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RESPIRATORY CELL PHYSIOLOGY

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Thomas Haller, PhD, Assoc. Prof.

Was born in Feldkirch and studied biology in Innsbruck. After graduation (1987) with a work on intermediary metabolism in fish tissues he worked at the Univ. of Utrecht on carbohydrate turnover in locust flight muscles before he went on as high-school teacher for biology and ecology. Later he was involved in developing scientific instruments and in charge of several basic and applied research projects assigned by pharmaceutic industries. From 1989-1992 he held a research position at the Dept. of Zoology, Innsbruck, focusing on mitochondrial enzymatics and thermodynamics, followed by a Fulbright Scholarship for the Medical College of Ohio for studies on ischemia/reperfusion effects in isolated hearts. He then changed to the Univ. Konstanz to continue with mitochondrial bioenergetics until obtaining a Faculty Position at the Dept. of Physiology in Innsbruck, where he graduated in 1997 with a PhD thesis on the role of acidic Ca2+ stores in renal cell signaling. He then finally moved into lung physiology and habilitated at the same Dept. in 2003 on exocytosis in pulmonary epithelial cells, a topic in which he is engaged right until now, complemented by various research projects on biophysical aspects of the respiratory air-liquid interface.

TH was PI of several national (FWF P20472, FWF P17501, ÖNB 7413), and international (Acciones Integradas 06/2005) research projects, co-applicant in FWF P12974 and FWF P11533, and member in a Marie Curie Research Training Network (Pulmo-Net). He received the Aventis Award in 1999, was awarded several poster prices and selected for featured articles and is holder of several patent applications (see main page). Since years, he has a monthly live radio broadcast (Freirad) on various scientific and related topics and is running a podcast in the Cultural Broadcasting Archive (CBA). He is married (second time) and, since recently, father of two children.

Since years, TH is in close collaboration with the Universities of Ulm and Madrid with joint research projects.

Phone: +43(0)512 9003-70807
Email: Thomas.Haller@i-med.ac.at

Dr. Norbert Mair

Dr. Norbert Mair is a biologist from Tirol with focus on electrophysiology. He has research activities in lung and pain physiology.

Phone: +43(0)512 9003-70815
Email: Norbert.Mair@i-med.ac.at

 

 

Dr.med. univ. Simon Woyke

Dr.med. univ. Simon Woyke completed his studies in human medicine at the Medical University of Innsbruck and is since then an intern at the university hospital for anaesthesia and intensive care. In Thomas Haller’s laboratory, he focuses his research on the haemoglobin-oxygen binding curve and on developing a measuring technique.

Phone: +43(0)512 9003-70815
Email: Simon.Woyke@i-med.ac.at

Former PhD students (with graduation):

Nina Hobi (2012, PhD): Interfacial stress sensation and response in alveolar type II cells.

Andrea Ravasio (2009, PhD): Sensing and feedback mechanisms between alveolar cells, pulmonary surfactant and interfacial forces

Cristina Bertocchi (2007, PhD): Alveolar Type II cells: from Exocytosis to Surfactant Activation

Peter Schullian (2007, Med. Thesis): Investigating fusion events in alveolar type II cells

Heike Stockner (2003, Med. Thesis): Biophysikalische Untersuchungen von Surfactant-Interaktionen an künstlichen air-liquid interfaces 

 

Visiting scientists (selection): 

Prof. Jesus Pérez-Gil, Madrid, 2014

Dr. Virginia Bouzas, Madrid, 2011

Dr. Alejandro Cerrada de Duenas, Madrid, 2010

Prof. Antonio Cruz, Madrid, 2007

Dr. Ignacio Garcia Verdugo, Paris, 2007

Prof. William Taeusch, San Francisco, 2006

Dr. Nina Ivanova, Ulm, 2006

Prof. Dennis Voelker, Denver, 2006

Prof. Jens Coorssen, Calgary, 2005

Prof. Henk Haagsman, Utrecht, 2004

Prof. Goran Enhorning, Buffalo, 2001