Life Science – The CV Tribune

Leaky peer-review system

Christian Velten — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 19:47:29 +0000

The peer-review principle for scientific publications is a well established and sound approach to ensure publication quality ... in theory. In real life it is regularly found to be leaky. This is a current example, reported by Retraction Watch

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Moving online

Christian Velten — Tue, 03 May 2011 17:50:00 +0000

Please forgive a best-ager this melancholic flashback. But one of the most inspiring projects during my career was the successful migration of a business publication from print to online around the turn of the millennium. “Inside-Lifescience” was a multi-channel online-magazine covering latest news and trends in life science, pharma and biotechnology. But let’s start with [...]

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Superbugs knockin’ on the door

Christian Velten — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 18:01:24 +0000

Medical microbiologists and hygiene experts are warning against the excessive use of antibiotics for years now. They observe more and more resistances which have been forced by the constant misuse of antibiotics. Now, a July 2002 article in the online issue of the journal New Scientist reported that vancomycin – one of the final weapons [...]

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Bottlenecks in Proteomics

Christian Velten — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 20:14:35 +0000

Let’s start with a joke. “What are three Germans doing that you have put into one room? – Founding an association!” In Germany we have associations for everything in the smallest village. Associations of hen breeders, associations of stamp collectors, associations of local singers, associations of hobby gardeners, associations of wine drinkers, associations of The [...]

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Scientific information – where are the visions?

Christian Velten — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:21:33 +0000

Well, honestly, things are on the move these days. Scientists and publishers are discussing new ways of publishing scientific results. EMBO starts an initiative to set up a platform that will provide services relating to access and retrieval of digital information in the life sciences, ranging from bibliographic or factual data to published full text [...]

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Promoting Scientific Excellence in Europe

Christian Velten — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 19:50:00 +0000

In 2003 I had the opportunity to talk to Prof. Dr. Gottfried Schatz, at that time President of the Swiss Science and Technology Council, at the Handelsblatt-conference “Trends in Biotechnology” in Vienna, where Gottfried Schatz had held a lecture about research barriers within Europe. Gottfried Schatz offensively criticized that the European systems of university education [...]

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Dancing with Yeasts

Christian Velten — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:31:37 +0000

The fact that the 2001 Nobel Price in Medicine has been awarded to three Yeast researchers should not lead to the wrong conclusion that the Nobel committee appreciated the fight against alcoholism or overweight. In fact without the tasty products of Brewers or Bakers Yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) our lives would be much more healthy but [...]

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PhD thesis has been accepted

Christian Velten — Fri, 19 Dec 1997 16:51:00 +0000

Today, I am proud to share that my PhD thesis with the title “Cell-cycle-dependent gene regulation by Mcm1p-complexes in Saccharomyces cerevisiae” has been accepted, and my Ph.D. (Dr. rer. nat.) has been granted by the Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany. Between 1994 and today, I had the opportunity to do basic oncological research on the [...]

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Scientific Associate

Christian Velten — Fri, 19 Dec 1997 10:58:00 +0000

May 1994 – Dec 1997 / LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER & HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL Basic oncological research on the genetic regulation of cell growth. Scholarship for the DFG Graduate Student Course “Molecular Pathophysiology of the Cell”. Achievements PhD thesis has been accepted Achievements Science December 19, 1997 Browse CV Full CV Timeline

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Contributing to the first full analysis of an eukaryotic organism’s genome

Christian Velten — Fri, 17 Dec 1993 09:51:00 +0000

I successfully completed my master in biology (Dipl.-Biol.) with a specialization on microbiology, genetics and biochemistry, Within the scope of my master thesis, I had the amazing opportunity to actively contribute to the sequencing and analysis of the first full genome of an eukaryotic organism, Saccharomyces cerevisiae (baker’s or brewer’s yeast). Which is an EU-funded [...]

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