(2020)
Chimeric LuxR transcription factors rewire natural product regulation.
Angew Chem Int Ed 59(15),
6192-6195.

Prof. Dr. Pierre Stallforth
Paleobiotechnology · Head +49 3641 532-1527 pierre.stallforth@leibniz-hki.deCurriculum vitae
Main Research Areas
- Natural products from prehistoric samples
- Natural products from microbial interactions (microbial predator-prey associations, amoebae-bacteria interactions)
- Structure elucidation and biosynthetic studies
Professional Career
since 2022 | Deputy Director, Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology – Hans Knöll Institute (Leibniz-HKI) Jena |
since 2021 | Professor for Bioorganic Chemistry and Paleobiotechnology, Friedrich Schiller University Jena |
since 2020 | Head of the Department Paleobiotechnology, Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology, (Hans-Knöll-Institute), Jena |
2019-2020 | Interim Professorship Organic Chemistry University of Hamburg |
2013-2019 | Junior research group leader, Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology, (Hans-Knöll-Institute), Jena |
2011-2013 | Postdoc, Harvard Medical School, Dept. of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Boston, Supervisor: Prof. Jon Clardy |
2006-2010 | Graduate studies (Dr. sc. ETH Zurich), ETH Zurich and Max Planck Institute, colloids and interfaces, biomolecular systems, Berlin supervisors: Prof. Peter H. Seeberger “synthesis of bacterial carbohydrates and glycolipids for application in novel vaccine srategies” |
2002-2006 | MSc studies chemistry, St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford (1st class, being placed 2nd out of 150 students) Master thesis, University of Oxford “dynamics of a quantum dot in a magnetic field” (1st class) |
2002 | Abitur (A-levels) at the Paul-Klee-Gymnasium Gersthofen, Germany |
Awards · Appointments · Scientific Activities
2024 | Medac Research Award 2023 |
2020 | Academy of Sciences Göttingen, Academy Prize for Chemistry |
2019 | DECHEMA Research Award Natural Product Research |
2018 | Medac Research Award |
2018 | Best Talk Prize, Bioorganic Symposium, Bochum 2018 |
2018 | Max Buchner Stipend, DECHEMA |
2017 | Prize for the Best Talk (2017 Dicty Meeting) |
2016 | Medac Research Award |
2014 | Fellowship of the Daimler and Benz Foundation |
2012 | Feodor Lynen-postdoc fellowship (Humboldt Foundation) |
2011 | Swiss National Fund Postdoc fellowship |
2007 | PhD fellowship, Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (German Academic Merit Foundation) |
2005 | Gibbs prize for excellence in the final examination |
2005-2007 | Fellowship of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes |
2003 and 2004 | Turbutt prize for excellence in practical organic chemistry |
2003-2006 | University of Oxford, open scholarship |
2002 | Prize for the best Abitur (A-levels) at the Paul-Klee-Gymnaisum |
Publications
(2020)
Special issue in honor of Professor Jon Clardy.
J Nat Prod 83(3),
565-568.
(Review)
(2020)
Cellular microbiology interview ‐ Dr. Pierre Stallforth.
Cell Microbiol 22(5),
e13188.
(Review)
(2019)
Disruption of membrane integrity by the bacteria-derived antifungal jagaricin.
Antimicrob Agents Chemother 63(9),
e00707-19.
(2019)
Structure elucidation of the syringafactin lipopeptides provides insight in the evolution of nonribosomal peptide synthetases.
Chem Sci 10(48),
10979-10990.
(2019)
Chemical Ecology of Dictyostelium discoideum.
In: Comprehensive Natural Products III Elsevier.
(Review)
(2019)
Bioactivity and mode of action of bacterial tetramic acids.
ACS Chem Biol 14(8),
1693-1697.
(2019)
Solid-phase-based total synthesis and stereochemical assignment of the cryptic natural product aurantizolicin.
Org Lett 21(3),
729-732.
(2018)
Synergistic activity of co-secreted natural products from amoebae-associated bacteria.
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 115(15),
3758-3763.
(2018)
Natural products from social amoebae.
Chem Eur J 24(17),
4202-4214.
(Review)