Joachim Wink
Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Germany
Biography
Joachim Wink has completed his PhD in 1985 from Frankfurt University. He then went to the pharmaceutical industry and started his career at the Hoechst AG, where he was responsible for the strain collection and specialized in the cultivation and taxonomic characterization of Actinobacteria and Myxobacteria. During the years, he was responsible for the strain library within the pharmaceutical research and a number of screening projects with Hoechst Marion Russel, Aventis and Sanofi. In the year 2005, he did his habilitation at the Carolo Wilhelma University of Braunschweig and in 2012 he went to the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research in Braunschweig, where he founded the working group of the strain collection with its focus on Myxobacteria. Here, he is now working on the isolation and taxonomic characterization of Myxobacteria and Actinobacteria, as well as, the analysis of their secondary metabolites. He has published more than 50 papers on secondary metabolites and the taxonomy of the producing microorganisms in reputed journals, a number of reviews, as well as, book chapters and more than 35 patents. He is the Editorial Board Member of a number of international journals.