Past events - Public presentation at faculty

19 March 2024, online

Pharmaceutical Sciences

Lisa AICHINGER: "Assessment of micro- and nanoplastic induced inflammatory processes by medicinal imaging."
Supervisors: Verena Pichler and Cécile Philippe (MedUni Wien)

Gabor Mate ERDÖ: "Application of bioinformatics in the integrative whole exome based multi-omics analysis of gastro-enteropancreatic neuroendocrine tumors for pre-diction and prognosis during diagnosis and therapy."
Supervisors: Wolfram Weckwerth, Steffen Waldherr and Gerhard Ecker

Torben FALK: "Modulation of platelet biology with CLEC-2 targeted liposomes."
Supervisors: Christoph Rademacher and Fabian Pfrengle (BOKU Wien)

Sara TKACZYK: "Enhancing Drug Discovery with Neural Network Potentials: Stability, Accuracy and Computational Efficiency in Free Energy Calculations."
Supervisors: Thierry Langer, Stefan Boresch and John Chodera (Cornell University, U.S.A.)

Nutritional Sciences

Vanessa SCHOISSENGEIER: "Effect of shift work on oxidative stress, DNA damage and untargeted metabolomics."
Supervisors: Karl-Heinz Wagner and Tilman Kühn

Maximilian WODAK: "Modulators of small intestinal barrier dysfunction in nutrition induced metabolic disease and aging."
Supervisors: Ina Bergheim and Elke Heiß
16 January 2024, online

Pharmaceutical Sciences

Marlene EDER: "Immunstimulating therapeutics for evalua-tion on ex vivo cultured tumor tissue"
Supervisors & co-mentor: Manfred Ogris, Christa Schleper & Haider Sami

Roxane Axel JACOB: "Development of Computational Methods for the Study and Prediction of Xenobiotic Metabolism"
Supervisors: Johannes Kirchmair and Thierry Langer

Julia KANDLER: "A structure-based analysis of transporters involved in thyroid hormone homeostasis"
Supervisor & co-mentor: Gerhard Ecker & Stefanie Kickinger (Boehringer Ingelheim)

Lukas KOGLER: "Production, fluorescence and radioisotope labelling of microplastics"
Supervisor & co-mentor: Verena Pichler & Wolfgang Wadsak (MedUni Wien)

Maria LUMMERSTORFER: "Development of nanoformulations for the delivery of prime editing ribonucleoproteins"
Supervisors: Ulrich Lächelt and Manfred Ogris

Francho NERíN FONZ: "Development of a computational methodology to detect allosteric pathways in proteins and application in drug discovery"
Supervisors: Christoph Rademacher and Zoe Cournia

Tanja PFLEGER: "Herbal antioxidants in dermal products: formulation, testing platforms for skin permeation and biological effects"
Supervisors & co-mentor: Lea Ann Dailey, Victoria Klang & Ammar Tahir

Vincent-Alexander SCHOLZ: "Metabolite Structure Prediction of Agrochemicals in Soil"
Supervisors & co-mentors: Johannes Kirchmair & Tim O'Riordan (Syngenta) and Thierry Langer

Zian XUE: "Development of CRISPR/Cas9-sgRNA Ribo-nucleoprotein (RNP) Delivery Systems by Modifying Artificial Peptide Carriers and Nucleic Acid Component"
Supervisors: Ulrich Lächelt and Lea Ann Dailey

Huanni ZHANG: "Computational approaches for quantifying molecular beauty in the context of drug discovery"
Supervisor & co-mentor: Johannes Kirchmair & Thierry Langer

Nutritional Sciences

Tamara STELZER: "The impact of moderately elevated bilirubin levels on metabolic health"
Supervisors: Karl-Heinz Wagner and Daniel König

Tibor STÖFFEL: "Nutritional modulation of learning and decision making under uncertainty"
Supervisors: Stefan Schulreich and Tilman Kühn

Sport Science

Runqing MA: "Analysing Dynamic Networks in Football: Advancing Understanding of Collective Behaviours"
Supervisor & co-mentor: Arnold Baca & Juliana Exel

Michelle SLUNECKO: "How is sleep duration and quality re-lated to body composition, muscle function, performance, and training adaptation?"
Superviros: Robert Csapoand Barbara Wessner

Elias Kaj WALLNÖFER: "Muscle coordination and joint load compared between heel raise exercise variations performed by dancers and sprinters."
Supervisors: Hans Kainz, Robert Csapo and Arnold Baca
07 November 2023, online
Pharmaceutical Sciences
- Christine COFFEY: "Identifying Nature’s c(h)AMPions: Func-tional and mechanistic characterization of natural product derivatives as PDE4 inhibitors"
  Supervisor: Verena Dirsch
- Christian FELLINGER: "Development of Grid-based Methods for Better Prediction of Ligand Binding in Computer-aided Molecular Design"
  Supervisors: Thierry Langer and Christian Schröder (Department of Computational Biological Chemistry)
- Markus SPREITZER: "Metabolic studies of muscarinic antagonists by LC-HRMS"
  Supervisors: Thierry Langer and Verena Pichler
- Verena SCHWINGENSCHLÖGL-MAISETSCHLÄGER: "Establishment of a fully automated dynamic column-based three-dimensional cell culture method for radiotracer assessment"
  Supervisors: Verena Pichler and Andreas Teuschl-Woller (FH Technikum Wien)
- Sarah Louise STELLNBERGER: "Investigating the effect of bioplastic-derived micro- and nanoplastics on human health"
  Supervisor: Verena Pichler
Nutritional Sciences
- Hannah SPAHITS: "Metabolomic profile analysis after diet and exercise interventions in older adults and its role in dietary intake assessment"
  Supervisors: Karl-Heinz Wagner and Tilman Kühn
- Catherina CANDUSSI: "Plant based diets and musculoskeletal health"
  Supervisors: Tilman Kühn and Karl-Heinz Wagner
- Johanna Marie KREHER: "Elements of nutrition communication strategies - Best practice models to improve eating behaviour in older European adults"
  Supervisors: Ina Bergheim and Christine Brombach (Zurich University of Applied Sciences)"
Sport Science
- Benjamin SABIC: "Comparison of heart rates at fixed percentages and the ventilatory thresholds in patients with chronic heart & lung diseases and the effects on peak oxygen uptake (VO2peak) after a 6-week rehabilitation program"
  Supervisors: Jürgen Scharhag and Karin Vonbank (MedUni Wien)
- Anne Claudia Paola WEBER: "Gender roles and gender-specific images of movement and the body in the workers' sports movement from 1945 to 1971"
  Supervisors: Rudolf Müllner and Rosa Diketmüller
- Marius MANDL: "(Working) Effects of six-month strength training on Speed Strength Parameters, Forehand Topspin Stroke Performance and on Neuromuscular Modulation in Elite Junior Table Tennis players."
  Supervisors: Arnold Baca and Klaus Wirth (FH Wiener Neustadt)
- Mark SIMONLEHNER: "Ultrasound-Based Skeletal 3D scans for Personalized Musculoskeletal Modelling"
  Supervisors: Brian Horsak and Hans Kainz
13 June 2023, online
Pharmaceutical Sciences
- Namarig ABDELRAHMAN ABDELLTIF ABDELRAHMAN: "Bolalipids as new class of penetration enhancers in dermal products"
  Supervisors: Lea Ann Dailey and Victoria Klang
- Ramadan Faried Abbas ABDELAZIZ: "Lysosomal proteases impact on cancer and infectious diseases"
  Supervisors: Christian Studenik and Tamer Salem
- Irem DUMAN: "Expansion of dynamic column-based 3D cell culture methods for drug evaluation by fluorescence imaging"
  Supervisors: Verena Pichler and Manfred Ogris
- Hosein FOOLADI: "Development of machine learning models for domain generalization in the chemical space"
  Supervisor: Johannes Kirchmair
- Karin GRILLBERGER: "A structure-based view on molecular initiating events (MIEs) related to developmental neurotoxicity (DNT)"
  Supervisor: Gerhard Ecker
- Palle Steen HELMKE: "Biological and Chemical Fingerprinting for Target Prediction"
  Supervisor: Gerhard Ecker
- Thi Ngoc Lan VU: "Development and application of machine learning approaches integrating protein structural and ligand information for target prediction"
  Supervisor: Johannes Kirchmair
Nutritional Sciences
- Sabine CHMELAR: "The 'Austrian Osteoarthritis Cuisine': A new Austrian anti-inflammatory diet for osteoarthritis and its effects on inflammatory markers, oxidative stress and nutritional status"
  Supervsiors: Karl-Heinz Wagner and Oliver Neubauer
- Wolfgang HUBER-SCHNEIDER: "Can dietary supplements be linked to a vegan diet and health risk modulation during vegan pregnancy, infancy and early childhood?"
  Supervisors: Karl-Heinz Wagner and Ingrid Kiefer (AGES)
14 March 2023, online
Pharmaceutical Sciences
- Bozhidar BALTOV: "2D and 3D cultures of stem cell derived cardiac cells on patterned cell culture surfaces for cardiotox studies"
  Supervisor: Steffen Hering
- Sebastian BAYER: "Cell-type specific targeted delivery of lipid nanoparticles"
  Supervisor: C.J.H. Rademacher
- Andrea Anthar CABRERA PERALTA: "Intermolecular dynamics and allostery of human BRD4-BD1 and -BD2"
  Supervisor: Julien Orts
- Anna Felixia GRABOWSKI: "Identification of the cell type-specific molecular function of the NORAD-PUMILIO axis in aging"
  Supervisor: Florian Kopp
- Michael NETZER: "Electrophysiological characterization and proof of principle cardiotoxicity screenings of cardioids"
  Supervisor: Steffen Hering
- Thi Thuy Anh NGUYEN: "The molecular mechanism of long non-coding RNA NORAD in cellular stress response pathways"
  Supervisor: Florian Kopp
- Yunzhan NING: "Molecular Design in Ligand-based Targeted Delivery for the Development of Novel mRNA Vaccine Carriers"
  Supervisor: Christoph J.H. Rademacher
- Aileen PROSCHE: "Characterization of the cell physiological role of the NORAD-PUMILIO axis in tissue homeostasis and regeneration during aging"
  Supervisor: Florian Kopp
- Martina REDL: "Identifying and dissecting health promoting natural products for healthy ageing in Caenorhabditis elegans"
  Supervisor: Judith M. Rollinger
- Victoria SARNE: "The role of KIF5B in skeletal development and the emergence of a skeletal dysplasia"
  Supervisors: Winfried Neuhaus and Laccone Franco (MedUni Wien)
- Stefan SIMIC: "Pharmacokinetic profiling of novel anti-Alzheimer’s agent"
  Supervisor: Thierry Langer
Nutritional Sciences
- Haktan Övül BOZKIR: "Intestinal barrier function in age-dependent gut-brain interaction: Interventions with metformin"
  Supervisor: Ina Bergheim
- Rebecca WAGNER-KERSCHBAUMER: "Forming conclusion despite complexity: Judgment competence in the context of nutrition, health and consumer literacy"
  Supervisors: Claudia Angele, Karl-Heinz Wagner and Katharina Groß (Universität Köln)
15 November 2022, online
Pharmaceutical Sciences
- Sigrid ADELSBERGER: "Inhalation of natural products against lung infections – extraction, isolation and analysis of selected natural product sample sets and analytical evaluation of inhalable formulations"
  Supervisor: Ulrike Grienke
- Jacqueline SCHWARZINGER: "Inhalation of natural products against lung infection - Biopharmaceutical profiling of selected natural product sample sets and determination of the inhalation formulation approach"
  Supervisor: Lea Ann Dailey
- Lukas WIMMER: "Enhancing micro- and nanoplastics research: Using pharmaceutical methodologies to develop reference micro- and nanoplastics for studying the impacts of plastics on human health"
  Supervisor: Lea Ann Dailey
- Katja STEINER: "Phospholipid-based emulsifiers for sunscreen development: Impact of UVA and effect on skin properties in vitro, ex vivo and in vivo"
  Supervisor: Lea Ann Dailey
- Abir OMRAN: "Toxicity Prediction of Biological Drugs"
  Supervisor: Gerhard Ecker
- Nejra GRANULO: "The Macrocyclic Landscape of Solute Carrier Transporters"
  Supervisor: Gerhard Ecker
- Shara Natalia SOSA CABRERA: "AMP(K)lifying Nrf2 - Digging into the fine‐tuned control of Nrf2‐mediated cellular responses by AMPK"
  Supervisor: Elke Heiß
- Dacheng HONG: "Development of glycomimetic ligands for C-type lectin receptor"
  Supervisor: Christoph Rademacher
Nutritional Sciences
- Katja CSARMANN: "Hop compounds as modulator of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and infections"
  Supervisor: Ina Bergheim
Sport Science
- Franziska Anna HEIDRICH: "Social Justice Pedagogies – Teachers’ and Students’ Perspectives on Meeting Students’ Diversity in Physical Education"
  Supervisor: Stefan Meier
02 June 2022, online
Pharmaceutical Sciences
- Jiahui HUAN: "Structure landscape analysis and functional mapping of disease-relevant mutations on SLC transporters"
  Supervisor: Gerhard Ecker
- Aljoša SMAJIĆ: "Decentralized Machine Learning Approaches for Toxicity Predictions"
  Supervisor: Gerhard Ecker
- Vincenzo PALMACCI: "Machine learning models for the identification of compounds likely to interfere with biological assays"
  Supervisor: Johannes Kirchmair
Nutritional Sciences
- Hannah INNERBICHLER: "Identification of Biomarkers for the Authentication of Alpine Cheeses"
  Supervisors: Jürgen König and Katrin Bach
Sport Science
- Alexander PÜRZEL: "Biomechanical analysis of compensation strategies during the squat and conventional deadlift at high loads (90%+ Fmax)"
  Supervisors: Arnold Baca and Hans Kainz
- Bernhard DUMPHART: "Reducing extrinsic errors in 3-dimensional clinical gait analysis by means of Artificial Intelligence"
  Supervisors: "Arnold Baca and Brian Horsak
- Christoph PEPRNICEK: "The influence of intermittent hypoxia-hyperoxia training (IHHT) on performance and immune cells of elite cyclists"
  Supervisors: Barbara Wessner and Robert Csapo
- Lean Alexander GRUBER: "Association between serum erythritol, cardiometabolic risk factors, dietary habits and physical activity of young adults"
  Supervisors: Barbara Wessner and Karl-Heinz Wagner
- Theresa HOFBAUER: "Acute and chronic sex-specific effects of physical activity on the heart - an echocardiographic study"
  Supervisors: Jürgen Scharhag and Barbara Wessner
03 March 2022, online
Pharmaceutical Sciences
- Thuöng PHAN XUAN: "Development of high entropy nanoparticles as nanozymes to improve the sensitivity of point of-care in vitro diagnostic tests for pre-screening of respiratory infections"
  Supervisor: Lea Ann DAILEY
Nutritional Sciences
- Pascal TRIBOLET: "Benefits of nutrition therapy in malnourished medical patients"
  Supervisors: Karl-Heinz WAGNER and Philipp SCHÜTZ
- Sabrina EGG: "Dietary Sustainability in Tyrol: Development and Evaluation of a Dietary Sustainability Index in the course of the Tyrolean Nutrition Survey 2"
  Supervisors: Karl-Heinz WAGNER and Petra Rust
- Íris Rafaela MONTEZ DE SOUSA: "Nutrition communication strategies on eating behaviour: Best practice models to enhance compliance and adherence to healthy nutrition in different target groups"
  Supervisors: Ina BERGHEIM and Christine BROMBACH
- Max FINGER: "Stress-Eating in real-life and the influence of mindful eating"
  Supervisors: Jürgen KÖNIG and Jens BLECHERT
- Kevin BISCHOF: "Influence of specific collagen peptides on parameters of biomechanical and systemic recovery after exercise-induced muscle damage"
  Supervisors: Daniel KÖNIG and Arnold BACA
Sport Science
- Björn KADLUBOWSKI: "Strength training in elite youth soccer players"
  Supervisors: Robert CSAPO and Klaus WIRTH
- Peter RAIDL: "The Effects of Psychosocial Stress on Hypertrophy and Strength Adaptations"
  Supervisors: Robert CSAPO and Barbara WESSNER
25 November 2021, online
Pharmaceutical Sciences
- Marie Jose ABI SAAD: “Structure based drug discovery facilitated by NMR spectroscopy: targeting the main protease of SARS-CoV-2”
  Supervisor: Julien ORTS
- Jonathan LEFÈBRE: “Investigating Allosteric Modulation of C-type Lectin Receptors”
  Supervisor: Christoph RADEMACHER
- Jasmin JANNESCHÜTZ: “Syntheses of Antiviral and Antibacterial Marine Natural Products and Analogues”
  Supervisor: Nina SCHÜTZENMEISTER
- Feng LI: “Study on different biocompatible pulmonary drug delivery systems for the enhanced treatment of respiratory tuberculosis infections”
  Supervisor: Lea Ann DAILEY
- Silvia WEISS: “Bacterial ghosts as immune-stimulating adjuvant to chemotherapy in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma”
  Supervisor: Manfred OGRIS
- Julia SCHOLDA: “The role of noncoding RNA NORAD in ER stress and the unfolded protein response”
  Supervisors: Florian KOPP and Manfred OGRIS
- Anna STICH: “Harnessing the secondary metabolite biosynthesis potential of Actinobacteria isolated from the rhizosphere of Leontopodium nivale subsp. alpinum (Edelweiss)”
  Supervisor: Sergey ZOTCHEV
Nutritional Sciences
- Alejandra NUNEZ TORRES: “Intestinal barrier function in age-dependent gut-brain interaction: Studies with an antidiabetic drug“
  Supervisor: Ina BERGHEIM
- Franziska KROMM: “Intestinal barrier function in the development of ageing-associated cognitive dysfunction: Role of dietary fibres“
  Supervisor: Ina BERGHEIM
- Markus GASSNER: “Acute impact of foods and beverages on exercise- induced oxidative stress and inflammation”
  Supervisor: Daniel KÖNIG
Sport Science
- Anna Maria MOITZI: “lnfluence of a diet with different glycaemic index and carbohydrate content on substrate utilization, energy storage, and performance-related parameters in endurance-trained men”
  Supervisor: Daniel KÖNIG
- Johanna SICK: “Exercise and long COVID-19: Effects of different training modalities on long COVID-19 symptoms, physical performance, inflammation, health-related quality of life and cognitive function”
  Supervisor: Daniel KÖNIG
10 June 2021, online
Pharmaceutical Sciences
- Sabrina GRUNTDNER: "Mechanism-based insights into chronic pain – from single candidates to systems biology"
  Supervisors: Manuela Schmidt and Christian Studenik
- Shima KOUHNAVARDI: "Novel Modafinil Analogs Targeting the Dopamine Transporter as Cognitive Enhancers"
  Supervisor: Ernst Urban
- Nedra MEKNI: "Computational approaches for the rational design of inflammasome inhibitors”
  Supervisor: Thierry Langer
- Nowras RAHHAL: "Lipid Nanoparticles for targeted delivery to Langerhans cells"
  Supervisor: Christoph Rademacher
- Mareike RENTZSCH: "Targeted delivery to Langerin-expressing cells"
  Supervisor: Christoph Rademacher
- Patrik SCHWARZ: "The search and biological evaluation of modulators of retinoic acid receptor-related orphan receptors (RORs)"
  Supervisors: Verena Dirsch and Elke Heiß
- Andreas WASILEWICZ: "Natural products against acute respiratory infections"
  Supervisors: Judith M. Rollinger and Johannes Kirchmair
- Hengxi ZHANG: "Targeting Carbohydrate-binding Proteins for the Delivery of Immunomodulatory Therapeutics in Cancer Therapy"
  Supervisor: Christoph Rademacher
Nutritional Sciences
- Laura BRAGAGNA: "Interactions between antioxidants and oxidative stress"
  Supervisor: Karl-Heinz Wagner
- Rebeka FEJES: "Dietary Nitrate, Vascular Function and Oxidative Stress"
  Supervisors: Karl-Heinz Wagner and Oliver Neubauer
Sport Science
- Alexander AIGNER: "Elevated Resting Metabolic Rate and its Connection to Physical Activity: The Effects of Multimodal Aerobic and Anaerobic Exercise on the Excess Post-Exercise Oxygen Consumption (EPOC)"
  Supervisor: Arnold Baca
- Caterine SCHWAB: "Development of patient-specific biomechanical models for clinical gait analysis for children and adolescents with obesity"
  Supervisors: Arnold Baca and Brian Horsak
11 March 2021, online
Pharmaceutical Sciences
- Elisabeth EICHENAUER: "Traditional herbal medicines for wound healing: phytochemical profiling and activity screening"
  Supervisors: Sabine Glasl-Tazreiter and Elke Heiß
- Patricia HAISS: "Examination of the preventive/therapeutic potential of natural products in atherosclerotic and proliferative vascular wall changes using cell-based models"
  Supervisor: Verena M. Dirsch
- Fabian MALFENT: "Discovery of novel natural products from bacteria isolated from various environmental sources"
  Supervisor: Sergey B. Zotchev
- Florian SCHINDLER: "Metabolic characterization and natural product isolation of mutualistic plant-bacteria systems"
  Supervisors: Wolfram Weckwerth and Thierry Langer
- Steffen HIRTE: "Identification and explanation of frequent-hitter behavior of small organic molecules using Bayesian methods"
  Supervisor: Johannes Kirchmair
- Christian PERMANN: "Molecular Informatics of Next Generation Macrocycles"
  Supervisor: Thierry Langer
- Marlon MILLARD: "Design and synthesis of ligands for the muscarinic acetylcholine receptors"
  Supervisors: Thierry Langer and Verena Pichler
- Jörg HEIDER: presentation was closed to the public.
  Supervisors: Thierry Langer and Thomas Seidel
Nutritional Sciences
- Katharina BURGER: "Regulation of alcohol metabolizing enzymes in the context of metabolic liver diseases"
  Supervisor: Ina Bergheim
11 December 2020, online
Pharmaceutical Sciences
- Michael BRÜNDL: "Gating and conduction regulation of inward rectifier K+ channels"
  Supervisor: Anna Weinzinger
- Theres FRIESACHER: "Novel approaches to investigate the regulation of G-protein coupled inward rectifier K+ channels by Gβγ"
  Supervisor: Anna Weinzinger
- Aleksandra GARIFULINA: "Modulation of Ligand-Gated Ion Channels by Peptides and Low-Molecular-Weight Compounds"
  Supervisor: Steffen Hering
- Stefan Michael KOHLBACHER: "Applied deep-learning in the field of next-generation pharmacophores"
  Supervisor: Thierry Langer
- Jonas ARONOW. Presentation was closed to the public.
  Supervisors: Thierry Langer and Verena Pichler