F. Nina Papavasiliou, PhD

Professor, Head of Division
German Cancer Research Center
Heidelberg , Germany

F. Nina Papavasiliou, Ph.D. is a Division Head at the German Cancer Research Center, as well as a Professor at Heidelberg University in Heidelberg, Germany, and an EMBO Member. Her lab has had a long-standing interest in processes that generate informational diversity in a cell or organism. Such processes include programmed DNA and RNA alterations, essential for the establishment of an optimal immune response in mammals. Similar processes power coat diversification in the African trypanosome (Trypanosoma brucei), setting the stage for immune evasion by the parasite. This host-parasite interaction remains a source of fascination for her lab.

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Presentation(s):

• Using T. brucei as a “Protein Resurfacing” Microorganism to Derive the “Rules” of Antigen–Antibody Interactions

  Wednesday, June 25, 2025
  1:00pm - 1:25pm East Coast USA Time