SYNOPSIS OF CAREER / RESEARCH INTERESTS
Curriculum Vitae
Name Univ.-Prof. Dr. Thomas Bernd Hildebrandt
Contact Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research
Department Reproduction Management
Alfred-Kowalke-Strasse 17, 10315 Berlin
+49 30 5168 440
hildebrandt@izw-berlin.de
Education
1986-1992 Veterinary Medicine with honor, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
1987-1993 Dr. med. vet. with summa cum laude, Freie Universität Berlin
1992-1997 Board certification for Zoo, Wildlife and Game Medicine (Fachtierarzt)
Funding
2010 – 2018 Total third-party funding: 1915,164.43 Euro (e.g. SAW, BMBF, DFG)
Professional Activities and Memberships
1996-2000 Committee Member, American Institute for Ultrasound in Medicine
Since 1996 Member, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Ultraschall in der Medizin
Since 1998 Head, Department Reproduction Management
Since 2008 Member of the Royal College Veterinary Surgeons, UK
Since 2011 Diplomate of the European College of Zoological Medicine
Since 2015 Member, Deutscher Hochschulverband (DVG)
Since 2015 W3-S-Chair for Wildlife Reproduction Medicine, Department of Veterinary Medicine, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
1990-2018 151 publications (peer reviewed), 23 book chapter, 48 plenary lectures
Honors and Recognitions
Since 2000 Research Associate, Smithsonian Institution, USA
Since 2002 Fellow of the Zoological Society of San Diego, USA
Since 2008 Conservation Fellow, Zoological Society London, UK
Since 2008 Scientific Associate, Taronga Conservation Society, AUS
Since 2008 Best Research Presentation Established Investigator, ISCFR-2008, A Since 2012 Honorary Fellowship (HonFRCVS), UK
2012 Career Award: Species Conservation Research, ISCFR-2012, CDN
2012-2017 Honorary Professorial Fellow, Zoology, University of Melbourne, AUS
2015 Conservation Legacy Award 2015, Pittsburg Zoo, USA
2017-2022 Honorary Professorial Fellow, BioSciences, University of Melbourne
Since 2018 Honorary membership Society of Fertility and Reproduction (SRF), UK
Ten key publications
[1]. Loi P, Galli C, Lazzari G, Matsukawa K, Fulka J Jr, Goeritz F, Hildebrandt Tb (2018): Development to term of sheep embryos reconstructed after inner cell mass/trophoblast exchange. J Reprod Dev. 164: 187-191. doi: 10.1262/jrd.2017-109.
[2]. Skulachev VP, Holtze S, Vyssokikh MY, Bakeeva LE, Skulachev MV, Markov AV, Hildebrandt TB**, Sadovnichii VA** (2017): Neoteny, Prolongation of youth: From naked mole rats to “naked apes” (humans). Physiological Reviews 97: 699-720. ** = shared senior authorship
[3]. Bens M, Sahm A, Groth M, Jahn N, Morhart M, Holtze S, Hildebrandt TB, Platzer M, Szafranski K (2016): FRAMA: from RNA-seq data to annotated mRNA assemblies. BMC Genomics (2016) 17: 54; doi 10.1186/s12864-015-2349-8
[4]. Saragusty J, Diecke S, Drukker M, Durrant B, Friedrich Ben-Nun I, Galli C, Goeritz F, Hayashi K, Hermes R, Holtze S, Johnson S, Lazzari G, Loi P, Loring JF, Okita K, Renfree MB, Seet S, Voracek T, Stejskal J, Ryder OA, Hildebrandt TB (2016): Rewinding the Process of Mammalian Extinction. Zoo Biology 35: 280–292.
[5]. Lueders I, Niemuller C, Rich P, Gray C, Hermes R, Goeritz F, Hildebrandt TB (2012): Gestating for 22 months: luteal development and pregnancy maintenance in elephants. Proc R Soc B 279: 3687-3696.
[6]. Saragusty J, Hermes R, Hofer H, Bouts T, Goeritz F, Hildebrandt TB (2012): Male pygmy hippopotamus influence offspring sex ratio. Nature Communication 2012 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1700
[7]. Hutchinson JR, Delmer C, Miller CE, Hildebrandt TB, Pitsillides AA, Boyde A (2011): From Flat Foot to Fat Foot: Structure, ontogeny, function, and evolution of Elephant “sixth toes”. Science 334: 1699-1703. doi: 10.1126/science.1211437.
[8]. Roellig K, Goeritz F, Fickel J, Hermes R, Hofer H, Hildebrandt TB (2010): Superconception in mammalian pregnancy can be detected and increases reproductive output per breeding season. Nature Communication 1-7, published 21.09.2010, doi:10.1038/ncomms1079
[9]. Hildebrandt TB, Drews B, Gaeth AP, Göritz F, Hermes R, Schmitt D, Gray C, Rich P, Streich WJ, Short RV, Renfree MB (2007): Fetal age determination and development in elephants. Proc R Soc B 274: 323-331.
[10]. Richman LK, Montali RJ, Garber RL, Kennedy MA, Lehnhardt J, Hildebrandt TB, Schmitt DL, Hardy D, Alcendor DJ, Hayward GS (1999): Novel endotheliotropic herpesviruses fatal for Asian and African elephants. Science 283: 1171-1176.
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
Research Experience
1992 Primate research on assisted reproduction, Mauritius
1995 Development Artificial Insemination in elephants, National Zoo, USA
1995-1998 Contraception research on wild elephants, Kruger National Park, RSA 1997-1998 Establishment of the ultrasonography in wildlife, research leader, IZW
2000-2002 Movement ecology in wild elephants by satellite tracking, Tanzania
2002-2010 Primate research, 10 visits, Kunming Institute Zoology, PR China
2003-2010 Elephant research, 12 visits, Taronga Zoological Society, AUS
2002-2018 Northern white rhino research on cellular technologies, Europe, Africa
2009-2018 Sumatran rhino research on assisted reproduction, Sabah, Malaysia
2012-2015 Ageing and reproduction research in naked mole-rats, IZW & FLI Jena
Since 2013 Cell culture, focus artificial gametes, Berlin, San Diego, Fukuoka, JPN
VALUE OF SRF MEMBERSHIP
I appreciate especially the informal exchange of ideas during the SRF conferences operating as “think tanks” and the active involvement of students and young scientists in SRF operations.
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