Pandemics and Alertness member WG1 (Understanding the virus), LINXS Fellow

Institute of Virology, University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany

Eva Herker was trained in biochemistry at the University of Potsdam and the University of Tübingen and during her PhD investigated cell death mechanisms and aging processes in yeast. Supported by a Human Frontier Science Program Fellowship, she started working on virus-host interactions of hepatitis C viruses as a post-doc at the Gladstone Institute of Virology and Immunology (San Francisco, USA). After leading a junior research group at the Leibniz Institute for Virology in Hamburg, she was appointed as Professor of Molecular Virology at the University of Marburg. Her research group investigates virus-host interactions, focusing on the interplay between flaviviruses, lipid droplets, and lipid metabolism. She is also the spokesperson of a DFG-funded research unit on lipid droplet heterogeneity, which studies the structural and functional diversity of these organelles.