Maria A. Bauer

University of Graz (Austria)

She researches and teaches at the University of Graz (Austria). Her main expertise lies on the use of baker's yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) as a model organism to study conserved cell death processes and aging mechanisms, including both wild-type yeast and engineered strains that heterologously express human disease-relevant proteins (e.g. exon 1 of human huntingtin to study Huntington's disease). In addition, she explores pharmacological strategies to counteract age-related decline.