Prof. Dr. Matthias Leippe
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Education/Training
1995
Habilitation in Zoology at the University of Hamburg
1989
PhD in Zoology
1987 – 1988
Civil Services
1984 – 1986
Studies for the PhD Thesis Zoological Institute, University of Hamburg
1977 – 1984
Study of Biology at University of Hamburg
Research Experience/Academic Appointments
since 10/2003
C4 Professor and Director, Zoophysiology, Zoological Institute, CAU
2001 – 2003
C3 Professor, Molecular Parasitology, University of Würzburg
1999 – 2001
Coordinator of the Research program `Amoebiasis´ of the institute
1992 – 1993
Guest scientist at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Heidelberg
1989 – 2001
Researcher at the Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg; independent Group leader since 1993
Important Scientific Prizes/Functions
since 2007
Member of the Editorial Advisory board of Developmental and Comparative Immunology
2006 – 2014
Member of the Editorial Advisory board of the Biochemical Journal
2001 – 2004
Member of the Board of the Deutschen Gesellschaft für Parasitologie (DGP)
1998
Karl Asmund Rudolphi medal of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Parasitologie (DGP)
1997 – 2001
Fellowship of the Heisenberg Program of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
1997
Award of the Deutsche Tropenmedizinische Gesellschaft (DTG)
1997
Research award of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Hygiene und Mikrobiologie (DGHM)
1991
Young Investigator Award, American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Publications
2019
FeaturedThe functional repertoire contained within the native microbiota of the model nematode Caenorhabditis elegans
Zimmermann J, Obeng N, Yang W, Pees B, Petersen C, Waschina S, Kissoyan KAB, Aidley J, Hoeppner MP, Bunk B, Spröer C, Leippe M, Dierking K, Kaleta C*, Schulenburg H* (2019) The ISME Journal. 1-13. * Shared senior authorship doi: 10.1038/s41396-019-0504-y
The inducible response of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans to members of its natural microbiome across development and adult life
Yang W#, Petersen C#, Pees B#, Zimmermann J, Waschina S, Dirksen P, Rosenstiel P, Tholey A, Leippe M, Dierking K, Kaleta C*, Schulenburg H*. Front Microbiol. 10:1793. # Equal contribution as first authors, * Equal contribution as senior authors doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2019.01793.
2018
The Saposin-Like Protein AplD Displays Pore-Forming Activity and Participates in Defense Against Bacterial Infection During a Multicellular Stage of Dictyostelium discoideum.
Dhakshinamoorthy R, Bitzhenner M, Cosson P, Soldati T, Leippe M (2018); Front. Cell. Infect. Microbiol., 8:73. doi: 10.3389/fcimb.2018.00073
The Caenorhabditis elegans proteome response to naturally associated microbiome members of the genus Ochrobactrum
Cassidy L, Petersen C, Treitz C, Dierking K, Schulenburg H, Leippe M, Tholey A (2018); Proteomics, doi: 10.1002/pmic.201700426
Miniaturized dispersive liquid-liquid microextraction and MALDI MS using ionic liquid matrices for the detection of bacterial communication molecules and virulence factors.
Leipert J, Bobis I, Schubert S, Fickenscher H, Leippe M, Tholey A (2018); Anal Bioanal Chem. , pp 1–12. doi: 10.1007/s00216-018-0937-6
2017
Identification and Quantification of N-Acyl Homoserine Lactones Involved in Bacterial Communication by Small-Scale Synthesis of Internal Standards and Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption/Ionization Mass Spectrometry.
Leipert J, Treitz C, Leippe M, Tholey A (2017); J Am Soc Mass Spectrom., 28(12):2538-2547. doi: 10.1007/s13361-017-1777-x