Members

Kristina is responsible for the Protein Expression Facility, within the Molecular Biology Service. She uses E.coli and P. pastoris expression systems. Kristina provides recombinant proteins of general use, such as proteases, polymerases and growth factors, and recombinant antibodies. In addition, she works in close collaboration with research groups on specific projects, designing expression constructs and developing tailor-made protein expression and purification protocols. She has also established and maintains a collection of expression vectors. Kristina also provides training and technical assistance to students.

• Office: IMP 2-015
• Phone: 3945
• Mail: kristina.uzunova(at)imp.ac.at

Robert complements the Molecular Biology Service Team by establishing and improving techniques that are of general interest (e.g. seamless cloning, in vitro RNA transcrition, isolation of nucleic acids) or needed for complex techniques like Phage Display (e.g. cloning nanobody libraries).  Moreover, one of his responsibilities is to offer products frequently used in molecular biology in a "ready to use" and quality controlled way using the enzymes produced by our Protein Expression Facility (e. g. MiniPex nucleic acid isolation and purification kit, 2x Gibson mastermix, 100 bp and 1 kb ladders).  He is assisting researchers in setting up liquid handling robotics, instructing people in using the facility’s devices and is the contact person for medium scale fermentation of cells lines for the production of monoclonal antibodies.

• Office: IMP 2-015
• Phone: 3948
• Mail: robert.heinen(at)gmi.oeaw.ac.at

Markus runs together with Martina the Sanger sequencing service. He takes over the samples and sets up sequencing reactions.

• Office: IMP 2-015
• Phone: 3940
• Mail: markus.hohl(at)imp.ac.at

Jiss graduated in Biotechnology and joined IMP in 2007 as a Technician in Rumpel´s group. Since 2015 she is a member of MBS team. She worked in Media Lab from 2015-2018. Since 2020 she is working in the MBS Lab and her duties involves processing the Colony picking and Mini prep requests using the Liquid Handling robotics, Stem media supplement preparation and Pathogen Testing. She is assigned as a substitute for the Sanger sequencing team and can help you with your requests for the human cDNA library available at MBS.

Office: IMP 2-015

After graduating in agriculture she began her career as a media expert at the Institute of Dairy Technology of the Veterinary University of Vienna where she established standard methods for monitoring Listeria for example, or prepared media for student courses. Since 2005 she has worked in the Media Kitchen of the IMP-IMBA, the tasks here being indeed thematically similar, but the incredible amounts that are consumed put the emphasis squarely on production.