Short CV
Martina Ortbauer born march 5, 1977, Eisenstadt, Austria
married
Academic Qualifications obtained
Dr.rer.nat
Biology
University of Vienna
04. 2005
Mag.rer.nat
Biology
University of Vienna
02. 2001
Studies in Biology
University of Vienna
1995-2001
Appointments
University Assistant
Department of Nutritional Sciences, Emerging 12.2011-present
Focus Nutrigenomics, Univ. Vienna (Prof. Jürgen
König)
Post-doctoral Researcher
Department of Applied Genetics and Cell Biology, 2009-2011
University of Natural Resources and Life
Sciences, Vienna (Assoc. Prof. Christian
Luschnig)
Research Scientist
Baxter Innovations GmbH (Vienna, Orth a.d. 2008
Donau)
Post-doctoral Researcher
Department
of
Biomolecular
Structural 2005–2008
Chemistry, "Biomolecular NMR Spectroscopy"
Max F. Perutz Laboratories, Univ. Vienna (Prof.
Robert Konrat)
Doctoral Student
Department of Chemical Physiology of Plants 2002-2005
(Prof. Marianne Popp) & Department of
Biomolecular Structural Chemistry (Prof. Robert
Konrat), Thesis: "Mechanism of protein
stabilization by cyclitols", Univ. Vienna
Publications
R. Benjamins, M. Ortbauer, J. Leitner, D. Lucyshyn, N. Malenica, B. Scheres and C. Luschnig, A
novel plant-specific regulator of transcription coordinates root tropism by spatial control of PIN2 auxin
carrier expression, submitted to Development 2012
M. Ortbauer, Abiotic Stress Adaptation: Protein Folding Stability and Dynamics, InTechOpen, Book
Title: Abiotic Stress, book chapter in print, 2012
J. M. Anzola, T. Sieberer, M. Ortbauer, H. Butt, B. Korbei, I. Weinhofer, A. E. Mullner, and C.
Luschnig, Putative Arabidopsis Transcriptional Adaptor Protein (PROPORZ1) is required to modulate
histone acetylation in response to auxin, PNAS 2010 107, 10308-10313
Aichinger, M., Ortbauer, M., Reipert, S., Zauner, W., Bogner, P., Froschauer, E., Nowikovsky, K.,
Lingnau, K., von Gabain, A., Schweyen, R. and Henics, T., Unique membrane-interacting properties of
the immunostimulatory cationic peptide KLKL5KLK (KLK), Cell Biol Int. 2008 Nov 32(11) 1449-58
Ortbauer, M., Popp, M., Functional role of polyhydroxy compounds on protein structure and thermal
stability studied by circular dichroism spectroscopy, Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, 2008 Apr
46(4) 428-34
Ortbauer (-Jaindl), M., Popp, M., Cyclitols protect glutamine synthetase and malate dehydrogenase
against heat induced deactivation and thermal denaturation, Biochemical and Biophysical Research
Communications, Volume 345, Issue 2, 30 June 2006, Pages 761-765
Other relevant activities/experience
Peer-reviewer for international journals
Enzyme and Microbial Technology
Plant Physiology and Biochemistry
International Journal of Biological Macromolecules
International Presentations
Ortbauer, M., A. Schedlbauer, P. Ozdowy, K. Bister & R. Konrat, Meta-structure based prediction and
experimental analysis of human emerin and osteopontin, Poster, XXIIIrd International Conference on
Magnetic Resonance in Biological Systems, August 24-29, 2008, San Diego, California, USA
Ortbauer (-Jaindl), M., Martin Tollinger, Karin Kloiber and Robert Konrat, NMR studies of protein
stability and dynamics in the presence of cyclitols, Poster, XXIIND International Conference on
Magnetic Resonance in Biological Systems, August 20-25, 2006, Göttingen, Germany
Ortbauer (-Jaindl), M., Karin Kloiber, Martin Tollinger and Robert Konrat, The influence of myoInositol on stability and dynamics of SH2 and CspA, Poster, Frontiers of Biomolecular NMR, June 29th
- Juli 1st, 2006, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Ortbauer (-Jaindl), M., Protein-cyclitol interactions studied by CD and NMR spectroscopy, oral
presentation, RSC Structural Biology and Biophysics, Australian National University, Canberra
ACT, Australia, November 16, 2005
National Presentations
Ortbauer, M, Characterization of Arabidopsis thaliana protein PIN2 PROMOTER BINDING
PROTEIN 1, oral presentation, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, 19.5.2011
Ortbauer, M. Protein Folding and Dynamics „Probing Osmolytes by NMR“, Characterization of plantspecific DNA-binding protein PPPI, oral presentation, University of Natural Resources and Life
Sciences, 07.12.2010
Ortbauer (-Jaindl), M., CspA, protein dynamics, and protein stabilization probed by NMR
spectroscopy, oral presentation, SFB seminar, Austrian Science Fund, 27.06.2006
Martina Ortbauer (-Jaindl), Karin Kloiber, Martin Tollinger and Robert Konrat, The influence of myoInositol on stability and dynamics of SH2 and CspA, Poster, 7. Igler NMR Tage Obergurgl, February
12th - February 15th, 2006
Ortbauer (-Jaindl), M., Robert Konrat, Marianne Popp, The function of cyclitols in the stress
metabolism of plants, Wissenschaftstag, Inst. of Ecology and Conservation Biology, April 2, 2004
Ortbauer (-Jaindl), M., Robert Konrat, Marianne Popp, Die Funktion von Cycliten als
Stressmetabolite in Pflanzen, Präsentation von Forschungsprojekten, Festsaal der Universität Wien,
March 2, 2004
Sponsorship (Förderungspreis) of the Burgenlandstiftung Theodor Kery for the project: Proteins function, dynamics and stability, Ortbauer (-Jaindl), M (2008)
Forschungsstipendium der Universität Wien (2002-2003)
Leistungsstipendium der Universität Wien (2001)