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

Montaño DE, Voigt K (2020) Host immune defense upon fungal infections with mucorales: Pathogen-immune cell interactions as drivers of inflammatory responses. J Fungi 6(3), E173. (Review)
Stanford FA, Voigt K (2020) Iron assimilation during emerging infections caused by opportunistic fungi with emphasis on mucorales and the development of antifungal resistance. Genes (Basel) 11(11), E1296. (Review)
Wagner L, Stielow JB, de Hoog GS, Bensch K, Schwartze VU, Voigt K, Alastruey-Izquierdo A, Kurzai O, Walther G (2020) A new species concept for the clinically relevant Mucor circinelloides complex. Persoonia 44, 67-97.
Brkljaca R, Dahse HM, Voigt K, Urban S (2019) Antimicrobial evaluation of the constituents isolated from Macropidia fuliginosa (Hook.) Druce. Nat Prod Commun 14(10), 1-6.
Burow K, Grawunder A, Harpke M, Pietschmann S, Ehrhardt R, Wagner L, Voigt K, Merten D, Büchel G, Kothe E (2019) Microbiomes in an acidic rock-water cave system. FEMS Microbiol Lett 366(13), fnz167.
Hassan MIA, Voigt K (2019) Pathogenicity patterns of mucormycosis: Epidemiology, interaction with immune cells and virulence factors. Med Mycol 57(Supplement_2), S245-S256. (Review)
Hassan MIA*, Cseresnyes Z*, Al-Zaben N, Dahse HM, Vilela de Oliveira RJ, Walther G, Voigt K**, Figge MT**; *shared first authors; ** authors contributed equally (2019) The geographical region of origin determines the phagocytic vulnerability of Lichtheimia strains. Environ Microbiol 21(12), 4563-4581.
Hussein MA, Voigt K (2019) Phylogenetic and enzymatic variability of Alternaria species isolated from various substrates in Qena governorate of Upper Egypt. Archives of Phytopathology and Plant Protection 52(5-6), 530-541.
Mudalungu CM, von Törne WJ, Voigt K, Rückert C, Schmitz S, Sekurova ON, Zotchev SB, Süssmuth RD (2019) Noursamycins, chlorinated cyclohexapeptides identified from molecular networking of Streptomyces noursei NTR-SR4. J Nat Prod 82(6), 1478-1486.
Mura E, Edwards J, Kittelmann S, Kaerger K, Voigt K, Mrázek J, Moniello G, Fliegerova K (2019) Anaerobic fungal communities differ along the horse digestive tract. Fungal Biol 123(3), 240-246.