Curriculum vitae Prof. Dr. Anne-Kristin Kaster

  • since July 2017 W3 professor
  • July 2014- June 2017: Research Group Leader Leibniz-Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen, Braunschweig
  • March 2011–March 2014: Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Stanford University, CA, USA. Group of Professor Dr. A. Spormann, Single cell genomics and metagenomics of Chloroflexi in deepsea sediments and terrestrial soils
  • September 2007- January 2011: Ph.D. Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg, Germany. Group of Professor Dr. R. K. Thauer, Title of dissertation: “Energy metabolism in cytochrome free methanogenic archaea growing on H2/CO2.”
  • January 2007- September 2007: Diploma in Chemistry Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg, Germany. Group of Professor Dr. R. K. Thauer, Title of Thesis: “Up-regulation of the synthesis of [Fe]-hydrogenase in Methanococcus maripaludis and Methanocaldococcus jannaschii under Nickel limited growth conditions.”
  • August 2005-May 2006: Research stay at the University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA. Group of Professor Dr. D. Trauner, Natural product synthesis of new alkaloids for cancer therapy
  • April 2004: Vordiplom in Chemistry at the Philipps University Marburg, Germany

Awards

  • Scholarship of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes 2003-2007
  • NSF Postdoctoral research fellow scholarship from the Center for Dark Energy Biosphere Investigations (C-DEBI) March 2011-February 2013
  • DFG research stipend March 2013-March 2014