12/2003 - 05/2005
Research on global regulation of gene expression in Bacillus anthracis and on optimisation of protein secretion in Bacillus subtilis at the Institute for Cell and Molecular Biosciences (Prof. Colin Harwood), University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
05/1999 - 11/2003
Research on global regulation of gene expression in Bacillus subtilis and Helicobacter pylori by transcriptome analyses using DNA arrays at the Department of Microbiology (Prof. Michael Hecker), Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-University Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
10/1997 - 04/1999 Research on the regulation of heat shock genes in Bacillus subtilis and Helicobacter pylori at the Department of Genetics (Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schumann), University Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany
Education
09/1997
Degree: Dr. rer. nat. (PhD), Thesis (translated title) : "Trancriptional analysis of the Bacillus subtilis dnaK locus”
04/1994 - 09/1997
PhD thesis at the Department of Genetics (Prof. Wolfgang Schumann), University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany
01/1994 Diploma (Masters) at the Department of Genetics (Prof. Wolfgang Schumann), University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany; Thesis (translated title): "Cloning, partial sequencing and analysis of the Bacillus subtilis lepA gene”
1987 - 1994 University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany
