Ortrun Mittelsten Scheid

Background

Dr Ortrun Mittelsten Scheid joined the GMI as a Senior Group Leader in 2004, following a very successful career in Switzerland. Dr Mittelsten Scheid was Interim Science Director of the GMI from 2007-2009.

Nationality: German

Academic Qualifications

• Diploma (MSc equivalent) in Biology: University of Hamburg, Germany, 1981

• PhD: University of Hamburg, Germany, 1985

Postdoctoral Training & Positions Held

• Postdoctoral Fellow: Max Planck Institute for Cell Biology, Ladenburg, Germany, 1985-1987. Laboratory: Prof. Hans-Georg Schweiger

• Postdoctoral Fellow: Institute for Plant Sciences at the Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland, 1988-1992. Laboratory: Prof. Ingo Potrykus

• Research Associate: Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland, 1992-2003. Laboratory: Prof. Jerzy Paszkowski

• Interim Scientific Director: Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria, 2007-2009.

Fellowships & Research Funding

• PhD Fellowship: German Merit Foundation, 1981-1983

• Fellowship: German Research Council (DFG), 1988-1990

• Grant: Swiss National Foundation (SNF), 1992-1994

• Grant: Swiss Federal Office for Education and Science (BBW), and European Union Program 'Human capital and mobility', 1994-1996

• Grant: Swiss Federal Office for Education and Science (BBW), and European Union Program 'Biotechnology IV', 1997-1999

• Grant: Swiss Federal Office for Education and Science (BBW), and European Union Program 'Biotechnology V', 2001-2003

• Grant: GENome Research in AUstria Project (GEN-AU), 2006-2009

• Grant: Austrian Science Fund (FWF), 2006-2010

• Grant: EU Network of Excellence (Epigenome), 2006-2010

• Grant: European Science Foundation/FWF (EEFG), 2010-2013

Teaching Experience

• Laboratory courses: University of Hamburg, Germany. 'Biology for medical students', 'Basic botany', 1981-1985

• EMBO advanced laboratory course: ETH Zurich, Switzerland. 'Gene transfer to plants', 1991

• Lectures: University of Basel, Switzerland. 'Non-Mendelian genetics', 'Milestones in plant molecular biology', 'Plant biotechnology', 1993-1998

• Supervision of graduate and undergraduate students: FMI Basel, Switzerland, 1992-2003

• Journal club: FMI, Basel, Switzerland. 'Epigenetics', 2000-2003

• Laboratory courses: Biocenter and FMI Basel, Switzerland. 'Plant cell and molecular biology', 1996-2003

• Supervision of graduate and undergraduate students: Gregor Mendel Institute of Plant Molecular Biology, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria, 2004-present

Ortrun Mittelsten Scheid's teaching at the University of Vienna, Austria.

Honors & Awards

• Habilitation (Botany), University of Basel, Switzerland, 2000

• Habilitation (Genetics), University of Vienna, Austria, 2006

• NET Member: Epigenome Network of Excellence, 2006

Patents

• Amedeo P, Habu Y, Mittelsten Scheid O, Paszkowski J (1999). Gene involved in epigenetic gene silencing (WO 01/00801)

• Steimer A, Mittelsten Scheid O, Paszkowski J (1999). Transcriptionally silenced plant genes (WO 01/20010, U.S. Patent 7005263)

Publications

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