select area select supervisor Area 1 Area 2 Area 3 Area 4 Altmann Borth Grabherr Grillari Haltrich Jungbauer Kunert Ludwig Mach Mattanovich Obinger Oostenbrink Steinkellner Stöger Wilson Projects of Principal Investigator Haltrich Open Research Projects PhD student Oxygen reactivity in the flavin-dependent enzyme pyranose oxidase open Increasing thermostability of pyranose oxidase by enzyme evolution open Ongoing Research Projects PhD student Recreation of ancestral members of the GMC family of FAD-dependent oxidoreductases Leander Sützl Structure⁄function relationships in the electron transfer reactions of cellobiose dehydrogenase Georg Schütz Structural characterization of Z-disk complex Antonio Sponga Completed Research Projects PhD student Investigation of cellobiose dehydrogenase and lytic polysaccharide monooxygenase for application in industry Marita Preims Directed Evolution of a Beta-Galactosidase into a Transgalactosidase Barbara Geiger Probing the active site of pyranose dehydrogenase − covalent attachment of the FAD and vicinity of the isoalloxazine Michael Graf Engineering of a novel fungal esterase by means of directed evolution and site-directed mutagenesis Daniel Kracher Engineering of a novel fungal esterase by means of directed evolution and site-directed mutagenesis Daniel Kracher Engineering of pyranose oxidoreductases for modified oxygen reactivity Iris KrondorferDagmar Brugger Establishing platforms for the production of recalcitrant proteins for functional and structural studies Georg Mlynek Evolution and engineering of pyranose dehydrogenase for biofuel cell applications Christoph Gonaus Development of food-grade gene expression vectors in lactic acid bacteria Minh Nguyen