Thomas W. Vahlenkamp

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Thomas W. Vahlenkamp (* 1963 in Koblenz ) is a German veterinarian and director of the Institute for Virology at the Veterinary Medicine Faculty of the University of Leipzig . He is a veterinarian specializing in virology, bacteriology and mycology, and immunology. As dean of studies, he is responsible for teaching.

Life

Thomas Wilhelm Vahlenkamp was born in Koblenz and grew up in Ludwigshafen. He studied veterinary medicine at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in Munich , where he 1993 on antiviral studies on the effectiveness itself against the feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV) infection in in vitro test systems and experimentally FIV-infected cats to Dr. med vet. PhD . He then worked for five years in the Virology Department of the Veterinary Faculty of the University of Utrecht , Netherlands , where he obtained a Ph.D. Before he moved to the College of Veterinary Medicine at North Carolina State University in Raleigh (North Carolina) for three years , he worked as a university assistant at the Institute of Virology at the University of Leipzig's Faculty of Veterinary Medicine.

After his return in 2004, Vahlenkamp was laboratory manager at the Institute for Molecular Biology at the Friedrich Loeffler Institute (FLI) in Greifswald on the island of Riems in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and personal advisor to FLI President Thomas Mettenleiter . From this position he was appointed head of the Institute for Infection Medicine at the FLI in 2009. During this time, he also held a teaching position as a specialist veterinarian for virology, microbiology and immunology and serology at the Free University of Berlin and was the head of the OIE and National Reference Laboratory for Enzootic Bovine Leukosis and the National Reference Laboratory for Maedi-Visna and Caprine Arthritis-Encephalitis .

Since October 2010 Thomas Vahlenkamp has been Professor of Virology at the University of Leipzig and Director of the Institute for Virology in the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine. His research focus is the immunopathogenesis of viral infections with a focus on influenza , retro and rotaviruses . The research database of the University of Leipzig shows an average of eleven publications by Vahlenkamp in German and English for the years 2010 to 2013, primarily in specialist publications.

Memberships

Vahlenkamp is u. a. Member of the editorial board of the international journals Virus Genes, Veterinary Immunology and Immunopathology and Veterinary Practice. He is a deputy member of the Central Commission for Biosafety (ZKBS) for the field of virology. He is also a member of the non-profit Robert Koch Foundation, which promotes medical progress and supports the fight against infectious diseases and other common diseases.

In addition to his work in research and teaching, Vahlenkamp is Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board of GVG Diagnostics GmbH. The Leipzig biotechnology company has specialized in the veterinary diagnostics of laboratory animals and is developing new health tests for the detection of infectious diseases.

During his stay in the USA he was involved in two parishes, which he continued after his return to Germany in the cathedral parish of St. Nikolai in Greifswald. He is currently a member of the church council of the Martin Luther parish in Markkleeberg near Leipzig.

Vahlenkampf belongs to the Christian student union Munich Wingolf .

Fonts (selection)

  • Sustainability in veterinary research , In: S. Baumert, K. Schlütter, S. Stoppe, M. Zlotowski (Eds.): Sustainability - On the trail of a term and its meaning in a university context , Lit Verlag, Münster, 2013, p 59-66, ISBN 978-3-643-12015-1 .
  • with K. Heenemann, S. Lapp, JP Teifke, D. Fichtner and TC Mettenleiter: Development of a Bovine leukemia virus polymerase gene-based real-time polymerase chain reaction and comparison with an envelope gene-based assay , In: Journal of Veterinary Diagnostic Investigation 24, 649-655.
  • with D. Fichtner (2011): Enzootic Leukose der Rinder , In: Animal Health Report 2010 , Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, 11, 58–59, ISSN  1867-9374 .
  • with M. Gac and J. Bigda (2010): Increased mitochondrial superoxide dismutase expression and lowered production of reactive oxygen species during rotavirus infection , In: Virology 404, 293-303.
  • with D. Kalthoff, C. Grund, TC Harder, E. Lange, TC Mettenleiter and M. Beer (2010): Restricted susceptibility for the novel swine origin influenza virus A / H1N1 of chickens, turkeys and mice , In: Emerging Infectious Diseases journal 16, 703-705.
  • with JP Teifke, TC Harder, M. Beer and TC Mettenleiter (2010): Systemic influenza virus H5N1 infection in cats after gastrointestinal exposure , In: Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses 4, 379–386.
  • with M. Giese, U. Bahr, NJ Jakob, R. Kehm, M. Handermann, H. Müller, C. Spieß, T. Schneider, G. Schusser and G. Darai (2002): Stable and long-lasting immune response in horses after DNA vaccination against equine arteritis virus , In: Virus Genes 25, 159-167.
  • with HK Enbergs, A. Kipar and H. Müller (2001): Experimental infection of mice with Borna disease virus (BDV): Replication and distribution of the virus after intracerebral infection , In: Journal of NeuroVirology 7, 272-277.
  • with J. Kacza, H. Enbergs, JA Richt, C. Herden, A. Germer, H. Kuhrt, A. Reichenbach, H. Müller, T. Stahl and J. Seeger (2000): Neuron-glia interactions in the rat retina infected by Borna disease virus , In: Archives of Virology 145, 127-147.
  • with H. Enbergs and H. Müller (2000): Experimental and natural borna disease virus infections: presence of the viral RNA in cells of the peripheral blood , In: Veterinary Microbiology 76, 229-244.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thomas W. Vahlenkamp on the website of the Institute of Virology ( Memento of the original from January 27, 2016 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. , accessed on March 18, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / virologie.vetmed.uni-leipzig.de
  2. ↑ Website of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, subpage of the Dean's Office ( memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on March 18, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / dekanat.vetmed.uni-leipzig.de
  3. ^ A b New church board member in Markkleeberg-West , In: Invitations and messages - newspaper of the Evangelical Lutheran Martin Luther Church Community Markkleeberg West and the Evangelical Lutheran Church Community Großstädteln-Großdeuben, February / March 2013, p. 13f.
  4. ^ Thomas W. Vahlenkamps doctorate in the German National Library
  5. ↑ a b c Profile on hundkatzepferd.com , accessed on March 18, 2015.
  6. ↑ a b c GVG Diagnostics GmbH - About us , accessed on March 18, 2015.
  7. ↑ a b Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg Greifswald: Brief curriculum vitae of the speaker ( memento of the original from April 3, 2015 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. , accessed on March 18, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wiko-egoswald.de
  8. ^ Research database of the University of Leipzig (search filter by age group 2010–2013), accessed on March 18, 2015.
  9. ↑ List of members of the Central Commission for Biosafety ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF, as of April 2014), accessed on March 18, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bvl.bund.de
  10. ↑ List of members of the Robert Koch Foundation , accessed on March 18, 2015.
  11. ↑ GVG Diagnostics GmbH - About the company , accessed on March 18, 2015
  12. ↑ Information on the church council on the website of the Martin Luther parish , accessed on March 18, 2015.
  13. ^ Vademecum Wingolfiticum, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Vahlenkamp, ​​Thomas W.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vahlenkamp, ​​Thomas Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German specialist veterinarian, institute director for virology, dean of studies
DATE OF BIRTH 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Koblenz