Dr. rer. nat. (equivalent to PhD) Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany January 2011.
Diploma (equivalent to M. SC.) in Biology, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany. May 2005.
Research Experience
Postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Pathobiology in the laboratory of Christopher A. Hunter at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA. Topic: Breaching of the blood-brain barrier during toxoplasmosis. May 2011 to August 2019.
PhD student in the Unité de Pathogénie Microbienne Moléculaire (Head: P. Sansonetti) at the Institut Pasteur, Paris, France. Topic: Cross-talk between Shigella and cells of the adaptive immunity: The TTS effector IpgD inhibits T cell migration. January 2006 to January 2011.
PhD student in the Institute for Molecular Infection Biology (Head: J. Hacker) at the University of Würzburg, Germany. Topic: Characterisation of the anti-invasive effect of the probiotic E. coli strain Nissle 1917. September 2005 to December 2005.
Diploma student in the Institute for Environmental and Animal Hygiene (Head: R. Böhm) at the University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany. Topic: „The expression of the protective antigen from Bacillus anthracis under the control of the pagC promotor and testing this export- and expression system in the mouse model” May 2004 to May 2005.
