Dr. Barbara Hammer

Curriculum vitae

Current position: Postdoctoral fellow
Deputy group leader
Early Life Origins of Chronic Lung Diseases
Priority Research Area Chronic Lung Diseases
Research Center Borstel, Leibniz Lung Center, Borstel, Germany

and

Deputy head of animal facility
Research Center Borstel, Leibniz Lung Center, Borstel, Germany

University Education

• 2009 – 2013
  Bachelor’s degree in Biology (Molecular Biology/Genetics)
  Paris Lodron University Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
• 2013 – 2016
  Master’s degree in Biology (Molecular Biology/Genetics/Immunology)
  Paris Lodron University Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
• 2016 – 2020
  Doctorate in Natural Science (PhD)
  Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, Germany
• 2022 – to date
  Study of Master of Science in Laboratory Animal Science, North Rhine-Westphalia
  Technical University of Aachen (RWTH), Aachen, Germany

Scientific Career

• 2016 – 2020 PhD Thesis
  “Parental smoking behavior – cellular and molecular consequences for murine offspring”
  Early Life Origins of Chronic Lung Diseases, Priority Research Area Asthma and Allergy,
  Research Center Borstel, Leibniz Lung Center, Borstel, Germany
• 2020 – 2022
  Postdoctoral fellow, Division of Pulmonology, Department of Medicine II,
  Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
• 2022 – 2023
  Postdoctoral fellow, DZL Laboratory for Experimental Microbiome
  Research, Priority Research Area Chronic Lung Diseases, Research Center
  Borstel, Leibniz Lung Center, Borstel, Germany
• 2022 – to date
  Deputy group leader Div Early Life Origins of Chronic Lung Diseases
  Priority Research Area Chronic Lung Diseases
  Research Center Borstel, Borstel, Germany
• 2024 – to date
  Postdoctoral fellow, Early Life Origins of Chronic Lung Diseases,
  Priority Research Area Chronic Lung Diseases,
  Research CenterBorstel, Leibniz Lung Center, Borstel, Germany

Research publications

• 2018 Hammer B, Wagner C, Divac Rankov A, et al. In utero exposure to cigarette smoke and effects across generations: a conference of animals on asthma. Clin Exp Allergy. 2018;48:1378-1390. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/cea.13283; IF: 5.401
• 2020 Danov O, Wolff M, Bartel S, Böhlen S, Obernolte H, Wronski S, Jonigk D, Hammer B, Kovacevic D, Reuter S, Krauss-Etschmann S and Sewald K (2020) Cigarette Smoke Affects Dendritic Cell Populations, Epithelial Barrier Function, and the Immune Response to Viral Infection With H1N1. Front. Med. 7:571003. doi: 10.3389/fmed.2020.571003; IF: 9.927
• 2021 Hammer B., Kadalayil L., Boateng E. et al. Preconceptional smoking alters spermatozoal miRNAs of murine fathers and affects offspring’s body weight. Int J Obes 45, 1623–1627 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41366-021-00798-2; IF: 5.551
• 2021 López-Cervantes JP, Lønnebotn M, Jogi NO, Calciano L, Kuiper IN, Darby MG, Dharmage SC, Gómez-Real F, Hammer B, Bertelsen RJ, Johannessen A, Würtz AML,
  Mørkve Knudsen T, Koplin J, Pape K, Skulstad SM, Timm S, Tjalvin G, Krauss-Etschmann S, Accordini S, Schlünssen V, Kirkeleit J, Svanes C. The Exposome Approach in Allergies and Lung Diseases: Is It Time to Define a Preconception Exposome? Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 Dec 1;18(23):12684. doi: 10.3390/ijerph182312684; IF: 4.614
• 2022 Sirocko K-T, Angstmann H, Papenmeier S, Wagner C, Spohn M, Indenbirken D, Ehrhardt B, Kovacevic D, Hammer B, Svanes C, Rabe K F, Roeder T, Uliczka K, Krauss-Etschmann S. Early-life exposure to tobacco smoke alters airway signaling pathways and later mortality in D. melanogaster. Environmental Pollution 309 (2022) 119696. doi: 10.1016/j.envpol.2022.119696; IF: 9.988
• 2023 Hammer B, Bal C, Gysan M, Zehetmayer S, Geleff S, Zech A, Kramer M, Ayazseven S, Idzko M, Mosleh B, Hoda MA, Gompelmann D. Evaluation of PD-1 T lymphocytes in bronchoalveolar lavage in lung cancer compared to benign lung diseases. Clin Exp Med. 2023 Aug 3. doi: 10.1007/s10238-023-01146-6; IF: 5.057

Certificates

• 2016 Tierschutz und Versuchstiere in der Forschung (mouse and rat), CAU Kiel
• 2017 FELASA B (Federation for Laboratory Animal Science Associations Category B)
• 2019 Flow Cytometry LSRII – Level 1

Awards

• 2018 Poster Award, 2nd International Symposium on Allergy meets Infection, Luebeck, Germany
• 2019 Poster Prize (Poster Discussion Session), European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (EAACI) Congress 2019, Lisbon, Portugal
• 2021 Shared award for the two best PhD Theses 2020 (Kreis Segeberg, Germany)
• 2022 Travel Grant for Conference Participation Initiative (CPI) of the Leibniz Institute of Health-Technologies, Jena, Germany

Experience in Laboratory Animal Research

• 2011-2013 Internships as animal caretaker and assistance of experimental animal studies and surgeries with rats, rabbits and mini pigs (Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft, Institute for Experimental and Clinical Traumatology, Vienna, Austria)
• 2014 – date Active participation in over 10 animal proposals with mice
• 2016 – date Planning and implementation of transgenerational mouse studies
• 2020 – date Conception and writing of applications for animal proposals (mouse)
• 2020 – 2022 Responsible for breeding management and genotyping of transgenic mice at the Medical University of Vienna (MUW), Austria
• 2023 - date Head of approved animal proposals

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