Doctoral Researcher


Name Hesham Elsaman
Affiliation Institute of Hygiene and Microbiology
Lehrstuhl für Medizinische Mikrobiologie und Mykologie
Street Josef-Schneider-Str. 2 E1
Zip Code 97080
City Würzburg
Email E-mail
Telephone +49 931 31- 87511
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Section Infection & Immunity
Title of Thesis Project Identification and functional characterization of cell wall integrity determinants important for the survival of Aspergillus fumigatus challenged by neutrophil grandulocytes
Primary Supervisor Associate Professor Consultant Johannes Wagener now Trinity College Dublin, Irland
Member of Thesis Committee PD Dr. Ulrich Terpitz
Prof. Dr. Jürgen Löffler
Publication

Rho2 regulates granulocyte-triggered stress adaptation and cell wall remodeling in Aspergillus fumigatus. Ruf D, Striegler K, Brazil S, Elsaman H, Singh K, Lepas M, Fernando LD, Brantl V, Heß P, Dichtl K, Aimanianda V, Wang T, Wagener J. Microbiol Res. 2025 Oct;299:128238. doi: 10.1016/j.micres.2025.128238. Epub 2025 May 23. 

Toxic eburicol accumulation drives the antifungal activity of azoles against Aspergillus fumigatus. Elsaman H, Golubtsov E, Brazil S, Ng N, Klugherz I, Martin R, Dichtl K, Müller C, Wagener J. Nat Commun. 2024 Jul 26;15(1):6312. doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-50609-1. 

Quantifying Isoprenoids in the Ergosterol Biosynthesis by Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry. Liebl M, Huber L, Elsaman H, Merschak P, Wagener J, Gsaller F, Müller C. J Fungi (Basel). 2023 Jul 20;9(7):768. doi: 10.3390/jof9070768.

Analog-sensitive cell line identifies cellular substrates of CDK9. Decker TM, Forné I, Straub T, Elsaman H, Ma G, Shah N, Imhof A, Eick D. Oncotarget. 2019 Dec 10;10(65):6934-6943. doi: 10.18632/oncotarget.27334. eCollection 2019 Dec 10.
Last update Publications 14.06.2025