Curriculum vitae

Main Research Areas
  • Biochemical and genetic basis of fungal natural product biosyntheses
  • Natural products of basidiomycetes and Ralstonia solanacearum
  • Microbial nonribosomal peptide synthetases
Professional Career
2014- Full Professor for Pharmaceutical Microbiology, FSU Jena and HKI Jena
2009-2014 Associate Professor for Pharmaceutical Biology, FSU Jena and head of the associated department Pharmaceutical Biology at the HKI Jena
2007-2009 Assistant Professor (tenure track) University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN, USA
2008 Habilitation in Pharmaceutical Biology and Biotechnology, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg
2004-2007 Junior Group Leader, Institute for Pharmacy, Albert-Ludwigs-University, Freiburg
2002-2004 Postdoc, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA (DFG-fellowship)
2002 Dr. rer. nat., Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy, Albert-Ludwigs-University, Freiburg
1998 Diploma in biology at the Eberhard-Karls-University, Tübingen
Awards · Appointments · Scientific Activities
Since 2020 Head of the Institute for Pharmacy, FSU Jena
2016-2019 Dean for Study Affairs in the Faculty of Biology and Pharmacy, FSU Jena
2013-2016 Scientific advisory board, Vereinigung für Allgemeine und Angewandte Mikrobiologie (VAAM).

Publications

Hoffmeister D, Weber M, Dräger G, Ichinose K, Dürr C, Bechthold A (2004) Rational saccharide extension by using the natural product glycosyltransferase LanGT4. Chembiochem 5, 369-371.
Thorson JS, Barton WA, Hoffmeister D, Albermann C, Nikolov DB (2004) Structure-based enzyme engineering and its impact on in vitro glycorandomization. Chembiochem 5, 16-25.
Hoffmeister D, Dräger G, Ichinose K, Rohr J, Bechthold A (2003) The C-Glycosyltransferase UrdGT2 is unselective toward d- and l-configured nucleotide-bound rhodinoses. J Am Chem Soc 125, 4678-4679.
Hoffmeister D, Yang J, Liu L, Thorson JS (2003) Creation of the first anomeric D/L-sugar kinase by means of directed evolution. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 100, 13184-13189.
Pelzer S, Hoffmeister D, Merfort I, Bechthold A (2003) Procaryotic and eucaryotic cells in biotech production In: Kayser O, Müller R. H. (eds.) Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Drug Discovery and Clinical Applications pp. 9-33. Wiley-Blackwell.
Rebets Y, Ostash B, Luzhetskyy A, Hoffmeister D, Brana A, Mendez C, Salas JA, Bechthold A, Fedorenko V (2003) Production of landomycins in Streptomyces globisporus 1912 and S cyanogenus S136 is regulated by genes encoding putative transcriptional activators. FEMS Microbiol Lett 222, 149-153.
Rix U, Remsing LL, Hoffmeister D, Bechthold A, Rohr J (2003) Urdamycin L: a novel metabolic shunt product that provides evidence for the role of the urdM gene in the urdamycin A biosynthetic pathway of Streptomyces fradiae TU 2717. Chembiochem 4, 109-111.
Hoffmeister D, Wilkinson B, Foster G, Sidebottom PJ, Ichinose K, Bechthold A (2002) Engineered urdamycin glycosyltransferases are broadened and altered in substrate specificity. Chem Biol 9, 287-295.
Hoffmeister D, Ichinose K, Bechthold A (2001) Two sequence elements of glycosyltransferases involved in urdamycin biosynthesis are responsible for substrate specificity and enzymatic activity. Chem Biol 8, 557-567.
Weitnauer G, Mühlenweg A, Trefzer A, Hoffmeister D, Süssmuth RD, Jung G, Welzel K, Vente A, Girreser U, Bechthold A (2001) Biosynthesis of the orthosomycin antibiotic avilamycin A: deductions from the molecular analysis of the avi biosynthetic gene cluster of Streptomyces viridochromogenes Tü57 and production of new antibiotics. Chem Biol 8, 569-581.