Past events - Public presentation at faculty

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  • 11 June 2024, online

    Pharmaceutical Sciences

    • Amir PASOKH: "Targeting the Gut-brain Axis in Hypertension-induced Brain Injury."
      Supervisor: Marietta Zille
    • Daniel ROSE: "Development of Machine Learning-based Methods for Virtual Screening with 3D Pharmacophore Models."
      Supervisors: Thierry Langer and Johannes Kirchmair
    • Guneet Singh TARANG: "Calorimeter at Atomic Resolution."
      Supervisors: Julien Orts

    Nutritional Sciences

    • Julia ARAPOVIC: "Fatty Acid-channeling via UCP3 in Mitochondrial Subtypes."
      Supervisors: Jürgen König and Felix Sternberg

    Sport Science

    • Amin Karim CHETOUANI: "Contribution of Stretch Reflexes to Plantar Flexor Force Potentiation during Maximal Stretch-Shortening Cycle Movements."
      Supervisors: Arnold Baca (University of Vienna) and Janne Avela (University of Jyväskylä, Finland)
  • 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 & Advisor: 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 & Advisor: Gerhard Ecker & Stefanie Kickinger (Boehringer Ingelheim)
    • Lukas KOGLER: "Production, fluorescence and radioisotope labelling of microplastics."
      Supervisor & Advisor 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 & Advisor: Lea Ann Dailey, Victoria Klang & Ammar Tahir
    • Vincent-Alexander SCHOLZ: "Metabolite Structure Prediction of Agrochemicals in Soil."
      Supervisor & Advisors: 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 & Advisor: 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 & Advisor: Arnold Baca & Juliana Exel
    • Michelle SLUNECKO: "How is sleep duration and quality re-lated to body composition, muscle function, performance, and training adaptation?"
      Supervisors: 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