Travel Grant Recipients

Name	Host Lab	Dissertation Topic
Simon Becher Section 8 - Chemical Design and Analysis of Molecular Systems	FELIX Laboratory, Nijmegen, Netherlands	Structural investigations of biomolecules using an optimized MS ultraviolet Photodissoziation setup
Vannuruswamy Garikapati Section 1 - Nutrition and Metabolism	School of Pharmacy and Department of Chemistry Wisconsin-Madison, USA	Mass spectrometry imgaing for the study of lipid metabolism connected to the peroxisome/PPAR system
Wiebke Hansen Section 9 - Ecology and Global Change	Department of Evironmental and Life Sciences, Karlstad, Sweden	Conservation and restoration of the biodiversity of mountain meadows in the Rhön Biosphere Reserve - Management of the invasive perennial Lupinus polyphyllus in a complex system of protected areas
Florian Ulrich Jehn Section 9 - Ecology and Global Change	Research Group of Professor Dr. Jan Seibert, Hydrology and Climate, Zürich, Switzerland	Automated construction of hydrological models by evolutionary algorithms
Anton George Müller Section 2 - Infection and Immunity	Kanost Lab, Dept. of Biochem. & Molecular Biophysics, Manhattan, USA	Functional Role of Duox in Manduca sexta Gut Immunity
Michael Thomas Waletzko Section 8 - Chemical Design and Analysis of Molecular Systems	Analytical Chemistry, Uppsala, Sweden	Development and application of nanospray desorption electrospray ionization for the examination of biomolecules
Björn Weeser Section 9 - Ecology and Global Change	Water and Global Change Observatory (OACG), San José, Costa Rica	Climate and land use change impacts on hydrological fluxes and soil erosion in tropical mountainous rainforests of Eastern Africa

Name	Host Lab	Dissertation Topic
Andre Heinrich Section 8 - Chemical Design and Analysis of Molecular Systems	Weill Cornell Medicine, Laboratory of Urological Oncology, New York, USA	Contributions to toxicokinetics and toxicodynamics of antiparasitics in selected invertebrates using quantitative analysis and imaging mass spectroscopy
Stephan Leisengang Section 5 - Neurosciences	Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology , Glasgow, UK	Effects of inflammatory stimulation on primary cell cultures of structures involved in thermoregulation and pain manifestation
Fabian Pflieger Section 5 - Neurosciences	INRA (French National Institute for Agricultural Research) laboratoire, Bordeaux, France	Multimodal analyses of brain phospholipid species, their metabolites and relevant enzymes during systemic inflammation
Divya Rawat Section 1 - Nutrition and Metabolism	Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Nashville, Tennessee, USA	Studies on Instant Platelet-mediated reaction in pancreatic islet transplantation
Julián José Rodríguez Montesinos Section 3 - Heart, Lung and Blood Vessels	Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore	Die Rolle von Zytokinen und Immunzellen bei kardialen Ischämie/Reperfusion unter Beteiligung von extrazellulärer RNA
Arthur Francis Sands Section 9 - Ecology and Global Change	Scientific and Technology Research and Application Center, Burdur, Turkey	The role of the satellite region Anatolia in the evolution of Pontocaspian molluscs over the past 3 Ma, through the phylogenetics of aquatic gastropods. With added focus on taxonomy and conservation thereof.
Meysam Taghinasab Section 7 - Bioresources, Bioinformatics and Biotechnology	Department of Plant Pathology at the University of Florida, USA	Analysis of bacteria and fungi in the rhizosphere of grasses
Chen-Yon Tobias Tschang Section 2 - Infection and Immunity	Biological Nanoscale Reactive Flow Laboratory, Sendai, Japan	Characterization of a new Plasma source and Application in Bacteria Sterilization

Name	Host Lab	Dissertation Topic
Ebrahim Azadniya Section 8 - Chemical Design and Analysis of Molecular Systems	Italian Institute of Technology , Drug Discovery and Development Unit, Genova, Italy	Development of HPTLC-NMR in the analytical scale for employment in the field of effect-directed analysis in herbal extracts
Matteo Lattuada Section 9 - Ecology and Global Change	Malacology of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia	Modelling and predicting Pontocaspian biodiversity change and crisis
Lena Lottig Section 5 - Neurosciences	Institut de Neurociències Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain	Functional role of nicotinic receptors in colonic epithelium
Franziska Wagner Section 4 - Protein and Nucleic Acid Interactions	Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour Radboud, University Nijmegen, Netherlands	Gene expression studies on organotypic cultures of adult mouse retina: a model system for gene therapeutic approaches.

Name	Host Lab	Dissertation Topic
Stefanie Buxa	Department of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences (DISA) Udine, Italy	Pathogen-associated molecular pattern-triggered remote control of sieve element protein-signalling and sieve-tube occlusion.
Viktoria Dotz	Inst för Klinisk vetenskap, pediatrik Umea universitet Umea, Sweden	Metabolic aspects of human milk oligosaccharides
Wei Fan	Laboratory of Signal Transduction National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences	Role of peroxisomes in bone remodelling and the pathogenesis of osteoporosis
Parameswari Govindarajan	Department of Experimental Therapeutics Houston, TX, USA	A detailed study of the implications of the diet, steroid and estrogenic cessation in osteoporotic disease status of small and large animal model
Linlin Hou	Department of Chemistry, School of Science, The University of Tokyo Tokyo, Japan	Structural and functional analysis of the interaction of specific protein and protein domains with the core of the RNA exosome in the hyperthermophilic archaeon Sulfolobus solfataricus
Amit Joshi	University of Caen Caen Cedex- FRANCE	The pathophysiological significance of Factor Seven (FVII) activating protease (FSAP) in stroke
Amit Joshi	Universität Bern - University of Bern Theodor Kocher Institute Bern, Schweiz	The pathophysiological significance of Factor Seven (FVII) activating protease (FSAP) in stroke
Naga Deepa Kandula	Diabetes and Islet Biology Laboratory Faculty of Medicine, The University of Sydney Camperdown, Australia	Epigenetic mechanisms involved in the conversion of human PANC-1 ductal cell line into insulin-secreting cells.
Vivien Kauschke	Convenor Centre for Neuroscience Anatomy & Histology/School of Medicine Flinders University Bedford Park, South Australia	“Influence of aetiology adapted bone substitutes on the regulation of bone remodeling in systemically diseased bone.”
Peter Krause	Genomics and Bioinformatics Unit Temuco Chile	RNAi-induced insect resistance in rapeseed
Tamara Munoz-Caro	Campus Isla Teja Valdivia, Chile	“Neutrophil Extracellular Traps (NETs) as innate effector mechanism against Eimeria bovis” (and other apicomplexan parasites)
Edmilson Oliveira de Filho	Central Veterinary Institute, Wageningen University and Research Centre, Department of Virology, Lelystad, The Netherlands	Molecular studies on Hepatitis E virus (HEV)
Gani Oruqaj	Children Hospital Los Angeles, University of Southern California	Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS) and lipid metabolism in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis - role of peroxisomes in the pathogenesis of this devastating disease
Subhash Pai	Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research Ithaca, New York, USA	Investigation of the role of CRT1 gene family in plant defense mechanisms
Ranjithkumar Rajendran	Center for Neurologic Diseases Brigham and Women's Hospital Boston, MA, USA	Evaluation of the Fibroblast growth factor receptor 1 in Experimental Autoimmune Encephalomyelitis (EAE) and its role in Multiple Sclerosis (MS)
Jenny Schneiders	Neuroimmunology Laboratory Douglas Mental Health University Institute McGill University Montreal Montreal, Quebec, Canada	The role of chemokines and immune cells for communication pathways to the brain during systemic inflammation
Marzieh Shafiee-Hajiabad	Institut für Botanik und Pharmakognosie Veterinärmedizinische Universität Wien Wien, Austria	Environmental effects on morphological and phytochemical parameters of Origanum sp.
Feng Zhang	CSIRO Plant Industry Canberra, Australia	Investigating roles of effectors in the interaction between Piriformospora indica and plants

Name	Host Lab	Dissertation Topic
Saravanan Subramaniam	Experimental Vascular Pathology Department of Pathology Maastricht University Medical Centre, Maastricht, Netherlands	Pathopyhsilogical significance of Factor Seven (FVII) activating protease (FSAP) in thrombosis and atherosclerosis
Ivonne Zuravka	Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences University of Padova, Padova, Italy	Synthesis and Structure-Activity Relationship of Bis-3-Chloropiperidines as Bifuntional DAN Akylating Agents
Tao Zhang	Microbiology and Immunology Philadelphia, USA	Glutathionylation processes and their biological effects on selected proteins in plasmodium falciparum
Sarah Jane Barnard	Canada Research Chair in Pharmaceutical Sciences University of Alberta Edmonton, AB, Canada	The K-Ras-induced signal transduction in carcinoma cells of the lung and the pancreas and the influence of Galectin-8 on K-Ras-
Julia Kokesch-Himmelreich	National ESCA and Surface Analysis Center for Biomedical Problems University of Washington Seattle, WA, USA	Investigation of biological cells using Time of flight secondary ion mass spectrometry (ToF-SIMS)
Fazal Adnan	Priority Research Center in Chemical Biology University of Newcastle Callaghan NSW, Australia	Regulatory Mechanisms involved in singlet oxygen stress response in Rhodobacter sphaeroides
Anja Schwiebs	Clinical Institute of Medical and Chemical Laboratory Diagnostics Medical University of Graz Graz, Austria	Identification, characterisation and biological significance of metabolites of the B-type natriuretic peptide
Lisa Würner	Institute of Medicine Sahlgren's University Hospital Göteborg, Sweden	Modification of neuronal excitability by mediators of inflammation
Kristina Maier	Pathogenes Inc. Reddick, FL, USA	Study on pathogenesis and therapy of Sarcocystis calchasi sp. nov. in the domestic pigeon (Columba livia f. domestica)
Melanie Jopp	Institute of Inorganic Chemistry University of Zurich Zürich, Switzerland	Radiolabelling of Trilostane
Chamindri Witharana	Howard Hughes Medical Institute Harvard Medical School Boston, MA, USA	Subcellular organization of the Sulfolobus solfataricus exosome
Hector Cabrera-Fuentes	John A. Burns School of Medicine University of Hawaii Honolulu, HI, USA	Pathophysiological role of extracellular RNA in ischemia-reperfusion injury and new therapeutic modalities using RNase
Backialakshmi Dharmalingam	Pain Research Institute Institute of Translational Medicine University of Liverpool Clinical Sciences Building University Hospital Aintree Liverpool, Great Britain	In-Vitro effects of CRPS (Complex Regional Pain Syndrome) serum-IgG on Neuronal and Cardiac cells using Cardiomyocytes Bioassay

Name	Host Lab	Dissertation Topic
Janina Preuss	Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute, University of San Diego, USA	High-throughput screening of inhibitors against human and Plasmodium falciparum glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase
Hector A. Cabrera Fuentes	Center for Cardiovascular Research, University of Hawaii, USA	Pathophysiological role of extracellular RNA in ischemia-reperfusion injury and new therapeutic modalities using RNase
Esmaeil Kamal	CHUM-Hospital Notre-Dame, University of Montreal, Canada	Evaluation of the fibroblast growth factor receptor 2 in experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis and its possible role in multiple sclerosis (MS)
Sandy König	Neuroimmunology Lab, McGill Universtiy of Montreal, Canada	Age-dependent effects of the PPAR agonist rosiglitazone on molecular mechanisms for the induction of inflammatory mediators and brain derived sickness responses in rats
Miguel Rojas	Arrhenius Lab, University of Stockholm, Sweden	Deciphering the molecular basis of the specificity of protein-carbohydrate interactions by statistical analyses of 3D structural data from the Protein Data Bank (PDB)
Jutta Schlegel	Telethon Institute for Genetics and Medicine (TIGEM) Napoli, Italy	Development and characterization of a humanized disease-model for X-linked RP in mice due to a point mutation in the RPGR-gene
Viola Spamer	Department of Entomology, University of Los Angeles, USA	Shifts in plant gene expression and corresponding phloemsap components during trilateral interaction of barley (Hordeum vulgare), aphid species Rhopalosiphum padi and the aphid- transmitted barley yellow dwarf virus (BYDV)
Daniel Soetkamp	National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, Bethesda, Washington, USA	Characterization of the Import and Function of Connexin 43 (Cx43)in Mitochondria
Wei Fan	National Institute of Environmental Health Science, North Carolina, USA	Role of peroxisomes in bone remodelling and the pathogenesis of osteoporosis
Franziska Mohring	Institute of Pharmaceutical Science, King's College, London, Great Britain	Characterization of antiparasitic peptides from insects
Yaser Dezhkam	Department of Clinical Animal Science, Oslo, Norway	Formation and transport of estrone sulfate in the porcine testicular-epididymal com-partment and its function as a precursor of bioactive estrogens
Edmilson Ferreira de Oliveira Filho	Department of Infectious and Parasitic Diseases, University of Liège, Belgium	Hepatitis E Virus: Detection and Molecular Characterization