About event
Join us for March's session of the Life after PhD event series. This time we welcome – Andrea Hildebrandt from Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GmbH.
Andrea is willing to share her career experience with you. What difficulties did she face? What would she recommend to young scientists?
The lecture will be held on Thursday, 10 March 2022, 15:30-17:00 CET via ZOOM. (Access information will be received upon the registration.)
Please, register until 8 March 2022.
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Andrea received her Bachelor’s Degree in Biotechnology at the University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt (Germany) and the Master’s Degree in Molecular Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Vienna (Austria). After her Masters, she wanted to study the basics of biology by applying high throughput techniques such as NGS and mass spectrometry. Thus, Andrea started her PhD at the Institute of Molecular Biology (IMB) in Mainz in 2014, in the groups of Julian König and Petra Beli.
Her research focus was the RNA-binding ubiquitin ligase MKRN1 and in particular determining the molecular function of this protein. By combining techniques and pathways from the RNA as well as the protein areas, she identified a role for MKRN1 in the ribosome-associated quality control pathway. After completing her PhD in August 2019, she continued as a Postdoc in the König and Beli labs for a few more months to finish her project.
In April 2020, she then left the lab and started in her current position as a Trainee as Assistant Plant Manager at Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GmbH. The role of an Assistant Plant Manager is to support the production team and to be a link between the production unit and other departments (such as quality or regulatory). She is working in one of the insulin production departments, where a few steps of the protein production and purification process are performed. Her responsibilities include: improving the process, review and maintenance of essential documents, analyzing data, helping with deviations or change controls, planning the production timing, and supporting different projects (e.g. technology transfer).
