To address these questions, Dr. Fabian Leendertz of the Robert Koch Institute in Berlin assembled a large international interdisciplinary team consisting of virologists, veterinarians, ecologists, epidemiologists and an anthropologist. One member was Jan Gogarten, a doctoral student in Biology and Vanier graduate scholar at ÎÛÎÛ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ.Â
We spoke with Gogarten about the resulting study, published this week in the journal EMBO Molecular Medicine, and his role in it.