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2009
November 30th: We are very happy to got informed today that our consortium on the Doctoral School on Metabolic and Cardiovascular Disease was granted by the Austrian Science Funds (FWF). This success was particular due to the great team under guidance of Gerald Hoefler and Dagmar Kratky.
November 6th: Shamim Naghdi won the presenter award at the Joint ZMF & Doctoral Days. Great job, Shamim!
October 5/6th: We are very pleased to say that Michael Trenker, PhD was granted with the Schrödinger Stipendium (J2968) by the FWF. This is fantastic and we wish Michael all the best in succeeding his career and hope that we will sty in touch by collaboration in teh exciting topic of proteomics and mitochondrial membrane proteins.
September: We are very happy to say that Muhammad Jadoon Khan, MS got married in Pakistan on September 26th. We all wish the young couple all the best for their future and look forward to welcome the young husband and his lady soon in our lab. Once we have some picts, we will post them here.
September 10th: We are please to say that Muhammad Rizawan Alam, MS has accepted our invitation to join our laboratory as PhD student in course of our PhD program Molecular Medicine. Rizawan, will join us around mid October and will work within the SFB LipoTox network on lipotoxicity on endothelial cells.
Note: With the employment of Alexandra Barbulescu and Muhamad Rizawan Alam, our laboratory has recruited two PhD student this year, making overall four students that will work in our team within this very young PhD program.
September 1st: We are happy to welcome Michael Poteser, Ph.D. in our laboratory. Mike is a very experienced “Patchy” (electrophysiologist) and directly came from Klaus Groschner’s lab. We are happy to reinforce our collaboration with Klaus on the topic of the regulation of store-operated Ca2+ channels in endothelial cells.
August: Our Persian connection gets soon stronger as Fatemeh Safari, MS from the Deptartment of Medical Physiology, School of Medical Science, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran indicated her wish to join our laboratory for 6 or 9 month in course of her thesis. We look forward very much to welcome her in our laboratory soon.
July 21st: We are very happy to hear that Jun Jia form the Deptartment of Physiology, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China has been awarded with a 6-month Post-Doc scholarship by the Eurasia-Pacific Uninet from the Austrian Agency for International Cooperation in Education and Research. Jun will work on the topic of Stim1-Orai and the regulation of endothelial Ca2+ signaling. We are all looking forward to welcome Dr. Jun Jia in our lab soon.
June 24th: Xiumei Duan has left us after one very productive year she shared with us in our laboratory. She was involved in our UCP work and contributed significantly by her excellent work and we hope that papers will prove that in the future. She is now back to her home institution, the Central Lab of the First Hospital, Jilin University, China. We are sad that this year passed so fast and wish her all the best for the future and thank her very much for all the great moments we had together.
Thank you very much, Xiumei
June 18th: Alexandra Barbulescu accepted our invitation to join us as a PhD student in the PhD program Molecular Medicine at our institution. Alexandra is a pharmacist from Bucharest, Romania and graduated in September 2008 in the field of "Serotoninergic neurotransmission with elements of pharmacotoxicology of ergot alkaloids". At present she works as a Teaching Assistant at the Department of Pharmacology and Clinical Pharmacy in Bucharest, Romania. She will start in our laboratory on October 1st and we are very pleased that she decided to join us.
June: Petra Krenn will leave to proceed her study in molecular biology. We hope that she will join us again for her diploma thesis and wish her all the best for her future. It was great to have you with us - Thank you.
May 12th: We have got (another) BABY!!!...well not exactly, but OLGA and SASHA (ALEXANDER) Bondarenko are proud parents of a wonderful and precious baby girl. Picts and more information to come soon....
Hej, by the way, its the fifth baby we could welcome in our team within six years....Gosh, are we productive, are'nt we ? :-).
Welcome Ksenia and all the best for you and your parents!
The MCPRU
proudly presents:
Ksenia Bondarenko
Date of birth:
May 12th 2009
Length:
53 cm
Weight:
3300 g
Eyes:
dark blue
Hairs:
brown
March 13th: We have got a BABY!!...well, at least some of us...
MARKUS Waldeck-Weiermair and his wife NINA Waldeck were gifted with lovely and cute baby girl:
Welcome Ava and all the best for you and your parents!
The MCPRU
proudly presents:
Ava Waldeck
Date of birth:
March 13th 2009
Length:
50 cm
Weight:
3220 g
Eyes:
blue
Hairs:
dark brown
2008
October 2008: Markus Waldeck-Weiermair and Michael Trenker were awarded with the first and thrid place for the best theses at the Medical University Graz in the academic year 2007/2008.
CONGRATULATIONS to Markus Waldeck-Weiermair who completed his PhD thesis today (July 23rd 2008). The examiners were Profs. Gerhard M. Kostner, Klaus Groschner and wfg who graded Markus’ thesis as well his performance in the thesis presentation and defense with “excellent”.
Due to the recommendation of the nominations committee, Wolfgang Graier was honored by the invitation to become member of the Section Physiology & Medicine of the ACADEMIA EUROPAEA in May 2008. Introduction of new members will take place in Liverpool, UK on 18th – 20th September 2008.
Out of more than 50 applicants, Roland Malli was awarded with the 2nd prize of the OTTO KRAUPP PREIS 2008 for the best Habilitations 2007 in Medicine and related areas. This award is sponsored by Sanofi-Aventis and the award ceremony was held on the 28th of May in Vienna.
Michael Trenker was awarded with the Presenter award at the annual meeting of the Austrian Atherosclerosis Society in St. Gilgen 18. -19. April 2008
Dr Duan Xiumei from Jilin University, Center Laboratory of First Hospital was accepted on January 3th 2008 by the EURASIA-PACIFIC UNINET program for a 6 months Postdoc scholarship in our laboratory.
2007
November 7th 2007: Sanofi Aventis Award ceremony in course of the "Forum Forschung" 15-17 h in the foyer of the ZMF I.
October 2007: We are very happy that Muhammad Jadoon Kahn accepted our invitation to join our laboratory as PhD student. Muhammad is born in Pakistan. He has earned the BSc in zoology, botany & chemistry at University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan in 2002. From 2002 he worked on his MSc in biochemistry at the University of Arid Agriculture Rawalpindi, Pakistan and graduated 2004. Until 2006 he was Scientific Lecturer at Pakistan Academy of Sciences and became 2006 lecturer and research associate at the Department od Bioscience, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan where he worked primarily in the field of gene analysis from locally important bacteria. So far, Muhammad has published two manuscripts and has co-authored four sequence submissions to NCBI genbank. We look forward to welcome him in our international lab very soon and hope that he will get excited for the mitochondrial universe.
June 27th, 2007: In Memorian Rudi BUSSE †
Rudi Busse died on June 27, 2007. Sadly we share the dolefulness with his family and friends. Rudi was among the first “big guys” I ever met in science and my respect and esteem continuously kept growing from the first time I meet him. His sparkling humorous attitude combined with his visionary and innovative sense in science made Rudi unique.
Right from the beginning of my scientific life Rudi was a bright fixed star and sadly I realize that science has lost a famous scientist and great man. wfg
[Linkt to the obituary in Circulation Research]
July 7th 2007: Karin Osibow received the Sanofi Aventis Award 2007 for the paper entitled "Osibow, K., Malli, R., Kostner, G.M. and Graier, W.F. A new type of non-Ca2+ -buffering apo(a)-based fluorescent indicator for intraluminal Ca2+ in the endoplasmic reticulum. J. Biol. Chem. 281: 5017-5025, 2006". [Fulltext] [Pubmed]
June 25th 2007: The FWF granted our application entitled Mitochondrial Ca2+ homeostasis in endothelial cells (P20181-B05).
June 11th & 12th 2007: The hearing for PhD Program on Molecular Medicine will be held and app 30 applicants from around the whole world are invited.
May 2007: Now available:
May 1st 2007: We are very happy that Jacek Lenart agreed to accept a postdoc positionus in our LipoTOX project. He will start on May 1st 2007 and we all look forward to welcome him in our lab very soon. Jacek was born 1961 in Lodz, Polland. He worked from 1992 to 2000 in Laboratory of Biochemistry of Lipids, Department of Cellular Biochemistry, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw (Poland) and received his PhD in biochemistry at this institution in 2000. After several fellowships that brought him to Perugia, Italy or Zurich, Switzerland, he worked 2000-2001 at the department of Dermatology at the University of Cologne, Medical Faculty, Colonge, Germany and from 2002 to 2004 at the department of Biochemistry I, Georg-August University, Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Cell Biology, Goettingen, Germany. After a short stay at the University of Kaiserslautern and the Maria Sklodowska-Curie Memorial Cancer Center and Institute of Oncology he started working at the institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the ETH, Zurich, Switzerland from where he finally joined us. Jacek is a specialist in lipid metabolism and in studying the role of manganese superoxide dismutase (MnSOD) and reactive oxygen species under various conditions. He has published more than 14 manuscripts so far. We hope that his great skills will perfectly complement our existing knowledge and look forward on an exciting time exploring the role of mitochondria in lipotoxicity.
April/May 2007: We are very happy that Shamim Naghdi accepted our invitation to join our laboratory as PhD student. Shamim is born in Iran where she finished her BSc in animal science 1999 at the university of Gorgan, Iran. Subsequently, she worked between 2000-2003 at the university of Theran, Iran from where she received her MSc in cell & molecular biology 2003. Thereafter she accepted a position as research assistant at the National Institute of Genetic Engeneering and Biotechnolgy, Theran, Iran where she worked primarily in the field of molecular biology of bacteria. So far she has published more than 6 manuscripts. We look forward to welcome her in the lab very soon and hope that she will conduct exciting science on mitochondrial Ca2+ homeostasis with us.
February 14th 2007: Michael Trenker finished his PhD with "summa cum laude". Fortunately, Michael agreed to stay in the lab and accepted a position as Research Assistant.
April 15th 2007: The call for applications to the PhD program is closed. The next call is expected to be open spring 2008.
February 21th 2007: Our University opens the call 2007 for applications for the PhD program in Molecular Medicine.
2006
November 20th 2006: The FWF granted our application LipoTox that represents a project program grant (SFB) entitled “Lipid-induced Cell Dysfunction and Cell Death” under the guidance of Prof. Rudolf Zechner (speaker).
November 8th 2006: Sanofi Award ceremony in course of the "Forum Forschung" 15-17 h in the foyer of the ZMF I.
October 24th 2006: We were just informed by the ÖAD that the application of Cynthia NKOUA BADZI to join our laboratory for doctoral thesis has been accepted. We are looking forward to welcome Cynthia in our laboratory March 2007.
September 2006: From September on Angi (Angela Schweizer) is joining our lab. A warm welcome and good luck for you with us and our lab!
August 2006: Roland received the Sanofi Award 2006 for the paper entitled "Malli, R, Frieden, M., Trenker, M. and Graier, W.F. The role of mitochondria for Ca2+ refilling of the ER. J. Biol. Chem. 280: 12114-12122, 2005".
August 2006: After a long and successful time in our laboratory Bea (Ing. Beatrix Petschar) decided to go for another challenge. We thank her for her great contribution, kindness and input she donated us and our laboratory. We wish her all the best for her future!
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