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Markus_KellerMarkus A. Keller

Phone:  + 43 512 9003 70550
Email: markus.keller@i-med.ac.at
Institute of Human Genetics,
Medical University of Innsbruck

Peter Mayr Str. 1, 6020 Innsbruck

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CURRICULUM VITAE

1.9.2016 - Senior Post Doc at the Division of Human Genetics, Medical University of Innsbruck
1.9.2015 - 31.8.2016 Senior Post Doc at the Division of Biological Chemistry, Biocenter, Medical University of Innsbruck
10/2012 - 08/2015 University of Cambridge Systems Biology Centre, Molecular Biology of Metabolism Group (Markus Ralser)
02.08.2012 Dr. rer nat. in Chemistry, University of Innsbruck (first class honours)
2009 - 2012 PhD thesis "Ether lipid degradation in mammalia" (supervisour: Ernst R. Werner) at Innsbruck Medical University
2007 - 2008 Diploma thesis “Pyrenedecanal: a novel tool to study the fate of long chain fatty aldehydes” (supervisour: Ernst R. Werner) at Innsbruck Medical University
2002 - 2008 Studies of chemistry at the University of Innsbruck
1993 - 2001 Bundesrealgymnasium Imst
1983 born in Konstanz, Germany

FUNDING

TWF-Project UNI0404/958 (2011-2012): Investigations in the reaction mechanism of fatty aldehyde dehydrogenase using deuterated substrates
Erwin Schroedinger Fellowship J3341 (2012 - 2016) of the Austrian Science funds (fwf) at the Department of Biochemistry (University of Cambridge, UK)
Cooperation-project 2015 from the “Jubiläumsfond” of the Innsbruck Universities (2016)
fwf Project P33333 Lipid peroxidation as driver of cardiolipin remodelling (2020-2023)
fwf Project P34574 Phospholipid remodelling in mitochondria (2021-2024)
FFG Project Tissue Model (2020-2023)

TEACHING

PhD-Course: Introduction to data analysis and visualisation with R
Human medicine module 2.05 body function in health and disease, Biochemistry 2

SCHOLARSHIPS

2015 “Sanofi-Aventis Award 2015” for the publication “A gatekeeper helix determines substrate specificity of Sjögren Larsson Syndrome enzyme fatty aldehyde dehydrogenase. Nature Communication (2014)”  
2013 ”GÖCH Award for the Best Doctoral Thesis” of the Austrian Chemical Society  
10/2012 - 09/2014 Erwin Schroedinger Fellowship J3341 of the Austrian Science funds (fwf) at the Department of Biochemistry (University of Cambridge, UK)  
01/2011 - 09/2012 Doc Fellowship of the Austrian Academy of Sciences(ÖAW): Enzymology of long chain aliphatic aldehyde metabolism in mammalia.
07/2011 - 10/2011 EMBO short term fellowship at the Department of Biomedicine, University of Bergen, Norway "Identification of pharmacological chaperones as potential therapeutic targets to treat the Sjögren Larsson Syndrome"
2009 ”GÖCH Award for the Best Diploma Thesis” of the Austrian Chemical Society
11/2009 - 04/2010 Doctoral fellowship of the Leopold-Franzens-Universität
since 2009 Scholarship program ”Pro Scientia
02 - 08/2009 Scholarship ”i-med Forschungsstipendium” of the Medical University Innsbruck