Heiko Blaser

EDUCATION

College / University

Zurich University of Applied Sciences Winterthur
University of Maastricht
University of Zurich

Highest Degree

Bachelor of Science

Major Subjects

Biotechnology, biology, organic and bio-analytical chemistry, chemical engineering

Country

Switzerland

Lab Experience

Biotechnology: fermentation of bacteria and yeast cells
Molecular Biology: common used methods, yeast two-hybrid system

Projects / Research

S-piperazine-2-carboxylic acid production out of R,S-piperazine-2-carboxylamide in whole cells used Klebsiella terrigena (ZHW, Lonza AG), "Effect of Fenprocumon to gene expression of MGP in chicken embryo" (University of Maastricht), Research in the "Direct association of Bloom´s syndrome gene products with the human mismatch repair protein MLH1", (University of Zurich)

Publications

G. Pedrazzi, C. Perrera, H. Blaser, P. Kuster, G. Marra, S. L. Davies, G.-H. Ryu, R. Freire, I. D. Hickson, J. Jiricny and I. Stagljar (2001) Direct association of Bloom´s syndrome gene products with the human mismatch repair protein MLH1. Nucleic Acids Research 29 (21)

Scholarships / Awards

2001 – 2002:

Bayer AG Stipend

SCIENTIFIC INTERESTS AND GOALS

Interested in mismatch repair (MMR), recombination and replication to get further links to cancer research. Interested in doing functional genomics and proteomics.