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SCIENCE is very important for me and my profession, too.
I studied lots of interesting books ranging from Manfred Eigen over
Alexander Shulgin to Rupert Sheldrake. To me, science is not religion
but a way of systemically gathering information about our world. We should
consider, that there are a lot of things between heaven and hell that our
brain doesn't understand. So don't condemn fields of homeopathy,
ayurveda, biophotonics, rather get books and make up your own mind. A heavy experience was
reading the book from Marco Bischof ("Biophotonik - Das Licht in unseren Zellen"), bought from the
Zweitausendeins-Verlag. Nevertheless
respect evidence-based science and their basics...
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MY WAY of scientifical thinking started as a child and reading
"Was ist Was"-books galore. Finishing the 'learing factory' called school, myself
went to the University of Bonn
to study 'Nutrition Science'. My experiments for the diploma-
paper dealt about food-allergens, especially comparing allergenicity
of wheat and spelt. Reports stated that spelt ('Dinkel') is well tolerated by
people with food-allergy against wheat-proteins, however, my in vitro-experiments
didn't show any correlation. Furthermore I found traces, that a pathogenesis-related-stress protein
of barley called 'chitinase' binds allergy-inducing antibodies IgE. The work was conducted in the labs of
PD Dr. Roland Goerlich
with help galore from Dr. Torsten Klockenbring.
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MONTHS AGO I worked at the Paul-Ehrlich-Institute in
Langen/Hessen/Germany focussing on virus safety of bloodplasmaproducts. My special interest
was on Parvovirus B19 and its occurence in coagulation-preparations (factor VIII, factor IX, antithrombin III, prothrombincomplex,...).
Methods involved are quantitative TaqMan-PCR to calculate frequency, distribution and reduction factors of B19-DNA.
My work was well supported by
Dr. Hannelore Willkommen, Dr. Johannes Blümel and Dr. Holger Seitz. Parvovirus B19 (model nearby)
is one of the smallest viruses known, has about 20nm diameter and causes the 'fifth disease' ('Ringelröteln').
It's not such a dangerous virus as transfusion-related HIV or Hepatitis C Virus, but can be harmful for immunocomprimised or pregnant people.
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SOME SECONDS AGO my PhD-examination has finished with 'summa cum laude'.
Click here to have look a some photos from that happening.
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HOWEVER, my current task is to work at
AREVIA in Berlin.
We investigate the disease endometriosis. For details see the company's homepage...
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Anyway contact me for information or critics.
Every mail will be answered !
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