Group Leader

Microbial Biochemistry

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Thomas Böttcher

CV

+​43-1-4277-70550

Academic Staff

Dr. Felix Anderl

Senior Scientist

+43-1-4277-70551

Dr. Barbara Hufnagel

Senior Scientist (on leave)

+43-1-4277-70551

Technical Assistants

Erika Gasparotto, MSc

creative leader

 +43-1-4277-70562

Anastasiia Riabchenko, MSc

manager

 +43-1-4277-70556

Postdocs

Dr. Magdalena Jancheva

Postdoctoral Researcher

Microbe-prophage interactions

 +43-1-4277-70566

Dr. Gina Porras Brenes

Postdoctoral Researcher

Natural product isolation & structure elucidation
Microbe-prophage interactions

 +43-1-4277-70566

Dr. D​ávid Szamosv​ári

Postdoctoral Researcher

Cluster of Excellence Project "Microplanet"
Eavesdropping Interdomain Signals and Modulators

 +43-1-4277-70557

PhD Students

Verena Filz, MSc

manager

Microbe-prophage interactions
Chemical probes / competitive ABPP

 +43-1-4277-70563

Shubham Joge, MSc

manager

Microbe-prophage interactions
Bioassay development

 +43-1-4277-70562

Etta Jost, MSc

creative leader

Quorum sensing inhibition
Chemical probes / competitive ABPP

 +43-1-4277-70564

Jessica Neubauer, MSc

creative leader

Microbe-prophage interactions
Mechanism of prophage inducers

 +43-1-4277-70562

Thi-Hong Nhung Nguyen, MSc

manager

Ultra-narrow spectrum antibiotics
Synthesis of quinolones

 +43-1-4277-70556

Konstantin Plöchl, MSc

programming guru

Microbe-prophage interactions
Protein ligand binding

 +43-1-4277-70564

Viktoriia Savchenko, MSc

manager

Microbe-microbe interactions
Biosynthesis of microbial quinolones

 +43-1-4277-70563

Philipp Schmid, MSc

manager

Ultra-narrow spectrum antibiotics
Chemical probes / target identification

 +43-1-4277-70564

Nathalie Wörz, MSc

manager

Microbe-host interactions
Chemical probes / competitive ABPP

 +43-1-4277-70564

Jan-Philipp Wittlinger, MSc

manager

shared project with Prof. David Berry (DOME)
Microbiome induced pruritus

 +43-1-4277-70563

Master Students

Paulina Plienegger, BSc

Organic Synthesis

 +43-1-4277-70558

Paul Hutze, BSc

Ultra-narrow spectrum antibiotics
Synthesis of quinolones

 +43-1-4277-70556

Julia Kaltenböck, BSc

Quorum Sensing Inhibition / ABPP

 +43-1-4277-70562

Esther Kothbauer, BSc

Metalloenzyme Inhibitors

 +43-1-4277-70564

Lab Alumni

In addition our group is and has been host to numerous BSc candidates, ERASMUS students and internships.