Past events - Public presentation at faculty

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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