Educational Background

05/2023	Lab rotation: Quintana lab, Ann Romney Center for Neurologic Diseases, Brigham and Women’s Hospital Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
06/2021 - present	PhD student in the Research group of Dr. Erny, Institute of Neuropathology, Neurocenter, Medical Center, University of Freiburg
09/2018 - 03/2021	Master’s in Molecular Biology, Lund University, Sweden
03/2020 - 05/2021	Master thesis project in the Research group of PD Dr. Pröbstel, Department of Biomedicine, University and University hospital of Basel, Switzerland
09/2019 - 03/2020	Exchange semester in Molecular Biosciences, Major in infectious diseases, University of Heidelberg
12/2017 - 07/2018	Internship in the Research group of Dr. Rickerts, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin
09/2013 - 06/2017	Bachelor’s in Molecular Biology, Vilnius University, Lithuania

Scholarships and awards

07/2020 - 05/2021	Swiss-European Mobility Programme (SEMP) scholarship
09/2019 - 03/2020	ERASMUS+ scholarship

Publications

Erny D, Dokalis N, Mezö C, Castoldi A, Mossad O, Staszewski O, Frosch M, Villa M, Fuchs V, Mayer A, Neuber J, Sosat J, Tholen S, Schilling O, Vlachos A, Blank T, Gomez de Agüero M, Macpherson AJ, Pearce EJ, Prinz M: Microbiota-derived acetate enables the metabolic fitness of the brain innate immune system during health and disease. Cell Metab 33(11); 2260-2276.e7 (2021).

Sankowski R, Ahmari J, Mezö C, Hrabě de Angelis AL, Fuchs V, Utermöhlen O, Buch T, Blank T, Gomez de Agüero M, Macpherson AJ, Erny D: Commensal microbiota divergently affect myeloid subsets in the mammalian central nervous system during homeostasis and disease. EMBO J, e108605; doi: 10.15252/embj.2021108605 (2021).

Fuchs V*, Michael Kutza*, Sven Wischnewski*, Nikolaus Deigendesch, Luc Lutz, Laila Kulsvehagen, Gerda Ricken, Ludwig Kappos, Alexandar Tzankov, Simon Hametner, Stephan Frank, Lucas Schirmer, Anne-Katrin Pröbstel. Presence of SARS-CoV-2 transcripts in the choroid plexus of MS and non-MS COVID-19 patients. Neurol Neuroimmunol Neuroinflamm; doi:10.1212/nxi.0000000000000957 (2021).

Deigendesch N, Sironi L, Kutza M, Wischnewski S, Fuchs V, Jürgen Hench, Angela Frank, Ronny Nienhold, Kirsten D Mertz, Gieri Cathomas, Matthias S Matter, Martin Siegemund, Markus Tolnay, Lucas Schirmer, Anne-Katrin Pröbstel, Alexandar Tzankov, Stephan Frank. Correlates of critical illness-related encephalopathy predominate postmortem COVID-19 neuropathology. Acta Neuropathol; doi: 10.1007/s00401-020-02213-y (2020).

Selb R, Fuchs V, Barbara Graf, Axel Hamprecht, Michael Hogardt, Ludwig Sedlacek, Roman Schwarz, Evgeny A Idelevich, Soeren L Becker, Juergen Held, Claus P Kuepper-Tetzel, Ilka McCormick-Smith, Daniela Heckmann, Jasmin Gerkrath, Chang-Ok Han, Dunja Wilmes, Volker Rickerts. Molecular Typing and in vitro resistance of Cryptococcus neoformans clinical isolates obtained in Germany between 2011-2017. Int. J. Med. Microbiol; doi: 10.1016/j.ijmm.2019.151336 (2019).