Carsten Lüder

University of Göttingen (Germany)

Carsten Lüder studied biology an the Eberhard-Karls-University of Tübingen (Germany) and is now professor at the Institute for Medical Microbiology of the Georg-August-University of Göttingen (Germany). His major research interests are pathogen-host interactions with a special emphasis on elucidating mechanisms of how the intracellular model parasite Toxoplasma gondii manipulates its host cells in order to evade host immunity and to ensure establishing a chronic infection within its mammalian host.