Venia docendi (Habilitation) in Molecular Genetics, Johannes Kepler University, Linz

Ph.D. in Molecular Biology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA. Advisor: Norman Arnheim

M.Sc. in Zoology, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, USA. Advisor: Robert D. Bradley

B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Biology--summa cum laude, Universidad de las Américas, México. Advisor: Dr. Javier Garcés-Eisele.

Exchange student at McGill University, Montreal, Canada

Associate Professor and Senior Group Leader of Single Molecule Genetics, Institute of Biophysics, Johannes Kepler University, Austria

Assistant Professor and Group Leader of Single Molecule Genetics, Institute of Biophysics, Johannes Kepler University, Austria

Assistant Professor and Group Leader of Single Molecule Genetics, Institute of Biophysics, Johannes Kepler University, Austria

Senior Research Associate, Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, UK

Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Molecular and Computational Biology, University of Southern California, USA

Research Assistant, Department of Molecular and Computational Biology, University of Southern California, USA

Research Assistant, Department of Zoology, Texas Tech University, USA

SFB Meiosis (FWF the Austrian Science Fund); Co-PI of 9 Pis

Linz Institute of Technology (LIT); JKU Covid-19 Testing. Principal Investigator

Interreg, European Research Grant with Budweis, CZ (REGGEN: ATCZ207)’; Co-PI with Mikal Zurocev

DK NanoCell, University of Linz; Co-PI

FWF the Austrian Science Fund (P30867-B26). Age related mutagenesis of driver genes in the male germline. Principal Investigator.

Linz Institute of Technology (LIT). Seed research grant. Discovery of New mutations using ultra-sensitive sequencing. Principal Investigator.

FWF the Austrian Science Fund (P27698). Binding properties of PRDM9. Principal Investigator.

FWF the Austrian Science Fund (P25525). Higher mutations in older men. Principal Investigator.

FWF the Austrian Science Fund (P23811-B12). Mutagenic recombination. Principal Investigator

Center of Excellence in Genomic Sciences (NHGRI), Pilot Grants by the University of Southern California (ITI0701821).

Lise Meitner fellowship awarded by the Austrian Science Funds

Doctoral Grant. Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia (CONACYT), the Mexican Ministry of Science and Technology.

Fellowship from the Association for the Advancement of Women in Science

Chancellor Fellowship of the Texas Tech University, Texas.

Pilgerstorferpreis awarded by the Upper Austrian medical society for outstanding scientific achievements

Upper Austrian researcher of the year; Landespreis Oberösterreichische Forscherinnen

Regional award from the state of Upper Austria for Outstanding Research and Collaborative Effort (Winner in the category of Arts and Science)

Award for women with outstanding career track record in science and engineering--WiSE (Women in Science and Engineering)

Outstanding Achievement Award from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA.

Embriologenforum Austria (EFA); „Driver mutations in the male germline“.

European Society of Human Genetics (ESEB), Gothenburg, Sweden: “Recombination, conversions, and mutations”.

European Society for Evolutionary Biology (ESEB), Groningen, Neatherlands; “Drivers of the evolution of hotspot”.

2017

Austrian Association of Molecular Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Innsbruck, Austria; "Changes in the FGFR3 signaling cause mutations to expand with age in the male germline" (selected talk)

EMBO Meeting, Mannheim, Germany; “Sequence evolution at recombination hotspots”.

Embriologenforum Austria (EFA); "Is sexual reproduction mutagenic“.

The Human Mutation Meeting, Leipzig; "Mutagenesis at recombination hotspots“.

20^th Aniversary Meeting of the Science School Universidad de las Americas; "About the origin of mutations in our genome: an analysis at single molecule resolution".

2015

Society of Molecular Biology and Evolution (SMBE) Meeting, Vienna, Austria; "The evolution of short indels at meiotic recombination hotspots". (selected talk)

Embriologenforum Austria (EFA); "The paternal age effect; an analysis of its origins“.

2014

6th OEGMBT annual meeting Life Sciences Meet Entrepreneurship, Vienna, Austria; "Assessment of PRDM9 Zinc Finger binding with DNA of Recombinatin Hotspots". (selected talk)

2010

Austrian Association of Molecular Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Vienna, Austria; "Screening meiotic recombination on microscopic beads 2010". (selected talk)

2008

Marie Curie-- Genome architecture in relation to disease, Madrid, Spain. "High throughput analysis of methylation patterns to track stem cell divisions." (selected talk)

2005

55th Meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics. Platform Session, Salt lake City, USA; "Analysis of fine structure recombination patterns in a human chromosomal region not previously known to harbor a recombination hot spot". (selected talk)

1999

American Society of Mammalogists, Seattle, WA, USA; "Molecular phylogenetics of the Peromyscus boylii species group". (selected talk - best presentation award)

Austrian Institute of Science (IST),  Lunch seminar series, Host: Nick Barton, “The evolution of polyAs at a recombination hotspot”.

Departmental seminar, Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Lisbon Medical School: “Age-related mutagenesis of driver genes in the male germline”

Departmental seminar, Penn State University: “Selfish mutations are important drivers of the paternal age effect”.

Departmental seminar Computational and Molecular Biology, University of Southern California: “How meiosis drives the sequence evolution at recombination hotspots”.

Gemeinsamer Seminarabend, Medizinische Gesellschaft OÖ und Johannes Kepler Universität Linz; "Mehr Mutationen dank älteren Männern? Eine Studie von seltenen Mutationen“.

Centro de Biomedicina, Universidad do Algarve, Portugal; "New evidence for positive selection explaining the paternal age-effect observed in achondroplasia"

VetMed University, Vienna; "The enigma of recombination hotspots"

Austrian Institute of Technology, Vienna; "Genetics on microscopic beads-the uses of bead-emulsion amplification"

Austrian Association of Molecular Life Sciences and Biotechnology; "Screening meiotic recombination on microscopic beads".

University of Vienna, Max F. Perutz Laboratories; "What can we learn about meiotic recombination from human sperm?"

Cancer Research Institute, Cambridge, UK; "Can we track the human somatic cell tree using beads?"

Johannes Kepler University, Linz; "Measuring rare events in genomic DNA".

VetMed University, Vienna; "The human somatic cell ancestral tree. Can it be reconstructed using microscopic beads?"

University of Philadelphia, School of Medicine, Department of Genetics; "Spying on sperm to understand recombination".