Carlo Bäjen

German

Curriculum Vitae

Since 2010	PhD student in the group of Prof. Patrick Cramer, LMU Munich
2010 - 2011	Patent engineer (Pat.-Ing.): Correspondence course in industrial property protection, Fernuniversität Hagen, Germany
2010	Foreign research master student, Tuschl Laboratory - RNA Molecular Biology, Rockefeller University, New York
2008 - 2010	Master of Science in Engineering: Postgraduate studies of Engineering, Environmental and Biotechnology, Management Center Innsbruck - MCI, Austria
2004 – 2008	Diplom-Ingenieur (FH): Engineering studies of Environmental technology/ Biotechnology, Hochschule Mittweida, Germany
	Topic of Diploma Thesis: ”Genetic basis for degrading of methyl-tert.-butylether by Aquincola tertiaricarbonis L108 with special focus on the initial monooxygenases.”

Scholarships

since 2011	Scholarship of the IDK-NBT (Elite Network of Bavaria)
since 2011	e-fellows.net fellowship
2010	Exchange scholarship, Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation, Vienna, Austria (Semester abroad at Rockefeller University)

Research Project

"I am mainly interested in gene transcription and regulation in yeast, specifically focusing on interactions between (i) transcription factors (TFs), (ii) splicing factors, and (iii) further regulatory complexes (i.e. Ccr4-Not), which contain RNA recognition domains, and the nascent mRNAs. For that reason I am establishing cutting-edge assays, such as photoactivatable ribonucleoside-enhanced crosslinking and immunoprecipitation (referred to as PAR-CLIP; Hafner et al., 2010), ChIP Exo (Pugh, 2011), and RNA-Sequencing using next-generation sequencing (NGS) technologies, to obtain TF-binding motifs and all information we are interested in. Resulting data will be compared and correlated to existing data sets generated through ChIP-chip experiments, genome-wide occupancy profiles (Mayer et al., 2010), and dynamic transcriptome analysis (DTA); a new non-perturbing metabolic RNA labeling assay (Miller et al., 2010). These studies are expected to reveal significant insights into further complex interactions in biological systems."

baejengenzentrum.lmu.de