Speaker bio page for Prof. Anna Oevermann

Bio

Anna Oevermann is professor of veterinary neuropathology in the Division of Neurological Sciences at the Vetsuisse Faculty of the University of Bern. After graduation in veterinary medicine at the Justus-Liebig University, Giessen and the École Vétérinaire de Nantes she obtained her DVM at the University of Zürich. She worked as practitioner in small animal practice before performing a residency in veterinary pathology at the Institute of Animal Pathology, University of Bern. After obtaining the Dipl. ECVP in 2006 she joined the Division of Neurological Sciences to specialize in neuropathology. Anna Oevermann teaches veterinary neuropathology to under- and postgraduates and is active in diagnostic neuropathology. She studies neurological diseases in animals with a focus on tumors and neuroinfectious diseases. The main research interests of her group are pathomechanisms of neurolisteriosis in farmed ruminants and Listeria monocytogenes-based vaccines for the prevention and therapy of brain tumors and (neuro)infectious diseases