e-mail: kerstin.voigt@uni-jena.de

Vita

1992

Diploma in Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Attila József University of Szeged, Hungary. Thesis on electrophoretical separation of chromosomal DNA of filamentous fungi by Pulsed-Field Gel Electrophoresis techniques.

1992-1994

PhD thesis at the Dept. of General Microbiology, University Jena, Germany (Group of B. Brückner) on Genetic variability of phytopathogenic fungi of the genus Fusarium

1995

Dr. rer. nat., Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena. Thesis on genetic variability of phytopathogenic fungi (genus Fusarium)

since 1995

Post-doc position at the Department of General Microbiology and Microbial Genetics

1996

PhD Award of the University Jena

1998-1999

United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Agricultural Research Service (ARS), National Center of Agricultural Utilization Research (NCAUR)
Microbial Properties Research at the NRRL strain collection (group of K. O'Donnell)

since 1999

Assistant professorship at the Dept. General Microbiology and Microbial Genetics, University of Jena, Germany

Teaching responsibilities (4 hours per week): practical courses in Phylogeny of fungi and in Microbiology

Curator of the Fungal Reference Centre Jena at the University of Jena

2003

Defence of the Habilitation thesis about "Phylogenetic and diagnostic analyses of microscopic fungi: Molecular strategies between strain typing and systematics at the higher taxon level"

2004

Habilitation Award of the University Jena

Professional Affiliations

• German Association of General and Applied Microbiology (VAAM)
• German Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (GBM), formerly: German Society of Biological Chemistry (GBCh)
• Mycological Society of America (MSA)
• Society of Systematic Biology (SSB)
• German Society of Biological Systematics (GfBS)
• Founder member of the European Mycological Association (EMA)

Contact

Kerstin Voigt
Tel.: +49 (0)3641 9493-21 /-10
Fax: +49 (0)3641 949322
e-mail: kerstin.voigt@uni-jena.de