Frau Dr. Petra Peters-Wendisch

Education & Qualification:

Since 10/2009 - Research associate

Genetics of Procaryotes, Faculty of Biology, University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany.

Main research focus: Metabolic engineering on microbial production of metabolites with industrial relevance (Industrial Biotechnology).

10/2005-09/2009 - Staff position

International Relations Management / Corporate Strategy, Staff of the Board of Directors, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Germany (http://www.fz-juelich.de).

06/1999-09/2006 - Research associate

Institute of Biotechnology 1, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Germany (http://www.fz-juelich.de/ibg/ibg-1/DE/Home/home_node.html).

Research project: Metabolic Engineering on amino acid production in gram-positive bacteria, with focus on L-serine production with Corynebacterium glutamicum. This project was funded by Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt (http://www.dbu.de/projekt_13037/_db_1036.html).

01/1998-05/1999 - Post-doctoral fellow

in the lab of Sydney Kustu, Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA (http://pmb.berkeley.edu).

Main research focus: Nitrogen regulation in gram-negative bacteria.

08/1996-12/1997 - Post-doctoral fellow

in the group of Bernd Eikmanns (now University of Ulm, Germany, http://www.uni-ulm.de/nawi/nawi-mikrobio/research/prof-dr-bernhard-eikmanns.html), Institute of Biotechnology 1, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Germany,

Main research focus: Metabolic engineering on central metabolism in gram-positive bacteria.

07/1996 - Dr. rer. nat. (Ph.D.)

Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany.

Doctoral examination in science/ title: Anaplerotic reactions in Corynebacterium glutamicum: Analysis of the importance of PEP carboxylase and pyruvate carboxylase in the central metabolism and for amino acid production.

01/1993-07/1996 - Ph.D. student in Microbiology

Institute of Biotechnology 1, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Germany. Studies were carried out with Hermann Sahm.

12/1992 - Degree in Biology (Dipl.-Biol.)

Graduation at the University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany; Experimental diploma thesis on: Analysis of Pyruvate Kinase from Corynebacterium glutamicum ATCC 13032.

10/1986-12/1992 - Studies of biology

University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany