Martina Berger
Assistant Researcher, Medicine
School of Medicine
School of Medicine
Ph.D., Rockefeller University in France, University of Innsbruck, Austria, 1997, Microbiology
M.S., Austrian Academy of Science, Mondsee, 1994, Microbiology
M.S., Austrian Academy of Science, Mondsee, 1994, Microbiology
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA 92697
Irvine, CA 92697
Appointments
Visiting Researcher, Laboratory of Virology, Rockefeller University 2001—2002
Assistant Researcher UCI College of Medicine, Dept. of Medicine
Assistant Researcher UCI College of Medicine, Dept. of Medicine
Research Abstract
Current Research covers virus infections and their role on mitochondria dysfunction and degenerative diseases in collaboration with the Collaborative Center of the WHO, France. Also working on the isolation of unique human epitopes in HIV and Hepatitis C viremia controllers using a novel phage-display random peptide library approach.
Available Technologies
Publications
See DM, Berger MM, Lina B, Aymard M & Tilles J. (1999) The mechanism of chronic coxsackievirus B Hepatitis in rabbits. Viral Immunol, 12 (4):335-41
Berger MM, Kopp N, Redl B, Aymard M & Lina B. (2000) Detection adn cellular localisation of Enterovirus RNA sequences in the spinal cord of patients with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. Neurology, 54, 1-6.
Beauliex F, Berger MM, Giraud P, & Lina B (2003). RNA extraction and RT-PCR procedures adapted for the detection of enterovirus sequences from frozen adn paraffin-embedded formalin-fixed spinal cord samples. Journal Virological Methods 107: 115-120
Other Experience
Visiting Researcher
Laboratory of Virology, Rockefeller University 2001—2002
Laboratory of Virology, Rockefeller University 2001—2002
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Last updated
01/20/2005
01/20/2005