💡 Learn more by watching the video & visit our website 🔗 https://lnkd.in/eMgue_Ps #combineMARV #MarburgVirus #PandemicPreparedness #Biophysics
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🦠 Meet Lennart Martens 🤝 Lennart is leading the Computational Omics and Systems Biology (CompOmics) group at VIB, an independent and entrepreneurial life sciences research institute in Flanders, Belgium, leading the way in pioneering basic research. In COMBINE his team will lead WP3 to reprocess various types of proteomics data generated in the project to discover novel protein modifications and interactions. Together with his colleague Francis Impens, who leads the Host-Pathogen Proteomics group, they recently improved their immunopeptidomics pipeline for the identification of pathogen epitopes and will use this pipeline in COMBINE to identify universal tissue independent MARV epitopes, especially from GP. Advanced immunopeptidomics data analysis will result in an unprecedented view on the MARV epitope landscape to steer vaccine development efforts. 💡 Learn more by watching the video & visit our website 🔗 https://lnkd.in/esYgg459 #combineMARV #MarburgVirus #PandemicPreparedness #Virology #Proteomics #AI
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🔬 Meet Tuula Nyman 🤝 Tuula is leading the research group Proteomics at Det medisinske fakultet UiO. In COMBINE her team will perform advanced proteomic analysis of MARV-infected host cell samples to identify signalling cascades activated by MARV-cell binding. 💡 Learn more by watching the video & visit our website 🔗 https://lnkd.in/eAvm7rMz #combineMARV #MarburgVirus #PandemicPreparedness #Proteomics
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🧪 Meet Nadine Biedenkopf 🤝 Nadine is a junior group leader at the Institute of Virology at the Philipps-Universität Marburg. In COMBINE her team is responsible for carrying out the Marburg virus infections in a BSL-4 lab, providing the essential samples and groundwork for the identification of MARV cell signatures. 💡 Learn more by watching the video & visit our website 🔗 https://lnkd.in/e3cJknqU #combineMARV #MarburgVirus #PandemicPreparedness #Virology