Education
Ph.D., Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Germany, 1997
Habilitation and venia legendi in Microbiology, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Germany, 2004
Current position
Professor and Chair in Genetics of Prokaryotes, Department of Biology & CeBiTec, University of Bielefeld, Germany
Publications (since 2013 until June 2014)
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Wendisch, V. F. (2014). Microbial production of amino acids and derived chemicals: Synthetic biology approaches to strain development. Curr Opin Biotechnol 30C: 51-58.
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Frohwitter, J., Heider, S. A., Peters-Wendisch, P., Beekwilder, J. and Wendisch, V. F. (2014). Production of the sesquiterpene (+)-valencene by metabolically engineered Corynebacterium glutamicum. J Biotechnol. (Epub ahead of print)
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Klatte, S. and Wendisch, V. F. (2014). Redox self-sufficient whole cell biotransformation for amination of alcohols. Bioorg Med Chem. (Epub ahead of print)
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Heider, S. A., Peters-Wendisch, P., Wendisch, V. F., Beekwilder, J. and Brautaset, T. (2014). Metabolic engineering for the microbial production of carotenoids and related products with a focus on the rare C50 carotenoids. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 98(10): 4355-4368.
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Matano, C., Uhde, A., Youn, J. W., Maeda, T., Clermont, L., Marin, K., Kramer, R., Wendisch, V. F. and Seibold, G. M. (2014). Engineering of Corynebacterium glutamicum for growth and L-lysine and lycopene production from N-acetyl-glucosamine. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 98(12): 5633-5643.
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Reddy, G. K. and Wendisch, V. F. (2014). Characterization of 3-phosphoglycerate kinase from Corynebacterium glutamicum and its impact on amino acid production. BMC Microbiol 14: 54.
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Markert, B., Stolzenberger, J., Brautaset, T. and Wendisch, V. F. (2014). Characterization of two transketolases encoded on the chromosome and the plasmid pBM19 of the facultative ribulose monophosphate cycle methylotroph Bacillus methanolicus. BMC Microbiol 14: 7.
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Peters-Wendisch, P., Gotker, S., Heider, S. A., Komati Reddy, G., Nguyen, A. Q., Stansen, K. C. and Wendisch, V. F. (2014). Engineering biotin prototrophic Corynebacterium glutamicum strains for amino acid, diamine and carotenoid production. J Biotechnol. (Epub ahead of print)
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Zahoor, A., Otten, A. and Wendisch, V. F. (2014). Metabolic engineering of Corynebacterium glutamicum for glycolate production. J Biotechnol. (Epub ahead of print)
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Klatte, S., Lorenz, E. and Wendisch, V. F. (2014). Whole cell biotransformation for reductive amination reactions. Bioengineered 5(1): 56-62.
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Heider, S. A., Peters-Wendisch, P., Netzer, R., Stafnes, M., Brautaset, T. and Wendisch, V. F. (2014). Production and glucosylation of C50 and C 40 carotenoids by metabolically engineered Corynebacterium glutamicum. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 98(3): 1223-1235.
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Lessmeier, L., Hoefener, M. and Wendisch, V. F. (2013). Formaldehyde degradation in Corynebacterium glutamicum involves acetaldehyde dehydrogenase and mycothiol-dependent formaldehyde dehydrogenase. Microbiology 159(Pt 12): 2651-2662.
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Stolzenberger, J., Lindner, S. N., Persicke, M., Brautaset, T. and Wendisch, V. F. (2013). Characterization of fructose 1,6-bisphosphatase and sedoheptulose 1,7-bisphosphatase from the facultative ribulose monophosphate cycle methylotroph Bacillus methanolicus. J Bacteriol 195(22): 5112-5122.
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Lorenz, E., Klatte, S. and Wendisch, V. F. (2013). Reductive amination by recombinant Escherichia coli: whole cell biotransformation of 2-keto-3-methylvalerate to L-isoleucine. J Biotechnol 168(3): 289-294.
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Jensen, J. V. and Wendisch, V. F. (2013). Ornithine cyclodeaminase-based proline production by Corynebacterium glutamicum. Microb Cell Fact 12: 63.
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Stolzenberger, J., Lindner, S. N. and Wendisch, V. F. (2013). The methylotrophic Bacillus methanolicus MGA3 possesses two distinct fructose 1,6-bisphosphate aldolases. Microbiology 159(Pt 8): 1770-1781.
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Meiswinkel, T. M., Rittmann, D., Lindner, S. N. and Wendisch, V. F. (2013). Crude glycerol-based production of amino acids and putrescine by Corynebacterium glutamicum. Bioresour Technol 145: 254-258.
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Lindner, S. N., Petrov, D. P., Hagmann, C. T., Henrich, A., Kramer, R., Eikmanns, B. J., Wendisch, V. F. and Seibold, G. M. (2013). Phosphotransferase system-mediated glucose uptake is repressed in phosphoglucoisomerase-deficient Corynebacterium glutamicum strains. Appl Environ Microbiol 79(8): 2588-2595.
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de Campos, S. B., Youn, J. W., Farina, R., Jaenicke, S., Junemann, S., Szczepanowski, R., Beneduzi, A., Vargas, L. K., Goesmann, A., Wendisch, V. F. and Passaglia, L. M. (2013). Changes in root bacterial communities associated to two different development stages of canola (Brassica napus L. var oleifera) evaluated through next-generation sequencing technology. Microb Ecol 65(3): 593-601
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Meiswinkel, T. M., Gopinath, V., Lindner, S. N., Nampoothiri, K. M. and Wendisch, V. F. (2013). Accelerated pentose utilization by Corynebacterium glutamicum for accelerated production of lysine, glutamate, ornithine and putrescine. Microb Biotechnol 6(2): 131-140
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Kuhn, D., Fritzsch, F. S., Zhang, X., Wendisch, V. F., Blank, L. M., Buhler, B. and Schmid, A. (2013). Subtoxic product levels limit the epoxidation capacity of recombinant E. coli by increasing microbial energy demands. J Biotechnol 163(2): 194-203
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Uhde, A., Youn, J. W., Maeda, T., Clermont, L., Matano, C., Kramer, R., Wendisch, V. F., Seibold, G. M. and Marin, K. (2013). Glucosamine as carbon source for amino acid-producing Corynebacterium glutamicum. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 97(4): 1679-1687.
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Siedler, S., Lindner, S. N., Bringer, S., Wendisch, V. F. and Bott, M. (2013). Reductive whole-cell biotransformation with Corynebacterium glutamicum: improvement of NADPH generation from glucose by a cyclized pentose phosphate pathway using pfkA and gapA deletion mutants. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 97(1): 143-152.