2012|13 Annual Report Fraunhofer IGB

35 Professorship for Günter Tovar On October 17, 2012 Priv.-Doz. Dr. Günter Tovar was appoint- ed Professor at the University of Stuttgart. Professor Tovar is Vice Director of the Institute of Interfacial Process Engineer- ing and Plasma Technology IGVP at the University of Stuttgart, with teaching commitments on the study programs Process Engineering, Technical Biology, Chemistry and Medical Tech- nology. At the Fraunhofer IGB he is responsible for the Fraun- hofer IGB’s university relations as part of the institute’s busi- ness development activities. Tovar is also spokesperson for the Fraunhofer Nanotechnology Alliance. VDI Ring of Honor for Dr. Petra Kluger Dr. Petra Kluger, Group Manager Cells and Biomaterials in the Fraunhofer IGB’s Cell and Tissue Engineering Department, was awarded the VDI (Association of German Engineers) Ring of Honor on November 21, 2012 for her interdisciplinary research into the development of biomaterials for regenerative medi- cine. Her work provides new and deeper insight into speciﬁc cell-material interactions which are needed to design novel medical devices as well as tailor-made scaffolds or tissue en- gineering. She also received recognition for her commitment to organizing lectures and internships for up-and-coming sci- entists and schoolchildren. The VDI found that Kluger inspired her bachelor, masters and Ph.D. tutees through highly struc- tured supervision of their practical work and outstandingly good communication of scientiﬁc content. Poster award for Petra Keller Petra Keller from the Fraunhofer IGB’s Molecular Biotechnolo- gy Department was awarded one of six prizes at the 11th Euro- pean Conference on Fungal Genetics from March 30 to April 2, 2012 in Marburg for her poster “Identiﬁcation and char- acterization of novel antifungal compounds against fungal human pathogens”. The poster, which was presented in the Biotechnology category, was rewarded with 150 euros. The co-authors were colleagues at the Institute for Interfacial Engi- neering IGVT at the University of Stuttgart and the Fraunhofer IGB as well as members of two further university groups and an SME: Anke Burger-Kentischer, Karl-Heinz Wiesmüller, Karin Lemuth, Ekkehard Hiller, Isabel Engelhardt, Christoph Müller, Klaus Schröppel, Franz Bracher and Steffen Rupp. Over 400 posters were submitted and evaluated according to scientiﬁc quality, presentation and design. Poster award for Silke Palzer At the 18th Conference of the International Society for Human and Animal Mycology ISHAM from June 11-15, 2012 in Berlin, Silke Palzer from the Fraunhofer IGB’s Molecular Biotechnol- ogy Department received one of ten prizes awarded with 300 euros for her poster “An expanded genetic code in C. albicans to study molecular interactions in vivo”. The co-authors of the poster, submitted in the Basic Mycology category, were Yan- nick Bantel, Franziska Kazenwadel, Michael Berg, Steffen Rupp and Kai Sohn. The winning criteria in the evaluation of the over 800 posters submitted were scientiﬁc quality and presen- tation of the content. APPOINTMENTS AND PRIZES 1 1

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