Congratulations to our Julia Huchthausen on successfully passing her doctoral thesis defence!
Your hard work, perseverance and passion for research have paid off. Not only have you achieved an intellectual feat, but you have also taken an important step in your scientific career.
First paper published stemming from a collaboration project between the University of Queensland and UFZ funded by DAAD.
Bade R, Huchthausen J, Huber C, Dewapriya P, Tscharke BJ, Verhagen R, Puljevic C, Escher BI, O'Brien JW. 2024.
"Improving wastewater-based epidemiology for new psychoactive substance surveillance by combining a high-throughput in vitro metabolism assay and LC−HRMS metabolite identification."
Water Res 253:121297.
New partnership
We will start a collaboration with Prof., Kathrin Fenner at Eawag and Uni Zürich and Prof. Kjell Jorner of ETHZ with a a new project funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation on the development of environmentally friendly chemicals at the crossroads of chemical, computer, environmental and health science. More info at
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Conference
Zelltox PhD student Georg Braun and department leader Beate Escher traveled to the ISEAC-41 in Amsterdam and presented on their work on in vitro bioassays in mixture effect assessment, extraction methods of difficult matrices and human biomonitoring.
AOAC workshop, Amsterdam 2023
Georg Braun at AOAC workshop
We are now offering experimental theses again.
If you are interested in writing your Bachelor or Master Thesis at the department of Cell Toxicology you can contact Beate Escher or you can express your interest by clicking here.