Curriculum vitae

Wissenschaftlicher Werdegang
seit 2016 PhD Student (CRC1127 „Chemical Mediators in Complex Biosystems“)
2014-2016 Masterstudium “Biochemistry”- FSU Jena
2011-2014 Bachelorstudium „Biochemie & Molekularbiologie“- FSU Jena
Auszeichnungen · Ämter · wissenschaftliche Aktivitäten
2016 Auslandsaufenthalt am „Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute“ (FABI), Pretoria, Südafrika
2015 Studentische Hilfskraft am Leibniz Institut für Naturstoffforschung und Infektionsbiologie – Hans Knöll Institut (HKI)
2015 Forschungspraktikum am Leibniz Institut für Altersforschung, Fritz-Lipmann Institut (FLI) Jena
2014 Forschungspraktikum am Rudolf Virchow Zentrum Würzburg

Publikationen

Fricke J, Schalk F, Kreuzenbeck NB, Seibel E, Hoffmann J, Dittmann G, Conlon BH, Guo H, Wilhelm de Beer Z, Vassão DG, Gleixner G, Poulsen M, Beemelmanns C (2023) Adaptations of Pseudoxylaria towards a comb-associated lifestyle in fungus-farming termite colonies. ISME J 17(5), 733-747.
Kreuzenbeck NB, Dhiman S, Roman D, Burkhardt I, Conlon BH, Fricke J, Guo H, Blume J, Görls H, Poulsen M, Dickschat JS, Köllner TG, Arndt HD, Beemelmanns C (2023) Isolation, (bio)synthetic studies and evaluation of antimicrobial properties of drimenol-type sesquiterpenes of Termitomyces fungi. Commun Chem 6(1), 79.
Kreuzenbeck NB, Seibel E, Schwitalla JW, Fricke J, Conlon BH, Schmidt S, Hammerbacher A, Köllner TG, Poulsen M, Hoffmeister D, Beemelmanns C (2022) Comparative genomic and metabolomic analysis of Termitomyces species provides insights into the terpenome of the fungal cultivar and the characteristic odor of the fungus garden of Macrotermes natalensis termites. mSystems 7(1), e0121421.
Conlon BH, Gostinčar C, Fricke J, Kreuzenbeck NB, Daniel JM, Schlosser MSL, Peereboom N, Aanen DK, de Beer ZW, Beemelmanns C, Gunde-Cimerman N, Poulsen M (2021) Genome reduction and relaxed selection is associated with the transition to symbiosis in the basidiomycete genus Podaxis. iScience 24(6), 102680.
Schalk F, Gostinčar C, Kreuzenbeck NB, Conlon BH, Sommerwerk E, Rabe P, Burkhardt I, Krüger T, Kniemeyer O, Brakhage AA, Gunde-Cimerman N, de Beer ZW, Dickschat JS, Poulsen M, Beemelmanns C (2021) The termite fungal cultivar Termitomyces combines diverse enzymes and oxidative reactions for plant biomass conversion. mBio 12(3), e0355120.
Lee SR, Kreuzenbeck NB, Jang M, Oh T, Ko SK, Ahn JS, Beemelmanns C, Kim KH (2020) Xyloneside A: A new glycosylated incisterol derivative from Xylaria sp. FB. ChemBioChem 21(16), 2253-2258.
Schalk F, Um S, Guo H, Kreuzenbeck NB, Görls H, de Beer ZW, Beemelmanns C (2020) Targeted discovery of tetrapeptides and cyclic polyketide‐peptide hybrids from a fungal antagonist of farming termites. ChemBioChem 21(20), 2991-2996.
Burkhardt I, Kreuzenbeck N, Beemelmanns C, Dickschat J (2019) Mechanistic characterization of three sesquiterpene synthases from the termite-associated fungus Termitomyces. Org Biol Chem 17(13), 3348-3355.
Otani S, Challinor V, Kreuzenbeck N, Kildgaard S, Christensen S, Larsen L, Aanen D, Rasmussen SA, Beemelmanns C, Poulsen M (2019) Disease-free monoculture farming by fungus-growing termites. Sci Rep 9(1), 8819.
Guo H, Kreuzenbeck NB, Otani S, Garcia-Altares M, Dahse HM, Weigel C, Aanen DK, Hertweck C, Poulsen M, Beemelmanns C (2016) Pseudoxylallemycins A-F, cyclic tetrapeptides with rare allenyl modifications isolated from Pseudoxylaria sp. X802: A competitor of fungus-growing termite cultivars. Org Lett 18, 3338-3341.