GROUP LEADER
A/Prof. MARKUS MUTTENTHALER
Staff
UniVie
DR. KIRTIKUMAR B. JADHAV
UniVie
DR. PREDRAG KALABA
UniVie
DR. DORA BOGDAN
UniVie
DR. STEPAN DENISOV
UQ
DR. GENE HOPPING
UQ
DR. HARRISON MADGE
UniVie
DR. KATRINA WOOLCOCK
Students
PhD STUDENT – UniVie
MONIKA PERISIC
PhD STUDENT – UniVie
BERNHARD JANDL
PhD STUDENT – UniVie
KONSTANTIN RAABE
PhD STUDENT – UQ
MICHAEL
PhD STUDENT – UQ
LEONARDO MARCAZZAN
PhD STUDENT – UQ
FLORIAN BACHMANN
PHD STUDENT – UQ
RIZANA AZEES
MASTER STUDENT – UniVie
DOMINIK WINDISCH
Former Staff and Students
Postdocs / Senior scientists
Mia Juračić: Blood-brain barrier assays (Uni Vie, 2022-2024)
Mireia Belil: Process development for isotope-labelled amino acid production (Uni Vie, 2023-2024)
Marijo Jevtić: Recombinant protein process optimisation (Uni Vie, 2023-2024)
A/Prof Dhulfiqar Ali Abed: Development of advance near- infrared fluorophores (UQ, 2022-2023)
Satish Dighe: New synthetic approaches to develop peptide theranostics (UQ, 2020 - 2023)
Roberta Aina: Targeting gastrointestinal biofilms (Uni Vie, 2019-2022)
Caterina Vizzardelli: Expression of human TFF2 (Uni Vie, 2022)
Steve Reynaud: Venom peptides crossing the blood-brain-barrier (Uni Vie, 2021)
Nayara Braga Emidio: Understanding trefoil factor wound healing modulators (IMB, 2019-2021)
Bradley Hoare: Production of isotopically-labelled amino acids (Uni Vie, 2020-2021)
Elena Deliu: New treatment strategies for gastrointestinal disorders (Uni Vie, 2018-2020)
Vineeta Khare: Analysis of gastrointestinal biofilms (Uni Vie, 2019)
Alejandra Gallardo-Godoy: Tracer development for breast cancer management (IMB, 2018-2020)
Laia Miret: Molecular probe development to study memory formation (IMB, 2017-2018)
Research Assistants
Alicia Peschel: Establishment of blood-brain-barrier assays (Uni Vie, 2020-2021)
Lukas Scheibelberger: Design and synthesis of photocaged neuropeptides (Uni Vie, 2019)
Hayeon Baik: Mechanisms of action of the trefoil factor family (Uni Vie, 2019)
Manuel Pristner: Gut biofilm biomarker discovery (Uni Vie, 2019)
Leopold Dürrauer: Mechanisms of action of the trefoil factor family (Uni Vie, 2019)
Ngari Teakle: Mapping OT/VP receptors throughout the gut (IMB, 2017 - 2018)
PhD Students
Thomas Kremsmayr: Development of gut-stable oxytocin analogues (Uni Vie)
Huiping Liu: Development of OTR-specific tracers for breast tumour detection (IMB, 2017-2021)
Anke Hering: Analytical method development to detect oxytocin (IMB, 2015-2020)
Nayara Braga Emidio: Chemical synthesis of trefoil factor family peptides (IMB, 2015-2019)
Helen Mendel: Development of a neuropeptide discovery pipeline (IMB, 2015-2019)
Yesica Garcia: p-Nitrobenzyl protection for cysteine and selenocysteine (IMB, 2009)
Debbie Feytens: Synthesis of water-soluble BODIPY analogues (IMB, 2008)
Master Students
Justina Reis: Development of heterobivalent OTR-D2R ligands (Uni Vie, 2022-2023)
Felix Grössing: Oxytocin and vasopressin receptor antibody development ( Uni Vie, 2022-2023)
Manuel Uhlir: Isotope-labelled amino acid process development (Uni Vie, 2022-20230
Miray Sahinkaya: Recombinant protein expression of human TFF2 (Uni Vie, 2022)
Altea Topciu: Heterobivalent ligands targeting the OTR-CBR2 (Uni Vie, 2022)Roel Kerkers: Biofilm assay development (Uni Vie, 2022)Bojan Kuridža: Oxytocin and vasopressin antibody validation (Uni Vie, 2022)
Leonard Steiner: Discovery of gut-stable venom peptides (Uni Vie, 2021)
Cihan Ay: Development of novel TRICEPS probes (Uni Vie, 2019-2020)
Alicia Peschel: Heterobivalent venom peptides targeting sodium channels (IMB, 2018-2019)
Diego Noriega: Recombinant expression of trefoil factor peptides (IMB, 2017)
Julie Peters: Venom peptides targeting Malaria (IMB, 2017)
Olivia Claes: Beta2 adrenergic receptor nanobody mimetics (IMB, 2017)
Louise Anker: Synthesis of Cy5 labelled prokineticin Bv8 by native chemical ligation (IMB, 2010)
Søren Langer Steffensen: Semisynthetic approaches for the synthesis of Bv8 (IMB, 2010)
Alexis Depauw: Fluorescent labelling of a-conotoxin RgIA using click chemistry (IMB, 2009)
Honours Students
David Lee: Structure-activity relationship study of human TFF3 (IMB, 2018)
Beverly Jieu: Optimisation of neuropeptide extraction protocols (IMB, 2018, first class)
Thi Ngoc Hue Tran: Structure-activity relationship study of human TFF3 (IMB, 2017, first class)
Undergraduate Students
Dylan Ines: Fluorescent Dynorphin Probes (Uni Vie, 2024)
Fabian Hink: Design and synthesis of cyclic oxytocin receptor modulators (Uni Vie, 2018)
Jake Parker: Neuropeptides in breast milk (IMB, 2018)
Uliks Lulo: TFF3 mimetics (IMB 2018)
Brendon Villiers: Venom peptide discovery using FLIPR high-throughput screening (IMB, 2017)
Chiharu Mandakini Hettiarachchi Krankanamalage: Synthesis of peptide tracers (IMB, 2017)
Marco Martinez: Oxytocin ligand synthesis (IMB, 2017)
My Tran Hoai: Chemical synthesis of memory probes (IMB, 2017)
Peishan Chen: Influence of Cu(II) on Ab peptide aggregation in Alzheimer's disease (IMB, 2017)
Adila Izgutdina: Neuropeptide extraction protocol development (IMB, 2016)
Kendrick Diaz: The use of the oxime-reaction for the assembly of peptide dendrimers (TSRI, 2013)
Jing Wu: Use of bulky side-chain groups to improve synthesis of aggregating peptides (TSRI, 2012)
Andrew Mulligan: Formation of diselenide bonds in oxytocin analogues (IMB, 2007)