2024
September
STATE PRIZE FOR EXCELLENT TEACHING
Angelika Lahnsteiner was honored on September 11. 2024 with the Ars Docendi State Prize for excellent teaching at Austrian universities. The prize is awarded in five categories and is endowed with 7,000 euros each. In 2024, 171 projects were submitted and 406 people were nominated.
The jury was particularly impressed by the award winner’s methodical approach to teaching, which manages to consolidate previously acquired knowledge and link it to new content. In its statement, the jury emphasized that a modern lecture culture consists not only in the successful transfer of knowledge, but also in the ability to orient students in an abundance of information, to demonstrate the importance of knowledge and to link the teaching content within the course of study.
The Ars Docendi State Prize for excellent teaching at public universities, universities of applied sciences, private universities and university colleges of teacher education in Austria is awarded to emphasize both the central role of teaching in the academic system and the important cooperation in the tertiary education sector. In addition, the award serves to promote quality development in university teaching and represents the highest possible recognition for teachers in Austria.
AG RISCH group had visited Hallein Salt Mine.
February
Congrats to our master student Victoria Ellmer! She received a 1.000€ stipend for her excellent performance during her master studies from PRO SCIENTIA ( https://www.proscientia.at).
Congratulation to our PostDoc Angelika! She received one of the PLUS Early Career Grants for her research about non-B DNA structures creating an inflammatory tumor microenvironment in subjects suffering from metabolic diseases.
January
Finally it is out now! Angelika established a sequencing method based on the Illumina platform to detect non-B DNA structures genome-wide. This collaborative work together with the group of Prof. Kateryna Makova (Penn State University, USA; https://www.bx.psu.edu/makova_lab/) was published in Methods in Enzymology, G4 edition, Elsevier.
Paper Link: In vivo detection of DNA secondary structures using permanganate/S1 footprinting with direct adapter ligation and sequencing (PDAL-Seq) – ScienceDirect
2023
December
Congrats to Angelika! She received the “PLUS Excellence in Teaching Award” for her lecture Epigenetik.
June
Congratulations to our Master student Elisa Schmiderer! With her research proposal at the University of Salzburg together with Dr. Angelika Lahnsteiner she received 1000€ funding for her project.
We congratulate her very much!
May
Congratulations on the latest review by Dr Angelika Lahnsteiner and colleagues Dr Bresgen, Dr Rinnterhaler and Kovacs, MSc. from PLUS and Dr Felder from SALK on “The Janus-Faced Role of Lipid Droplets in Aging: Insights from the Cellular Perspective”.
Link: https://www.mdpi.com/2218-273X/13/6/912
2021
September
Congratulations to Nicole Schreiner for completing her Masters degree and our best wishes to her for the future!
August
Twin methylome analysis followed by targeted bisulfite sequencing… we would like to thank our collaborators and are pleased to present Esther‘s latest paper:
July/August
We have packed up everything and have moved the labs and offices. You now find us on the 3rd floor of the Natural Sciences faculty main building, at Hellbrunnerstr. 34.
April/May
There has been a change in the team: Our trusted technician Anna Strobl has left us to try something new. We are thrilled to have recruited Dr. Zita Liutkevičiūtė to take her place. A warm welcome to our team!
March
FFG-funded „talente practical“ for pupils 2020: Sarah Konrad gathered lab-experience in our group last May. We are pleased to report that her written report of this practical has been rated as one of the 20 best reports. Unfortunately the planned prize ceremony in the Urania (Vienna) could not take place. Continue to FFG-article
February
We have performed targeted methylation analyses in lung cancer risk loci – and the results have just been published in Epigenetics: Link to article
2020
November
Congratulations to Angelika! She has received the starter grant of the Austrian Diabetes Society (ÖDG).
Her grant has the following title: “INVESTIGATION OF DNA SECONDARY STRUCTURES AS DRIVERS OF ALTERED EPIGENETIC MODIFICATIONS IN OBESITY AND TYPE 2 DIABETES”!
We are very happy with her!
June
1 year has passed and now it is time to say goodbye to our dear Katharina. Katharina supported us for 1 year as technical assistant! Thank you very much for your efforts, dear Katharina, we will miss you very much!
Congratulations Esther Schamschula for the paper:
Link: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32540173/
May
It is time so say goodbye to our Esther! Esther is now finished with the laboratory work and will now finish the writing part of her PhD thesis in the beautiful Tyrol! Esther, we will miss you!
April
We are proud to announce that Prof. Angela Risch is corresponding author of the following paper:
Link: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32272161/
2019
October
We have a new colleague in our team. Angelika Heißl will work for us as a postdoc. Welcome to the team, dear Angelika!
September
We congratulate Esther Schamschula for the “Best Poster Award” and Angelika Heißl for the “Best Talk Award” at this year’s ÖGMBT Congress! 
July
Our team has grown. Katharina Elsensohn will work for us as a technical assistant. Welcome to the team, dear Katharina!
Congratulations Sven Rouschop, Tanja Karl und Angela Risch for the paper:
Link: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31064776/
April
Congratulations to Johanna Bergbaur on finishing her master degree! The title of her master thesis is: “Chromosome conformation capture analysis of a putative enhancer region on chromosome 1”. We wish Johanna all the best for her fish farming!
March
Our colleague Esther Schamschula is one of the winners of the Marie-Andeßner-Dissertation Scholarships 2019! Congratulations!
More details: Gewinnerinnen der Marie-Andeßner-Dissertationsstipendien 2019
2018
August
Congratulations to Sissy Gunnarsdottir for successfully passing the Master’s exam! The title of her masters thesis is: “The functional analysis of a smoking-induced differentially methylated region on chromosome 1”.
We wish her all the best for her future scientific career!
July
We would like to welcome Sarah Pichler in our group. She is doing an internship sponsored by the FFG. Sarah’s project title is: “Methodological basics of molecular biology”.
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 for his 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“.
