Kick Off Meeting of EvoLUNG II
On 13 September 2021, after a long period of only online meetings, the EvoLUNG scientists took the opportunity for a kick-off meeting at the "Evolution by the Sea" conference in Kiel. In his opening talk, Stefan Niemann, speaker of the Leibniz Campus, emphasised how successfully the young scientists had worked in the first phase of EvoLUNG and referred to the excellent support from the Scientific Advisory Board (SAB), which had led to this outstanding development.
The current campus provides a scientific environment for nine PhD students and nine junior scientists, who are scientifically supervised by internationally recognised senior scientists in the fields of: (a) evolutionary ecology, (b) molecular and experimental mycobacteriology, (c) molecular and genomic evolution of microbial genomes, (d) cellular microbiology, (e) co-evolution of host and microbiota, (f) invertebrate models for gene function analysis, and (g) asthma and allergy. In addition, PhD students and Junior Scientists are supported in developing their scientific careers in a training and mentoring programme offered by the EvoLUNG Academy.