CV Silja Wessler

2010 – Professor for Microbiology, Paris-Lodron University Salzburg, Austria. 2008 – 2010 Privatdozent (eq. Adj. Prof.) at the Johann-Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. 2008 Habilitation in “Cell Biology” at the Johann-Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. 2004 – 2010 Head of the independent Junior Research Group “Cellular Aspects of Pathogen-Host Interaction”, Paul-Ehrlich-Institut, Langen, Germany. 2003 Guest Scientist in the lab of Stephan Feller, Cancer Research UK, Oxford, UK. 2003 – 2004 Wissenschaftliche Hochschulassistentin (C1, eq. Asst. Prof.), Institute of Experimental Internal Medicine, Otto-von-Guericke University of Magdeburg, Germany. 2001 – 2003 PostDoc, Schering Aktiengesellschaft, Department of Female Health Care, Berlin, Germany. Research on “New Subtypes and Mechanisms of the Estrogen Receptor” 2001 PostDoc, Max-Planck-Institute of Infection Biology, Berlin, Germany. Research on “Helicobacter pylori-induced COX-2 gene expression in the pathogenesis of inflammatory and neoplastic changes in the human stomach” 1997 – 2001 Dr. rer. nat. in Biology (eq. Ph.D.), Max-Planck-Institute of Infection Biology, Berlin, Germany. Title: Mechanisms of Helicobacter pylori-induced signal transduction in epithelial cells (Advisor: Prof. Dr. Naumann). 1996 – 1997 Diploma in Biology (eq. M. Sci. in Biology), Max-Planck-Institute of Infection Biology, Berlin, Germany. Title: Activation of transcription factors in epithelial cells after infection with Neisseria gonorrhoeae (Advisor: Prof. Dr. Naumann). 1992 – 1997 University of Bielefeld and Free University of Berlin, Germany. Scholarships/Stipends 2001 – 2003 Postdoctoral fellowship of the Schering Research Foundation. 2001 Postdoctoral Scholarship of the Max-Planck Foundation. 1998 – 2000 Scholarship of the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie.