Salzburg for Ukraine Scientists

The Department of Biosciences and Medical Biology offers support for displaced Ukrainian scientists, PhD students and technical assistances by the FWF hop-on-grant opportunities for displaced scientists, PhD students and technical assistances:  https://www.fwf.ac.at/en/news-and-media-relations/news/detail/nid/20220314

These are the guidelines for researchers, including technical personnel:

• Refugees with Ukrainian citizenship
• Ukrainian citizens who have resided in Austria for a maximum of 2 years
• Maximum number of persons per FWF project: 2
• Maximum duration of employment: 12 months per person

If you need support, please directly contact the project leaders or the head of the department Fritz Aberger (). Following topics are available at the Department of Biosciences and Medical Biology of the Paris-Lodron University Salzburg:

• Trigger of allergic sensitization to birch pollen   Lorenz Aglas
  Allergy, sensitization, Th2 polarization, birch pollen
• Interaction between birch pollen and Toll-like receptors   Fatima Ferreira-Briza
  Birch pollen allergenicity, allergic sensitization, pollen adjuvants, dendritic cells, Toll-like receptors, Th2 polarization
• Allergy modulation by cytokine-mimetic peptides   Fatima Ferreira-Briza
  Birch pollen allergen, allergenicity, T regulatory cells, Th2 immune polarization, cytokine mimetic peptide, immunomodulation
• The dialogue between lipid droplets and mitochondria   Mark Rinnerthaler
  This project is dedicated to the love for and in cells. During stress and aging two organelles (mitochondria and Lipid droplets) get in physical contact to remove aggregates consisting of misfolded proteins. In this way the lifespan of cells (yeast as well as human) is greatly extended.
• How Gram+ pathogens impair E-cadherin functions   Silja Wessler
  HtrA proteases, inhibitor screening, activity profiles, infection biology, Listeria monocytogenes, Staphylococcus aureus

• Profiling of novel Helicobacter pylori proteases   Silja Wessler
  Novel proteases, substrate and inhibitor screening, H. pylori pathogenesis and inflammation, cancer biology
• Activity regulation of endo-lysosomal proteases and ligases   Elfriede Dall
  Cysteine proteases, Antigen processing, peptide cyclisation, substrate specificity and activity profiling, pathophysiologic enzyme translocation, enzyme inhibition
• Mechanism of bacterial collagen degradation   Esther Schönauer
  Metalloproteases, ECM degradation, enzyme kinetics, inhibitor screening, structural biology