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Professor Dr

Bertram Brenig

Senator of the Section Agricultural and Nutritional Sciences

Year of election: 2001
Section: Agricultural and Nutritional Sciences
City: Göttingen
Country: Germany
CV Bertram Brenig - German (PDF)

Research

Bertram Brenig is interested in the structural and functional analysis of mammalian genes and genomes. He is investigating the cause of different economical important genetic defects in livestock and other domesticated animals.

So far his main focus was on porcine genes and their function, e.g. he currently analyses the molecular origin of porcine hernia inguinalis and scrotalis. Using whole genome scans he identified several chromosomal regions that are linked to this disorder. Fine mapping, positional cloning and candidate gene analysis are used for further elucidation.

However, in recent years he also started to look at genes in other species, e. g. cattle, dog, sheep, and buffalo. Especially in cattle, he is interested in the molecular analysis of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE). The differences in oral uptake of prion protein between cattle and pig is studied in vivo and in vitro. He was the first to identify humoral microvesical encapsulated nucleic acids that are altered during a prion infection and can be used as diagnostic tool. These findings were used to develop the first ante mortem BSE test. Humoral nucleic acids are also studied in several other diseases, e. g. liver carcinoma in dog and pancreatic neoplasias in cat.

Career

  • Akademischer und beruflicher Werdegang
  • 2001 Approbation, Fachtierarzt für Molekularbiologie und Biotechnologie
  • seit 1993 Direktor, Tierärztliches Institut, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
  • seit 1993 Professor für Molekularbiologie der Nutztiere, Tierärztliches Institut, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
  • 1993 Habilitation, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) München
  • 1987 Promotion, LMU München
  • 1979-1984 Studium, LMU München sowie Veterinärmedizinische Universität Wien, Wien, Österreich

Functions

  • seit 2024 Vizepräsident, Niedersächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen
  • seit 2022 Mitglied, Forschungsausschuss, Gesellschaft zur Förderung Kynologischer Forschung (GKF), Jena
  • seit 2015 Stellvertretender Vorsitzender, Wissenschaftliche Kommission, Einstein Stiftung Berlin
  • 2006-2010 Präsident, International Society for Animal Genetics (ISAG)
  • 2003-2009 Senator, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
  • 2001-2005 Mitglied, Wissenschaftlicher Beirat, Niedersächsisches Landesamt für Verbraucherschutz und Lebensmittelsicherheit (LAVES), Wardenburg
  • 2000-2006 Schatzmeister, ISAG

Honours and Memberships

  • 2021 Agricultural Greater Good Grant, Illumina, Inc., San Diego, USA
  • 2018 Ehrenprofessur, Moskauer Staatliche Akademie für Veterinärmedizin und Biotechnologie, Moskau, Russland
  • 2016 Ehrenprofessur, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang City, China
  • 2012 Freundschaftspreis der Volksrepublik China, China
  • 2012 Lushan Friendship Award, Jiangxi Provincial Government, China
  • 2006 Stockmeyer Wissenschaftspreis, Heinrich Stockmeyer-Stiftung, Rothenfelde
  • seit 2002 Mitglied, Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen
  • seit 2001 Mitglied, Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Leopoldina

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