Lucia Winkler
EDUCATION
College / University
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Highest Degree
Bachelor of Science
Major Subjects
Biochemistry
Country
Germany
Lab Experience
Working with membrane model systems: small unilamellar vesicles, solid supported bilayers, proteoliposomes, Langmuir-Blodgett-films. DNA techniques: purification, Gateway cloning, double enzyme digestion, PCR, gel electrophoresis. Protein techniques: recombinant expression in E.coli, protein purification through Nickel immobilized metal ion affinity chromatography, Western Blot. Other: Cultivation of anaerobic bacteria, confocal laser scanning microscopy, handling metagenomics results, circular dichroism spectroscopy, GUS-staining of transgenic plant material
Projects / Research
- 2020: Analysis of the diatom protein Silicanin-1 in a model membrane system (Bachelor thesis, supervisor: Prof. Dr. Claudia Steinem, Institute of Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, Göttingen)
- 2019: Metagenomic characterization of microbial consortia involved in the sulfur cycle (Students’ research project, supervisor: PD Dr. Michael Hoppert, Institute of Microbiology and Genetics, Göttingen)
- 2015: Role of MYB transcription factors in heat stress in Arabidopsis thaliana (Research internship, supervisor: Dr. Yariv Brotman, MPI of Molecular Plant Physiology, Golm)
Scholarships / Awards
| 2020 – 2021: | Stipend by the International Max Planck Research School. |
| since 2017: | German Academic Scholarship Foundation |
| 2015: | Scholarship for a research internship sponsored by the German Life Science Association (VBIO) |