Doctoral Theses performed in the laboratory of J.Thalhamer 

May 2014, Schwaiger Elisabeth MSc, Doctoral Thesis: *Obstacles on the Way to Generate an “IgE-A-only” mouse strain*
April 2014, Vrabel Sybille MSc, Doctoral Thesis: *Comparison of Bone Marrow Derived Dendritic Cells and B Cells with a Focus on Antigen Uptake, Expression of Co-Stimulatory Molecules and T Cell Activation*
May 2013, Wolkerstorfer Susanne, MSc, Doctoral Thesis: *HS1-associated protein X1 (HAX1): A multifinctional protein with an important role in B cell development*
October 2012, Tekalign Deressa Eticha, MSc, Doctoral Thesis: *Searching for Immune Polarizing Principles of Escherichia coli Betagalactosidase*

May 2012, Weinberger Esther, MA rer. nat. Doctoral Thesis: *Allergy and Therapy: From Aetiology to Novel Non-Parenteral Treatment Strategies*

May 2011, Rösler Elisabeth, Mag.rer.nat, Doctoral Thesis: *RNA vaccines: an approach for prophylaxis of type I allergy*

October 2007, Stöcklinger Angelika, Mag.rer.nat., Doctoral Thesis: *Modulation of Gene Gun-induced immune reactions by targeting dendritic cell physiology*

February 2006, Bauer Roman, Mag.rer.nat., Doctoral Thesis: *Novel approaches for increasing safety and efficacy of gene vaccines against allergic diseases*

August 2005, Stepanoska Tatjana, Mag. re. nat., Doctoral Thesis: *A DNA-based multivaccine against 17kD cross-reacting allergens protects against IgE induction in a mouse model of allergy*

June 2005, Gabler Maximilian, Dipl Biol., Doctoral Thesis: *Next-generation DNA vaccines against allergy*

March 2005, Willerroider Marika, Mag. rer. nat., Doctoral Thesis: *Purification and characterization of profilines form mugwort, tomato and bell pepper: first steps towards the development of an allergy vaccine*

October 2002, Hochreiter Romana, Mag. rer. nat., Doctoral Thesis: *Development and characterization of prophylactic and therapeutic gene vaccines encoding the birch pollen allergen Bet v 1*

January 2002, Lindinger Peter, Mag. rer. nat., Doctoral Thesis: *Genetic Immunization with Mini-Gene DNA Vaccines Encoding a Mutated T-cell Epitope of ras p21*

April 2001, Mostböck Sven, Mag. rer. nat., Doctoral Thesis: *Genetic immunization as a novel tool for vaccine development*

November 2000, Scheiblhofer Sandra, Mag. rer. nat., Doctoral Thesis: *A DNA vaccine against lyme disease: Modulation of a DNA-based immune response against Osp C from borellia burgdorferi*

November 2000, Weiss Richard, Mag. rer. nat., Doctoral Thesis: *Reaching the goal in mouse malaria: removeal of the circumsporozoite protein glycosylphosphatidylinositol signal sequence from CSP DNA vaccine results in 100% protection*

April 1999, Lechenauer Erich, Mag. rer. nat., Doctoral Thesis: *Populärwissenschaftliche Aufbereitung und Umsetzung des Lehrstoffes der Immunologie auf CD-ROM. Teil I: Molekulare Immunologie*

April 1999, Mayer Peter, Mag. rer. nat., Doctoral Thesis: *Populärwissenschaftliche Aufbereitung und Umsetzung des Lehrstoffes der Immunologie auf CD-ROM. Teil II: Zelluläre Immunologie*

April 1999, Hartl Arnulf, Mag. rer. nat., Doctoral Thesis: *Immune responses after immunization with plasmid DNA encoding Bet v 1, the major allergen of birch pollen*

November 1998, Bernhaupt Andrea, Mag. rer. nat., Doctoral Thesis: *Development of a DNA-based malaria vaccine targetting the circum sporozoite protein*


Doctoral Theses (external supervisor/expert J.Thalhamer)

March 2013, Marschon Renate, MMag., Doctoral Thesis: *Gene expression profiling of chronic myeloid leukemia patients*
October 2012, Lipp Anna-Maria, MSc, Doctoral Thesis: *Single-Cell Analysis Reveals a Link between CD3 – and CD59-mediated Signaling Pathways in Jurkat T cells*
Jannuary 2011, Kronsteiner-Dobramysl Barbara, Mag., Doctoral Thesis: *Immunomodulatory Properties of Mesenchymal Stem Cells from Adipose Tissue and Amniom – A Comparative in Vitro Study*
August 2010, Pachler Karin, Mag., Doctoral Thesis: *Reverse genetics of influenca C viruses*
December 2009, Schlager Pamina, Mag., Doctoral Thesis: *Development of active RNA reprogramming molecules for the treatment of cystic fibrosis*
April 2007, Vega Sandra, Mag.rer.nat., Doctoral Thesis: *Interaction of Hyaluronan with the Immune System: Effect of different size fragments of Hyaluronan on dendritic cells and PBMC*

November 2005, Wurm Susanne, Dipl. Ing., Doctoral Thesis: *The Physiological Functions of Cellular Prion Protein: Links to Immunology and Pathology*

June 2005, Kiesslich Jan, Mag. rer. nat., Doctoral Thesis: *Alte DNA: über die molekularbiologische Analyse archäologischer Funde*

December 2004, Hillebrand Susanne, Mag. rer. nat., Doctoral Thesis: * Erhöhtes Atheroskleroserisiko unter HAART – Darstellung möglicher zellbiolo-gischer und molekularer Mechanismen*

November 2004, Almanzar Giovanni, Dipl. Ing., Doctoral Thesis: *CD8+ T cells and infection in old age*

November 2003, Gomez Ivan, Dipl. Ing., Doctoral Thesis: *Naive T cells in the elderly: phenotypic and functional characterization*

June 2003, Polin Helene, Mag. rer. nat., Doctoral Thesis: *Genetische Varianten von Anaplasma (Ehrlichia) phagocytophila in Österreich*

September 2001, Dandachi Nadia, Mag. rer. nat., Doctoral Thesis: *HER-2/Neu Oncogene In Human Breast Cancer: Evaluation of Immunohistochemical and Molecular Detection Methods And Correlation With Clinical Outcome*

October 2000, More Elena, Mag. rer. nat., Doctoral Thesis: *Expression of COUP-TFII is regulated by the MAP Kinase Pathway and Participates in the Control of p21WAFI/CPI1 mRNA levels in Human Breast Cancer Cell Lines*