Collaboration Partners

The research of the Schäffer Group is performed at BOKU and within a well-established and steadily growing network of national and international collaborations.

Collaborators are listed in alphabetical order.

Sonja-Verena Albers Institute of Biology, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Expertise in collaboration: Archaeal S-layers

Friedrich Altmann, Department of Chemistry, Institute of Biochemistry, BOKU Vienna, Austria

Expertise in collaboration: Mass spectrometry of glycans

Oleh J. Andrukhov, Competence Center Periodontal Research, University Clinic of Dentistry, Medical University of Vienna, Austria.

Expertise in collaboration: Oral immunology

Tanmay Bharat, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

Expertise in collaboration: Cryo-electron microscopy and cryo-tomography

Georgios Belibasakis, Division of Oral Diseases, Department of Dental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Huddinge, Sweden

Expertise in collaboration: Oral biofilms, imaging, immunology

Markus Blaukopf, Department of Chemistry, Insitute of Organic Chemistry, , BOKU Vienna, Austria

Expertise in collaboration: Organic chemistry, carbohydrate-active enzyme

Heimo Breiteneder, Department of Pathophysiology and Allergy Research, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.

Expertise in collaboration: Allergology

Erik Brown, Department of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada

Expertise in collaboration: Cell walls of Gram-positive bacteria, LCP proteins

Tim Causon, Department of Chemistry, Institute of Analytical Chemistry, BOKU Vienna, Austria

Expertise in collaboration: Analytical chemistry, mass spectrometry, metabolomics

Erick M. Carreira, Laboratorium für Organische Chemie, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

Expertise in collaboration: Organic synthesis of natural products

Laurie E. Comstock Department of Microbiology and the Duchossois Family Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA

Expertise in collaboration: Microbial glycobiology

Stephen V. Evans, Biochemistry and Microbiology, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada

Expertise in collaboration: X-ray crystallograph

Heinz Himmelbauer, Department of Biotechnology, Institute of Computational Biology BOKU Vienna Austria

Expertise in collaboration: Bioinformatics

Stefan Hofbauer, Department of Chemistry, Institute of Biochemistry, BOKU Vienna, Austria

Expertise in collaboration: Enzymology

Hanspeter Kählig, NMR Center, Institute of Organic Chemistry, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Expertise in collaboration: NMR spectroscopy of microbial glycans

Daniel Kolarich, School of Environment and Science - Chemistry and Forensic Science, Griffith University, Queensland, Australia

Expertise in collaboration: Mass spectrometry of glycans

Paul Kosma, Department of Chemistry, Insitute of Organic Chemistry, , BOKU Vienna, Austria

Expertise in collaboration: Organic chemistry, NMR

Roland Ludwig, Department of Food Science and Technology (DLWT), Institute of Food Technology, BOKU Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Expertise in collaboration: Enzymology, enzyme engineering

Christoph Mayer, Interfaculty Institute of Microbiology and Infection Medicine, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany Expertise in collaboration: Bacterial cell wall biosynthesis

Chris Oostenbrink, Department of Material Sciences and Process Engineering, Institute of Molecular Modeling and Simulation, BOKU Vienna, Austria

Expertise in collaboration: Molecular modeling and simulation

Jan S. Potempa, Oral Health and Systemic Disease Group, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, USA

Expertise in collaboration: oral pathogens and type 9 secretion system

Christoph J.H. Rademacher

Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of Vienna

Expertise in collaboration: C-type lectins

Erik Reimhult, Department of Nanobiotechnology, Institute of Biologically Inspired Materials, BOKU Vienna, Austria

Expertise in collaboration: Biophysical investigations of biofilms

Ashu Sharma, School of Dental Medicine, University of Buffalo, Buffalo, MA, USA

Expertise in collaboration: Oral pathogens

Johannes Stadlmann, Department of Chemistry, Institute of Biochemistry, BOKU Vienna, Austria

Expertise in collaboration: mass spectrometry

Graham Stafford, School of Clinical Dentistry, University of Sheffield, UK

Expertise in collaboration: Oral pathogens

Slavena Vylkova, Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology – Hans-KnoellInstitute, Jena, Germany

Expertise in collaboration: Small molecules in interaction with Candida albicans

Brendan Wren, Department of Pathogen Biology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Expertise in collaboration: Applied aspects of microbial glycobiology

Jürgen Zanghellini, Institute of Analytical Chemistry, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Expertise in collaboration: Genome-ssale metabolic networks