Past public presentations
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PhD student | Thesis title | Supervisor
10 March 2023, Hybrid, 08:30 - 16:45 CET
- Pablo Aycart Lazo: Functional diversity and interactions of birds, bats and arthropods in tropical cacao agroforestry systems: linking biodiversity conservation and ecosystem service management
Supervisors: Bea Maas, Stefan Dullinger - Krystof Chytry: Topography and related microclimate in alpine landscapes and how they shape vegetation’s response to climate change
Supervisor: Stefan Dullinger - Johannes Hausharter: The role of micro-climate and micro-environment for population dynamics of alpine plants
Supervisor: Stefan Dullinger - Ekin Kaplan: Temporal Changes and underlying Drivers of the Richness and Composition of Europe’s Native and Non-Native Flora
Supervisors: Franz Essl, Stefan Dullinger - Jessica Carolina Gomes da Silva: Microbial biotransformations in biogeochemical cycles
Supervisor: Maria Filipa Baltazar de Lima de Sousa - Bushra Ijaz: Targets of Ca2+-dependent protein kinases (CDPKs) in regulatory stress response network
Supervisors: Andreas Bachmair, Markus Teige - Isha Joshi: Analysing the interrelation of the DNA damage and pathogen signaling pathways in plants
Supervisor: Peter Schlögelhofer - June Feliciano Ordonez: Neuronal cell type development in the chaetognath Spadella cephaloptera (Busch, 1851)
Supervisor: Tim Wollesen - Savannah Schaufler: Sustainability Reset: Questions of Behavioral and Cultural Changes Revealed by COVID-19
Supervisors: Harald Wilfing, Tatiana Konrad - Paul Klostermann: A Bioarchaeological Study of Pubertal Timing in Human Remains
Supervisors: Sabine Eggers, Mary Lewis (University of Reading, England) - Manuel Staggl: Drivers of Elasmobranch Diversity in Deep Time
Supervisor: Jürgen Kriwet - Pratiksha Acharya: Influence of resource and consumer diversity on the quality and microbial processing of fine particulate organic matter during leaf breakdown in streams
Supervisors: Christian Griebler, Katrin Attermeyer - Stefano Mari: The importance of dietary omega 3 fatty acids for development of cognitive skills in wild fishes through the lens of Tingbergen’s four
Supervisors: Martin Kainz, Libor Zavorka
11 November 2022, Hybrid, 09:30 - 14:30 CET
- Christian Geier: Flower-insect interactions in the Eocene to Oligocene of central Europe.
Supervisors: Fridgeir Grimsson - Jeannette Becker: Comparative analysis of respiratory health during the medieval period in Austria
Supervisors: Sylvia Kirchengast - Oliver Link: The origin and evolution of striated muscle cells in Metazoa.
Supervisor: Ulrich Technau - Teerna Saugata Khastgir: The drivers of the adaptive radiation of persimmons on New Caledonia, a biodiversity hotspot.
Supervisor: Ovidiu Paun - Fariha Naz Apon: Functions of cell wall integrity sensors in plant stress responses.
Supervisors: Peter Schlöglhofer, Marie-Theres Hauser - Yovita Astuti Djohan: Defense mechanism of Pisum sativum towards Didymella pinodes infection with and without heat.
Supervisors: Stefanie Wienkoop, Andreas Bachmair - Florian Danzinger: A safe operating space for agricultural landscapes: integrating green infrastructure, ecological restoration and stakeholder involvement.
Supervisor: Stefan Dullinger, Thomas Wrbka - Sadia Sabrina Alam: The role of post-translational modifications in plant resilience.
Supervisor: Andreas Bachmair, Markus Teige - Maximilian Dreer: Biofilm formation and transformation of Ammonia Oxidizing Archaea.
Supervisor: Christa Schleper
09 June 2022, Hybrid,13:15 - 17:45
- Nina KRAUS: Hemodynamic influences on heart morphogenesis of the developing chick outflow tract
Supervisor: Brian METSCHER - Koto KON: Elucidating the role of transposable element activity in hydra regeneration
Supervisor: Oleg SIMAKOV - Constanze Hedwig SCHATTKE: Witnesses of Violence? Combining Bioarchaeology and Provenance to research violence in the acquisition contexts of human remains in the Department of Anthropology, Natural History Museum Vienna from 1857 – 1935
Supervisor: Sabine EGGERS (NHM Wien), Harald WILFING - Lukas DIRR: The Application of Citizen-Science and Crowd-Sourced Data in the Field of Aerobiology
Supervisor: Fridgeir GRIMSSON - Daniel MARTINOVIC SAAVEDRA: The role of enzyme promiscuity on organic phosphorus cycling in the ocean
Supervisor: Federico BALTAR - Giulia MANSO MARCHIORO: Functional diversity of coral fluorescent proteins in mesophotic reefs
Supervisor: Luise KRUCKENHAUSER - Andreas GATTRINGER: Plant migration in silico - Methods for simulating plant dynamics in a warming world
Supervisor: Stefan DULLINGER - Tom VORSTENBOSCH: Modelling the future of biological invasions in the sub-Antarctic under climate change
Supervisor: Stefan DULLINGER - Ana Isabel MARTINEZ RICHART: Landscape connectivity in forests. A multi-taxa case study on stepping stones between the Dürrenstein-Lassingtal Wilderness Area, and the Kalkalpen and Gesäuse National Parks, Austria
Supervisor: Franz ESSL, Jana PETERMANN (Univ. Salzburg)
11 March 2022, Online, 10:00 - 12:00 CET
- Ahmed M.M. HUSSEIN: Cognitive enhancement by targeting the dopaminergic system by DAT inhibitors on Spatial- dependent learning and memory in the Rats brain.
Supervisors: Christian STUDENIK and Francisco MONJE QUIROGA - Lisa ROURESSOL: Genomic novelty underlying symbiotic organ evolution in bobtail squids.
Supervisors: Oleg SIMAKOV and Margaret McFALL-NGAI - Carlos Antonio PÉREZ RÍZQUEZ: Underlying mechanism(s) of the symbioprotein ferritin on legume root nodule formation and drought stress.
Supervisor: Stefanie WIENKOOP - Norbert HELM: Linking the micro with the macroscale in alpine plant ecology.
Supervisor: Stefan DULLINGER
10 December 2021, Online,10:30 - 13:30
- Mildred Jessica JOHNSON: The life cycle and systematics of the boring ctenostome bryozoan families Immergentiidae and Spathiporidae
Supervisor: Thomas Schwaha - Constantin KOPPER: Pantropical pollination syndromes and pollinator shifts in Melastomataceae
Supervisor: Jürg Schönenberger - Thomas PRIBASNIG: Energy and carbon metabolism of Nitrososphaeria
Supervisor: Christa Schleper - Barbara REISCHL: Physiological characteristics and biotechnological application potential of archaeal pure- and artificial co-cultures (closed to the public)
Supervisor: Simon Rittmann - Marcel SEIFERT: Walk lt Like You Talk lt: Closing the Value-Action Gap in Climate Action with Experimental Evidence from a Climate Game and the Financial Advice Process
Supervisor: Harald Wilfing - Tobias VIEHBÖCK: Compaction and organization of animal symbiont chromosomes
Supervisor: Silvia Bulgheresi
10 June 2021, Online, 09:00 - 15:00 CET
- Eva BREYER: OCEANIDES – "Oceanic fungal ecology and biogeochemistry".
Supervisors: Federico Baltar Gonzáles and Gerhard J. Herndl - Leo CAPARI: Anatomy of challenge driven R&I: The cases of energy transition and demographic change
Supervisor: Harald Wilfing - Iris FISCHER: Ecological status of aquatic habitats in Vienna: critical comparison of classical monitoring and molecular genetic methods to assess species distribution and composition of the dragonfly fauna.
Supervisor: Elisabeth Haring - Lena FRAGNER: Eco-metabolomics From Moderate to Tropical Climate - Molecular Insights to Colonization Strategies of Ecological Niches.
Supervisors: Wolfram Weckwerth and Stefanie Wienkoop - Wan LI: The potential role of natural product Nordbergerin for immunomodulation in macrophages.
Supervisor: Wolfram Weckwerth - Sanjay NARAYANASWAMY: Assessing senescence in the regenerative and long lived Nematostella vectensis.
Supervisor: Ulrich Technau - Victoria OBERREITER: Mineralogical Preservation of the Human Biome from the Depth of Time.
Supervisors: Ron Pinhasi and Thomas Rattei - Hayk PALABIKYAN: Presentation closed to the public.
Supervisor: Simon Rittmann - ŠIMKOVÁ Petra: Morphological variation and covariation in human postcanine dentition.
Supervisor: Gerhard Weber - Randy TEAL: Floral resources and the movement of key pollinators along the biological corridor, COBIGA, in the fragmented tropical lowlands of Costa Rica.
Supervisor: Jürg Schönenberger - Brina ZAGORC: Sex-specific variations in the health status of subadult Central European skeletal populations during Antiquity and Early Medieval times.
Supervisor: Ron Pinhasi
25 March 2021, Online, 09:00 - 14:00 CET
- Arnaud BEGAT: Mesozoic elasmobranch fish (sharks, skates, and rays) ecology and diversity patterns before extinction events.
Supervisor: Jürgen Kriwet - Anna-Maria GSCHWANDNER: Remoteness and size as determinants of Lake Ecosystem stability (RemoLake).
Supervisor: Robert Ptacnik - Angus S. HILTS: The Oxygen Gambit: How life risked the reactivity of oxygen for energetic gain.
Supervisor: Filipa Sousa - Jiahang LI: Development of Systematic Mathematic Matlab-based Software for the Analysis of Environmental, Clinical and Translational Large-scale OMICS Datasets.
Supervisor: Wolfram Weckwerth - Alena KIZENKO: Genomic and evolutionary stability behind animal regeneration.
Supervisor: Oleg Simakov - Anastasiia PADALKO: Metabolic traits prediction and validation in Archaea.
Supervisors: Filipa Sousa and Oleg Simakov - Susanne REIER: Genetic variation of small cyprinids in the karst area.
Supervisor: Luise Kruckenhauser - Teresa Maria WINTER: Ecology of Zoothamnium assemblages on experimental shallow water wood falls.
Supervisor: Monika Bright - Benjamin WÖLFL: Footprints of Polygenic Adaptation.
Supervisor: Joachim Hermisson
11 December 2020, Online, 09:00 - 14:30 CET
- Silvia BASANTA: Evolution of the cell-cell communication network at the fetal-maternal interface.
Supervisor: Mihaela Pavlicev - Julian BIBERMAIR: Evolution of Phylactolaemate bryozoans.
Supervisor: Thomas Schwaha - Sebastian H. DECKER: Life cycle and systematics of boring bryozoans.
Supervisor: Thomas Schwaha - Clara GROOT CREGO: Disentangling the evolutionary drivers of an adaptive radiation in Tillandsia.
Supervisor: Ovidiu Paun - Christina HEDDERICH: The Sources of variation fuelling adaptive radiation after long- distance dispersal in New Caledonian persimmon (Diospyros).
Supervisor: Ovidiu Paun - Paul KNABL: BMP signaling in the cnidarian germ line.
Supervisor: Grigory Genikhovich - Karen KÖLZER: Authenticity of urban honey: Specific challenges for palynology and how diversification of methods can overcome them.
Supervisor: Martina Weber - Raphael MÜLLER: Mechanisms of Peat Formation in Different Wetland Ecosystems.
Supervisor: Stephan Glatzel - Alice RETTER: Groundwater microbial biodiversity along an alpine river catchment and its link to hydro-meteorological extremes.
Supervisor: Christian Griebler - Maryam Alsadat ZEKRI: Water’s gateway to heaven 3D imaging and modeling of transient stomatal responses in plant leaves under dynamic environments.
Supervisor: Ingeborg Lang