Dr. Susanne Helm

- responsible for 3- and 5-part diff. haemat. analyser as well as HbA1c device throughout the product lifecycle - 2nd level support for affil. and distrib. in the EMEA region, release management, documentation for internal and external use, complaint and requirement management - collaborate with other departments e.g. tPM, software test team, SCM and the RA department - marketing support of preparing international product launches, collecting new requirements, developing and conducting product trainings

"Stage-specific genexpression: analysis and usage of a liver stage-specific promoter in Plasmodium". Methods: Generation of transgenic parasites; culture of mammalian carcinoma cell lines, indirect immunofluorescence analysis, fixed and lice cell imaging, wide field microscopy, dual luciferase assays, 5’-RACE, quantitative real-time PCR, mutagenesis, band shift assays, in vivo imaging (IVIS, Caliper) Supervisor of students

"Characterization of a liver stage-specific promoter in Plasmodium berghei". Methods: Generation of transgenic parasites; culture of mammalian carcinoma cell lines, immunofluorescence microscopy; fixed and lice cell imaging; wide field microscopy; luciferase assays

"Metabolic engineering of Clostridium acetobutylicum". Methods: Generation of transgenic anaerobe bacteria, anaerobic culturing of bacteria, SDS-Page, enzymatic activity assays in cell free extracts, spectrophotometric assays

"Sources of phages of antagonistic bacteria in the rizosphere of various economic plants". Methods: Isolation of bacteria and phages out of rhizosphere, Box PCR fingerprinting, dual culture tests, 16S rDNA sequencing

Mikrobiologie, Molekularbiologie, Genetik