Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Angela SESSITSCH Head, Bioresources Unit, Department Health & Environment, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH, Seibersdorf
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| 1982-1990 | M.Sc. in Chemical Engineering (Bio- and Food Chemistry) with distinction, Graz University of Technology |
| 1990-1991 | Partial participation in post-graduate studies on economics and law, Vienna University of Technology |
| 1992-1997 | Ph.D. (Molecular Microbial Ecology), Department of Microbiology, Wageningen Agricultural University, The Netherlands |
| 1990-1994 | Research on Biological Nitrogen Fixation at the FAO/IAEA Laboratories Seibersdorf, Austria |
| 1994 | Research on marker genes at the Center for the Application of Molecular Biology to International Agriculture (CAMBIA), Canberra, Australia |
| 1994-1996 | Associate Professional Officer at the FAO/IAEA Agricultural and Biotechnology Laboratory Seibersdorf |
| 1996-1997 | Microbiologist at the FAO/IAEA Agricultural and Biotechnology Laboratory Seibersdorf |
| 1997 | Post-doctoral position at the Wageningen Agricultural University, Department of Microbiology, Wageningen, The Netherlands. Research on the ecology of Lactobacillus spp. in the large intestine of the human gastrointesinal tract IAEA expert mission to Ghana. Teaching of molecular biology techniques in Rhizobium research |
| 1998-1999 | Herta-Firnberg fellowship at the Division of Life Sciences, Austrian Research Centers GmbH |
| 1999-2002 | APART habilitation fellowship from the Austrian Academy of Sciences |
| 2002-2004 | Microbiologist at the Austrian Research Centers GmbH, Leader of the "Molecular Microbial Ecology" group of the Biotechnology Unit |
| 2003 | Venia docendi (Habilitation) in Microbial Ecology, Institute of Soil Science and Center of Applied Genetics at the University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna |
| since 2004 | Head of the Bioresources Unit at the AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH |
Mitgliedschaften
| Austrian Commission of Gene Technology, since 1999 | |
| Member of the Executive Committee of the Austrian Society for Molecular Life Sciences | |
| Austrian Society for Hygiene, Microbiology and Preventive Medicine | |
| Society for Applied Microbiology |
Publikationen
| Bodrossy L., Sessitsch A.: Oligonucleotide microarrays in microbial diagnostics. Curr. Opin. Microbiol., 2004 | |
| Sessitsch A., Hackl E., Wenzl P., Kilian A., Kostic T., Stralis-Pavese N., Tankouo-Sandjong B., Bodrossy L.:Diagnostic microbial microarrays in soil ecology. New Phytologist, invited review, 2006 | |
| Tankouo Sandjong B., Sessitsch A., Stralis-Pavese N., Liebana E., Kornschober C., Allerberger F., Hächler H., Bodrossy L.: Development of an oligonucleotide microarray for Salmonella serotyping. Microbial Biotechnology, 2008 | |
| Allerberger F. and Sessitsch A.: Incidence and microbiology of salads ( a review). CAB Reviews: Perspectives in Agriculture, Veterinary Science, Nutrition and Natural Resources, 2009 |
Auszeichnungen
| APART fellowship 1999-2002 (Austrian Academy of Sciences) | |
| Nominated by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) as member of the Scientific Panel (2003-2006) and as ad-hoc expert (2006-) on Genetically Modified Organisms | |
| ARC Award for scientific excellence 2003 and 2005 | |
| Editorial Board: FEMS Microbiology Ecology; Journal of Biomedicine and Biotechnology; Biology & Fertility of Soils |
