The ecology and evolution of giant viruses: ERC Starting Grant for Anouk Willemsen

Anouk Willemsen, virologist at the Centre for Microbiology and Environmental Systems Science (CMESS), receives a highly endowed ERC Starting Grant for her research on giant viruses. Willemsen has devoted her career to the study of virus evolution.

Her goal is to improve our understanding of viral genome organisation as well as virus-host interactions. She joined the Centre for Microbiology and Environmental Systems Science (CMESS) at the University of Vienna as a postdoc in 2020 with a Marie Skłodowska-Curie (MSCA) Fellowship – already the second one she had been awarded. At CMESS, she is working on giant viruses together with Matthias Horn’s research group.

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