Andreas Bergthaler

Biography

Andreas Bergthaler studied veterinary medicine in Vienna followed by graduate and postgraduate research with Hans Hengartner and Rolf Zinkernagel at the University/ETH of Zurich and with Daniel Pinschewer at the University of Geneva in Switzerland. As a postdoctoral fellow he subsequently joined the laboratory of Alan Aderem at the Institute for Systems Biology in Seattle, USA. In 2011, he established his research group at the CeMM Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. The Bergthaler laboratory pursues an integrative approach comprising infection models and tools of immunology, pathology and systems biology in order to dissect novel disease-relevant interactions between pathogens and the host. Systemic perspectives on the organism and organ level address fundamental questions of infection biology and shall contribute to reveal the molecular underpinnings of virus-induced immunopathologies and other inflammatory diseases.

Research Interest

Immunology