(2018)
Comparative study on alternative splicing in human fungal pathogens suggests its involvement during host invasion.
Front Microbiol 9,
2313.
Kerstin Voigt
Jena Microbial Resource Collection · Head Molecular and Applied Microbiology National Reference Center for Invasive Fungal Infections +49 3641 532-1395 / +49 3641 949331 kerstin.voigt@leibniz-hki.deCurriculum vitae
Main Research Areas
- Infection biology of Lichtheimia corymbifera
- Influence of endosymbiotic bacteria on the natural product potential of Conidiobolus coronatus
- Evolution of the pathogenicity of zygomycetes
Professional Career
| Since 2010 | Head of the Jena Microbial Resource Collection (JMRC), an incorporated institution of the HKI and the Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena (FSU Jena) based at the Leibniz-Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology – Hans-Knöll-Institute |
| 2005-2010 | Academic Council (A13, Institute for Microbiology, FSU Jena), Head of the Pilz-Referenz-Zentrum at the University Jena |
| 1999-2005 | Assistant (C1), Institute for Microbiology, FSU Jena |
| 1998-1999 | Visiting scientist, USDA, ARS, NCAUR Peoria IL, USA, funded through a postdoc fellowship of the DFG |
| 1995-1998 | Head of the group plant pathology, FSU Jena |
| 2003 | Habilitation and venia legendi in microbiology, FSU Jena |
| 1995 | Dr. rer. nat. in microbiology, „summa cum laude“ FSU Jena and University of Surrey, Guildford, UK |
| 1992 | Diploma in molecular biology/biotechnology at the University Szeged/Ungarn |
Awards · Appointments · Scientific Activities
| 2013 | Editor, special edition: mycoses |
| 2012 | Editor, special edition: persoonia |
| 2011 | CBS-visiting tutor: CBS-biodiversity course, Centraalbureau voor Schimmelcultures (CBS Biodiversity Centre) Utrecht, Netherlands |
| 2011 | DAAD-visting tutor: Chinese Academy of Sciences, Mycological Key Laboratories, Herbarium and Mycological Centre, Beijing, China |
| 2011 | Travel grants from the DAAD for the participation in the Asian Mycological Congress AMC10 (Seoul/Incheon, South Korea) |
| 2011 | Award of the Korean Mycological Association for an excellent poster presentation |
| 2011 | Member of the editorial board, Frontiers in Evolutionary and Population Genetics and MycoKeys |
| 2010-2013 | Member of the faculty council of the faculty of biology and pharmacy, FSU Jena |
| 2010-2011 | EmbaRC/EU-visiting scientist: CABI Bioservices Centre U.K. Egham and Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, Mycology Section, Great Britain |
| 2010 | Co-editor, molecular identification of fungi, Springer-Verlag Heidelberg, Dordrecht, London, New York |
| 2010 | AUMC-visiting tutor: Assiut University Mycological Center, Egypt |
| 2009 | Travel grants from the DAAD for the participation in the Asian Mycological Congress AMC9 (Taichung, Taiwan) |
| 2009 | DAAD-visiting tutor: National University of Education Taipei, Taiwan |
| 2007-2010 | Member of the council for equal opportunities issues (Beirat für Gleichstellungsfragen) at the FSU Jena, equal opportunities officer at the faculty for biology and pharmacy, FSU Jena |
| 2007 | CBS-visiting tutor: CBS-Medical Mycology Course, Centraalbureau voor Schimmelcultures (CBS Biodiversity Centre) Utrecht, Netherlands |
| 2004 | Habilitation award from the FSU Jena |
| 2003-2005 | Member of the council of the FSU Jena |
| 2003 | Member of the editorial boards, Journal of Basic Microbiology |
| 2003 | Travel grants from the DFG for the participation in the XIV. Congress of European Mycologists |
| 1999 | Fellow at the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft within a postdoc programme |
| 1996 | Dissertation prize from the faculty of biology and pharmacy at the University Jena |
Publications
(2017)
A tale of four kingdoms - isoxazolin-5-one- and 3-nitropropanoic acid-derived natural products.
Natural Product Reports 34(4),
343-360.
(2017)
Pediatric invasive gastrointestinal fungal infections: Causative agents and diagnostic modalities.
Microbiol Res J Int 19(2),
1-11.
(2017)
The tip and hidden part of the iceberg: Proteinogenic and non-proteinogenic aliphatic amino acids.
Biochim Biophys Acta 1861(1 Pt A),
3258-3269.
(2017)
Arylmethylamino steroids as antiparasitic agents.
Nat Commun 8,
14478.
(2017)
Circinella simplex - a misapplied name of Mucor circinatus sp. nov.
Phytotaxa 329(3),
269.
(2017)
Morphologic and molecular data help adopting the insect-pathogenic nephridiophagids (Nephridiophagidae) among the early diverging fungal lineages, close to the Chytridiomycota.
MycoKeys 25,
31-50.
(2017)
Ketoacidosis alone does not predispose to mucormycosis by Lichtheimia in a murine pulmonary infection model.
Virulence 8(8),
1657-1667.
(2017)
Harnessing fungal nonribosomal cyclodepsipeptide synthetases for mechanistic insights and tailored engineering.
Chem Sci 8(11),
7834-7843.
(2017)
Fungal diversity notes 491–602: taxonomic and phylogenetic contributions to fungal taxa.
Fungal Divers 83(1),
1-261.
