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

Schwartze VU, Hoffmann K, Nyilasi I, Papp T, Vágvölgyi C, de Hoog S, Voigt K, Jacobsen ID (2012) Lichtheimia species exhibit differences in virulence potential. PLOS One 7(7), e40908.
Vitale RG, de Hoog GS, Schwarz P, Dannaoui E, Deng S, Machouart M, Voigt K, van de Sande WW, Dolatabadi S, Meis JF, Walther G (2012) Antifungal susceptibility and phylogeny of opportunistic members of the order Mucorales. J Clin Microbiol 50(1), 66-75.
Nagy LG, Petkovits T, Kovács GM, Voigt K, Vágvölgyi C, Papp T (2011) Where is the unseen fungal diversity hidden? A study of Mortierella reveals a large contribution of reference collections to the identification of fungal environmental sequences. New Phytol 191(3), 789-794.
Petkovits T, Nagy LG, Hoffmann K, Wagner L, Nyilasi I, Griebel T, Schnabelrauch D, Vogel H, Voigt K, Vágvölgyi C, Papp T (2011) Data partitions, Bayesian analysis and phylogeny of the zygomycetous fungal family Mortierellaceae, inferred from nuclear ribosomal DNA sequences. PLOS One 6(11), e27507.
Alastruey-Izquierdo A, Hoffmann K, de Hoog GS, Rodriguez-Tudela JL, Voigt K, Bibashi E, Walther G (2010) Species recognition and clinical relevance of the zygomycetous genus Lichtheimia (syn. Absidia pro parte, Mycocladus). J Clin Microbiol 48(6), 2154-2170.
Fliegerová K, Mrázek J, Hoffmann K, Zábranská J, Voigt K (2010) Diversity of anaerobic fungi within cow manure determined by ITS1 analysis. Folia Microbiol (Praha) 55(4), 319-325.
Hoffmann K, Voigt K (2009) Absidia parricida plays a dominant role in biotrophic fusion parasitism among mucoralean fungi (Zygomycetes): Lentamyces, a new genus for A. parricida and A. zychae. Plant Biol (Stuttg) 11(4), 537-554.
Fliegerová K, Hoffmann K, Mrázek J, Voigt K (2008) The design of oligonucleotide primers for the universal amplification of the N-acetylglucosaminidase gene (nag1) in Chytridiomycetes with emphasis on the anaerobic Neocallimastigales. Folia Microbiol (Praha) 53(3), 209-213.
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.