Alumni
Project: Partitioning of virus-like particles and protein superstructures in charged hydrogels
(Supervisor: Alois Jungbauer)
Current position: PostDoc at acib GmbH
Project: Enzyme scaffolding and cellular compartments for metabolic engineering endeavours
(Supervisor: Michael Sauer)
Project: Glycosylation engineering of S-layer proteins for bioactivity
(Supervisor: Christina Schäffer)
Current position: Product Stability Specialist, Shire
Project: Characterization of transcriptional regulatory proteins
(Supervisor: Brigitte Gasser)
Project: Increasing efficiency of CO2 assimilation in synthetic autotrophic Pichia pastoris
Supervisor: Diethard Mattanovich, Department of Biotechnology
Project: Identification of Lewis a containing glycoproteins from Arabidopsis thaliana and characterization of their involvement in pathogen defence
(Supervisor: Richard Strasser)
Project: Bispecific antibodies with monovalent antigen engagement in the Fc domain
Supervisor: Florian Rüker, Department of Biotechnology
Project: Oral health: Development of genetic tools for Selenomonas sputigena to unravel mechanisms of dental plaque colonization
(Supervisor: Christina Schäffer)
Current position: Clinical Research Associate, Novo Nordisk Pharma GmbH
Project: Extracellular vesicle trafficking in aging
(Supervisor: Johannes Grillari)
Project: Biochemical and Molecular Analysis of the Cell Wall Glyco(prote)ome of Lactobacillus buchneri
(Supervisor: Paul Messner)
Current position: Operational Management Trainee, Shire
Project: Engineering the interface of Fab fragments for the generation of bispecific antibodies
(Supervisor: Johannes Grillari)
Current Position: PostDoc at the Department of Biotechnology, BOKU, Vienna
Project: Structure−function analysis of a phylum-wide conserved glycosyltransferase central to a novel protein O−glycosylation pathway
Joint-Supervisors: Christina Schäffer and Friedrich Altmann
Project: Changing the substrate specifity of lytic polysaccharide monooxygeanse
(Supervisors: Roland Ludwig, Chris Oostenbrink)
Project: Developing rcSso7d-based chimeric antigen receptors
(Supervisor: Christian Obinger)
Project: Engineering of pyranose oxidoreductases for modified oxygen reactivity
(Supervisor: Dietmar Haltrich)
Current position: Deputy Head of Unit Production, Boehringer, Vienna
Project: Understanding the source of variation in protein N-glycosylation patterns of recombinant proteins generated in CHO cells
(Supervisors: Nicole Borth, Richard Strasser)
Project: Regulation of expression of recombinant pentameric IgM
(Supervisor: Renate Kunert)
Current position: Postdoc at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, USA
Project: Cellular Mechanisms of Regulation
(Supervisor: Brigitte Gasser)
Current position: PostDoc at acib GmbH
Project: Engineering the interface of Fab fragments
(Supervisor: Florian Rueker)
Current position: Research Scientist, Agenus, USA
Project: Allosteric molecular recognition to improve tumor specificity
Supervisor: Michael Traxlmayr, Department of Chemistry
Project: Characterisation of unusual glycosyltransferases from lower eukaryotes
Supervisor: Iain Wilson, Department of Chemistry
Project: Characterisation of unusual glycosyltransferases from lower eukaryotes
(Supervisor: Iain Wilson)
Project: Engineering and functional activities of polysialylated IgG antibodies
Supervisor: Herta Steinkellner, Department of Applied Genetics and Cell Biology
Project: Productivity optimisation of CHO cells by epigenome alterations
Supervisor: Nicole Borth, Department of Biotechnology
Current position: PostDoc at acib GmbH
Project: Enzymatic isotope−labeling of O-glycans for improved tumor biomarker analysis
(Supervisor: Friedrich Altmann)
Current position: Research and Development at VelaLabs GmbH
FRIEDRICH Valentin
Project: Carbohydrate-active enzymes in S-layer protein glycosylation
(Supervisor: Paul Messner)
Current position: Junior Process Specialist, Octapharma
Email: Thomas Gabler
Project: Biochemistry of firmicute coproporphyrin ferrochelatase from Listeria monocytogenes
Supervisor: Stefan Hofbauer, Department of Chemistry
Project: Functional studies on catalase-peroxidases and design of mechanism-based inhibitor
(Supervisor: Christian Obinger)
Current position: Stability Manager, Boehringer, Vienna
Project: Metabolic engineering of Pichia pastoris
(Supervisor: Diethard Mattanovich)
Current position: PostDoc at the Department of Biotechnology, BOKU
Project: Directed Evolution of a Beta-Galactosidase into a Transgalactosidase
(Supervisor: Dietmar Haltrich)
Current position: Validation specialist, Shire
GÖRITZER Kathrin
Project: Analysis of structure−function relationships of monomeric and dimeric human IgA1 and IgA2 with defined N− and O−glycosylation
(Supervisors: Richard Strasser, Christian Obinger, Rupert Tscheliessnig)
Current position: PostDoc at the Institute for Infections and Immunity, St. George's University of London
Project: Evolution and engineering of pyranose dehydrogenase for biofuel cell applications
(Supervisor: Dietmar Haltrich)
Current position: Senior Scientist, Biomin, Tulln
Project: Thermodynamics for allosteric modulation
(Supervisor: Chris Oostenbrink, Department of Material Sciences and Process Engineering)
Project: Probing the active site of pyranose dehydrogenase
(Supervisor: Dietmar Haltrich)
Current position: Process Engineer Upstream Manufacturing, Boehringer, Vienna
Project: Molecular basis of pyruvylated cell wall polymer – SLH-protein interactions
Supervisor: Christina Schäffer, Department of NanoBiotechnology
Project: Directed Evolution of CHO host cell lines
(Supervisor: Johannes Grillari)
Current position: Postdoc at the Institute of Biotechnology in Plant Production, BOKU Vienna
Project: New generations of monoclonal antibodies based on the Fc-fragment of IgG1
(Supervisor: Christian Obinger)
Current position: Research Scientist at Austrianni, Vienna
Project: Inducible regulation of baculovirus genes involved in secretion and virus budding
Supervisor: Reingard Grabherr, Department of Biotechnology
Project: Engineering Pichia pastoris for antibody surface display
(Supervisor: Diethard Mattanovich)
Current position: PostDoc at the Department of Biotechnology, BOKU
Project: Understanding and controlling the expression of recombinant oligomeric immunoglobulins
(Supervisor: Renate Kunert)
Project: Genomic rearrangements in CHO producer cell lines
(Supervisor: Nicole Borth)
Current position: Computational Biologist, IRB-Barcelona, Spain
HERZOG Peter
Project: Development of high-throughput-screening of flavin- and heme-dependent oxidoreductases using genetically encoded redox sensors
(Joint-Supervisors: Clemens Peterbauer and Christian Obinger)
Current position: DirectSens GmbH, Head of Enzyme Development
Project: Artificial storage organelles for the optimal production of biopharmaceuticals in plants and plant cells
(Supervisor: Eva Stöger)
Current position: Research Senior Scientist Hematology, Shire, Vienna
Project: Biocatalysis of chlorite dismutation
(Supervisor: Christian Obinger)
Current position: Priv.Doz.at the Department of Chemistry, BOKU
Project: MicroRNOMics of CHO host and production cell lines
(Supervisor: Johannes Grillari)
Current position: Senior Scientist, ACIB Vienna
Project: Protein solubility in buffers with kosmotropic salts and polyols
Supervisor: Alois Jungbauer, Department of Biotechnology
Project: Efficient free energy and enhanced sampling calculations of protein-protein interactions
(Supervisor: Chris Oostenbrink)
Project: Understanding molecular transport processes for improved metabolic engineering approaches
(Supervisor: Michael Sauer) Department
Project: Plant glyco-engineering towards synthesis of recombinant proteins with polysialylated N-glycans
(Supervisor: Herta Steinkellner)
Current position: Postdoc at the Department of Applied Genetics and Cell Biology, BOKU
KLANSCHNIG Marco
Project: Understand and exploit sigma-appropriation as a tool for transcription control in E. coli
(Supervisor: Reingard Grabherr, Department of Biotechnology)
Project: Influenza virus-like particles as antigen carrier platform for conserved influenza viral epitopes
(Supervisor: Reingard Grabherr)
Current position: Senior Scientist, ACIB Vienna
Project: Investigation and Enhancement of Growth Characteristics of Chinese Hamster Ovary Cells
(Supervisor: Nicole Borth)
Current position: Senior Scientist, ACIB Vienna
Project: Molecular engineering of baculoviral based protein expression in insect cells
(Supervisor: Reingard Grabherr)
Project: Engineering of a novel fungal esterase by means of directed evolution and site-directed mutagenesis
(Supervisor: Dietmar Haltrich)
Current position: Postdoc at the University of Manchester, UK
Project: Engineering of pyranose oxidoreductases for modified oxygen reactivity
(Supervisor: Dietmar Haltrich)
Current position: Quality Specialist, Pfizer
Project: Expression cloning of immunomodulatory glycan-modifying enzymes in insect cells
(Supervisor: Iain Wilson)
Current position: Program Manager Life Sciences at Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG)
Project: Contribution of enthalpy and entropy in molecular association
(Supervisor: Chris Oostenbrink)
Current position: Postdoc at the University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands
Project: Mechanism and dynamics of extracellular cellulolytic protein interactions
(Supervisors: Chris Oostenbrink and Roland Ludwig)
Project: Structural and functional characterization of Fcab-antigen interaction
(Supervisor: Christian Obinger)
Current position: PostDoc at the Department of Biotechnology, BOKU
Project: Cross-Species Comparison of Expression Systems
(Supervisor: Reingard Grabherr)
Current position: Development Scientist, Shire
Project: Advanced molecular modeling tools to quantify protein-protein interactions
(Supervisor: Chris Oostenbrink)
Project: Influence of amino acid sequence on growth and secretion of recombinant CHO cell lines
(Supervisor: Renate Kunert)
Current position: PostDoc at the Department of Biotechnology, BOKU
Project: Assembly and interaction mechanisms of S-layer glycoproteins for applications in nanobiotechnology
(Supervisor: Paul Messner)
Current position: Scientist, Pharmaceutical Development, Sandoz, Schaftenau
Project: Antibody production in seed tissues: evaluating their subcellular deposition, N-glycan modification and functionality
(Supervisor: Eva Stöger)
Current position: PostDoc at the Department of Applied Genetics and Cell Biology
Project: Biochemistry of actinobacterial coproheme decarboxylase (ChdC) from Corynebacterium diphteriae
(Supervisor: Christian Obinger)
MITIC Bernd
Project: Advanced analytical strategies for investigation of alternative methanol assimilation in methylotrophic yeasts
Joint-Supervisors: Stephan Hann and Diethard Mattanovich
Project: Establishing platforms for the production of recalcitrant proteins for functional and structural studies
(Supervisor: Dietmar Haltrich)
Current position: Postdoc at the MFPL, Vienna
Project: Immunoglobulin E (IgE) and glycosylation
(Supervisor: Herta Steinkellner)
Project: Resolving dynamic protein conformations in multidomain enzymes with SAXS
Joint-Supervisors: Roland Ludwig and Rupert Tscheliessnig
Project: Specialized ribosomes: implications for protein synthesis, cell behaviour and health
(Supervisor: Johannes Grillari)
Project: Structure and dynamics of cellobiose dehydrogenase and cytochrome P450
(Supervisor: Chris Oostenbrink)
Current position: PostDoc at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen
Project: Receptor specificity of the H1 haemagglutinin of the H1N1 swine-origin influenza A virus (S-OIV)
(Supervisor: Friedrich Altmann)
Current position: Scientist Process Science/process analytics, Böhringer
Project: Development of food-grade gene expression vectors in lactic acid bacteria
(Supervisor: Dietmar Haltrich)
Current position: Lecturer, Da Nang University of Technology, Vietnam
Project: Structural and functional characterisation of a novel bacterial peroxidase with homology to human heme peroxidases
(Supervisor: Christian Obinger)
Current position: Scientist at q-bios GmbH, Germany
Project: Isolation and functional characterization of Nicotiana benthamiana papain-like cysteine proteinases
(Supervisor: Lukas Mach)
Current position: Head of QC Lab Support, Octapharma
Project: Generation and presentation of membrane protein targets using influenza virus−like particles
(Supervisor: Reingard Grabherr)
Project: Interrelation of core metabolism with the production of heterologous proteins in yeast
(Supervisor: Diethard Mattanovich)
Current position: PostDoc at EMBL, Heidelberg
Project: Quantitative Metabolomics by LC–MS
(Supervisor: Gunda Köllensperger)
Current position: PostDoc at ETH Zurich, Institute of Molecular Systems Biology
PENA NAVARRO David
Project: Rational systems design of protein-producing yeasts: eliminating metabolic limitations
(Supervisor: Brigitte Gasser and Jürgen Zanghellini)
Current position:Senior Scientist at Valanx Biotech
Project: Divergent evolution of the CDE superfamily
(Supervisor: Christian Obinger)
Current Position: Postdoc at the Department of Chemistry, BOKU
Project: Extracellular Vesicles: Proteome, miRnome and influence on stem cells
(Supervisor: Johannes Grillari)
Project: Investigation of cellobiose dehydrogenase and lytic polysaccharide monooxygenase for application in industry
(Supervisor: Dietmar Haltrich)
Current Position: Spin-off Fellowship of FFG for start-up company ALDOX
Project: Isolation and functional characterization of Nicotiana benthamiana serine proteinases involved in the degradation of recombinant proteins
(Supervisor: Lukas Mach)
Project: Yeast Cell Wall Characterisation
(Supervisor: Gunda Köllensperger)
Current position: Postdoc at the University of Vienna
Project: Glycoprofiling of oral pathogens – identification of novel glycoproteins and impact of glycosylation on biofilm formation
(Supervisor: Christina Schäffer)
Current position: International Drug Regulatory Affairs Manager, Octapharma
Project: Regulation of heterologous protein production in relation to cell growth
(Supervisor: Diethard Mattanovich)
Current position: PostDoc at the Department of Biotechnology, BOKU
Project: Engineering of Cellobiose Dehydrogenase for Glucose Biosensors
Supervisor: Roland Ludwig, Department of Food Science and Technology
Project: Engineering of a bispecific mAb recognizing an optimized epitope of IgE as well as CD3 – a novel strategy for fighting allergic diseases
(Joint-Supervisors: Florian Rüker and Fritz Altmann)
SADIO Flavio
Project: Engineering of T-cell receptor for bispecificity
(Supervisor: Florian Rüker)
Current position: Junior Scientist at Austrianni GmbH
Project: Developing rcSso7d-based inhibitory receptors for improving the specificity and safety of NKG2D-CAR-T cells
(Supervisor: Christian Obinger)
Project: Influence of surface curvature on unfolding of proteins on nanoparticles
(Supervisor: Alois Jungbauer)
Current position: Research Scientist at ACIB, Vienna
Project: Routing the flow of electron from cytochromes to oxidoreductases
Supervisor: Roland Ludwig, Department of Food Science and Technology
Project: Comparative structural and functional studies on chlorite dismutases and DyP-type peroxidases
(Supervisor: Christian Obinger)
Current position: Coordinator of Core Facility Biomolecular Analysis, BOKU
Project: Genomic and epigenomic analysis of a plant-based expression platform for recombinant glycoproteins
(Supervisor: Heinz Himmelbauer and Lukas Mach)
Project: Structural and mechanistic studies on chlorite dismutase (Cld) from Cyanothece sp. PCC7425
(Supervisor: Christian Obinger)
SCHÜTZ Georg
Project: Structure-function relationships in the electron transfer reactions of cellobiose dehydrogenase
(Supervisor: Dietmar Haltrich)
Current position: PostDoc at Department of Food Science and Technology
Project: Cytochromes as electron transfer mediators for bioelectrodes
Supervisor: Roland Ludwig, Department of Food Science and Technology
Project: In silico guided humanization of antibodies
(Supervisor: Renate Kunert)
Project: Designed protein storage organelles and their uptake into target cells
Supervisor: Eva Stöger, Department of Applied Genetics and Cell Biology
Project: The cancer immunotherapy antigen CD19 and its molecular interaction network
Joint-Supervisors: Christian Obinger and Renate Kunert
Project: Biochemistry of invertebrate peroxidasins
Supervisor: Christian Obinger, Department of Chemistry
Project: Modelling of interactions in microRNA and gene expression and validation of predicted targets
(Supervisor: David Kreil)
Current position: Lecturer Clinical Bioinformatics at FH Campus Vienna, Austria
Project: Powerful expression of recombinant proteins
(Supervisor: Renate Kunert)
Current position: Process Engineer, Bilfinger Industrietechnik Salzburg
Project: Human peroxidasins – new multidomain oxidoreductases in the vascular system
(Supervisor: Christian Obinger)
Current position: Validation Specialist, Pfizer
Project: MAPK and JAK/STAT Signaling in Immune Regulation by Dendritic Cells
(Supervisor: Lukas Mach)
Current position: PostDoc at the Universite de Lausanne, Switzerland
Project: Structural characterization of Z-disk complex
Supervisor: Dietmar Haltrich, Department of Food Science and Technology
Project: Recreation of ancestral members of the GMC family of FAD-dependent oxidoreductases
(Supervisor: Dietmar Haltrich)
Current position: PostDoc at Department of Food Science and Technology
Project: Protein-liposome conjugates as novel HIV vaccine candidates
(Supervisor: Karola Vorauer-Uhl)
Project: Quantitative metabolic flux analysis in CHO cells
(Supervisor: Nicole Borth)
Current position: PostDoc at the Department of Analytical Chemistry, University of Vienna
Project: Introduction of unnatural amino acids in recombinant proteins with the yeast Pichia pastoris
(Supervisor: Diethard Mattanovich)
Project: Glycoprofiling of the oral pathogen Tannerella forsythia for identifying novel strategies in pathogenicity
(Supervisor: Christina Schäffer)
Current position: Assessor at AGES Medical Market Surveillance
Project: Development of a seed-based strategy for the design of a mucosal vaccine against S. pneumoniae
(Supervisor: Eva Stöger)
Project: Modelling and simulations of glycosylated proteins
(Supervisor: Chris Oostenbrink)
Project: Accessory Activities 3: Novel Flavoprotein Oxidoreductase from bacterial sources
Supervisor: Clemens Peterbauer, Department of Food Science and Technology
Project: Extracellular vesicles as tool for drug delivery
Supervisor: Florian Rüker, Department of Biotechnology
Project: Nsun5 methylates rRNA: 'specialized' ribosomes in stress resistance and aging
Supervisor: Johannes Grillari, Department of Biotechnology
Project: Change of the Global Methylation Pattern to Alter the Growth Phenotype of CHO-Cells
(Supervisor: Nicole Borth)
Project: Generation and presentation of membrane protein targets using baculovirus surface display
(Supervisor: Reingard Grabherr)
BioToP Project: Characterization of microbial methanol metabolism
(Supervisor: Diethard Mattanovich)
Current position: PostDoc at the Department of Biotechnology, BOKU