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Univ.-Prof. Dr. Joseph Strauss
Group Leader and Vice Head of Department

University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna
Department of Applied Genetics und Cell Biology
Institute of Microbial Genetics
University Research Center Tulln 
Konrad Lorenz Straße 24, 3430 Tulln an der Donau, Austria

Curriculum Vitae

Phone: +43-1-47654-94420
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BOKU Research Output

Strauss Lab - Team members

DI Dr. Harald Berger
PostDoc (part time) ‘fungal genomics, bioinformatics’

Phone: +43-1-47654-94481

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Florian Kastner, MSc
technician - lab manager 

Phone: +43 1 47654-94485

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Dr. Sabine Strauss-Goller
Senior Lecturer, agricultural genetics/microbial genetics courses of the department

Phone: +43-1-47654-94492

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DDI Dr. Thomas Svoboda, MSc

Phone: +43 1 47654-94495

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BOKU FIS

Christian Voitl
technician

Phone: +43 1 47654-94481

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Sandrina Wimmer
secretary

Phone: +43-1-47654-94400

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Dr. Roman Labuda
mycology, mycotoxins and bioactive microbial metabolites (BiMM) e-mail

DI Franz Zehetbauer, BSc
PhD student ‘PiNet - The Internet of fungi’

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Lab members from collaborating AIT group

Dr. Markus Gorfer
fungal ecology and analytics

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Verena Unterwurzacher  
PhD student ‘fungal analytics, molecular biology’

DI Clara Pogner
project coordination and bioaerosols 

DI Dragana Bandian
lab manager and fungal analytics

Strauss Lab - former team members

Dr. Lena Studt
PostDoc ‘fungal epigenetics and secondary metabolism’ (2015-2023)

Former team members:
DI Dr. Anna Atanasoff-Kardjalieff, BSc
DI Elias Messner, Bsc
Adrian Kundratitz
Sandra Reischl
Marlene Braunauer
Hannah Engelhart
Julia Gregorich 
Alexandra Okolowicz
Kimberley Tarraz

Dr. Christoph Schueller
yeast genetics and bioactive microbial metabolites (BiMM)

Simone Bachleitner, MSc
PhD Student ‘Fusarium epigenetics and secondary metabolism’

Verena Unterwurzacher  

PhD student (2016-2018)

Andreas Schüller, MSc
PhD student ‘Aspergillus epigenetics and secondary metabolism’

Prof. Dr. David Cánovas

PostDoc (2016-2018) now @ Universidad de Sevilla

 

DI Reinhard Beyer, BSc

Stefan Kaufmann

technician - lab manager  (2018-2019)

Desi Yankova, MSc
microbiology and bioactive microbial metabolites (BiMM)

Dr. Andreas Bernreiter

PostDoc (2017-2019)

Dr. Rosalia Garcia Teijeiro

PostDoc (2017-2019)

Safa Oufensou

Erasmus student (2019)

Dr. Stefan Bödi Postdoc until 2018

Astradeni Efthymiadou 

Erasmus student (2018) now @ University of Stockholm

Dr. Lucia Silvestrini
PostDoc (2009-2017) now @ Università Politecnica delle Marche

James González 

PhD student from UNAM University in Mexcio City

DI Thorsten Schinko

Master and PhD student (2009-2014)
Aspergillus nitrogen regulation now @ Novartis Switzerland

Andrea Hofstoetter Lab management, technician (2015-2017)

Dr. Agnieszka Gacek-Matthews PhD student (2011-2015)
Aspergillus epigenetics and secondary metabolism now Ass.Prof at VetMeduni

Dr. Sandra Boeck-Moll

PhD student (2008-2011)
fungal ecology now chemistry and biology teacher Gymnasium St.Pölten

Dr. Asjad Basheer

PhD student (2006-2009) now @ Bioniz Therapeutics Inc., USA

Dr. Robert Pachlinger

PhD student (2002-2005)  
Aspergillus expression systems now @ Shire Biopharmaceuticals Austria

Dr. Yazmid Reyes-Dominguez PostDoc (2007-2012)

Dr. Andreas Gallmetzer

PhD student (2009-2012)
Aspergillus nitrate assimilation now @ Forschungszentrum Laimburg, Italy

Dr. Igor Morozov

visiting scientsit from Liverpool University (2008 & 2009) now Assoc.Prof @ Univ. Coventry

Dr. Elke Kainz

PhD student
Aspergillus expression system now microbiology teacher @ College for Forestry, Bruck/Mur, Styria, Austria

Dr. Christoph Dattenboeck PhD student  (2012-2015)
Aspergillus expression systems now @ Shire Biopharmaceuticals

Dr. Konstantinos Kagias

ERASMUS Master student (2007-2008) now @ Harvard

Dr. Sotiris Amillis

visiting scientist University of Athens (Greece)
(2008-2009 and 2011-2012)
Aspergillus nitrogen regulation

Dr. Hans-Wilhelm Nutzmann

visiting scientist/PhD student from Brakhage lab, Germany (2010)
Aspergillus epigenetics 

Anja Konlechner, MSc

biophysist, working on bioaerosol chamber (2014-2015)  now on maternity leave 

Dr. Rene Novotny

PostDoc (2008-2009)
Aspergillus expression systems deceased