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Education

• 2022-present: PhD Candidate, University of Regensburg & Archaea Centre Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
  • Project: Sequencing, genome assembly, and exploration of archaeal and bacterial isolates
• 2018-2021: M.Sc. in Biology, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
  • Dissertation: Molecular Biology and Biochemistry of Plants: Transcriptomic changes in PAF1c subunit mutant lines after salt stress and mapping the nucleosome stability in Arabidopsis thaliana
  • Specializations:
    • Isolation of virus particles from environmental samples from Costa Rica
    • Transcription elongation factors under salt stress and techniques of nuclei isolation and lysis
    • Development of a pipeline to find and compare SNPs in tumor and healthy cells
• 2014-2018: B.Sc. in Biology, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
  • Dissertation: Growth experiments to optimize a trickle bed bioreactor for power-to-gas applications using archaea

Other Qualifications

• 2018 - Training for project managers and biological safety officers, §15 and §17 GenTSV
• 2018 - Lab Assistant at BMWi project ORBIT: Gas chromatography analysis, cultivation of anaerobic microorganisms
• 2017 - Lab Assistant at Hyperthermics Regensburg GmbH: Gas chromatography analysis, cultivation of anaerobic microorganisms
• 2017-2018 - Elected student representative: Faculty for Biology and Preclinical Medicine, University of Regensburg
• 2016-2017 - Chairman of the Fachschaft Biologie UR e.V.

Publications

2023:

Stöckl, R., Nissl, L., Reichelt, R., Rachel, R., Grohmann, D., & Gruenberger, F. (2023). The transcriptional regulator EarA and intergenic terminator sequences modulate archaellation in Pyrococcus furiosus. Frontiers in Microbiology 14, (2023). https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2023.1241399

Obermeyer, S., Schrettenbrunner, L., Stöckl, R., Schwartz, U., Grasser, K. D. (2023). Different elongation factors distinctly modulate RNA polymerase II transcription in Arabidopsis. Nucleic Acids Research, gkad825. https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkad825

Stöckl, R., Nissl, L., Reichelt, R., Rachel, R., Grohmann, D., & Gruenberger, F. (2023). The transcriptional regulator EarA and intergenic terminator sequences modulate archaellation in Pyrococcus furiosus. bioRxiv, 2023-06. https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.06.15.545098

2022:

Stöckl, R., Obermeyer, S., Schnekenburger, T., Kapoor, H., Stempfl, T., Schwartz,U. , Klaus D. Grasser (2022). TFIIS is crucial during early transcript elongation for transcriptional reprogramming in response to heat stress. Journal of Molecular Biology, 167917. https://doi.org/10/grgsmz.

Obermeyer, S., Stöckl, R., Schnekenburger, T., Moehle, C., Schwartz, U., Grasser, K. D. (2022). Distinct Role of Subunits of the Arabidopsis RNA Polymerase II Elongation Factor PAF1C in Transcriptional Reprogramming. Frontiers in Plant Science, 13. https://doi.org/gqw3wx

Kaul, A., Böllmann, A., Thema, M., Kalb, L., Stöckl, R., Huber, H., Sterner, M., Bellack, A., (2022). Combining a robust thermophilic methanogen and packing material with high liquid hold-up to optimize biological methanation in trickle-bed reactors. Bioresource Technology 345, 126524. https://doi.org/10/gns9jv

Protocols

Stöckl, R. (2023). HMW gDNA extraction from prokaryotic cultures and cryo preservation stocks. protocols.io https://dx.doi.org/10.17504/protocols.io.3byl4q7nrvo5/v1