Manuela Ringbauer

Lead rebranding of Gene Therapy Center Austria (GTCA), align with Takeda CI • Develop & execute GTCA Marketing & Communication strategy (int. & ext.) • Lead website project: build, launch, maintain website www.GTCAustria.com • Execute strategy for market presence: planning and organizing conference presence (incl. sponsoring activities), conference tracking, knowledge sharing • Participate in representation at conferences & B2B partnering events

In addition to previous tasks: - Representing Vienna Open Lab at international conferences for science communication - Designing graphics, print forms and handouts for the lab workshop - Developing strategies to increase visitor numbers and acquire new target groups: planning promotions, preparing a marketing plan

In addition to previous tasks: • Leading public outreach activities (e.g. Long Night of Research): translating complex scientific topics for a broad audience, developing and organizing science-hands-on workshops; training of personnel • Leading marketing activities: planning and production of content in text, pictures, videos and animations for social media, website and newsletter • Planning and organizing the 10-years-anniversary event

Communication of life science topics to the non-scientific community - Planning, organizing and realizing public events with hands-on experiments - Developing of new laboratory-courses for different target groups ranging from kids at the age of five to adults - Concept and production of training videos for lab tutors (personnel) - Holding trainings explainers working at the Vienna Open Lab and school teachers

• Production of image-videos and videos explaining scientific publications (concept, camera, interview, editing, voice-over, animation, postproduction) • Creating scientific illustrations • Support with website maintenance (CMS TYPO3), PR & media service • Supervision and organization of events

As part of a team of 16 joung european journalists from 14 different nations, I was responsible for the official news channels of the European Forum Alpbach 2014. This included producing content for print and online in text- video- and multimedia formats. During that time I produced the most viewed video (2900 views): „Tyrolean for beginners“ http://www.alpbach.org/alpbuzz/2014/08/18/tyrolean-for-beginners/

+ Assistance in research and organising interview partners + Assistance at the day of shooting + Screening and selecting video footage

+ self-organized planning and executing of experiments + giving weekly work-in-progress presentations + supporting the other scientists in the team + Laboratory Techniques: murine stem cell work, molecular cloning, gel electrophoresis, Southern Blotting, electroporation, western blotting, fluorescence microscopy One-year scientific laboratory internship working on my Master theses project "Conditional knock-in to express a catalytically inactive mutant of DNMT1 protein in mouse"

+ performing DNA analysis operating a capillary gel electrophoresis + responsible for maintenance of capillary gel electrophoresis machines + optimization of working protocols for different analysis requests + designing „Standard Operating Procedure“ protocols (SOPs) I summarized a part of this work in my Bachelor Thesis with the topic “Development and Application of novel Capillary Electrophoresis Matrix Systems for Improved DNA Separation”.

TV, Radio, Print, Online and Multimedia // Specialization on TV and Video Production // Master Thesis - Infotainment zur Wissensvermittlung im TV

Molecular Medicine, Epigenetics // Master Thesis - Conditional knock-in to express a catalytically inactive mutant of DNMT1 protein in mouse

Biotechnology, Analytics // Bachelor Thesis - Development and Application of novel Capillary Electrophoresis Matrix Systems for Improved DNA Separation