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Since September 2014 I am director of the Institute of Medical Microbiology at the RWTH University Hospital. The institute actively participates in the education of medical students and the graduate and postgraduate education of life science students. It is additionally involved in research on the enteric microbiota and the epidemiology, pathogenesis and immune response to infectious diseases. Our main research interests are epidemiological studies on streptococcal diseases performed by the National Reference Laboratory (NRZ) on Streptococcal Diseases, novel strategies of antiinfectious therapies (antimicrobial peptides and phages), studies on the microbial pathogenesis and mucosal antimicrobial host defense mainly against enteropathogenic viruses, parasites and bacteria as well as functional investigations of commensal bacteria and the role of the enteric microbiota for our health. You can find information on our work, the team members and research activities on the following pages.
Yours sincerely,
Mathias Hornef, M.D.
Professor for Medical Microbiology
Enter the building through the main entrance. Keep on walking forward, towards the back of the building until you reach elevator D4. Take the elevator to the 5th floor. This is the entrance of the Institute of Medical Microbiology.
Foto Prof. Hornef: © Peter Winandy, im Auftrag der RWTH für die RWTH Homepage
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Scientific Symposium: Prof. Thomas Clavel als Speaker zu Gast in der Goethe Universität Frankfurt
Die Goethe-Universität Frankfurt lädt mit freundlicher Unterstützung der Friedrich-Merz-Stiftungsgastprofessur zum „Symposium Dietary and therapeutic microbiomemodulation: State of The Art and…
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MSA-Master Award 2024
Patricia Blum, MSc (AG Horz) has received the MSA-Master Award 2024 for her master’s thesis „Investigation of putative phage-encoded depolymerases targeting Klebsiella pneumoniae“. The profile area…
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Natalia Torow appointed as Assistant Professor at the HZI in Braunschweig
Natalia Torow from the Hornef group has been appointed on a W1 Juniorprofessorship at the Helmholtz-Centre for Infection Research in Braunschweig. She will accept the position and leave our institute…
Paper of the Month for Natalia Torow
The recent publication in Immunity by Natalia Torow, PhD, characterising postnatal mucosal immune maturation has been selected as Paper of the Month of the Faculty of Medicine. Natalia explains her…
Alina Bachmann successfully defended her PhD
Congratulations to Alina Bachmann. She defended successfully her PhD thesis entitled “Host Pathogen Interaction in a novel in vivo model of EPEC infection” on February 22nd 2024. In this work, she…
Enterocyte efferocytosis in the neonatal intestine
Kaiyi Zhang, PhD, from the Hornef group published her work on non-professional efferocytosis of Salmonella infected intestinal epithelial cells by neighboring enterocytes in the Journal of…
Sondervorstellung des Films „Unser Mikrobiom – das unsichtbare Aussterben“ am 2. Februar 2024 mit anschließendem Publikumsgespräch
Am Freitag, den 2. Februar 2024 zeigt das Aachener Apollo Kino den Dokumentarfilm „Unser Mikrobiom – das unsichtbare Aussterben“ ab 18 Uhr im Rahmen einer Sondervorstellung. Im Anschluss an dem Film…
Isabel Richter successfully defended her MD thesis
On september 8th 2023, Isabel Richter from the AG Hornef successfully defended her MD thesis entitled "The influence of microbial exposure on postnatal enterocyte differentiation and immune…
New research reveals: Bacteria adapt their locomotion to different environments
A recent publication from the Institute of Medical Microbiology at the Uniklinik RWTH Aachen sheds new light on the movement of bacteria and their adaptability to different environments. The study,…
Institute members at the Gordon Conference on Salmonella
Nour Diab, Anna-Lena Jürgens and Mathias Hornef participated at the Gordon Conference on Salmonella Biology and Pathogenesis that took place between July 23rd-28th 2023 in Lucca Italy. They presented…
Continuous funding of the Gut Liver CRC1382 by the German Research Foundation
Last week we learnt with excitement that our CRC1382 Gut-Liver Axis funded by the German Research Foundation since 2019 will be prolonged until 2027. Many members of the Institut of Medical…
Publication by Natalia Torow in Immunity
After hard work over many years on the postnatal maturation of antigen presenting cells in the intestinal Peyer’s patches after birth, Natalia has now published her results in the May edition of…
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