Welcome to POSTICK!
Post-graduate training network for capacity building to control ticks and tick-borne diseases
In the context of global warming and globalisation, ticks and tick-borne diseases (TTBD) are expected to emerge, with an increasing risk for animals and humans. POSTICK aims to design new effective control strategies for TTBD diseases through understanding the mechanisms of tick-host-pathogen interactions regarding: (a) pathogen diversity, survival and transmission, modulation of host immune response and tick survival and (b) identification of host-pathogen-tick molecules for designing anti-tick vaccine and blocking pathogen transmission.
This will be achieved through this strategic post-graduate training programme, coordinated by the Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU, Munich, Germany), consisting of 7 main research projects (each with 2 sub-projects) and complementary training modules (seminars, workshops, symposiums and a conference), combining the facilities and complementary expertise of European institutions (5 universities, 1 research institute and 1 industrial participant) and associated partners (in Brazil and Israel). In each main project are working 2 Early Stage Researchers (ESRs) who develop individual sub-projects, aiming to tackle a common task.
POSTICK is an Initial Training Network (ITN) funded through the EU Marie Curie actions of FP 7. The list of all participating institutions (full participants as well as associated partners) is available under the button "Institutions".
For more information about the EU Marie Curie programme please see also the "Useful links"!
Post-graduate training network for capacity building to control ticks and tick-borne diseases
In the context of global warming and globalisation, ticks and tick-borne diseases (TTBD) are expected to emerge, with an increasing risk for animals and humans. POSTICK aims to design new effective control strategies for TTBD diseases through understanding the mechanisms of tick-host-pathogen interactions regarding: (a) pathogen diversity, survival and transmission, modulation of host immune response and tick survival and (b) identification of host-pathogen-tick molecules for designing anti-tick vaccine and blocking pathogen transmission.
This will be achieved through this strategic post-graduate training programme, coordinated by the Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU, Munich, Germany), consisting of 7 main research projects (each with 2 sub-projects) and complementary training modules (seminars, workshops, symposiums and a conference), combining the facilities and complementary expertise of European institutions (5 universities, 1 research institute and 1 industrial participant) and associated partners (in Brazil and Israel). In each main project are working 2 Early Stage Researchers (ESRs) who develop individual sub-projects, aiming to tackle a common task.
POSTICK is an Initial Training Network (ITN) funded through the EU Marie Curie actions of FP 7. The list of all participating institutions (full participants as well as associated partners) is available under the button "Institutions".
For more information about the EU Marie Curie programme please see also the "Useful links"!