Journal of Bacteriology & Parasitology

Victoria Shpacovitch

Victoria Shpacovitch
Department of Material Analysis, Leibniz-Institute for Analytical Sciences
Germany

Biography

1998-2000: Research training as a Research Assistant I at the Dept. of Cell Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030, USA.
2000-November 2003: Preparation of Ph.D. thesis work and work as a Research Assistant at the Department of Dermatology, Laboratory of Cell Biology, University of Münster, Germany
November 2003- December 2008: a research fellow in the laboratory of Cell Biology (Department of Dermatology and Ludwig Boltzmann Institute Immunobiology of Skin, University of Münster, Germany).
January 2009- March 2010: a senior research fellow in the laboratory of Cell Biology (Department of Dermatology and Ludwig Boltzmann Institute Immunobiology of Skin, University of Münster, Germany).
April 2010-March 2011: a senior research fellow in the laboratory of Experimental Nephrology (Department of Nephrology and Hypertension& Endocrinology and Metabolic Disease, University of Magdeburg, Germany).
April 2011 up to present time: a research fellow at the Dept. of Material Analysis; Leibniz Institute for Analytical Sciences (ISAS) (Dortmund, Germany).

Research Interest

Diagnostic methods (determination of virus or/and bacteria concentration in aqueous solutions as well as in air probes etc.,); Innate immunity and modulation of innate immune responses by serine proteases (host or pathogen-derived proteases); Role of serine proteases and their receptors in anti-bacterial and anti-viral defense.