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

Gryganskyi AP, Humber RA, Smith ME, Hodge K, Huang B, Voigt K, Vilgalys R (2013) Phylogenetic lineages in Entomophthoromycota. Persoonia 30, 94-9105.
Hoffmann K, Pawłowska J, Walther G, Wrzosek M, de Hoog GS, Benny GL, Kirk PM, Voigt K (2013) The family structure of the Mucorales: a synoptic revision based on comprehensive multigene-genealogies. Persoonia 30, 57-76.
Münchberg U, Wagner L, Spielberg ET, Voigt K, Rösch P, Popp J (2013) Spatially resolved investigation of the oil composition in single intact hyphae of Mortierella spp. with micro-Raman spectroscopy. Biochim Biophys Acta 1831(2), 341-349.
Sahadevan Y, Richter-Fecken M, Kaerger K, Voigt K, Boland W (2013) Early and late trisporoids differentially regulate β-carotene production and gene transcript levels in the mucoralean fungi Blakeslea trispora and Mucor mucedo. Appl Environ Microbiol 79(23), 7466-7475.
Unterberger C, Huber I, Kaditzky S, Benker A, Hoffmann K, Voigt K, Schmidt W, Busch U (2013) Evaluation of molecular methods for identification of filamentous fungi in food. Arch Lebensmittelhyg 64, 43-49.
Wagner L, Stielow B, Hoffmann K, Petkovits T, Papp T, Vágvölgyi C, de Hoog GS, Verkley G, Voigt K (2013) A comprehensive molecular phylogeny of the Mortierellales (Mortierellomycotina) based on nuclear ribosomal DNA. Persoonia 30, 77-93.
Gryganskyi AP, Humber RA, Smith ME, Miadlikowska J, Wu S, Voigt K, Walther G, Anishchenko IM, Vilgalys R (2012) Molecular phylogeny of the Entomophthoromycota. Mol Phylogenet Evol 65(2), 682-694.
Martínez-Ramírez JA, Voigt K, Peters FT (2012) Studies on the metabolism of five model drugs by fungi colonizing cadavers using LC-ESI-MS/MS and GC-MS analysis. Anal Bioanal Chem 404(5), 1339-1359.
Schoch CL, Seifert KA, Huhndorf S, Robert V, Spouge JL, Levesque CA, Chen W; Fungal Barcoding Consortium; Fungal Barcoding Consortium Author List (2012) Nuclear ribosomal internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region as a universal DNA barcode marker for fungi. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 109(16), 6241-6246.
Schrödl W, Heydel T, Schwartze VU, Hoffmann K, Grosse-Herrenthey A, Walther G, Alastruey-Izquierdo A, Rodriguez-Tudela JL, Olias P, Jacobsen ID, de Hoog GS, Voigt K (2012) Direct analysis and identification of pathogenic Lichtheimia species by matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization-time of flight analyzer-mediated mass spectrometry. J Clin Microbiol 50(2), 419-427.