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 Ongoing Research Projects PhD student Novel sialidases for enzymatic recovery of sialic acid from edible bird's nest (EBN) co-products Nur Afifah Binti Mohd Fauziee Exploitation of transglycosylation activities of bifidobacterial glycoside hydrolases for the synthesis of human milk oligosaccharide (HMO) structures Konlarat Phirom-on Novel Lactate-Oxidizing Enzymes for Biosensor Applications Lidiia Tsvik Increasing thermostability of pyranose oxidase by enzyme evolution Anja Kostelac Completed Research Projects PhD student Structural characterization of Z-disk complex Antonio Sponga Structure⁄function relationships in the electron transfer reactions of cellobiose dehydrogenase Georg Schütz Recreation of ancestral members of the GMC family of FAD-dependent oxidoreductases Leander Sützl 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