Dr. Tim Lüddecke
Since my childhood, I am fascinated with biodiversity. I particularly admired the toxic species - in all their glorious shapes and sizes. This lifelong fascination is what drives me today. I turned into a biochemist and zoologist and devoted my life to the study of venomous and poisonous animals. Currently, I hold a position as research group leader at the Fraunhofer Institute for Molecular Biology and Applied Ecology plus a lecturership at the Justus-Liebig-University of Gießen. I am also the current project area speaker for Natural Product Genomics of the LOEWE Centre for Translational Biodiversity Genomics in Frankfurt am Main.
Curriculum Vitae
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Dr. Tim Lüddecke
Fraunhofer IME-BR
Ohlebergsweg 12
35392 Gießen
Germany
[email protected]
Education
Justus Liebig University of Gießen 09/2018-03/2021
Doctor of Natural Sciences (Dr. rer. nat)
Summa cum laude
Supervision: Prof. Dr. A. Vilcinskas
Technical University of Braunschweig 04/2016-08/2018
Master of Science in Biology
Supervision: Prof. Dr. S. Steinfartz and Prof. Dr. M.Vences
Technical University of Braunschweig 10/2012-04/2016
Bachelor of Science in Biology
Supervision: Prof.Dr. S. Steinfartz and Prof. Dr. M. Vences
Heubach GmbH 08/2008-01/2012
Apprenticeship to Chemical Laboratory Assistant
IHK certified
Robert Bosch Comprehensive School 07/2008
Abitur
Participation in “Jugend Forscht”
Academic Positions
Justus Liebig University of Gießen 04/2022-Current
Lecturer (“unbezahlter Lehrauftrag”)
Institute for Insect Biotechnology
Fraunhofer IME-BR 04/2021-Current
Research Group Leader
Member of the public relations team
LOEWE-Centre for Translational Biodiversity Genomics 09/2018-Current
Project Area Speaker for Natural Product Genomics (since 2023)
Steering Committee Member (since 2021)
Research Associate (2018-2021)
Fraunhofer IME-BR 09/2018-03/2021
PhD Student
Technical University of Braunschweig 04/2015-08/2018
Student Assistant
Zoological Institute, Department for Evolutionary Biology
Heubach GmbH 02/2012-09/2012
Chemical Laboratory Assistant
Scientific Awards
Start Up Award 2024
LOEWE Centre for Translational Biodiversity Genomics
Alumnus of 72nd Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings 2023
Physiology or Medicine
Dissertation Prize 2021
Justus-Liebig-University Gießen
Competitive Funding and Grants
Individual Proposal 54504040837 2024
Giftzusammensetzung und Variation in der Milosviper €256.931
German Research Foundation (DFG)
Genome Sequencing Grant 2023
Sequencing a german reference genome of Vipera berus €3500
German Society for Herpetology and Herpetoculture
Individual Proposal 505696476 2022
Funktionsvenomik der Kreuzotter in Deutschland €219.400
German Research Foundation (DFG)
Publication Fonds 2022
Fraunhofer Society €1600
Travel Grant 2019
German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) €2600
Travel Grant 2019
German Embassy of Ecuador €1500
Young Researcher Grant 2017
(Untersuchungen zur Vogelspinnenevolution) €1800
German Arachnological Society (DeArGe)
Board Memberships
Co-Founder and Vice President for Research 2023-Current
VIPERA e.V.
First Chairman 2023-Current
German Arachnological Society
Works Council Member 2022-Current
Fraunhofer IME-BR
Steering Committee Member 2021-Current
LOEWE Centre for Translational Biodiversity Genomics
Substitute Management Committee Member for Germany 2020-2021
EU COST action “European Venom Network”
Second Chairman 2019-2023
German Arachnological Society
Service as Editor
Associate Editor 2023-Current
Frontiers in Arachnid Science
Topical Advisory Board “Animal Venoms” 2023-Current
Toxins
Associate Editor 2021-Current
Physiological Entomology
Review Editor 2021-Current
Frontiers in Pharmacology
Conference Chairing
Deutscher Herpetologentag 2024 19/09/2024
Bonn, Ger
Giftschlangen Symposium
22nd World Congress of the International Society on Toxinology 25/05/2024
Singapore
NextGen Session Group Moderator
21st World Congress of the International Society on Toxinology 18/10/2022
Abu Dhabi, UAE
ECR Session 1 "Basic Toxinology"
Deutscher Herpetologentag 2022 29/09/2022
Berlin, Ger
Kreuzotter Symposium
Service as Reviewer
Biomolecules, Communications Biology, Chemistry and Biodiversity, Chemoecology, Diversity, European Journal of Entomology, Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences, Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; Integrative Systematics; International Journal of Environmental Science and Public Health, Journal of Animal Ecology, Journal of Venomous Animals and Toxins including Tropical Diseases, Molecular Biology and Evolution, PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, PLOSone, Salamandra, Scientific Reports, Toxins, Toxicon, Toxicon:X, Toxin Reviews, Zoological Research.
Participation on Symposia and Congresses
GfG summer meeting 2016 - Adaption in nature - from ecology to genomes (Braunschweig, 2016); Spring meeting 2018 of the ZAG Wirbellose (Halle, 2018); Arachnoweekend 2018 of the DeArGe (Hessisch Lichtenau, 2018); Deutscher Herpetologentag 2018 of the DGHT (Magdeburg, 2018); INSECTA 2018 (Gießen, 2018); Recombinant Protein Production 10 of the European Federation of Biotechnology (Hersonissos, Greece 2019); 2nd Congresso Latinoamericano de Biogeografia and Humboldt 250 Conference (Quito, Ecuador 2019); 20st World Congress of the International Society on Toxinology (Buenos Aires, Argentina 2019), Bioengineering of Toxins 2019 of the SFET (Paris, France 2019); Peptide Therapeutics Forum 2020 of the Swiss Chemical Society (Covid19 caused online conference, 2020); Arachnoweekend 2021 of the DeArGe (Covid19 caused online conference, 2021); Ento21 conference of the Royal Entomological Society (Covid19 caused online conference, 2021); International Toxin Talks 2021 (Covid19 caused online conference, 2021), INSECTA 2022 (Gießen, 2022), Deutscher Herpetologentag 2022 of the DGHT (Berlin, 2022), 21st World Congress of the International Society on Toxinology (Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, 2022), Tiere in der Medizin (Greifswald, 2023), Deutscher Herpetologentag 2023 of the DGHT (Neustadt a. d. Aisch, 2023), International Summerschool on Snakebite Envenoming (Hamburg, 2023), Jahrestagung AK Biologischer Pflanzenschutz of the Deutsche Phytopathologische Gesellschaft (Gießen, 2024), Jahrestagung AG Schlangen of the DGHT (Nürnberg, 2024), 22nd World Congress of the International Society on Toxinology (Singapore, 2024), Deutscher Herpetologentag 2024 of the DGHT (Bonn, 2024).
Memberships in Scientific Associations
German Society for Arachnology (DeArGe), International Society on Toxinology (IST); European Federation of Biotechnology, German Society for Herpetology and Herpetoculture (DGHT), VIPERA e.V. .