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.de

Curriculum 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

Topics

Pathogenicity and biodiversity of Mucorales

Publications

Hoffmann K, Discher S, Voigt K (2007) Revision of the genus Absidia (Mucorales, Zygomycetes) based on physiological, phylogenetic, and morphological characters; thermotolerant Absidia spp. form a coherent group, Mycocladiaceae fam. nov. Mycol Res 111(Pt 10), 1169-1183.

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