Dr. Barbara Werschkun

Born on 2 February 1970 in Hamburg, Germany

2009	Postgraduate degree in Toxicology, University of Leipzig, Germany
1997	PhD in Organic Chemistry, University of Hamburg, Germany
1994	Graduate degree in Chemistry, University of Hamburg, Germany

Professional Record

Since 2012

2007 – 2012

Wissenschaftsbüro Berlin

Scientist, Federal Institute for Risk Assessment, Berlin, Germany

International Chemicals Programmes

2005 – 2007

Scientist, Federal Environment Agency, Dessau, Germany

Ecotoxicological Assessment of Substances

2002 – 2005

Scientist, analyze & realize AG, Berlin, Germany

Medical Writing/Pharmaceuticals Regulatory Affairs

2001 – 2003

Free-lance Writer, Heinrich Böll Foundation, Berlin/Brussels/Tel Aviv

Publishing & Editorial Office

2000 – 2001

Free-lance Writer, analyze & realize AG, Berlin, Germany

Medical Writing/Pharmaceuticals Regulatory Affairs

1998 – 2000

Research Associate, Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA

Department of Chemistry

1994 – 1998

Research & Teaching Assistant, University of Hamburg, Germany

Institute of Organic Chemistry

Technical Bodies

Since 2013 2013 - 2015 2010 – 2012	GESAMP Ballast Water Working Group WHO European Environment and Health Process Communication Working Group OECD Test Guidelines Programme Expert Group on Skin Corrosion/Irritation Expert Group on Eye Corrosion/Irritation
2008 - 2012	International Maritime Organization Marine Environment Protection Committee Sub-Committee on Bulk Liquids & Gases
2008 – 2011	United Nations Economic and Social Council Sub-Committee on the Transport of Dangerous Goods Sub-Committee on GHS (Globally Harmonised System for the Classification and Labelling of Chemicals)

2006 – 2008	REACH Implementation Projects (RIPs) of the European Commission RIP 3.3 „Information Requirements“: Drafting Group Aquatic Toxicity; Stakeholder Expert Group RIP 4.3/4.5 „Authorisation/Priority Setting“: Stakeholder Expert Group

Publications

19. Werschkun, B., 2016. Treatment of Ballast water on board ships in Thompson, K.C., Gillespie, S., Goslan, E.H. (eds.), Disinfection By-products in Drinking Water, Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge, 200-204.

18. Shah, A.D., Liu, Z.-Q., Salhi, E., Höfer, T., Werschkun, B., von Gunten, U., 2015. Formation of disinfection by-products during ballast water treatment with ozone, chlorine, and per acetic acid: influence of water quality parameters. Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology, 1, 465-480.

17. Werschkun, B., Banerji, S., Basurko, O.C., David, M., Fuhr, F., Gollasch, S., Grummt, T., Haarich, M., Jha, A.N., Kacan, S., Kehrer, A., Linders, J., Mesbahi, E., Pughiuc, D., Richardson, S.D., Schwarz-Schulz, B., Shah, A., Theobald, N., von Gunten, U., Wieck, S., Höfer, T., 2014. Emerging risks from ballast water treatment: The run-up to the International Ballast Water Management Convention. Chemosphere, 112, 256-266.

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0045653514005268

16. Werschkun, B., Höfer, T., Greiner, M. (Eds.), 2012. Emerging Risks from Ballast Water Treatment. BfR Wissenschaft, Federal Institute for Risk Assessment, Berlin.

http://www.bfr.bund.de/cm/350/emerging-risks-from-ballast-water-treatment.pdf

15. Werschkun, B., Sommer, Y., Banerji, S., 2012. Disinfection by-products in ballast water treatment: An evaluation of regulatory data. Water Research,46, 4884-4901.

14. Banerji, S., Werschkun, B., Höfer, T., 2012. Assessing the risk of ballast water treatment to human health. Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology 62, 513-522.

13. Ahlers, J., Stock, F., Werschkun, B., 2008. Integrated testing and assessment – new challenges under REACH. Environmental Science and Pollution Research 15, 565-572.

12. Jürs, S., Werschkun, B., Thiem, J. 2006. Claisen rearrangement of carbohydrate-derived precursors towards highly functionalized cyclooctenones with L-xylo, D-arabino and L-lyxo configuration and their diastereoselective transformations. European Journal of Chemistry 4451-4462.

11. Werschkun, B., Thiem, J., 2005. Synthesis of novel types of divalent saccharide structures by a ketene acetal Claisen rearrangement. Tetrahedron Asymmetry 16, 569-576.

10. Werschkun, B., Thiem, J., 2001. Claisen rearrangements in carbohydrate chemistry. Topics in Current Chemistry 215, 293-325.

9. Nicolaou, K.C., Scarpelli, R., Bollbuck, B., Werschkun, B., Perreira, M.M.A., Wartmann, M., Altmann, K.H., Zaharevitz, D., Gussio, R., Giannakakou, P., 2000. Chemical synthesis and biological properties of pyridine epothilones. Chemistry & Biology 7, 593-599.

8. Nicolaou, K.C., Hepworth, D., King, N.P., Finlay, M.R.V., Scarpelli, R., Perreira, M.M.A., Bollbuck, B., Bigot, A., Werschkun, B., Winssinger, N., 2000. Total synthesis of 16-desmethylepothilone B, epothilone B10, epothilone F, and related side-chain modified epothilone B analogues. Chemistry – A European Journal 6, 2783-2800.

7. Nicolaou, K.C., Hepworth, D., Finlay, M.R.V., King, N.P., Werschkun, B., Bigot, A., 1999. Synthesis of 16-desmethylepothilone B: improved methodology for the rapid, highly selective and convergent construction of epothilone B and analogues. Chemical Communications, 519-520.

6. Werschkun, B., Thiem, J., 1999. Sigmatropic rearrangement of uronic acid derived saccharide allyl ketene acetals. A study of stereochemistry and structural limitations. Synthesis, 121-137.

5. Werschkun, B., Gorziza, K., Thiem, J., 1999. Synthesis of β-glucuronides of estradiol, ethynylestradiol, and estrone. Journal of Carbohydrate Chemistry 18, 629-637.

4. Werschkun, B., Wendt, A., Thiem, J., 1998. Enzymic synthesis of β-glucuronides of estradiol, ethynylestradiol, and other phenolic substrates on a preparative scale employing UDP-glucuronyl transferase. Journal of the Royal Chemical Society, Perkin Transactions 1, 3021-3023.

3. Werschkun, B., Thiem, J., 1997. From D-glucose to a new chiral cyclooctenone. Angewandte Chemie International Edition in English 36, 2793-2794.

2. Werschkun, B., König, W.A., Kren, V., Thiem, J., 1995. Substrate structure and incubation parameter dependent selectivities in chiral discrimination of galactopyranosides by β-galactosidase hydrolysis. Journal of the Royal Chemical Society, Perkin Transactions 1, 2459-2466.

1. Beckett, M.A., Minton, P.R., Werschkun, B., 1994. Synthesis and characterisation of triarylborthiins. Journal of Organometallic Chemistry 468, 37-41.