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摘要

We are pleased to welcome Mr Florian Goessmtzer who joined the PBGL in August 2017. Florian studied Biology and Botany with specialization in plant physiology and plant chemistry at the University of Vienna, Austria, and finished his diploma thesis at the Department of Pharmacognosy in 2012. In his thesis, he dealt with the establishment of in vitro plant tissue cultures of Peucedanum ostruthium (a medicinal plant used in traditional Austrian medicine) using the soil bacterium Rhizobium rhizogenes that induces the hairy-root disease in dicotyledonous plants. Following this, he performed HPLC analysis of the secondary metabolites produced by these hairy roots. During his diploma thesis, he was employed at the department's Pharmaceutical Biotechnology Laboratory. For more than six years he acquired extensive knowledge through several projects dealing with the discovery of natural products from plants and microorganisms using state-of-the-art in vitro tissue culture, microbiological, molecular and analytical methods. In his most recent project, he was involved with the cultivation and identification of microorganisms from marine sediments of the deep sea. He also served as a lecturer at the Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research of the University of Vienna, teaching and training students in various techniques and methods of in vitro plant tissue culture. Florian's scientific background, his broad knowledge in several research fields and his extensive experience in laboratory management make him a valuable contribution to the PBGL team.