Dr. Tina Kostka
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| 2024 - | Emmy Noether Junior Research Group Leader in the area of study Food Chemistry and Toxicology at RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau's Department of Chemistry Topic: "Toxicological evaluation of ingredients from (processed) red meat and the importance of heme oxygenase 1 in the context of colorectal carcinogenesis" |
| 2022 - 2024 | DFG-funded junior researcher (postdoctoral fellow) in the working group of Prof. Fahrer (area of study: Food Chemistry and Toxicology) at RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau, Department of Chemistry Topic: "Toxicity of processed red meat: Endogenous formation of different heme species and their potential to promote colon carcinogenesis" |
| 2019 - 2022 | Research assistant (postdoctoral researcher) and lecturer at the Institute of Food Science and Human Nutrition (AG Esatbeyoglu) at the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz University Hannover |
| 2019 | Doctorate in the field of food toxicology to Dr. rer. nat. Topic: "Characterization of the genotoxic, mutagenic and cell-transforming effects of nitrosylated heme (NO heme) in different in vitro test systems." |
| 2016 - 2019 | Research assistant (PhD student) at the Institute of Food Toxicology (AG Steinberg) of the University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover |
| 2016 | Master's thesis in the clinic for small animals Topic: "Transfection of canine mammary and prostate carcinoma cell lines with eukaryotic fluorescence-encoding expression vectors." |
| 2013 - 2016 | Master's program "Animal Biology and Biomedical Sciences" at the University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover |
| 2010 - 2013 | Bachelor's degree in Biology at the Georg-August-University Göttingen |