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Recent projects

  • Bacterial communities in the phyllosphere of salad
          Fed. Ministry for agriculture and environment
  • Gastrointestinal Microbiota in immune compromised patients

          Jubiläumsfond, Austrian National  Bank

Running Projects

  • Public Health Genomics, PHGEN II

          European Commision

  • Analysis  of GI- microbiota for nutritional counselling and  uses of probiotcs

          FWF

  • Probiotics for the Preventon of Antibiotika induced diarrhoea

          third party fund

Starting project

  • Epigenetic regulation of inflammatory gene expression in the metablic syndrome and with caloric restriction

 

Experiences and Cooperations

Head of research laboratory, microbial immunology

Lecturing and research at the Institutes of Microbiology and Genetics, Ecology and Nutritional Sciences at the Universities of Vienna/Austria

Research at the Institute for Social Exonomic and Ecological Sustainability, ISSES, at the University of Minnnesota/USA


Expert of the Federal Ministery of Health, Austria; preparation of "Gentechnik Gesetz"

Expert of World Health Organisation, Department of Food safety and participation in FAO/WHO expert consultations on GM foods

Participation of European Commission and OECD expert groups in the field of Biotechnology


Lead author for the UN Millennium Ecosystem Assessment


Expert in the US- Environmental Protection Agency, ad hoc FIFRA scientific advisory panel

Expert in PHGEN, public health genomics EU working group


SCientist at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Leucemia Research Ludwig Boltzmann Institute


Member of the Forum Austrian Scientists for Nature protection/ Forum Wissenschafter für Umweltschutz


working group Integrated Health Care