2018

January
We would like to welcome our visiting scientist Sven Rouschop, MSc from the University of Maastricht. We look forward to good cooperation with Sven during his research work in our lab.

2017

December
We would like to welcome our new research technician Anna Strobl in our lab. We are looking forward to a good cooperation!

November
Well done to Kristina Duswald for obtaining her Master’s degree! The title of her masters thesis is: “Methylation patterns in patients with fatty liver disease – effect of alcohol exposure”.
Good luck with your future studies in Linz!

October
Congratulations to Christian Faltus for achieving his PhD degree! The title of his PhD thesis is: “Identification of NHLRC1 as Novel Oncogene from a Lung Cancer Epigenome-Wide Association Study”.
For his further career we wish him all the best!

August
Congratulations to Sebastian Kollmann for successfully passing his Master’s exam! The title of his masters thesis is: “Smoking-induced Differentially Methylated Regions as potential Lung Cancer Risk Markers and their Functional Analysis”.
Sebastian will start his PhD at the institute of pharmacology and toxicology in Vienna.
For his future work we wish him all the best!

Mai
Congratulations to Stefanie Rauscher for successfully passing her Master’s exam! The title of her masters thesis is: ” Effects of hypomethylating agents on the methylation on epigenetic regulator gene”.
Stefanie will start her PhD in the group of Dr. Roland Geisberger (SCRI-LIMCR, Tumorimmunology and Chemoimmuntherapy) at the SALK in Salzburg.
For her future work we wish her all the best!

April
Congratulations to Theresa Schmid for successfully passing her Master´s exam! The title of her master thesis is: “Inducing Methylation Changes in Epigenetic Regulator Genes in Cancer Cell Lines”.
Theresa was accepted at the Helmholtz International Graduate School and will start her PhD in the group of Prof. Dr. Peter Lichter at the DKFZ in Heidelberg.
For her future work we wish her all the best!

March
Congratulations to Florian Wolff´s first Review “ The double-edged sword of (re)expression of genes by hypomethylating agents: from viral mimicry to exploitation as priming agents for targeted immune checkpoint modulation“.