email: alica.klaus@mpi-bn.mpg.de
telephone extension: 1767Alica received her Bachelor's degree (Bachelor of Science; B.Sc.) in Bioengineering/Biopharmaceutical Engineering from the
University of Applied Science Mittelhessen in Gießen. Following that, she worked one year in the lab of Prof. Dr. Trinad Chakraborty in the Institute of Medical Microbiology,
Biomedizinisches Forschungszentrum Giessen on the pathophysiology and immunology of listeriosis using G. mellonella and T. castaneum as a model organism.
In 2014 she joint the Institute of Insect Biotechnology of Prof. Dr. Andreas Vilcinskas within the
Fraunhofer Project Group Bioresources where she was involved in the functional characterization of microRNAs in vertebrates and LC/MS based screening for bioactive substances from insects and bacteria. Alica joint our group in 2019 and is involved in providing technical support to ongoing projects and instrument maintenance.