Curriculum vitae
PD Dr. Christoph Andreas Mayer
| Phone | 0049 / 7531 88 21 26 (work) |
| ch.mayer(at)uni-konstanz.de |
Research Position
| 2007- | Leader of an independent Heisenberg group (W2) |
| of the German Research Foundation (DFG), at the University of Konstanz, Germany, Department of Biology, "Enzymology of the bacterial cell wall metabolism" | |
| 2001- 2007 | Assistent Professor (C1), |
| University of Konstanz, Germany, Department of Biology, Molecular Microbiology, leader of an independent research group, "Cell wall recycling and amino sugar metabolism in Escherichia coli" | |
| 2000- 2001 | Postdoc, Research Assistent, |
| University of Konstanz, Germany, Microbiology, Department of Biology, with Prof. Winfried Boos, "Bacterial carbohydrate metabolism and regulation" | |
| 1999- 2000 | Postdoc, Research Assistent, |
| University of British Columbia, Vancouver BC, Canada, Biotechnology Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, and NEOSE Technologies Inc., in the groups of Prof. Tony Warren and Prof. Stephen Withers, "Glycosynthases: enzymatic synthesis of oligosaccharides using engineered glycosidases" | |
| 1997- 1999 | Postdoctoral Fellow |
| of the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF), at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver BC, Canada, Departments of Chemistry, with Prof. Stephen Withers, and Microbiology and Immunology with Prof. Tony Warren, "The mechanism of β-N-acetylglucosamindases" | |
| 1997 | Postdoc, |
| Joint-venture program of the University of Zürich and Novartis (formerly Sandoz), CTI-Project: "Innovative antifungal agents with a novel mode of action as plant protections and pharmaceuticals" |
Education
| March 2006 | Heisenberg fellowship awarded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) |
| April 1997 | Ph.D. (Phil. II), University of Zürich, Switzerland, Institut of Plant Biology |
| 1993 - 1997 | Ph.D. Thesis, University of Zürich, Switzerland, Institut of Plant Biology, Advisors Profs Dora M. Rast and Friedrich Jüttner, “A mechanistic analysis of chitinolytic enzymes of filamentous fungi" |
| 1992 - 1993 | Microbiology and Mycology Studies, University of Zürich, Switzerland |
| June 1991 | Diploma in Chemistry, University of Freiburg, Germany, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry |
| 1990 - 1991 | Diploma Thesis, University of Freiburg, Germany, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Advisor: Prof. Gerhard Kurz and Prof. Jochen Lehmann |
| 1985 - 1991 | Chemistry and Biochemistry Studies, University of Freiburg, Germany |
| 1984 | Graduation from Secondary School (Abitur), Kreisgymnasium Gundelfingen, Germany |
Activities as reviewer
Journal of Biological Chemistry
Journal of Bacteriology
Applied and Environmental Microbiology
Carbohydrate Research
Biotechnology and Applied Biochemistry
Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes
Teaching experience
2001 - present
University of Konstanz, Germany,
Supervisor of the Basic (Kompaktkurs) and the Advanced Microbiology Course (Vertiefungskurs) at the University of Konstanz
Delivery, Coordination and Assignment of the Final Grade for Graduate Laboratory Courses
Lecturer for 3rd to 4th Year Students
Diploma students of Biology, and Bachelor and Master students of Biology and Life Sciences
Lectures:
- Chemistry of Carbohydrates
- Bacterial Carbohydrate Metabolism
- Transport and Transport Systems
- The Bacterial Cell Surface
- Antibiotics: Molecular Mechanism and Resistance
- Enzymkinetics
- Gene Expression
- Transcriptional Regulation in Prokaryotes
- Bacterial genetic methods
- Mutagenesis and Directed Evolution
Supervisor of Ph.D students
Tina Jaeger, Silke Litzinger, Jan Schleider, Ines Schuetze,
Alexander Schneider, Jonathan Gisin
Supervisor of Diploma Students
Julia Sattler, Silke Litzinger, Sven Seibert, Michaela Fürst,
Anne Berking, Ines Schütze, Alexander Schneider, Katja Nitzsche,
Michael Joos, Amanda Duckworth
Received grants and prices
| 2008 - 2011 | Research Grant of the DFG (MA2436/5) |
| 2008 - 2009 | Research Grant of the Young Scholar Fund of the University of Konstanz |
| 2007 - 2010 | Research Grant of the DFG (MA2436/4) |
| 2007 - 2010 | Heisenberg Grant of the German Research Foundation (DFG, MA2436/3) |
| 2006 - 2007 | Research Grant of the DFG (MA2436/1-4) |
| 2005 | Ph.D. Prize of the University society of Konstanz awarded to Tina Jaeger, Ph.D. student |
| 2004 - 2006 | Research Grant of the DFG (MA2436/1-3) |
| 2001 - 2004 | Research Grant of the DFG (MA2436/1-1 and 1-2) |
| 1999 | Merck Frosst-CSBMCB Prize of the Pan American Societies for Biochemistry and Molecular and Cellular Biology, San Francisco |
| 1997 - 1999 | Postdoctoral Fellowship of the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) |
Recent conferences and presentations
2010
Workshop: Dynamics of Peptidoglycan Structure and Function - New Insights into the "Great Wall", Baeza, Spain, October 4-6
Invited lecture at the 110th General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) in San Diego, USA, May 23-27, "Bacterial cell wall recycling metabolism reveals carbohydrate hydrolases with novel mechanisms"
Invited lecture at the Center for Synthetic Microbiology (SYNMIKRO) at the University of Marburg, April, 12th, "Murein statt Plastik - Exporing and Exploiting the bacterial cell wall and sugar metabolism"
2009
Invited lecture at the University of Tübingen, Dec.14th "Bacterial cell wall turnover, recycling, and signalling"
Lecture at the 20th Joint Glycobiology Meeting of the GBMB and Cologne Nov. 8 - 10, "The bacterial cell wall metabolism reveals carbohydrate hydrolases with novel mechanisms"
15th European Carbohydrate Symposium (Eurocab), University of Vienna, July 19 - 24, Poster presentation, "Bacterial cell wall recycling metabolism reveals carbohydrate hydrolases with novel mechanisms"
Invited lecture at the RWTH Aachen, July, 9th, "Murein statt Plastik, Wie Bakterien ihre Verpackung wiederverwerten"
Lecture at the Biotrans Meeting in Bern, Switzerland, July, 5 – 9th, "Bacterial cell wall recycling metabolism reveals carbohydrate hydrolases with novel mechanisms"
Applied Industrial Synthetic Biology in Europe – Biofine Europe Freiburg, April 16- 17
Invited lecture at the Technical University Braunschweig, Feb. 19, "Exploring and exploiting enzymes of the bacterial cell wall recycling"
2008
23nd. International Carbohydrate Symposium, Oslo, Norway, July 27 – August 1, "N-Acetylmuramic Acid Etherase – Function and Regulation"
Gordon Conference on the Bacterial Cell Surface, Colby-Sawyers College, NH, USA, June 22-27, "Mechanism of a recycling N-acetylglucosaminidase from B. subtilis"
Invited lecture at EMBL Hamburg, May 27, "How bacteria recycle their packaging"
Invited lecture at the "Medizinische Mikrobiologie", Homburg/Saar, April 29, "How bacteria recycle their packaging"
Annual Meeting of the German Society of Microbiology (VAAM), Frankfurt, March 9-11, "Peptidoglycan recycling in Bacillus subtilis"
Lecture at the DFG priority programme 1316 "Host-adapted metabolism of bacterial pathogenes" Gustav-Stresemann-Institut (GSI), Bad Godesberg, Feb. 21-22, "Host-adaptation of the cell wall turnover / recycling metabolism and its role in pathogenicity"
