CURRICULUM VITAE - BIRGITTA WÖHRL

Professional Experience

8/2005                                Extraordinary Professor at the University of Bayreuth

1/2004                                Habilitation in Biophysical Chemistry at the University of Bayreuth

6/2002                                Tenured Research Associate, Department of Biopolymers, University of Bayreuth, Germany

6/1998                                Habilitation in Genetics at the University of Osnabrück, Germany: Structure-function analysis of the retroviral reverse transcriptases from HIV-1, EIAV and MLV

7/1994 – 5/2002                 Group Leader, Department of Physical Biochemistry, Max-Planck-Institut for Molecular Physiology, Dortmund, Germany. Fellowship from the German AIDS-program (until 6/97)

02/1992 - 4/1994               Post-doc with Prof. Dr. S. Le Grice, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. Fellowship from the German AIDS-program (Stipendienprogramm Infektionsforschung)

12/1988 - 12/1991             Post-doc with Prof. Dr. K. Mölling, Max-Planck-Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany

Education

01/1985 - 11/1988             Department of Genetics, University of Osnabrück, Germany:
Thesis: Molecular analysis of the sor-genes and the L-sorbose metabolism of Klebsiella pneumoniae
Ph.D. awarded 11/1988

11/1984 - 12/1984             Department of Genetics, University of Regensburg, Germany

10/1984                              Diploma in Biology, University of Regensburg, Germany
Diploma Thesis: Chemotaxis of Agrobacterium tumefaciens and Rhizobium meliloti

1981 - 1982                       Department of Microbiology, University College Cardiff, UK;

1978 - 1983                       Study of Biology, University of Regensburg, Germany