Jil Alexandra Haase: One Health Seminar: From Outbreak to Containment ‒ Understanding Ebola viruses and the Current Bundibugyo Ebolavirus Outbreak

Short Bio: Jil Alexandra Haase, Dr. rer. nat., is a post-doctoral researcher at the Immunology and Molecular Virology Section, in the Laboratory for Virology, Division of Intramural Research, National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health, USA (Marzi Research Group | NIAID: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases). She currently works at the Rocky-Mountain Lab in Montana, USA, on underlying molecular factors that determine why filoviruses, i.e. Ebola and Marburg viruses, cause lethal disease. She applies that knowledge to find and develop medical countermeasures to improve the prevention and treatment of filovirus disease. She obtained her Doctorate in Science (Ph.D.) at the Ruhr-University in Bochum, Germany, in 2023, working on unraveling viral life cycle interactions of Hepatitis E virus with the human host cells. Her research interests are aimed at gaining a better understanding of the molecular mechanisms driving the disease, virulence and host reservoir of emerging RNA viruses. With this, she investigates and reacts to emerging RNA viruses and wants to contribute to global public health that way.

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