Curriculum vitae

Wissenschaftlicher Werdegang
Title/studies/training Institution Year
Post-Doc Molecular Immunology Research group,Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology-Hans Knöll Institute 01.12.2019-Present
Post-Doc Institute for Microbiology, University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Germany 01.01.2018- 30.4.2019
Ph.D. studies inInfection Immunology  Thesis: Role of Myeloid Derived Suppressor Cells in Mycobacterial InfectionDepartment of Molecular Immunology, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig &Institute for Microbiology, University of Veterinary Medicine, Hannover, Germany 01.10.2013-01.11.2017
Short term training on Clinical Research and Evidence Based Medicine Antwerp Institute of Tropical Medicine, Belgium 21.05.2013-28.06.3013
Lecturer Jimma University, Ethiopia 27.09.2011- 01.09.2013
M.Sc. studies in Medical Microbiology  Jimma University, Ethiopia 01.01.2009-07.11.2011
Assistant Lecturer Jimma University, Ethiopia 28.8.2007-30.12.2008
Graduate assistant II Jimma University, Ethiopia 28.08. 2006-27.08.2007
B.Sc. studies in Medical Laboratory Technology  Jimma University, Ethiopia Dec, 2002-15.06.2006

Publikationen

Hengoju S, Abdissa K, Boto ST, Samimi A, Martin K, Jacobsen ID, Rosenbaum MA (2025) A droplet microfluidic strategy for cultivation, investigation, and high-throughput isolation of mouse gut microbiome bacteria. Appl Environ Microbiol 91(8), e0069525.
Kapitan M, Niemiec MJ, Millet N, Brandt P, Chowdhury MEK, Czapka A, Abdissa K, Hoffmann F, Lange A, Veleba M, Nietzsche S, Mosig AS, Löffler B, Marquet M, Makarewicz O, Kline KA, Vylkova S, Swidergall M, Jacobsen ID (2025) Synergistic interactions between Candida albicans and Enterococcus faecalis promote toxin-dependent host cell damage. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 122(46), e2505310122.
Abdissa K, Ruangkiattikul N, Ahrend W, Nerlich A, Beineke A, Laarmann K, Janze N, Lobermeyer U, Suwandi A, Falk C, Schleicher U, Weiss S, Bogdan C, Goethe R (2020) Relevance of inducible nitric oxide synthase for immune control of Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis infection in mice. Virulence 11(1), 465-481.
Abebe G, Abdissa K, Abdella K, Tadesse M, Worku A, Ameni G (2019) Spoligotype-based population structure of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in the Jimma Zone. Microbiologyopen 8(6), e00744.
Ruangkiattikul N, Rys D, Abdissa K, Rohde M, Semmler T, Tegtmeyer PK, Kalinke U, Schwarz C, Lewin A, Goethe R (2019) Type I interferon induced by TLR2-TLR4-MyD88-TRIF-IRF3 controls Mycobacterium abscessus subsp. abscessus persistence in murine macrophages via nitric oxide. Int J Med Microbiol 390(5), 307-318.
Abdissa K, Nerlich A, Beineke A, Ruangkiattikul N, Pawar V, Heise U, Janze N, Falk C, Bruder D, Schleicher U, Bogdan C, Weiss S, Goethe R (2018) Presence of infected Gr-1intCD11bhiCD11cint monocytic myeloid derived suppressor cells subverts T cell response and is associated with impaired dendritic cell function in Mycobacterium avium-infected mice. Frontiers in immunology (9), 2317.
Ruangkiattikul N, Nerlich A, Abdissa K, Lienenklaus S, Suwandi A, Janze N, Laarmann K, Spanier J, Kalinke U, Weiss S, Goethe R (2017) cGAS-STING-TBK1-IRF3/7 induced interferon-β contributes to the clearing of non tuberculous mycobacterial infection in mice. Virulence 8(7), 1303-1315.
Tadesse M, Aragaw D, Dimah B, Efa F, Abdella K, Kebede W, Abdissa K, Abebe G (2016) Drug resistance-conferring mutations in Mycobacterium tuberculosis from pulmonary tuberculosis patients in Southwest Ethiopia. Int J Mycobacteriol 5(2), 185-191.
Tadesse M, Kitata G, Aragaw D, Dana D, Abdissa K, Abebe G (2016) Diagnosis of tuberculosis in high burden setting: Is there still a need for the third sputum specimen? EJLM 1(1),
Abdella K, Abdissa K, Kebede W, Abebe G (2015) Drug resistance patterns of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex and associated factors among retreatment cases around Jimma, Southwest Ethiopia. BMC Public Health 15, 599.