Molecular Microbiology
Past projects
- Impact of nitrogen metabolite repression and other wide domain control systems on the regulation of the penicillin biosynthesis gene cluster of Penicillium chrysogenumfunded by FWF (P11164-MOB). 1996-1999
- Molecular regulatory mechanisms of iron assimilation in Aspergillus and their links to fungal pathogenicityfunded by FWF-Project (P13202-MOB). 1999-2003
- Molecular tools for the genetic manipulation of Acremonium chrysogenumfunded by Biochemie GmbH, Novartis Kundl/Austria Industrial collaboration. 2002-2005
- Iron assimilation and pathogenicity of Aspergillusfunded by FWF (P15959-MB07). 2003-2006
- Eurofungfunded by EU International networking programme on industrially used fungi. 2004-2008 http://www.eurofung.net/
- Siderophores and virulence of Aspergillus fumigatusfunded by FWF (P18606-B11). 2006-2008
- Transcriptional networks controlling virulence in filamentous fungal pathogens (TRANSPAT)ffunded by ERA-NET-Pathogenomics/FWF-Project (I282-B09) International collaboration with Gerhard Braus/Göttingen/Germany, , Ana Conesa/Madrid/Spain, Sven KrappmannWürzburg/Germany and Antonio di Pietro/Cordoba/Spain (coordinator). 2009-2013 pathogenomics-era.net/lw_resource/datapool/_items/item_356/finalbooklet.pdf
- Fuminomicsfunded by ESF Research Networking Program connecting European research on Aspergillus fumigatus. 2008-2012 http://www.esf.org/index.php?id=4793
- Iron homeostasis-maintenance in A. fumigatusfunded by FWF (P21643-B11). 2009-2013 FWF Project P21643-B11
- Oxygen regulation and stress in industrial fungifunded within the Christian-Doppler-laboratory "biotechnology of fungi" International collaboration with Ulrich Kück/Bochum/Germany (coordinator). 2010-2015 http://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/cd-labor/index.html
- Systematic identification of antifungal drug targets by a metabolic network approach (AspMetNet)funded by Infect-ERA/FWF (I1616) International collaboration with Thomas Dandekar/Würzburg/Germany, Sven Krappmann/Erlangen/Germany (coordinator), Nir Osherov/TelAviv/Israel. 2014-2017http://www.infect-era.eu/projects/aspmetnet
- Siderophore-mediated diagnosis of fungal infectionsfunded within the FWF doctoral programme "host response in opportunistic infections (HOROS)" (W1253, coordinator Prof Reinhard Würzner, Innsbruck/Austria). 2014-2017 https://www.i-med.ac.at/horos/
- Novel molecular mechanisms of iron sensing and homeostasis in filamentous fungifunded by FWF/DACH (I1346) International collaboration with Axel A Brakhage/Jena/Germany, Peter Hortschansky/Jena/Germany and Michael Groll/Munic/Germany. 2014-2017
- Characterisation of heme metabolism in Aspergillus fumigatusfunded by FWF (P25978). 2014-2017
- Host response in opportunistic infections I (HOROS I,coordinator Reinhard Würzner) funded by FWF (DK W1253). 2014-2018
- TOR adaptation to iron deficiency in pathogenic fungi funded by FWF (M 1962-B21, Lise-Meitner fellowship to Dr. Manuel Sánchez López-Berges, co-applicant Hubertus Haas). 2016-2018