The Hamburg School for Structure and Dynamics in Infection

The Hamburg School for Structure and Dynamics Infection (SDI) is targeting and focussing on emerging and re-emerging diseases like HIV, Malaria, Hepatitis and hospital infections. To understand the relationship between the infectious agent and its host, a detailed under-standing from the organism to the molecular level, both in temporal and spatial dimensions, is required. The quality and breadth of research in molecular infection biology, biochemistry,
structural biology and physics together with the present and future perspectives of the unique radiation sources available at DESY allowing such a systemic approach established for the first time in Hamburg. In this context the graduate school SDI is educating young scien-tists in a unique interdisciplinary curriculum allowing them to gain, analyze and publish structural and time-resolved data of medically relevant pathogen/host macromolecular complexes and interactions. This approach advances and innovates training at the interface of molecular infection and structural biology and is presently establishing a competitive and internationally visible research focus in the metropolitan region of Hamburg. Considering this optimal setting in Hamburg, the research and educational focus of SDI that further bundles the existing expertise in molecular microbiology, biochemistry and structural biology was overdue and is paving the road for further national and international consortia.

 


International Symposium on Structural and Infection Biology
The International Symposium on Structural Infection Biology