Head of Research Group

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Silja Weßler
AG-Leiterin, Professorin für Mikrobiologie
Hellbrunnerstrasse 34, 5020 Salzburg
Tel.: +43 (0) 662 / 8044-7210
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Senior Scientist

Mag. Dr. Gernot Posselt
Senior Scientist
Hellbrunnerstrasse 34, 5020 Salzburg
Tel.: +43 (0) 662 / 8044-7211
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Technischer Assistent

Christian Daniel Ferner
Technischer Assistent
Hellbrunnerstrasse 34, 5020 Salzburg
Tel.: +43 (0) 662 / 8044-7215
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PhD Students

Marina Cañadas Ortega
PhD student
Hellbrunnerstrasse 34, 5020 Salzburg
Tel.: +43 (0) 662 /8044-7212
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Sebastian Diechler
PhD student
Hellbrunnerstrasse 34, 5020 Salzburg
Tel.: +43 (0) 662 / 8044-7216
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Sebastian studied Medical Biology at the Paris-Lodron University of Salzburg and obtained his Master’s Degree in June 2018. During his Master thesis in the group of Silja Weßler, he investigated different variants and mutants of pathogenic factors expressed by clinical Helicobacter pylori isolates. Sebastian was selected as a member of the PhD program ICA (Immunity in Cancer and Allergy) and started with his PhD project in July 2018, focusing on the the regulation of signaling pathways in gastric epithelial cells and B-cells.

Saruchi completed her undergraduate degree in microbiology from Gargi College, University of Delhi, India, in 2015. She was enrolled in the Dr. B. R. Ambedkar Center for Biomedical Research (A.C.B.R.), University of Delhi, India, for the master’s degree program in biomedical sciences, which was completed in 2017. She worked as a Research Fellow at Translational Health Science and Technology Institute, India, with a focus on the role of type II toxin-antitoxin systems in Mycobacterium tuberculosis persistence. She then worked as a senior research fellow at the CSIR Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (IGIB), India, where she characterized the novel mutation in the PRKG2 gene responsible for acromesomelic skeletal dysplasia. As part of a three-month EMBO exchange program, she also worked at the University of Helsinki, Finland, where she learned gene editing of patient-specific mutations using CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing technology in patient-derived iPSCs.
MasterstudentInnen


Paniz Sehat Niaki
Masterstudent
Hellbrunnerstrasse 34, 5020 Salzburg
Tel.: +43 (0) 662 / 8044-7216
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Melanie Anja Schwarz
Master Student
Hellbrunnerstrasse 34, 5020 Salzburg
Tel.: +43 (0) 662 / 8044-7216
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Sabrina Vorderegger
Master Student
Hellbrunnerstrasse 34, 5020 Salzburg
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