Curriculum Vitae

Joachim Luginbühl
Höschgasse 36, 8008 Zürich, Switzerland
Phone: +41 78 892 46 49
E-mail: Joachim.Luginbuehl@gmail.com

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02.12.1981
St.Gallen, Switzerland
Swiss
Unmarried

Education
10/2014 – present

Post-doctoral JSPS fellowship in the unit of Jay W. Shin, RIKEN
Yokohama, Japan

10/2008 – 06/2014

PhD in the group of Prof. Dr. Ernst Reichmann
Tissue biology research unit, Department of surgery – University Children’s
Hospital, Zurich.
FP6 EuroStec PhD program http://www.eurostec.eu/03/2006 – 05/2008

Master of Science in Animal Biology in the group of Prof. Dr. Silvia Arber
Biocenter, Basel
Titel of the Master thesis: Unraveling genetic control-mechanisms of motor
circuitry in mouse

06/2002 – 01/2006

Study of Biology at the Biocenter in Basel

07/2001

High school graduation, Romanshorn, Switzerland

Work experience
07/2003 – 09/2003

Volunteer at Tortugas, Mexico

07/2002 – 09/2002

Internship at Nestlé Schweiz AG, Quality-control lab Basel.
Revision of a new concept documenting laboratory equipment(standard operating procedure), chemical examinations etc.

08/2001 – 12/2001

Internship at Nestlé Schweiz AG, Quality-control lab Basel.
Compile approx. 170 instructions that describe the examinationof all primary products used in the manufactory: pH, commonsalt, photospectrometric examination, peroxid-number, free fatty
acids, sensory examination etc.

Professional Skills
Cell culture: human, rat, pig and mouse primary cell types; assembly and analysis of human skinsubstitutes in vitro and in vivo; assembly and analysis of a human dermal microvasculature consistingof blood and lymphatic microvessels; animal surgery (mouse and rat); FACS; immunofluorescence; insitu hybridization; confocal microscopy; molecular cloning, PCR, RT-PCR; Northern and Westernblots; histology

Further education and workshops

- Education and training of persons carrying out animal experiments, Basel, Switzerland, 10/2006- LTK Module 20E: Introductory Course in Laboratory Animal Science, Zürich, Switzerland, 05/2009- Weiterbildung: Das Zürcher Schweinemodell, Bern, Switzerland, 08/2011- Novartis Topik basic information security training, Basel, Switzerland, 11/2006

Publications
Luginbuhl, J., Marino, D., Hartmann-Fritsch, F., Scola, S., Meuli, M., Reichmann, E.. Pre-existing capillaries andearly inosculation significantly improve the physiological healing of transplanted bioengineered dermo-epidermalskin substitutes. In preparation (2013).
Marino, D. and Luginbuhl, J., Meuli, M., Reichmann, E. Prevascularizing dermo-epidermal skin grafts with bloodand lymphatic capillaries: Generating the missing lymphatic link. Submitted (2013)
Scola, S., Luginbühl, J., Busetto, A., Biedermann, T., Marino, D., Pontiggia, L., Reichmann, E. Redefining StemCells in Human Skin Epidermis: Suprabasal Keratinocytes are Transit Amplifying Cells. In preparation (2013)
Hartmann-Fritsch, F., Biedermann, T., Braziulis, E., Luginbuhl, J., Pontiggia, L., Bottcher-Haberzeth, S., vanKuppevelt, T.H., Faraj, K.A., Schiestl, C., Meuli, M., et al. Collagen hydrogels strengthened by biodegradable
meshes are a basis for dermo-epidermal skin grafts intended to reconstitute human skin in a one-step surgicalintervention. J Tissue Eng Regen Med. [Epub ahead of print]
Hartmann-Fritsch, F., Hosper, N., Luginbuhl, J., Biedermann, T., Reichmann, E., and Meuli, M. Human amniotic
fluid derived cells can competently substitute dermal fibroblasts in a tissue-engineered dermo-epidermal skinanalog. Pediatr Surg Int 29:61-69.
Kottmann, J., Rey, J.M., Luginbuhl, J., Reichmann, E., and Sigrist, M.W. Glucose sensing in human epidermis
using mid-infrared photoacoustic detection. Biomed Opt Express 3:667-680.
Braziulis, E., Diezi, M., Biedermann, T., Pontiggia, L., Schmucki, M., Hartmann-Fritsch, F., Luginbuhl, J., Schiestl,C., Meuli, M., and Reichmann, E. Modified plastic compression of collagen hydrogels provides an ideal matrix forclinically applicable skin substitutes. Tissue Eng Part C Methods 18:464-474.
Montano, I., Schiestl, C., Schneider, J., Pontiggia, L., Luginbuhl, J., Biedermann, T., Bottcher-Haberzeth, S.,
Braziulis, E., Meuli, M., and Reichmann, E. Formation of human capillaries in vitro: the engineering ofprevascularized matrices. Tissue Eng Part A 16:269-282.

Conferences with oral presentationsESAO
TERMISTERMISJPSSTERMIS

European society for artificial organs, Porto, Portugal, September 2011
Tissue engineering and regenerative medicine international society,Granada, Spain, June 2011
Tissue engineering and regenerative medicine international society,Galway, Ireland, June 2010
The 22nd International Symposium on Paediatric Surgical Research, Genoa, Italy,
September 2009
Tissue engineering and regenerative medicine international society,
Seoul, South Korea, September 2009

Languages
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Playing and writing music, sports (sailing,dancing, jogging), reading, travelling.