Habilitation as Dr. rer. nat. habil. at Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena: ‘Physiology of Stimulus-Response Influences on Growth and Development Processes in Zygomycetes: Gravitropism and Sexual Response.’
Ph.D. in Natural Sciences from Philipps-University Marburg: 'The Light Harvesting Antennae of Cryptophytes
Bachelor of Science in Biology from Philipps-University Marburg.
Professional career
Coordinator for CORE – the competence-oriented teaching and learning concept – at SRH Fernhochschule.
Professorship in Life Sciences and Department Head of 'Natural Sciences & Technology' at SRH Fernhochschule - The Mobile University, Riedlingen.
Lecturer for Life Sciences at SRH Fernhochschule - The Mobile University, Riedlingen.
Academic Councilor, Institute of Microbiology, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena.
Teaching courses at Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena.
Research Associate at the Chair of General Microbiology and Microbial Genetics at Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena.
Wöstemeyer, J., Schimek, C., Wetzel, J., Burmester, A., Voigt, J., Schulz, E., u. a. (2016): Pheromone action in the fungal groups Chytridiomycota and Zygomycota, and in the Oophytes, in: Wendland, J. (Hrsg.): The Mycota I, Growth, Differentiation and Sexuality. 3. Auflage, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, S. 204-234.
Werner, S., Schroeter, A., Schimek, C., Vlaic, S., Wöstemeyer, J., Schuster, S. (2012): Model of the synthesis of trisporic acid in Mucorales showing bistability, IET Systems Biology, 6, S. 207-214.
Schimek, C., Wöstemeyer, J. (2012): Biosynthesis, extraction, purification and analysis of trisporoid sexual communication compounds from mated cultures of Blakeslea trispora, in: Barredo, J.L. (Hrsg.): Methods in Molecular Biology, 898, Microbial Carotenoids from Fungi, Humana Press, Springer, New York, S. 61-74.
Schimek, C. (2011): Evolution of special metabolism in fungi: concepts, mechanisms, and pathways, in: Pöggeler, S., Wöstemeyer, J. (Hrsg.): The Mycota XIII, Evolution of Fungi and Fungal-Like Organisms, Springer-Verlag Berlin, Heidelberg, S. 293-330.
Schachtschabel, D., Menzel, K.D., Krauter, G., David, A., Roth, M., Horn, U., Boland, W., Wöstemeyer, J., Schimek, C. (2010): Production and derivate composition of trisporoids in extended fermentation of Blakeslea trispora, Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology 88, S. 241-249.
Schimek, C., Wöstemeyer, J. (2009): Carotene derivatives in sexual communication of zygomycete fungi, Phytochemistry 70, S. 1867-1875.
Burmester, A., Richter, M., Schultze, K., Voelz, K., Schachtschabel, D., Boland, W., Wöstemeyer, J., Schimek, C. (2007): Cleavage of β-carotene as the first biosynthetic step in sexual hormone production in zygomycetes is mediated by a trisporic acid regulated putativeβ-carotene dioxygenase, Fungal Genetics & Biology 44, S. 1096-1108.
Schimek, C., Wöstemeyer, J. (2007): Trisporic acid and mating in zygomycetes, in: Heitman, J. (Hrsg.): Sex in Fungi: molecular determination and evolutionary implications, ASM Press, Chapter 26, S. 431-443.
Pazur, A., Schimek, C., Galland, P. (2007): Magnetoreception in microorganisms and fungi, Central European Journal of Biology 2, S. 597-659.
Schimek, C., Petzold, A., Schultze, K., Wetzel, J., Wolschendorf, F., Burmester, A. & Wöstemeyer, J., (2005): 4-Dihydromethyltrisporate dehydrogenase, an enzyme of the sex hormone pathway in Mucor mucedo, is constitutively transcribed but its activity is differently regulated in (+) and (-) mating types. Fungal Genetics & Biology 42, S. 804-812.
Schimek, C., Eifel. P., Grolig, F., Horie, T., Ootaki, T. & Gallnd, P. (1999): Gravitropism in Phycomyces: A role for sedimenting protein crystals and floating lipid globules, Planta 210, S. 132-142.
Others
Habilitation in the field of Microbiology (2006)
Member of the Association for General and Applied Microbiology (VAAM)
Member of the Mycological Society of Japan
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