Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Hans-Georg Sahl
Emeritus
Research Focus
- Antibiotic peptides from bacteria and animals, in particular lantibiotics (peptide chemistry, structures, modes of antibiotic action, genetics of production, enzymatic mechanisms of posttranslational modifications, peptide engineering, producer self protection "immunity" mechanisms, development of peptide antibiotics)
- Biochemistry of the gram-positive cell wall (enzymes involved in synthesis and turnover, novel targets for antibiotics)
- Physiology and pathogenicity of staphylococci (pathogenicity factors of coagulase-negative staphylococci, metabolism of small-colony variants of Staphylococcus aureus, antibiotic resistance in staphylococci
Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Hans-Georg Sahl
Emeritus
Meckenheimer Allee 168
53115 Bonn
Institut für Pharmazeutische Mikrobiologie
Universitätsklinikum Bonn
Universität Bonn
CV
2004-2015 Professor (C3) for Pharmaceutical and Medical Microbiology, University of Bonn
1990-2004 Professor (C3) for Experimental Microbiology, University of Bonn
1987-1990 Professor (C2) for Medical Microbiology, University of Bonn
1983-1987 Privatdozent (Assistant Professor) Medical Microbiology, University of Bonn
1983 Habilitation (venia legendi) in Medical Microbiology, University of Bonn
1982 DFG-Postdoctoral Fellowship: Purdue University, Indiana, USA (Prof. Dr. W.A. Cramer)
1979-1983 Research Fellow, Medical Microbiology (Prof. Dr. H. Brandis, University of Bonn)
1975-1978 PhD in Microbiology (University of Bonn, Prof. H.G. Trüper) on carbon metabolism in phototrophic bacteria
1983 Habilitation (venia legendi) in Medical Microbiology, University of Bonn
1979 Ph.D thesis at the Institute of Microbiology, University of Bonn, under the direction of Prof. Dr. Hans Georg Trüper
1975 Diploma in biology, University of Bonn
- VAAM (Vereinigung für Allgemeine und Angewandte Mikrobiologie)
- DGHM (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Hygiene und Mikrobiologie)
- ASM (American Society for Microbiology)
- GBM (Gesellschaft für Biologische Chemie und Molekularbiologie)
- EPS (European Peptide Society)
- AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science)
- Robert-Koch-Stiftung
Major Awards and Distinctions
2012-2016 Coordinator of the Translational Unit “Novel Anti-infectives” of the German Centre of Infection Research (DZIF)
2010 Co-Chair of 4th Gordon Research Conference on “New Antibacterial Discovery and Development” in 2012
2008-2015 speaker and chair of the Collaborative Research Unit 854 “Post-genomic strategies for new antibiotic drugs and targets” funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG)
2003 Co-Chair of the 4th Gordon Research Conference on "Antimicrobial Peptides"
2000-2003 Coordinator of the EU consortium “PANAD” (Peptides as Novel Antibiotic Drugs)
1991 Research Award of the German Society for Medical Microbiology (DGHM)
1982 German Research Foundation (DFG)-Fellowship for Postdoctoral Research at Purdue University, Indiana, with Dr. W.A. Cramer