Marcus Fulde obtained his PhD under the supervision of Prof Valentin-Weigand at the University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover (TiHo) in 2007 before moving to the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI) in Braunschweig. At the HZI, Marcus worked as a postdoc in the laboratory of Prof Gursharan Singh Chhatwal on research into the host-pathogen interactions of pathogenic streptococci. In 2011, he moved to the Hannover Medical School and joined the team of Prof Mathias Hornef, an expert in the field of innate immunity of the neonatal host. In the following years, Marcus combined his expertise and focussed on the mechanisms of bacterial infections in newborns. Marcus completed his habilitation in microbiology in 2015 and moved to Berlin to head the “Dahlem International Network Professorship” for Veterinary Infection Biology at the Freie Universität Berlin. Since 2023, Marcus has been appointed as Full Professor for Veterinary Microbiology at the Institute of Microbiology and Epizootics at Freie Universität Berlin.
In addition to researching pathogen-host interactions with zooonotic streptococci and Salmonella spp, Marcus has been working on non-classical resistance mechanisms, such as bacterial persistence and heteroresistance, for seven years now. His thematic focus here is primarily on research into the evolution of new resistance mechanisms at the population and individual cell level.
Marcus is a specialist veterinarian for microbiology, head of the “Zoonoses” section of the German Society for Hygiene and Microbiology (DGHM) and heads the German Society for Veterinary Medicine (DVG) approved consultant laboratory for beta-hemolytic streptococci in veterinary practice and clinics.
