Curriculum Vitae

Professional Experience and Postdoctoral Training

2016 – present Full Professor and Chair of the Department for Anatomy (W3), Institute for Anatomy and Cell Biology, Saarland University Homburg
2014 – 2016 Full Professor (W2), Institute for Anatomy and Cell Biology University, Julius-Maximilians-University, Würzburg

2006 – 2014 Teaching and Research Fellow, Institute for Anatomy and Cell Biology, Justus-Liebig-University (JLU) Giessen

2007 – 2009 Postdoctoral Fellow, Excellence Cluster Cardio-Pulmonary System, JLU Giessen

2010, -11, -14 Guest scientist, Johns Hopkins Asthma and Allergy Center, Baltimore, U S A

2007 Dr. med. vet., grade: summa cum laude , JLU, Giessen
2003 – 2006 PhD student, Graduate College 534 „Biological Basis of Vascular Medicine”, JLU, Giessen

1997 – 2003 Study of Veterinary Medicine at Thrakian University, Stara Zagora, Bulgaria and JLU, Giessen

2011 Polak Young Investigator Award of the Association for Chemoreception Sciences (AChemS), St. Pete Beach, U S A

2008 MEDIS-Poster Award, Annual Meeting of the Anatomical Society in Wuerzburg, Germany

2004, 2007 Young scientist travel awards, Society for Histochemistry, Society for Autonomic Neuroscience

2015 – present Faculty Member of the DFG “Nachwuchsakademie Antibiotikaresistenz bei Urogenitalen Infektionen” (NAUGI)
2015 – present Member of the Research Center for Infectious Diseases (ZINF), Würzburg
2013 – present Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL)
2011 – 2014 Associated Member of the LOEWE Research Focus “Non-neuronal Cholinergic Systems”
2011 – 2014 Faculty Member of the LOEWE Universities Giessen and Marburg Lung Center (UGLMC)
2007 – 2014 Member of the Excellence Cluster Cardio-Pulmonary System

Keshavarz M, Schwarz H, Hartmann P, Wiegand S, Skill M, Althaus M, Kummer W, Krasteva-Christ G. Caveolin-1: Functional Insights into Its Role in Muscarine- and Serotonin-Induced Smooth Muscle Constriction in Murine Airways. Front Physiol 8:295, 2017.

Krasteva-Christ G, Soultanova A, Schütz B, Papadakis T, Weiss C, Deckmann K, Chubanov V, Gudermann T, Voigt A, Meyerhof W, Boehm U, Weihe E, Kummer W. Identification of cholinergic chemosensory cells in mouse tracheal and laryngeal glandular ducts. Int Immunopharmacol 29:158-165, 2015.

Kummer W, Krasteva-Christ G. Non-neuronal cholinergic airway epithelium biology. Curr Opin Pharmacol 16:43-49, 2014.

Deckmann K*, Filipski K*, Krasteva-Christ G, Fronius M, Althaus M, Rafiq A, Papadakis T, Renno L, Jurastow I, Wessels L, Wolff M, Schütz B, Weihe E, Chubanov V, Gudermann T, Klein J, Bschleipfer T*, Kummer W*. Bitter triggers acetylcholine release from polymodal urethral chemosensory cells and bladder reflexes. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 111:8287-8292, 2014. *equal contribution

Krasteva G, Canning BJ, Papadakis T, Kummer W. Cholinergic brush cells in the trachea mediate respiratory responses to quorum sensing molecules. Life Sci 91:992-996, 2012.

Krasteva G, Canning BJ, Hartmann P, Veres T, Papadakis T, Mühlfeld C, Schliecker K, Tallini Y, Braun A, Hackstein H, Baal N, Weihe E, Schütz B, Kotlikoff M, Ibanez-Tallon I, Kummer W. Cholinergic chemosensory cells in the trachea regulate breathing. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 108:9478-9483, 2011.

Schlenz H, Kummer W, Jositsch G, Wess J, Krasteva G. Muscarinic receptor-mediated bronchoconstriction is coupled to caveolae in murine airways. Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol 298:L626-L636, 2010.

Veres TZ, Shevchenko M, Krasteva G, Spies E, Prenzler F, Rochlitzer S, Tschernig T, Krug N, Kummer W, Braun A. Dendritic cell-nerve clusters are sites of T cell proliferation in allergic airway inflammation. Am J Pathol 174:808-817, 2009.

Krasteva G, Pfeil U, Filip AM, Lips KS, Kummer W, König P. Confinement of caveolin-3 together with eNOS and CHT1 in an apical compartment in ciliated airway epithelial cells in the rat. Int J Biochem Cell Biol 39:615-625, 2007.

Krasteva G, Pfeil U, Drab M, Kummer W, König P. Caveolin-1 and caveolin-2 in airway epithelium: Expression and in situ association as detected by FRET-CLSM. Respir Res 7:108, 2006.