Short Curriculum vitae

Short Curriculum vitae
Dr. Marc F. Schetelig
Fraunhofer IME
Vector and Pest Insect Control
Winchesterstr. 2
35394 Giessen
Germany
marc.schetelig@ime.fraunhofer.de
Experience
2014 – present
Head of Business Unit, Vector and Pest Insect Control, LOEWE Center for Insect
Biotechnology & Bioresources, Gießen, Germany
2014
Consultant for the International Atomic Energy Agency on vector control, Italy
2013 – present
Head of »Fraunhofer Attract« group, Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, Gießen, Germany
2013 – present
Head of Emmy Noether group, Justus-Liebig-University Gießen, Germany
2013
Consultant for the International Atomic Energy Agency and the Food and
Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (IAEA-FAO), Austria
2008 - 2013
Research Molecular Geneticist at the United States Department of Agriculture and
the University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
2004 - 2008
Phd at the Göttingen Centre for Molecular Biosciences (GZMB), Georg-AugustUniversity Göttingen, Germany
1999-2004
Diploma in Biochemistry, University Bayreuth, Germany
Awards and Grants
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2013 - LOEWE Center for Insect Biotechnology & Bioresources, Gießen
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2013 - Fraunhofer Attract Fellowship, Fraunhofer Gesellschaft
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2012 - Emmy-Noether Fellowship, German Research Foundation
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2012 - International Conference of Entomology (ICE) 2012 Travel Award, Daegu, South Korea
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2010 - On-the-Spot award from ARS-CMAVE
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2008 - USDA-ARS Headquarters postdoctoral associate fellowship
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2006 - DAAD VIGONI 2007/08 exchange program
Professional Societies and Engagement
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2013 – present: Fraunhofer Society
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2009 – present: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
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2009 – 2013: National Postdoc Association (NPA)
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Press releases and patent
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Schetelig laboratory 1 / Fraunhofer Gesellschaft
http://www.insekten-biotechnologie.de/en/ng-schetelig-attract.html
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Schetelig laboratory 2 / Justus-Liebig-University Giessen
http://www.insekten-biotechnologie.de/en/schetelig-emmynoether.html
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Patent Application on Insect Population Control
http://www.wipo.int/pctdb/en/wo.jsp?WO=2009115569
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Sterile Flies, Version 2.0
http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2009/01/27-02.html
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Fighting Flies with Flies
http://scienceline.org/2009/04/bio-storrs-sterile-fruit-flies-medfly/
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Insecticide-free pest control of Medflies
http://www.sciencebridge.de/index.php?id=286
Publications
2014
Handler, AM & Schetelig, MF. 2014. Fruit fly transgenesis and applications. In Transgenic Insects (ed.
Mark Benedict). accepted
Meza JS, Diaz-Fleischer F, Sanchez-Velasquez LR, Zepeda-Cisneros CS, Handler AM & Schetelig
MF. 2014. Fitness cost implications of phiC31-mediated site-specific integrations in target-site
strains of the Mexican fruit fly, Anastrepha ludens (Diptera: Tephritidae). PLoS One, 9(10):
e109690
Scolari F, Yuval B, Gomulski LM, Schetelig MF, Gabrieli P, Bassetti F, Wimmer EA, Malacrida AR
&Gasperi G. 2014. Polyandry in the medfly – shifts in paternity mediated by sperm stratification
and mixing. BMC Genetics, accepted
Meza JS, Schetelig, MF, Zepeda-Cisneros CS & Handler, AM. 2014. Male-specific Y-linked transgene
markers to enhance biologically-based control of the Mexican fruit fly, Anastrepha ludens (Diptera:
Tephritidae). BMC Genetics, accepted
2013
Hokanson, KE, Dawson, WO, Handler, AM, Schetelig, MF, St. Leger, RJ. 2013. Not all GMOs are
crop plants: non-plant GMO applications in agriculture. Transgenic Research. doi: 10.1007/s11248013-9769-5
Gilles, JR, Schetelig, MF, Scolari, F, Marec, F, Capurro, M, Franz, G & Bourtzis, K. 2013. Towards
mosquito sterile insect technique programmes: Exploring genetic, molecular, mechanical and
behavioural
methods
of
sex
separation
in
mosquitoes.
Acta
Tropica.
doi:
10.1016/j.actatropica.2013.08.015
Schetelig, MF & Handler, AM. 2013. Germline transformation of the spotted wing drosophilid,
Drosophila suzukii, with a piggyBac transposon vector. Genetica 141(4): 189-193
Schetelig, MF & Handler, AM. 2013. Y-linked markers for improved population control of the tephritid
fruit fly pest, Anastrepha suspensa. In Advances in Biochemical Engineering/Biotechnology (ed.
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Vilcinskas, A). Dordrecht, NL: Springer, doi: 10.1007/10_2013_209
Schetelig, MF & Handler, AM. 2013. A functional comparison of the 3xP3 Promoter by recombinasemediated cassette exchange in Drosophila and a Tephritid Fly, Anastrepha suspensa. G3: Genes,
Genomes, Genetics 3: 687-693.
Nirmala, X, Schetelig, MF, Yu, F & Handler, AM. 2013. An EST database of the Caribbean fruit fly,
Anastrepha suspensa (Diptera: Tephritidae). Gene 517 (2): 212-217
Ogaugwu, CE, Schetelig, MF & Wimmer, EA. 2013. Transgenic sexing system for Ceratitis capitata
(Diptera: Tephritidae) based on female-specific embryonic lethality. Insect Biochemistry and
Molecular Biology 43: 1-8
2012
Schetelig, MF & Handler, AM. 2012. A transgenic embryonic sexing system for Anastrepha suspensa
(Diptera: Tephritidae). Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 42: 790-795
Schetelig, MF & Handler, AM. 2012. Strategy for enhanced transgenic strain development for
embryonic conditional lethality in Anastrepha suspensa. PNAS 109 (24): 9348-9353
Schetelig, MF, Milano, A, Saccone, G & Handler, AM. 2012. Male only progeny in Anastrepha
suspensa by RNAi-induced sex reversion of chromosomal females. Insect Biochemistry and
Molecular Biology 42 (1): 51-57
2011
Schetelig, MF, Nirmala, X & Handler, AM. 2011. Pro-apoptotic cell death genes, hid and reaper, from
the tephritid pest species, Anastrepha suspensa. Apoptosis 16: 759–768
Schetelig, MF, Ogaugwu, CE & Wimmer, EA. 2011. Development of a transgenic sexing system based
on female-specific embryonic lethality in Ceratitis capitata (Diptera: Tephritidae). In Proceedings
8th International Symposium on Fruit Flies of Economic Importance. Valencia, Spain, 2010, pp.
106-118
Schetelig, MF and Wimmer, EA. 2011. Insect Transgenesis and the Sterile Insect Technique. In Insect
Biotechnology (ed. Vilcinskas, A), pp. 169-194. Dordrecht, NL: Springer
2010
Schetelig, MF, Götschel, F, Viktorinová, I, Handler, AM, Wimmer, EA. 2010. Recombination
technologies for enhanced transgene stability in bioengineered insects for the Sterile Insect
Technique. Genetica 139: 71–78
2009
Schetelig, MF, Scolari, F, Handler, AM, Kittelmann, S, Gasperi, G & Wimmer, EA. 2009. Site-specific
recombination for the modification of transgenic strains of the Mediterranean fruit fly Ceratitis
capitata. PNAS 106 (43): 18171-18176
Schetelig, MF, Caceres, C, Zacharopoulou, A, Franz, G & Wimmer, EA. 2009. Conditional embryonic
lethality to improve the sterile insect technique in Ceratitis capitata (Diptera: Tephritidae). BMC
Biology 7-4
2008
Schetelig, MF, Schmid, BGM, Zimowska, G & Wimmer, EA. 2008. Plasticity in mRNA expression
and localization of orthodenticle within higher Diptera. Evolution & Development 10 (6): 700 –704
Scolari, F, Schetelig, MF, Gabrieli, P, Siciliano, P, Gomulski, LM, Karam, N, Wimmer, EA, Malacrida,
AR & Gasperi, G. 2008. Insect transgenesis applied to tephritid pest control. Journal of Applied
Entomology 132 (9-10): 820-831
Scolari, F*, Schetelig, MF*, Bertin, S, Malacrida, AR, Gasperi, G & Wimmer, EA. 2008. Fluorescent
Sperm Marking to Improve the Fight against the Pest Insect Ceratitis capitata (Wiedemann;
Diptera: Tephritidae). New Biotechnology 25 (1): 76-84
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Schetelig, MF, Scolari, F, Handler, AM, Gasperi, G & Wimmer, EA. 2008. New genetic tools for
improving SIT in Ceratitis capitata: embryonic lethality and sperm marking. In Proceedings,
Symposium: 7th International Symposium on Fruit Flies of Economic Importance, 10-15
September 2006, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. Malavasi, A (ed.)
2007
Schetelig, MF, Horn, C, Handler, AM & Wimmer, EA. 2007. Development of an embryonic lethality
system for transgenic SIT in the fruit pest Ceratitis capitata. In Area-Wide Control of Insect Pests:
From Research to Field Implementation (eds. Vreysen, MJB, Robinson, AS, Hendrichs, J), pp 8593. Dordrecht, NL: Springer
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