EDUCATION & TRAINING
07/2016 – 12/2022 | PhD (Dr. rer. nat.) in Synthetic Microbiology, FSU Jena, Germany
04/2014 – 06/2016 | Master of Science (M.Sc.) in Biotechnology, BTU Cottbus – Senftenberg, Germany; graduation with honors
09/2009 – 03/2014 | Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) in Biotechnology, BTU Cottbus – Senftenberg, Germany
RESEARCH EXPERIENCES
10/2023 – present | Postdoc at Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany
07/2016 – 09/2023 | PhD & Postdoc at Leibniz-HKI, Jena, Germany
04/2015 – 12/2015 | Master semester at University of California San Diego, CA, USA
08/2013 – 01/2014 | Bachelor semester at University of Oxford, England, UK
09/2012 – 01/2013 | Practical semester at University of South Florida, FL, USA
09/2011 – 02/2012 | Internship at HZI, Braunschweig, Germany
AWARDS & SCHOLARSHIPS
2023 | Beutenberg Science Award for the Best Dissertation
2022 | medac Research Award 2022 (Günther et al., 2022 PNAS)
2021 | medac Research Award 2021 (Reimer et al., 2022 Nat Biotechnol)
2020 | Travel grant for DGHM & VAAM 2020, Leipzig
2019 | Poster prize at GIM2019 conference, Pisa, Italy
2016 | Best Master Thesis University Award
2015 | DAAD-PROMOS scholarship
2013 | ERASMUS scholarship
2012 | GIZ scholarship
PUBLICATIONS
Kufs, J.E., Reimer, C., Steyer, E., Valiante, V., Hillmann, F., Regestein, L. (2022). Scale-up of an amoeba-based process for the production of the cannabinoid precursor olivetolic acid. Microb Cell Fact 21, 217.
Guenther, M.*, Reimer, C.*, Herbst, R.*, Kufs, J.E., Rautschek, J., Ueberschaar, N., Zhang, S., Peschel, G., Reimer, L., Regestein, L., Valiante, V., Hillmann, F., Stallforth, P. (2022). Yellow polyketide pigment suppresses premature hatching in social amoeba. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 119 (43).
Kufs, J.E.*, Reimer, C.*, Stallforth, P., Hillmann, F., Regestein, L. (2022). The potential of amoeba-based processes for natural product syntheses. Curr Opin Biotechnol 77: 102766.
Reimer, C.*, Kufs, J.E.*, Rautschek, J., Regestein, L., Valiante, V., Hillmann, F. (2022). Engineering the amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum for biosynthesis of a cannabinoid precursor and other polyketides. Nat Biotechnol 40, 751–758.
Cowell, A.N., Istvan, E.S., Lukens, A.K., Gomez-Lorenzo, M.G., Vanaerschot, M., Sakata-Kato, T., Flannery, E.L., Magistrado, P., Owen, E., Abraham, M., LaMonte, G., Painter, H.J., Williams, R.M., Franco, V., Linares, M., Arriaga, I., Bopp, S., Corey, V.C., Gnadig, N.F., Coburn-Flynn, O., Reimer, C., Gupta, P., Murithi, J.M., Moura, P.A., Fuchs, O., Sasaki, E., Kim, S.W., Teng, C.H., Wang, L.T., Akidil, A., Adjalley, S., Willis, P.A., Siegel, D., Tanaseichuk, O., Zhong, Y., Zhou, Y., Llinas, M., Ottilie, S., Gamo, F.J., Lee, M.C.S., Goldberg, D.E., Fidock, D.A., Wirth, D.F., and Winzeler, E.A. (2018). Mapping the malaria parasite druggable genome by using in vitro evolution and chemogenomics. Science 359, 191-199.
Lim, M.Y., LaMonte, G., Lee, M.C., Reimer, C., Tan, B.H., Corey, V., Tjahjadi, B.F., Chua, A., Nachon, M., Wintjens, R., Gedeck, P., Malleret, B., Renia, L., Bonamy, G.M., Ho, P.C., Yeung, B.K., Chow, E.D., Lim, L., Fidock, D.A., Diagana, T.T., Winzeler, E.A., and Bifani, P. (2016). UDP-galactose and acetyl-CoA transporters as Plasmodium multidrug resistance genes. Nat Microbiol, 16166.
LaMonte, G., Lim, M.Y., Wree, M., Reimer, C., Nachon, M., Corey, V., Gedeck, P., Plouffe, D., Du, A., Figueroa, N., Yeung, B., Bifani, P., and Winzeler, E.A. (2016). Mutations in the Plasmodium falciparum cyclic amine resistance locus (PfCARL) confer multidrug resistance. MBio 7.
Swann, J., Corey, V., Scherer, C.A., Kato, N., Comer, E., Maetani, M., Antonova-Koch, Y., Reimer, C., Gagaring, K., Ibanez, M., Plouffe, D., Zeeman, A.M., Kocken, C.H., McNamara, C.W., Schreiber, S.L., Campo, B., Winzeler, E.A., and Meister, S. (2016). High-throughput luciferase-based assay for the discovery of therapeutics that prevent malaria. ACS Infect Dis 2, 281-293.
