GROUP LEADER
A/Prof. MARKUS MUTTENTHALER
Staff
UniVie
DR. KIRTIKUMAR B. JADHAV
UniVie
DR. PREDRAG KALABA
UQ
DR. SATISH DIGHE
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UQ
DR. GENE HOPPING
UQ
DR. HARRISON MADGE
UniVie
DR. KATRINA WOOLCOCK
UniVie
MIA JURACIC
Students
PhD STUDENT – UQ
MICHAEL
PhD STUDENT – UniVie
BERNHARD JANDL
PhD STUDENT – UniVie
KONSTANTIN RAABE
PhD STUDENT – UniVie
MONIKA PERISIC
MASTER STUDENT – UniVie
Manuel Uhlir
MASTER STUDENT – UniVie
Felix Grössing
MASTER STUDENT – UniVie
JUSTINA REIS
Former Staff and Students
Postdocs / Senior scientists
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
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
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)