22.01.2023 | Guest Lecture: Prof. Dr.med. Gerhard Dobler

Prof. Dr. med. Gerhard Dobler from the University of the Bundeswehr Munich will hold a guest lecture at the IVI on the topic of “TBE research in Austria –
still necessary?”.

The lecture will take place on Wednesday, 22nd of January at 3pm at Peter-Mayr-Straße 1, 6020 Innsbruck, HS Pharmakologie.

We are delighted to have him as a guest and cordially invite anyone interested to join the lecture and subsequent discussion.

Prof. Dr. Gerhard Dobler

Head of the National Consultative Laboratory for TBE
Institute of Microbiology of the German Armed Forces
Munich, Germany

Professional background
1982-1988 Study of human medicine at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
1992 Doctorate on the topic: “Rotavirus detection using nucleic acid hybridisation”
1998 Specialist in microbiology and infection epidemiology.
1998-2001 Consultant for clinical research on vaccines and antibiotics at Genetics Institut
GmbH, Martinsried
2002-2004 Head of laboratory at the Department of Infection Hygiene at the Technical University of Munich
Since April 2004 Head of the Department of Virology and Rickettsiology at the Institute of Microbiology of the
Bundeswehr
June 2013 Habilitation in virology at the University of Göttingen
Since July 2015 Head of the National Consiliary Laboratory for TBE
2020 Associate Professor of Virology in the Department of Parasitology, University of Hohenheim

Research areas
Epidemiology, ecology, diagnostics and immunology of TBE and other tick-borne and mosquito-borne infections,
infections and rickettsioses transmitted by ticks, mosquitoes, sandflies and rodents