Scientific Program

	Biochemical and functional characterization of novel blood stage kinases in the malaria pathogen Plasmodium falciparum Name: Shruti Agarwal Supervisor: PD Dr. Gabriele Pradel Promotion Committee: PD Dr. Gabriele Pradel, Prof. Dr. Christian Doerig, Prof. Dr. Jörg Hacker
	Ecological and molecular investigations of the Sponge Orange Band disease (SOB) in the Caribbean sponge Xestospongia muta Name: Hilde Gabriele Angermeier Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Ute Hentschel Promotion Committee: Prof. Dr. Ute Hentschel, Prof. Dr. Georg Krohne, Prof. Dr. Joseph R. Pawlik
	Utilisation of amino acids in the human pathogen Aspergillus fumigatus Name: Anna Bergmann Supervisor: PD Dr. Sven Krappmann Promotion Committee: PD Dr. Sven Krappmann, PD Dr. Knut Ohlsen, PD Dr. Jürgen Löffler
	Regulation of morphogenesis and virulence gene expression by nitrogen availability in the fungal pathogen Candida albicans Name: Nico Dunkel Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Joachim Morschhäuser Promotion Committee: Prof. Dr. Joachim Morschhäuser, PD Dr. Sven Krappmann, Prof. Dr. Roy Gross
	Bioinformatic analyses of enterobacterial genomes and its application: Improvement of a DNA array for diagnostics of clinically relevant enterobacteria Name: Torben Friedrich Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Jörg Hacker / PD Dr. Ulrich Dobrindt Promotion Committee: Prof. Dr. Jörg Hacker, Prof. Dr. Thomas Dandekar, Dr. Sven Rahmann
	Analysis of the structural basis for DNA-specificity in pathogenicity island recombination of uropathogenic E. coli strain 536 Name: Kishore Geddam Chowdary Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Jörg Hacker Promotion Committee: Prof. Dr. Jörg Hacker, Prof. Dr. Caroline Kisker, PD Dr. Ulrich Dobrindt
	Aspects of nitrogen metabolism and virulence in Aspergillus fumigatus Name: Thomas Hartmann Supervisor: PD Dr. Sven Krappmann Promotion Committee: PD Dr. Sven Krappmann, PD Dr. Frank Ebel, Prof. Dr. Joachim Morschhäuser
	*NMR imaging for in vivo* characterisation of infections Name: Tobias Hertlein Supervisor: PD Dr. Knut Ohlsen Promotion Committee: PD Dr. Knut Ohlsen, Prof. Dr. Peter Jakob, Prof. Dr. Dr. Bhanu Sinha**
	Thesis project: Functional characterization of proteases and kinases in the blood and sexual stages of Plasmodium falciparum Name: Selina Kern Supervisor: PD Dr. Gabriele Pradel Promotion Committee: PD Dr. Sven Krappmann, Dr. Jude Przyborski
	Improvement of molecular epidemiological strain typing of pathogenic and non-pathogenic Escherichia coli Name: Christian-Daniel Köhler Supervisor: PD Dr. Ulrich Dobrindt Promotion Committee: PD Dr. Ulrich Dobrindt, Prof. Dr. Ulrich Vogel, Prof. Dr. Dag Harmsen
	Structural and functional characterization of the polyketide colibactin expressed in extraintestinal pathogenic and commensal Escherichia coli Name: Grit Krumbholz Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Jörg Hacker / PD Dr. Ulrich Dobrindt Promotion Committee: Prof. Dr. Jörg Hacker, Dr. Eric Oswald, PD Dr. Ulrich Dobrindt
	Molecular interactions of the malaria parasite sexual stages during fertilization and their interplay with components of the mosquito midgut Name: Andrea Kühn Supervisors: PD Dr. Gabriele Pradel Promotion Committee: PD Dr. Gabriele Pradel, Dr. Oliver Billker, Prof. Dr. Klaus Brehm
	*Comparative genomics and analysis of factors involved in host-pathogen interaction of Escherichia coli* bovine mastitis isolates Name: Andreas Leimbach Supervisor: PD Dr. Ulrich Dobrindt Promotion Committee: PD Dr. Ulrich Dobrindt, PD Dr. Knut Ohlsen,** Prof. Dr. Hans-Martin Seyfert
	*Analysis of Staphylococcus aureus-host interactions* Name: Birgit Lorenz Supervisor: PD Dr. Knut Ohlsen Promotion Committee: PD Dr. Knut Ohlsen, Prof. Dr. Jörg Hacker, Prof. Dr. Jürgen Kreft
	Determination of the mode of action of new drugs against Staphylococcus aureus Name: Thomas Menzel Supervisor: PD Dr. Knut Ohlsen Promotion Committee: PD Dr. Knut Ohlsen, PD Dr. Wilma Ziebuhr, PD Dr. Heike Bruhn
	*Stress resistance of the pathogenic fungus Aspergillus fumigatus* via eIF2a kinase signaling Name: Anette Schedler Supervisor: PD Dr. Sven Krappmann Promotion Committee: PD Dr. Sven Krappmann, PD Dr. Gabriele Pradel, PD Dr. Ulrich Dobrindt**
	The analysis of staphylococcal infections by means of new imaging techniques Name: Tina Schäfer Supervisor: PD Dr. Knut Ohlsen Promotion Committee: PD Dr. Knut Ohlsen, Prof. Dr. Jörg Hacker, PD Dr. Christiane Wolz
	Characterization of the mechanisms involved in the microevolution of asymptomatic bacteriuria Escherichia coli Name: Ellaine Salvador Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Jörg Hacker Promotion Committee: Prof. Dr. Jörg Hacker, Prof. Dr. Catharina Svanborg, PD Dr. Ulrich Dobrindt
	Characterization of protein glycosylation pathways in Escherichia coli Name: Roswitha Schiller Supervisor: PD Dr. Ulrich Dobrindt Promotion Committee: PD Dr. Ulrich Dobrindt, Prof. Dr. M. Alexander Schmidt, Prof. Dr. Jörg Hacker
	Functional analysis of a transcription factor controlling multidrug resistance in the human fungal pathogen Candida albicans Name: Sabrina Schubert Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Joachim Morschhäuser Promotion Committee: Prof. Dr. Joachim Morschhäuser, Prof. Dr. Klaus Brehm, PD Dr. Knut Ohlsen
	*Construction of recombinant E. coli* Nissle 1917 strains expressing defensins: a novel therapy for treatment of inflammatory bowel disease Name: Ean-jeong Seo Supervisor: Dr. Tobias Ölschläger Promotion Committee: Dr. Tobias Ölschläger, PD Dr. Ulrich Dobrindt, Dr. Jan Wehkamp**
	Characterization of molecular interactions between sexual stage-specific proteins in Plasmodium falciparum Name: Nina Simon Supervisor: PD Dr. Gabriele Pradel Promotion Committee: PD Dr. Gabriele Pradel, Dr. Pietro Alano, PD Dr. Heike Bruhn
	*The influence of the probiotic Escherichia coli* strain Nissle 1917 and its flagellar system on the production of antimicrobial peptides by different human host cells Name: Anja Troge Supervisor: Dr. Tobias Ölschläger Promotion Committee: Dr. Tobias Ölschläger, PD Dr. Ulrich Dobrindt, Dr. Jan Wehkamp**
	*Characterization of virulence-associated traits of Escherichia coli* bovine mastitis isolates Name: Ingmar Zude Supervisor: PD Dr. Ulrich Dobrindt Promotion Committee: PD Dr. Ulrich Dobrindt, Prof. Dr. Jörg Hacker, Dr. Eric Oswald**