Institute for Medical Microbiology Giessen
The Institute for Medical Microbiology in Gießen is part of the University Hospital Gießen und Marburg GmbH and the Faculty of Medicine of the Justus Liebig University of Gießen . It is responsible for the microbiological diagnostics ( bacteriology , mycology , parasitology and serology ) of the university hospital as well as external senders. It is integrated into teaching for students of medicine , dentistry , veterinary medicine , nutritional science , agricultural sciences , biology and chemistry and the training of medical-technical assistants , midwives and nurses . The Institute interdisciplinary clinically-oriented research by the exciter are both aligned and patient-oriented and areas, such as internal medicine , the trauma , the anesthesiology , the dental and maxillofacial surgery , the cardiac and vascular surgery , the Urology , includes dermatology and andrology , anatomy and cell biology , transfusion medicine and pharmacology .
Particular focus is on integrative functional genome research in infectious diseases and research on listeria and molecular sepsis . The institute is part of the Giessen Research Center in Infectious Diseases ( GRID ) and of SIPAGE (Signatures, Pathways, Genes) "From Pathogen-Induced Signatures to Therapeutic Target Genes: Comparative and Functional Analysis of the Inflammatory Response in Health and Disease" in the network "Infection and Inflammation" ( National Genome Research Network ( NGFN )).
The ERA-NET PathoGenoMics project "SPATELIS", which deals with the spatial-temporal analysis of Listeria host protein interactions, is coordinated in Giessen. SPATELIS is part of the "VIRLIS" network headed by Professor Pascale Cossart from the Pasteur Institute in Paris . This research association received the Descartes Prize in 2007 for its world-leading research in the field of infection biology and the development of new strategies to combat Listeria bacteria . With the award named after René Descartes , the European Commission honors the most successful transnational research projects in Europe every year.
Today's director of the institute is Trinad Chakraborty .
history
The Institute for Medical Microbiology emerged from the Chair for Hygiene, which was established on October 1, 1888 for the new subjects of bacteriology and hygiene. The founder and first professor was Georg Gaffky , who went to Berlin in 1904 to succeed his teacher Robert Koch . Hermann Kossel, also a student of Koch, was appointed as Gaffky's successor and headed the institute until he was appointed to the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg in 1910. He was followed for four years by Rudolf Otto Neumann , a student of Karl Bernhard Lehmann with a focus on tropical medicine . After he moved to the University of Bonn in 1914 , Karl Paul Schmidt was appointed to Giessen. He headed the institute until he moved to the University of Halle in 1917 and, like his successor Emil Gottschlich, made particular contributions to industrial hygiene. Further directors were Philalethes Kuhn (until his retirement in 1935), Heinrich Kliewe , Adolf Seiser and Friedrich Erhard Haag . In a bombing raid on December 6, 1944, the buildings of the Hygiene Institute and the Hessian Investigation Office for Infectious Diseases, which had been an independent institute since 1911, were completely destroyed. Haag died in February 1945.
By the end of the Second World War , the laboratories were relocated to Lich in the Lich Castle and the Ihring-Melchior brewery. Thereafter, the establishment of the Hygiene Institute began in April 1945 in the rooms of the Veterinary Hygiene and Animal Disease Institute on Frankfurter Strasse. After Kliewe moved to Mainz in 1946, the Hessian Investigation Office for Infectious Diseases, of which he had been head since 1928, was re-joined to the Hygiene Institute in 1947. The Hygiene Institute was again the medical examination office for the city and district of Gießen as well as for the Wetterau and Vogelsberg districts .
In 1949, Berthold Kemkes, a student of Max Neisser , was appointed acting director of the institute and in 1951 appointed to the chair for hygiene. In 1958 a new building of the institute started in 1956 at Friedrichstrasse 16 could be occupied. The lecture hall building, which was completed at the same time, now had a course room with 70 seats and a lecture hall for 120 listeners. Kemkes earned services for the expansion of the college for medical-technical assistants.
In the 1960s, as part of the reorganization of the subject of hygiene, the medical faculty decided to set up separate chairs for virology , medical microbiology and hygiene .
In 1970 Hans-Jobst Wellensiek was appointed to the chair for medical microbiology and took over the provisional management of the Hygiene Institute until Ernst Gerhard Beck was appointed in 1974. In 1972 the institutes for virology and medical microbiology were housed in a newly constructed multi-purpose building at 107 Frankfurter Strasse. The tasks of the Medical Examination Office were shared by all three institutes. With the appointment of Wellensiek, the scientific focus of the microbiological institute changed. The focus was now on studies of bacteria , their pathogenicity mechanisms and the mode of action of bacterial toxins , as well as the improved diagnosis of bacterial infections such as syphilis , borreliosis , and the investigation of urogenital infections caused by mycoplasma and chlamydia .
From 1985 to 1990 Mardjan Arvand worked as a doctoral student at the institute, and from 2003 to 2008 she was professor of molecular bacteriology at the University of Rostock . Hans Gerd Schiefer, who worked at the institute from 1975 until his retirement, and Sucharit Bhakdi received his habilitation under Wellensiek . Bhakdi worked at the institute from 1977 to 1990. In 1982 he was appointed C2 professor and in 1987 C3 professor for medical microbiology at the University of Giessen, before he was appointed to the University of Mainz in 1990 . As the successor to Bhakdi, the Würzburg microbiologist Trinad Chakraborty was appointed to the professorship for Infection Epidemiology on May 1, 1992 and appointed as Managing Director of the institute as the successor to Hans-Jobst Wellensiek on December 1, 1997.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information on GRID ( Memento of the original from February 18, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Information on the SPATELIS project ( memento of the original dated June 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Descartes Prize for microbiologists from Giessen
- ↑ Information on the Descartes Prize
- ↑ Biography Mardjan Arvand in the Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensium
- ↑ Biography of Hans Gerd Schiefer
- ↑ Sucharit Bhakdi (Punyarataband) - CV
