The ElkGroup members
... we improve biocatalysis!
we keep science in motion:
::: Zeinab ASSAF ::: Eduardo BUSTO ::: Dorina CLAY ::: Elisabeth Eger ::: Eva-Maria FISCHEREDER ::: Christine FUCHS ::: Silvia GLUECK ::: Barbara GRISCHEK ::: Johannes GROSS ::: Mélanie HALL ::: Christina KOFLER ::: Barbara LARISSEGGER-SCHNELL ::: Horst LECHNER ::: Michael LUKESCH ::: Mathias PICKL ::: Astrid PREISZ ::: Desiree PRESSNITZ ::: Aashrita RAJAGOPALAN ::: Nina RICHTER ::: Johann SATTLER ::: Nina Schmidt ::: Markus SCHOBER ::: Robert Christian SIMON ::: Gábor TASNÁDI ::: Katharina TAUBER ::: Michael TOESCH ::: Nikolaus TURRINI ::: Christoph WINKLER ::: Christiane WUENSCH :::
you may also check out our predecessors...
we owe respect to our bosses...
| Zeinab ASSAF | |
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tel: +43-316-380-8646 mail: zeinab.assaf@acib.at |
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review: Zeinab joined the Elk Group for a one-year postdoc to work on lactamases and thus contributed to expanding the international flair in our team. Originating from Lebanon, she spreads a bit of Arabic words here and there but you can mostly hear her swear in French read more... |
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| Eduardo BUSTO | |
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tel: +43-316-380-8638 mail: benjamin.busto-garcia@uni-graz.at |
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review: Eduardo joined our group in January 2013 as a postdoc fellow. He originally comes from Oviedo (Spain), where he also did his PhD in the group of Vicente Gotor and is here with a two year Marie Curie fellowship. He is a highly motivated organic chemist who quickly adapted to the way things work in our lab without complaining read more... |
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| Dorina CLAY | |
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tel: +43-316-380-8646 mail: dorina.clay@uni-graz.at |
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review: coming soon read more... |
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| Elisabeth EGER | |
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tel: +43-316-380-8646 mail: elisabeth.eger@edu.uni-graz.at |
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| Eva-Maria FISCHEREDER | |
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tel: +43-316-380-8638 mail: fischereder@student.tugraz.at |
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review: Eva is well known around the lab, since she has already worked here several times. As a hard-working "NAWI Graz" student, Eva has refined her organic synthesis skills during countless lab courses and summer student employments both at KFU and TU Graz (her "Swiss-cheese" labcoat bears witness to this). read more... |
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| Christine FUCHS | |
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tel: +43-316-380-8672 mail: christine.fuchs@edu.uni-graz.at |
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review: Christine moved from Linz to Graz to study chemistry, particularly organic chemistry. Later on, she became interested in biocatalysis and therefore she joined our group in August 2010. She is working on asymmetric reductive amination using ω-transaminases and she is very motivated to learn new techniques, from molecular biology to analytical methods. She is putting a lot of efforts in her thesis and she is very motivated to achieve good results. read more... |
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| Silvia GLUECK | |
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tel: +43-316-380-5479 mail: si.glueck@uni-graz.at |
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review: After an extended summer camp of two years in the UK, Silvia came back to the roots, where her scientific career actually starded years ago. She found back her lovely tiny office close to the corridor from where she can control the whole crew, and brings now an exquisite english touch to the lab. read more... |
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| Barbara GRISCHEK | |
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tel: +43-316-380-8635 mail: barbara.grischek@acib.at |
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review: Babsi moved from the Technical University to our group to support us with our ‘microorganism zoo', because our last tamer Ursula is on maternity leave for the next 2 years. She is now the third Barbara in our group, I´m sure you noticed that, Barbara is a widespread girls name here in Austria. Babsi is a pretty busy person, because she has to grow a lot of microorganism for us. read more... |
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| Johannes GROSS | |
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tel: +43-316-380-5349 mail: johannes.gross@student.tugraz.at |
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review: HERE BE HANNES'S PEER REVIEW read more... |
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| Mélanie HALL | |
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tel: +43-316-380-5479 mail: melanie.hall@uni-graz.at |
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review: Mélanie is originated from Brittany in France, and grew up there as a neighbour of Asterix and his friends. Although her German and English both are perfect, you easily can tell by her penchant for good wine and magic potions that she also did not forget her French roots. After working three years as a postdoc at Georgia Tech, Mél returned to our group, where she also had done her PhD thesis. read more... |
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| Christina KOFLER | |
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tel: +43-316-380-8639 mail: christina.kofler@edu.uni-graz.at |
| peer review: Originally from Kufstein Christina joined the elk group in 2012. Inspired by Kurt’s biocatalysis lecture and Wolgang’s asymmetric synthesis class she started her scientific carreer in biocatalysis working on enzyme catalysed intramolecular Pictet-Spengler reactions for the synthesis of new alkaloids. read more... |
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| Barbara LARISSEGGER-SCHNELL | |
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tel: +43-316-380-8641 mail: barbara.larissegger@uni-graz.at |
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review: In contrast to all other members on this page she is employed only half-time at the department of chemistry. She was told to investigate the possibility to amke two different enzymes work simultaneously. The problem is, that nobody knows whether it will work or not. read more... |
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| Horst LECHNER | |
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tel: +43-316-380-8639 mail: horst.lechner@edu.uni-graz.at |
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review: Horst is one of the newcomers in our lab right now. Originally he is coming from the suburbs of Bruck an der Mur (seems like they have a secret training facility for good chemists there …). After his studies and an exchange program to the US, he decided to start his scientific carreer in our group investigating disproportionation reactions and dehydrogenases and pretty soon turned into a pro on that topic. read more... |
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| Michael LUKESCH | |
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tel: +43-316-380-5349 mail: michael.lukesch@kisi.at |
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review: Michael wrote his bachelor thesis in our group a couple of years ago, so he was quite familiar with our labs when he re-joint the Elk-crew in October, 2012 as a master student together with his very cool dog surprisingly appearing on our group meeting.read more... |
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| Mathias PICKL | |
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tel: +43-316-380-8638 mail: mathias.pickl@edu.uni-graz.at |
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review: In 2007 Mathias decided to leave beautiful Steyr und moved to Graz to get started with his chemistry study. Over the years he got fascinated by synthesis and catalysis and was luckily somehow forced to join our working group. Once caped we never let him move further again, he spent several month being a summer/project student and finally he also decided to do his master thesis under the supervision of Silvia. read more... |
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| Astrid PREISZ | |
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tel: +43-316-380-8676 mail: astrid.preisz@acib.at |
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review: Astrid joined our group with a mission: making the link with the Austrian Center of Industrial Biotechnology (ACIB) as area manager. read more... |
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| Desiree PRESSNITZ | |
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tel: +43-316-380-8639 mail: pressnitz@student.tugraz.at |
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review: A new member recently joined the continuously expanding “transaminase”-community of our group! Desiree is from Feldbach (Steiermark) and she is an organic chemist. Moreover, she was always interested in biocatalysis and therefore she has been working in our group already several times both as summer student and bachelor student. read more... |
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| Aashrita RAJAGOPALAN | |
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tel: +43-316-380-8638 mail: aashrita.rajagopalan@uni-graz.at |
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review: Aashrita started her PhD project in our group in March 2010. She comes from Southern India, but after two years of MSc studies in Hamburg her knowledge of German is already impressive. She also holds a record of being the fastest international student in our group in terms of finding a flat in Graz. read more... |
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| Nina RICHTER | |
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tel: +43-316-380-8638 mail: nina.richter@uni-graz.at |
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review: Originally from Germany Nina fortunately decided to continue her scientific career in Austria and joined the elk-crew in January 2013. She did her Diploma- and PhD-thesis in the area of Biotechnology in the Research Centre Jülich. After finishing her PhD she moved to London, where she started her read more... |
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| Johann SATTLER | |
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tel: +43-316-380-8641 mail: johann.sattler@edu.uni-graz.at |
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review: Hansi is a fearless organic chemist who joined our group for working on the synthesis of alkaloids. Physically and scientifically well-trained, he faces the challenge of creating molecules that no man has ever synthesized before with unparalelled confidence. But Hansi is not only a hard-working scientist, he's also a proud and dedicated family man. read more... |
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| Nina Schmidt | |
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tel: +43-316-380-8672 mail: n.schmidt@edu.uni-graz.at |
| peer review: Nina (An original Grazer), first joined our group to do her Bachelor thesis work. But she was really inspired by the work we do here that she was back over and over again as a summer /winter student, working on different projects and with different supervisors gaining hands-on experience. Now she is back again, this time to join our Transaminase community which she had still left unconquered during her previous visits! read more... |
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| Markus SCHOBER | |
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tel: +43-316-380-8641 mail: mark.schober@edu.uni-graz.at |
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review: Markus joined our group in May 2009 to support our biochemistry subunit. In the beginning we had a hard time in understanding his Carinthian dialect, but as we got used to it it became clear that we had made the right choice. Despite his really huge knowledge about biochemistry, he turned out to be a real good lab mate. And by the way, Markus does not only contribute with his chemical talent, he also improves the working atmosphere with a good portion of humor. read more... |
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| Robert Christian SIMON | |
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tel: +43-316-380-5356 mail: robert.simon@uni-graz.at |
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review: Robert turned into an “elk” in June 2011 after finishing his PhD at the Jülich research center with Prof. Jörg Pietruszka. But before starting he had to prove his talent as a interior decorator as he had to completely move into new laboratory rooms (as far as I have seen his talent is moderate to good ;-)). However, having everything settled now, he started working and exactly fullfilled our prejudice of him being a f…ing good synthetic chemist.read more... |
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| Gábor TASNÁDI | |
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tel: +43-316-380-8646 mail: gabor.tasnadi@uni-graz.at |
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review: Our international lab fraction (German, Italian, French, Indian and Finnish) was strengthend when Gabor (Hungarian) joined our group in November 2010 as a PostDOC. He did his PhD studies in Hungary at the University of Szeged on the Pharmaceutical Institute before bringing his broad knowledge in organic synthesis and analytics to Graz. read more... |
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| Katharina TAUBER | |
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tel: +43-316-380-8638 mail: tauberk@edu.uni-graz.at |
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review: Kathi came from Lavanttal in Carinthia to Graz to start her studies in chemistry and history. To our pleasure she focused more on chemistry and biochemistry than on history: as a consequence she joined our group already as a diploma student. She is not only keen on solving the daily sudoku in the newspaper, she is also solving the daily miracles of biocatalysis and chemistry in a very distinguished way. read more... |
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| Michael TOESCH | |
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tel: +43-316-380-5349 mail: michael.toesch@edu.uni-graz.at |
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review: Michi was born in Bruck an der Mur and raised in Krieglach. After a stint at the military forces in Wolfsberg, Michi did what obviously most people from this area do: He went to study chemistry at the university of Graz. Michi is a versatile strategist who is not only into reading and playing chess but also conquering extraterrestrial worlds in Starcraft. read more... |
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| Nikolaus TURRINI | |
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tel: +43-316-380-5349 mail: nikolaus.turrini@edu.uni-graz.at |
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review: Niki’s transformation into an elk occurred in January 2012. This happened for a precise reason: his difficult mission is to broaden the already vast substrate scope of ene-reductases and apply this knowledge to the synthesis of odorant and possibly tasty compounds. If his mission succeeds, the transformation will proceed to the Master level. read more... |
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| Christoph WINKLER | |
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tel: +43-316-380-8646 mail: christoph.winkler@edu.uni-graz.at |
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review: Christoph is a highly motivated and happy guy who is really fascinated about the chemistry stuff. You can always find him in the lab-screening difficult substrates, preparing an organic synthesis and making a column purification. During his diploma thesis he learned a lot about organic synthesis and he really get used to tricky organic compounds. Moreover whenever he finds time you can see him reading a book - most often at the bus station. read more... |
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| Christiane WUENSCH | |
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tel: +43-316-380-8646 mail: christiane.wuensch@edu.uni-graz.at |
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review: Christiane is one of the members of the group coming from Carinthia (right from Villach) to augment our biochemist crew. So, she studied biochemistry at KFU and did her diploma thesis in our group in the field of enzymatic Canizzaro-reactions. After graduating she spent a couple of months in the US, at the Ohio State University to pick up some nice american accent. read more... |
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