20.03.20205 | Guest Lecture: Anna Överby Wernstedt, PhD

Prof. Dr. Överby Wernstedt from the department of Clinical Microbiology at Umeå University, Sweden, will hold a guest lecture at the IVI on the topic of “Influence of the type I IFN system and structural proteins on brain tropism of tick-borne flavivirus revealed by whole brain imaging”.

The lecture will take place on Thursday, 20th of March at 3pm in our video conference room at Schöpfstraße 24.

Alternatively, you can join online via Webex using this link.

We are delighted to have her as a guest and cordially invite anyone interested to join the lecture and subsequent discussion.

Short Bio

Anna Överby Wernstedt is a professor at the department of Clinical Microbiology at Umeå University, and deputy director of MIMS, (The Laboratory for Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden), Umeå University. She graduated with a Master of Science in Engineering Biology at Umeå University in 2003, and in 2007 she completed her PhD at the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm where she studied the assembly of bunyaviruses. Thereafter, Anna moved to Freiburg, Germany for a post doc in the laboratory of Prof Friedemann Weber were the focus was tick-borne encephalitis virus (TBEV) interaction with the innate immune system. In 2011 she started her own research group within the MIMS, one of the Nordic EMBL nodes at Umeå University. Her research team has characterized different aspects of what determines TBEV pathogenicity and tropism in mice in particular how the local type I interferon response within the central nervous system restricts viral replication. Her team recently developed tools to study viral distribution in whole mouse brains. She has been awarded several prizes for her research, Göran Gustavsson Prize in Medicine and Erik K Fernströms prize among others.