Prof. Dr. Michael Hecker
| 1946 | born in Annaberg (Germany) |
| 1965 - 1970 | study of Biology at the EMA-University of Greifswald |
| 1970 | Diploma work |
| 1970 - 1973 | PhD work “ Untersuchungen über die Regulation des Protein- und Nucleinsäurestoffwechsels während des Aktivitätswechsels von Agrostemma githago-Embryonen ” under the supervision of Professor Dr. H. Borriss |
| 1973 | Dissertation |
| 1973 - 1976 | Postdoctoral work at the Institute of Plant Physiology of the University of Greifswald |
| 1977 | Habilitation in the field of Plant Physiology (Dr. sc. nat., 1991 Dr. rer. nat. habil.) Theme: „Untersuchungen über DNA-, RNA- und Proteinbiosynthesen in blockierten und aktivierten pflanzlichen Embryonen“. Referees: Prof. Parthier (Halle), Prof. Müntz (Gatersleben) and Prof. Köhler (Greifswald) |
| 1979 - 1986 | Docent for Physiology of Microorganisms at the Microbiological Institut at the EMA-University Greifswald |
| since 1986 | Chair of Microbial Physiology and Molecular Biology at the EMA-University Greifswald |
| 1990 - 1994 | Decan of the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences of the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Univer-sity Greifswald |
| 1992 | C4-Professor for Microbiology and Molecular Biology at the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität Greifswald |
| 1993 - 1996 | Referee of the DFG for Microbiology |
| 1995 - 2001 | President / Vice president of the VAAM |
| main topics of research: | Functional genomics of the Gram-positive model bacterium Bacillus subtilis Proteomcis Physiology and regulation of the bacterial stress responses Functional genomics of the pathogenic bacteria Staphylococcus aureus and S. epidermidis |