EDUCATION

October 1999 - March 2005	Studies of Biochemistry, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-University of Greifswald, Germany
August 2002 – February 2003	Research internship at the Chemistry Department of the New Mexico State University in Las Cruces (New Mexico, USA),
February 2005	Diploma in Biochemistry (equivalent to MSc)
April 2005 – March 2009	PhD candidate in the department of Chip-Based Peptide Libraries, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) in Heidelberg (Germany), and the Kirchhoff-Institute for Physics at the University of Heidelberg (Germany)
March 2009	PhD graduation (Dr. rer. nat.) at the Naturwissenschaftlich-Mathematischen Gesamtfakultät of the Ruprecht-Karls-University, Heidelberg, Germany
Since March 2009	Postdoc position in the Molecular Oncolgy Group of Prof. Dr. Jan Mollenhauer at the Medical Biotechnology Center of the University of Southern Denmark in Odense, Denmark
May 2011	Poster award (500 CHF) at the 4th European Conference for Clinical Nanomedicine (CLINAM), Basel, Switzerland

PUBLICATION LIST

1. Deo RP, Wang J, Block I, Mulchandani A, Joshi KA, Trojanowics M, Scholz F, Chen W, Lin Y. Determination of organophosphate pesticides at a carbon nanotube/organophosphorus hydrolase electrochemical biosensor. Analytica Chimica Acta 530 (2005) p. 185-189
2. Beyer M, Nesterov A, Block I, König K, Felgenhauer T, Fernandez S, Leibe K, Torralba G, Hausmann M, Trunk U, Lindenstruth V, Bischoff FR, Stadler V, Breitling F. Combinatorial Synthesis of peptide arrays onto a microchip. Science 318 (2007), p. 1888
3. Stadler V, Felgenhauer T, Beyer M, Fernandez S, Leibe K, Güttler S, Gröning M, Koenig K, Torralba G, Hausmann M, Lindenstruth V, Nesterov A, Block I, Pipkorn R, Poustka A, Bischoff FR, Breitling F. Combinatorial synthesis of peptide arrays with a laser printer. Angewandte Chemie International Edition 47 (2008) p. 7132-7135
4. Schirwitz C, Block I, König K, Nesterov A, Fernandez S, Felgenhauer T, Leibe K, Torralba G, Hausmann M, Lindenstruth V, Stadler V, Breitling F, Bischoff FR. Combinatorial peptide synthesis on a microchip. Curr Protoc Protein Sci. (Aug. 2009); Chapter 18:Unit 18.2.1-13
5. Beyer M, Block I, König K, Nesterov A, Fernandez S, Felgenhauer T, Schirwitz C, Leibe K, Bischoff RF, Breitling F, Stadler V. A novel combinatorial approach to high-density peptide arrays. Methods Mol Biol. (2009); 570: p. 309-16
6. König K, Block I, Nesterov A, Torralba G, Fernandez S, Felgenhauer T, Leibe K, Schirwitz C, Löffler F, Painke F, Wagner J, Trunk U, Bischoff FR, Breitling F, Stadler V, Hausmann M, Lindenstruth V. Programmable high voltage CMOS chips for particle-based high-density combinatorial peptide synthesis. Sens. Act. B (2010); 147, 418-427
7. Breitling F, Schirwitz C, Felgenhauer T, Block I, Stadler V, Bischoff R. Epitope Mapping by Printed PeptideAntibody Engineering Vol. 1 (2010), Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg; Chapter 36; 573-589
8. Block I, Christiansen H, Mollenhauer J. Current peptide and protein arrays and their applications in biomedical research. Curr Topics in Peptide & Protein Res.(2010); 11, 67-85