ao. Univ. Prof. Dr. Wolfgang J Weninger

Work address
Medical University of Vienna
Center for Anatomy and Cell Biology
Waehringerstr. 13
1090 Vienna, Austria

Phone: +43 (0)1 40160 - 37560
E-Mail: wolfgang.Weninger@meduniwien.ac.at

» www.wolfgangweninger.at
» www.bsimaging.at

Know-how and research interests
The Weninger Lab is interested in researching the factors and mechanisms regulating pre- and postnatal development. Its focus rests on cardiovascular morphogenesis and remodelling. As side-lines lab associates develop and improve episcopic 3D-imaging techniques and conduct traditional anatomic research. Group members are experienced in microscopic and macroscopic dissection, traditional and advanced histology, episcopic 3D-imaging of embryos and tissue samples, and digital volume data analysis. The Weninger Lab provides the infrastructure for all these techniques.

Research topic

• Cardiovascular morphogenesis & remodelling

• Mechanisms driving embryogenesis

• Descriptive & functional micro- and macroanatomy

Techniques and infrastructure of the research group

• episcopic 3D data generation methods
• volume data visualization hard- and software
• histologic laboratory

    
5 selected publications

• Weninger WJ, Müller GB, Reiter C, Meng S, Rabl SU
  Intimal hyperplasia of the infant parasellar carotid artery: a potential developmental factor in atherosclerosis and SIDS
  Circ Res (1999) 85: 970-975
  
  
• Weninger WJ & Mohun TJ
  Phenotyping transgenic embryos: A rapid 3D-screening method based on Episcopic Flourescence Imaging Capturing (EFIC)
  Nature Genet (2002) 30: 59-65
  
  
• Weninger WJ, Lopes Floro K, Bennett MB, Withington SL, Preis JI, Martinez Barbera JP, Mohun TJ, Dunwoodie S
  Cited2 is required both for heart morphogenesis and establishment of the left-right axis in mouse development
  Development (2005) 132: 1337-1348
  
  
• Weninger WJ & Mohun TJ
  Three dimensional analysis of molecular signals with episcopic imaging techniques
  Methods Mol Biol (2007) 411:35-46.
  
  
• Weninger WJ & Geyer SH.
  Models in researching cardiovascular morphogenesis.
  Birth Defects Res C (2012) 96:163-75