Today, I am proud to share that my PhD thesis with the title “Cell-cycle-dependent gene regulation by Mcm1p-complexes in Saccharomyces cerevisiae” has been accepted, and my Ph.D. (Dr. rer. nat.) has been granted by the Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany.
Between 1994 and today, I had the opportunity to do basic oncological research on the genetic regulation of the cell growth at the Institute for Molecular Biology at the Hannover Medical School. I was using yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) as model organism for eukaryotic cells, which on molecular level share many commonalities. My scientific research was specifically targeting a better understanding of the cell-cycle-dependent gene regulation by transcriptional regulatory ternary complexes. The latter play key roles in the control of eukaryotic cell growth … which is out of control in cancer cells.
My work was funded by a scholarship for the DFG Graduate Student Course “Molecular Pathophysiology of the Cell”. And I would like to take the opportunity giving a big thank you to my supervisor Prof. Dr. Alfred Nordheim, to an army of amazing and supportive colleagues in Hannover as well as at the Vienna Biocenter, and – last not least – to my mother for her kind “sponsorship”.
This journey has ended. And I am already curious about the next one to begin,
