About
Dr Verena Kriechbaumer (VK) is a recently tenured Reader in Biotechnology and Plant Sciences at Oxford Brookes University, with 44 peer-reviewed papers and 23 invited reviews/book chapters (h-index: 25). VK established her independent research group at OBU in 2017 when she was appointed as the University Vice Chancellor’s Research Fellow in Biology. During her career VK has developed a particular fascination for enzymatic processes on membrane surfaces and their biotechnological applications. More recently she started utilising the power of advanced imaging technologies to investigate biochemical pathways in vivo. Her group has greatly advanced image analysis especially for the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) in plant and mammalian cells. Since her promotion to Senior Lecturer in 2020, she has secured over £1.14M in external funding. VK specializes in enzymatic processes on membrane surfaces and their biotechnological applications in plants.
VK has a track record of innovative interdisciplinary research. An example of successes gained from these approaches is the independent project with Prof A Nabok (SHU, Material and Engineering) using total internal reflection ellipsometry to quantify protein-membrane interactions on native plant membranes and human cell lines for precision medicine. VK obtained support for this work by winning two EPSRC Engineering for Life grants. An industrial collaboration with ChromoTek, Germany, led to a study on a novel actin marker. VK also secured industry funding from Porton Biopharma for a Masters project on modifying plants capable of production of human therapeutics.
VK will train, support supervise the PDRA in the production and evaluation of MMO-expressing plants. LinkedIn, ResearchGate, ORCID
Joined
February 2025
