Author: Christian Velten

May 1994 – Dec 1997 / LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER & HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL – Basic oncological research on the genetic regulation of cell growth. Scholarship for the DFG Graduate Student Course “Molecular Pathophysiology of the Cell”.

I successfully completed my master in biology (Dipl.-Biol.) with a specialization on microbiology, genetics and biochemistry, Within the scope of my master thesis, I had the amazing opportunity to actively contribute to the sequencing and analysis of the first full genome of an eukaryotic organism, Saccharomyces cerevisiae (baker’s or brewer’s yeast). Which is an EU-funded projects with labs from all over Europe working together. As a result, I had the honor getting a co-author of the scientific publication of the results (which is quite uncommon for master theses). READ MORE … Miosga et al. (1995), “Sequence analysis of a 33.1…

Oct 1988 – Dec 1993 / TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DARMSTADT – Graduated with master level degree in Biology (Diplom-Biologe); majors: microbiology, biochemistry, mycology, and waste water treatment.