Martina Poeschl

• preparing small and large-scale plasmids • designing Primers and performing plasmid mutagenesis reactions • purifying of genomic DNA and Plasmids • in vitro cell culture techniques (freezing cell stocks, seeding cells for transfection in order to produce retroviral vectors, assessing vector infectivity, determining vector susceptibility and vector titer)

• isolating and cultivating human skin cells from biopsies • performing proliferation assays on primary cell lines • performing immunofluorescence assays and confucal microscopy • transforming bacteria, amplifying plasmids in bacterial culture • transfecting dermal Fibroblast, performing siRNA knockdown of target genes

Tutor for the degree program „Engineering, Environmental and Biotechnology“

Public Relation Manager for the degree program Biology: - organizing visits to schools and informing about scientific courses of study at the University of Innsbruck/ Multiplicator at schools/ education fairs • organizing open house days at the University of Innsbruck and performing guided tours for interested girls (age 15- 19) • organizing the biology special of the „Summer University“ Innsbruck for girls (age 6- 10)

Research Assistant for the european project „MARK- AGE“ (European study to establish biomarkers of human aging) Field of Responsibility: - analyzing blood samples using ELISA assays - performing FACS analyses (Antibody labeling of cells, measuring and analyzing) - Magnetic cell sorting of human PBMCs - performing immunohistochemical stainings

Bacteriological diagnosis: evaluating, assessing and documenting human blood, faeces, urine and mucosal cells

Virology, Immunbiology, Labratory Animal Science

Molekularbiologie, Mikrobiologie