Curriculum vitae

NAME: Wolfgang Paul Beyer

              born: 15.12.1955

TITLE:  PD Dr. med. vet. habil.

FORMER POSITION:  Privatdozent

                                     Head of the Molecular Biological Laboratory       

                                     Head of the Anthrax consulting Laboratory

EDUCATION/TRAINING

INSTITUTION AND LOCATION                     DEGREE                    YEAR(s)           FIELD OF STUDY

Humboldt-University Berlin                              Diploma                     1978-1983        Veterinary Medicine

Central Institute of Molecular

Biology of the Academy of Sciences

(Max-Delbrück-Centre)                                     Dr. med. vet.            1983-1985          Animal retroviruses

                                                                                                                                      and  interferons

University of Hohenheim             Specialist Veterinary Microbiology

                                                                              (Fachtierarzt)                2001     Veterinary Microbiology

University of Hohenheim                                   Habilitation

                                                                             (Venia legendi)               2005    Veterinary Microbiology

                                                                                                                                 and Immunology

Positions and Employments

 1985-1987: Head of a interdisciplinary working group comprising molecular biology,

                     bacteriology, pathology and virology at the Federal Research Centre for Virus

                     Diseases of Animals / Institute of Epidemiological Diagnostics

1987-1991: Head of the Dept. Molecular Epidemiology at the same institute

                    Working field: Molecular diagnostic methods for detection and characterization of

                    retroviruses and  Enterobacteriaceae

1992 (Jan-March): Senior scientist at the Federal Research Centre for Virus Diseases of

                                Animals / Institute of Molecular Virology

April 1992- March 2022: Senior Scientist at the University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany

Working fields:

- Molecular diagnostic methods

- Molecular Genotyping by MLVA and WGS based cgSNPanalysis

- Recombinant live carrier vaccines and subunit vaccines

- DNA vaccines

- Biocidic molecules as new therapeutics

- Temperate and lytic Bacteriophages

Special expertise:

- Cultural, molecular, and serological diagnosis of Bacillus anthracis

- Risk analysis of Environmental Samples for the presence of spores of B. anthracis

- Development of and immunization with live recombinant and DNA vaccines

- Challenge infection models for Bacillus anthracis

- Molecular fingerprinting methods for forensic evaluation of B. anthracis isolates

- Therapeutic approaches against Anthrax in laboratory animals

- Tracking of outbreak strains of B. anthracis and Brucella spp. by molecular genotyping

 Special tasks:

• 1992-2021: Officer for Biological Safety of the University of Hohenheim
• 2008-2018: Head of the Committee for Biological Hazards of the Federal Institute for Risk       Assessment in Berlin

• 2018 - 2021: Deputy head of the Committee for Biological Hazards and Hygiene of the

                              Federal Institute for Risk Assessment in Berlin

• Since 2022: Member of the Committee for Biological Hazards and Hygiene of the Federal Institute for Risk Assessment in Berlin
• since April 2021: Member of the Scientific Committee of the Research Institutes of ABC protection of the Bundeswehr Medical Academy, Institute of Microbiology

Special experience:

- Member of a United Nations team of experts in Baghdad, Irak, 1999

- Debriefing of experts by the UNVOVIC, New York, 2004

- German representative at the Anthrax Wetlab Workshop of the Laboratory Network of the

  Global Health Security  Action Group, HPA Porton Down, UK, 2004

- Expert of the WHO at the “Course on Capacity Strengthening of Laboratories for the

  Detection of Highly Epidemic Pathogens, Bukarest, 2005

- Debriefing of experts at the "Workshop to Formulate Preparedness Action Plans for Anthrax

  Epizootics in Wildlife Zones, Malilangwe Trust, Zimbabwe, 2005

- UNSGM Designated Laboratories Workshop on data assessment and laboratory capabilities,

  25 – 27 October 2017, Berlin

- UNSGM RefBio, External Quality Assurance Exercise, RKI 2019

- UNSGM Designated Laboratories Workshop, RKI, Berlin, 2.-3. März 2020

- Basic Training Course for nominated experts on the roster for the United Nations Secretary-General’s   Mechanism (UNSGM) for the investigation of alleged use of chemical, biological and toxin weapons, Johannesburg, South Africa, 15-26 July 2024