Curriculum vitae

Main Research Areas
  • Biochemical and genetic basis of natural product biosynthesis of basal fungi (early-diverging fungi, especially mucoromycetes und zoopagomycetes)
  • pharmaceutical application and ecological significance of fungal natural products
  • alternative, non-canonical strategies of fungal natural product biosynthesis
Professional Career
since 2024 Habilitated lecturer („Privatdozent“) at the Institute for Pharmacy, Friedrich-Schiller-University, Jena, Germany
2017-2024 State doctorate (Habilitation) in pharmaceutical microbiology at the Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Germany
2015-2017 Postdoctoral, Institute Pasteur, Paris, France
2009-2015 Doctoral thesis (Dr. rer. nat.) in biochemistry at the Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena and the Hans-Knöll-Institute, Jena, Germany
2003-2009 Diploma in biochemistry/molecular biology at the Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Germany

Publications

Slesiona S, Gressler M, Mihlan M, Zaehle C, Schaller M, Barz D, Hube B, Jacobsen ID, Brock M (2012) Persistence versus escape: Aspergillus terreus and Aspergillus fumigatus employ different strategies during interactions with macrophages. PLOS One 7(2), e31223-e31223.
Gressler M, Zaehle C, Scherlach K, Hertweck C, Brock M (2011) Multifactorial induction of an orphan PKS-NRPS gene cluster in Aspergillus terreus. Chem Biol 18(2), 198-209.