Congratulations Silke Stertz, who is promoted to Associate Professor UZH Medical Virology UZH Science University of Zurich wef 1st May 2019! Silke studied Universität Freiburg & did a post-doc w/ Peter Palese Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai before joining University of Zurich in 2011. Fantastic news & very well deserved! #WomenInSTEM

Congratulations Ben Hale (bg hale), who is promoted to Associate Professor UZH Medical Virology UZH Science University of Zurich wef 1st May 2019! Ben studied University of St Andrews, was a post-doc Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, & then became lecturer University of Glasgow before joining University of Zurich in 2015. Very well deserved!

Congrats Michael!

Great to host Rick Koup from NIAID News Vaccine Research Center here UZH Medical Virology Unispital_USZ UZH Science. Rick gave a fascinating overview of his work on 'Manipulating HIV neutralizing antibodies to improve antiviral activity'. See The Lancet HIV sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Very excited that my #Spark grant for novel and unconventional projects got funded by the Schweizerischer Nationalfonds (SNF). Looking forward to establish "Rapid semirandom virus diagnostics using Nanopore amplicon sequencing” at UZH Medical Virology Universität Zürich!

Congrats Thomas & Michael!

So proud of our team at@UZH_Virology#diagnostics and all the dedicated clinicians. After a day reporting many new #SARSCoV2 cases and worries where this epidemic is heading, it is great to see that our work contributes a bit to science!

Very proud of the incredible efforts, dedication & teamwork from UZH Medical Virology diagnostics who are working extremely hard to process samples from the #SARSCoV2 outbreak in #Switzerland. We have uploaded 6 Swiss sequences to GISAID. #OpenData Nextstrain #COVID19 #Covid_19 University of Zurich

The perfect way to go but first one needs testing capacities and reagents. Here biotec and life science companies could maybe help by giving out reagents, extraction kits, extraction robots etc to diagnostic labs who suffer from serious shortage globally.

Derzeit gibt es keinen Engpass bei den Coronaviren-Tests im Labor der Universität Zürich. Die Virologin Alexandra Trkola benennt aber zwei andere Probleme: die Erwartungen der Bevölkerung und die Aussagekraft mancher Tests. Das Interview von NZZ Wissenschaft. ⬇️⬇️⬇️ nzz.ch/wissenschaft/c…

The whole UZH Medical Virology #SARSCoV2 diagnostics team have been overwhelmed by the support & generosity of Novartis Schweiz: they recently gifted us a huge amount of testing supplies/reagents & loaned us equipment to double the throughput of our new serology assay. Thank-you! #COVID19

Thank you all! Your support is incredible!

Thanks everyone for contributing to this study - hope saliva tests kick in and get test numbers up.

Exciting work from Alexandra Trkola group out now in Nature Communications dissects the contribution of pre-existing human coronavirus responses to #SARSCoV2 immunity. Collaboration with Unispital_USZ & supported by University of Zurich, UZH Foundation, Schweizerischer Nationalfonds (SNF). UZH Science #COVID19 nature.com/articles/s4146…

Study by Alexandra Trkola grp in Nature Communications shows distinct conformations of V3-crown on open #HIV env as a target for broad neutralization. Link to #bnAb development in @HivSwiss. Funded by Swiss National Science Foundation University of Zurich Gilead Sciences EHVA. Collabs across UZH Science. nature.com/articles/s4146…

Very excited to share the latest work of M. Glogl, Alexandra Trkola & colleagues Columbia Medicine, VRC NIAID News and dept. biochemistry UZH Science on how trapping HIV V3 loop structure enables broad neutralization NatureStructMolBiol nature.com/articles/s4159…

New opinion piece by Alexandra Trkola & Penny Moore on a promising concept for the assessment and downselection of immunogens through the immunisation of people living with HIV who are on ART authors.elsevier.com/a/1hzbZ5E-Uocj…

Looking for a Postdoc in Computational HIV Vaccinology, with a robust quantitative background for a cutting-edge project at the intersection of bioinformatics, virology & HIV immunology. Collaboration btw groups of Alexandra Trkola , Roger Kouyos , Huldrych Günthard eth-gethired.ch/en/jobs/detail…

Newest paper by M. Schwarzmüller, Alexandra Trkola & team on a method to separate ART drug inhibition from plasma antibody activity to evaluate broadly neutralizing antibody therapeutics and vaccines Cell Reports Medicine cell.com/cell-reports-m…

Corresponding protocol can be found here: ART-DEX: A novel strategy to monitor broadly neutralizing antibody activity during antiretroviral therapy of HIV-1: STAR Protocols star-protocols.cell.com/protocols/3689 STAR Protocols Alexandra Trkola