Thomas Hildebrandt (born 1963 in Berlin) worked for one year at a dairy farm and another year as an assistant in the department of pathology at the Humboldt university in Berlin, before signing up for the studies of veterinary medicine at the same university in 1998. After leaving the university as a DVM in 1992, he received a two year contract as scientific researcher at the IZW. During these zwo years he primarily worked on his PhD-thesis "Studies on ovarian transplantation in golden hamsters, mice and African goats" and received the title in December 1993. In the following years he stayed at the institute as the head of the department "Ultrasound" and since 1997 as the head of the department "Reproduction Management".

Curriculum vitae

Selected publications

Supervision of dissertations

Research stays and expeditions

Scientific awards

Memberships

Reviewer and scientific consultant

Roland Frey (born 1955 in Erbach) studied biology at the University of Darmstadt and Freiburg with a major in zoology and evolutionary biology from 1975 to 1981.  After he finished his masters thesis on niche seperation in lumbricides 1982, he began working on his PhD titled "Phylogenetic causes of the descensus testis in mammals", which he finished in 1989.  From 1989 to 1992, Roland Frey worked at the Zoological Institute on the University of Freyburg as a independent associate scientist and published 3 major publications.  After a short deviation, he began research and writing a 3-volume publication, which he finished at the beginning of 1993.  In March 1993, Roland Frey accepted a position as scientist in the research group originally named "Evolutionary Nutrition" where his research objectives were:

Salaivary gland and foraging preference in Caprinea (Bovidea)

Evolution and Funktion of the trunk in mammals

Glandula zygomatica and Bulla lacrimalis in Ruminants

Following the internal restucturing of the IZW, Roland Frey is working, since 2001, in the research group "Reproduction Management" on the research objective "Evolutionary morphology of the pharnyx and larnyx of bovids and cervids".  In addition with the objective "Evolutionary Transformation and Faunenschnitte (?) and along with Dr. B. Krebs and Dr. T Martin (Institut für Paläontologie, FU Berlin), he mentored the PhD work from Ramon Vanquez  Molinero and others. 

Selected publications

Supervision of dissertations

Research stays/ Expeditions

Frank Göritz (Born 1963 in Brandenburg) worked with farmanimals for the first years following school. In 1986 he finished his apprenticeship as " " and started the studies of veterinary medicine first at the Humboldt University (HU), later at the Freie Universität (FU) in Berlin. Once a DVM he was engaged as a scientific researcher in the research group "Ultrasound", later called "Reproduction Management", at the IZW. During his first years at the IZW he worked on the PhD-project "Ultrasound in Zoo and Wild Animals" and finished it in 1996. Frank Goeritz stayed at the institute filling in a position as senior scientific researcher. Additionally he was appointed head veterinarian of the institute in 1997.

Selected Publications

Memberships

Subervision of dissertations

Robert Hermes (born 1969 in Celle) studied veterinary medicine at the Freie Universität, Berlin (1989 - 1995). Once a DVM, he performed research on his PhD-thesis "Ultrasonography of the pregnancy of the European roe dear (Capreolus capreolus) and Quantification of Endometrial Changes during the diapause using coputer-aided Grey Scale Analysis" at the department "Ultrasound", latter called "Reproduction Management" at the IZW (1995-1998). Starting in 1998 he covered the one-year postdoc project "Ultrasonography of the Estrous Cycle in Female African Elephants (Loxodonta africana)" at the Indianapolis zoo. Since 2000, Robert Hermes is back at the IZW (again: department of "Reproduction Management") and concentrates on the reproductive management of rhinos.

Selected Publications

Supervision of dissertations

Joseph Saragusty (born 1957 in Jerusalem, Israel) studied for Bachelor and Master degrees in Chinese language (Mandarin) and modern Chinese literature and translated a few books from Chinese into Hebrew. He spent close to 15 years in Taiwan, Hong Kong and China before deciding to leave it all and fulfill his childhood dream to become a veterinarian. He studied veterinary medicine at the Koret School of Veterinary Medicine of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel (1997-2004). During his veterinary medicine studies he also conducted research, the thesis of which was "Cryopreservation of the Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) spermatozoa" . After completion of his veterinary studies he worked as a veterinarian at the Agriculture Research Organization and at the same time proceeded with his graduate studies on gamete cryopreservation. Starting in 2007 he joined the IZW for a three-year post doctoral project "Implementing sex-preselection into the assisted reproductive management of endangered species".

Publications

Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research
Alfred-Kowalke-Str. 17
10315 Berlin
Telefon:   (030) 5168 242
Telefax:   (030) 5126 104

Barbara Drews (born 1978 in Tübingen) went to the university of Hohenheim (Studium der Agrarbiologie, Vordiplom, 1997-1999) and the universities of Leipzig and Bern (Studium der Tiermedizin, Staatsexamen, 1999-2004). Once a DVM, she started on her PhD-thesis "Sonographical Characterisation of the Prenatal Development of the Elephant". In the summer of 2004 she received a six month - grant from the German Academic Excange Service (DAAD) to monitor the pregnancy of three elephants in Cambridge, Canada, using a 3D-Ultrasound-Device.

Publications

Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research
Alfred-Kowalke-Str. 17
10315 Berlin
Telefon:   (030) 5168 242
Telefax:   (030) 5126 104

Kathleen Roellig (born 1977 in Frankfurt/O.) studied veterinary medicine at the Faculty of Veterinary Science at the University of Leipzig (1997-2003). After some month of work in private practice she started to work at the IZW in July 2004.  Here she works on here PhD-Thesis about "Experimental studies about the phenomenon of superfetation in European brown hares (Lepus europaeus)". Examinations take place on a captive hare population at the field research station of the IZW.

Publications

Dr. Brandon Menzies beendete 2008 seine Zeit als PhD-Student an der Universität Melbourne. Er arbeitet seit September 2008 am IZW im Rahmen des Projektes "Intrauterine Konflikte". Er ist verantwortlich für den molekularbiologischen Teil.

Gabriela Galateanu (born 1969 in Bucharest, Rumania) studied at the Chemistry University, Bucharest, Rumania and then proceeded to study veterinary medicine at the University for Agricultural and Veterinary Sciences,  Bucharest, Rumania (1991-1999) from which she received her D.V.M. degree. During her studies and the years that followed Gabriela worked in several small animal veterinary clinics. After completing her studies Gabriela moved to Israel and started working at the Imaging Department of the Hebrew University Veterinary Teaching Hospital where she worked as a radiologist till 2007, when she moved to Berlin. Gabriela joined the IZW in 2007 and is overlooking the ultrasound video archive.

Free University (FU) of Berlin
Faculty of Veterinary Medicine
Small Animal Klinik
Oertzenweg 19 b
14163 Berlin
Telefon:   +49 - 30 - 838 623 ??
Telefax:   +49 - 30 - 838 625 21

 Publications

 Jette Dierich was born 1978 in Wismar. She finished her high school diploma in 1997 and completed an academic apprenticeship as medical-technical laboratory assistant (MTA) in Schwerin. After the state examination in 2000 she worked for 2,5 years as MTA in the human medical laboratory Prof. Arndt & Partner in Hamburg. In the department of serological diagnostics she operated with manual test (ELISA, EIA) and with diverse automatic equipment for analysis (Axsym, Cobas Core). From 2003 to 2007 she worked in the institute of preclinical drug safety of the Altana Pharma AG in Hamburg. Her main assignment was to perform reprotoxicological GLP-studies and different in vitro-methods (EST, WEC). Since 01.07.2007 Jette Dierich works as a VMTA at the IZW in the research group "reproduction management".

Angelika Kissmann (born 1957 in Berlin) finished her apprenticeship as a sales assistant specialised for foodstuffs before starting work as a keeper in Pharmaceutical Research. Still in Pharmaceutical Research she was trained as a "Laboratory Assistant, Section Biology". In 1993, Angelika Kissmann started working in the research group "Microbiology and " at the IZW. In the course of a restructuring process within the institute in 2001, she switched to the research group of "Reproduction Management".

Nga Nguyen 

Phd-Student since August 2006 on the "Ultrasonographic and endocrinological characterization of the luteogenesis of the pregnant Asian elephant (Elephas maximus)".

Phd-Student since January 2008 on "Experimental investigations on embryonic resorptions in European brown hares (Lepus europaeus)".

Britta Behr (born 1979 in Duesseldorf) studied veterinary medicine at the Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU) in Munich (1998-2004). Since December 2005 she is involved in a DFG-Project which includes her PhD-Study "Biotechnological potentials for the manipulation of offspring sex ratio in different rhinoceros species".

Publications

 Catherine Reid (born 1975 in Little Rock, Arkansas, USA) began in 1993 studying biology at the University of Evansville (Evansville, Indiana), Animal Science at the University of Kentucky (Lexington, Kentucky), and received a Bachelors of Science from the Universty of Tennessee (Knoxville, Tennessee, USA).  During this time, she also worked as a veterinary assistant in small and large animal hospitals as well as emergency clinics. From 2000-2004, Catherine  attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine and received a "Doctorate of Veterinary Medicine".  Since then Catherine has been working on her PhD titled "Development of techniques for the cryopreservation of spermatozoa of the rhinoceros family (Rhinocertidea)" at the IZW.

Publications

Barbara Vogler (born 1976 in Cologne) completed a two year training as a veterinary nurse in the small animal clinic, Stommeln, before studying veterinary medicine at the university of Leipzig (1998-2004). Since 2004 she is concerned with the PhD-thesis "Basic research on the reproductive biology of the fossa (Cryptoprocta ferox)". In spring 2006 she received a grant of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) which allows her to conduct field research in Madagascar and genetical staudies at the Center for Conservation and Research (CCR) in Omaha, Nebraska, USA. Both research trips will be organised in cooperation with Dr. Ed Louis (CCR).

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