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

Publications

Herisse M, Ishida K, Staiger-Creed J, Judd L, Williams SJ, Howden BP, Stinear TP, Dahse HM, Voigt K, Hertweck C, Pidot SJ (2023) Discovery and biosynthesis of the cytotoxic polyene terpenomycin in human pathogenic Nocardia. ACS Chem Biol 18(8), 1872-1879.
Rassbach J, Hilsberg N, Haensch VG, Dörner S, Gressler J, Sonnabend R, Semm C, Voigt K, Hertweck C, Gressler M (2023) Non-canonical two-step biosynthesis of anti-oomycete indole alkaloids in Kickxellales. Fungal Biol Biotechnol 1010(1), 19.
Rassbach J, Merseburger P, Wurlitzer JM, Binnemann N, Voigt K, Rohlfs M, Gressler M (2023) Insecticidal cyclodepsitetrapeptides from Mortierella alpina. J Nat Prod 86(7), 1715-1722.
Acosta España J, Voigt K (2022) Mini review: Risk assessment, clinical manifestation, prediction, and prognosis of Mucormycosis: Implications for pathogen- and human-derived biomarkers. Front Microbiol 13, 895989. (Review)
Acosta España J, Voigt K (2022) An old confusion: entomophthoromycosis versus mucormycosis and their main differences. Front Microbiol 13, 1035100. (Review)
Erdenetsogt U, Nadmid S, Paetz C, Dahse HM, Voigt K, Gotov C, Boland W, Dagvadorj E (2022) New guaianolide sesquiterpene lactones and other constituents from Pyrethrum pulchrum. Planta Med 88(5), 380-388.
Gryganskyi AP, Nie Y, Hajek AE, Hodge KT, Liu XY, Aadland K, Voigt K, Anishchenko IM, Kutovenko VB, Kava L, Vuek A, Vilgalys R, Huang B, Stajich JE (2022) The early terrestrial fungal lineage of Conidiobolus - Transition from saprotroph to parasitic lifestyle. J Fungi (Basel) 8(8), 789.
Möckel L, Meusemann K, Misof B, Schwartze VU, De Fine Licht HH, Voigt K, Stielow B, de Hoog S, Beutel RG, Buellesbach J (2022) Phylogenetic revision and patterns of host specificity in the fungal subphylum Entomophthoromycotina. Microorganisms 10(2), 256.
Montaño DE, Hartung S, Wich M, Ali R, Jungnickel B, von Lilienfeld-Toal M, Voigt K (2022) The TLR-NF-kB axis contributes to the monocytic inflammatory response against a virulent strain of Lichtheimia corymbifera, a causative agent of invasive mucormycosis. Front Immunol 13, 882921.
Riabova O, Egorova A, Lepioshkin A, Li Y, Voigt K, Kloss F, Makarov V (2022) Thienol[2,3-d]pyrimidine-core compounds show activity against clinically relevant gram-positive bacteria. ChemMedChem 17(17), e202200207.