Given Name:

Vince

Middle Name

Matthias

Family Name:

GERBER

Current Position: 

Head of Swiss Institute of Equine Medicine

Organization:

University of Bern and Agroscope
       Vetsuisse Faculty

Nationality-Resident:

Swiss

Major Interest:

Respiratory, neurological and genetic diseases;stress related disorders

Education:

2011 -   Full Professor, University of   Bern, Bern, Switzerland

2008     Certificate, Post   graduate course, Effective Management in Health Care Systems,

College-M, Berne, Switzerland

2005    Habilitation, Vetsuisse-Faculty, University of Bern, Bern,   Switzerland

2004     Diplomate   of the European College of Equine Internal Medicine (ECEIM)

2003     PhD.,   Large Animal Clinical Sciences, Michigan State University, USA

2003     Diplomate   American College of Veterinary   Internal Medicine, Large Animal Internal Medicine Specialist

1998     Equine Specialist FVH (Equine Practice Boards of Swiss Veterinary   Association)

1995     Dr.   med. vet., University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

1993     National   veterinary boards certification, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Post-graduate Training   and professional experience:

2012 -       Professor and Head of the   Swiss Institute of Equine Medicine (ISME), Bern and Avenches, Vetsuisse   Faculty, University of Bern and  University   of Bern and Agroscope, Switzerland

2011        Professor and Head of the Equine Clinic, Vetsuisse Faculty, University   of Bern, Switzerland

2003-2010    Lecturer, Senior Lecturer   (Assistant Professor) (since 2006); Deputy Head (since 2004);Head of clinic ad interim and Senior Lecturer   (Assistant Professor) (since 2007) at ISME (Swiss Institute of   Equine Medicine),   Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, Switzerland

1999-2003    Resident   and PhD-student, Equine Clinic, Veterinary Teaching Hospital and   Pulmonary Laboratory, Department of Large Animal Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary   Medicine, Michigan State University, USA

1995-1998   Assistant, Equine Clinic, Vetsuisse-Faculty,   University of Bern, Switzerland

1994     Assistant, Swiss National   Stud, Avenches, Switzerland

WEVA functions, Honors and Awards

WEVA Boards member and treasurer, Junior Vice-President

More recent publications (2017 only)

1: Pacholewska A, Kraft MF, Gerber V, Jagannathan   V. Differential Expression of

Serum MicroRNAs Supports CD4⁺ T Cell   Differentiation into Th2/Th17 Cells in

Severe Equine Asthma. Genes (Basel). 2017 Dec 12;8(12). pii: E383. doi:

10.3390/genes8120383. PubMed PMID: 29231896.

2: Scheidegger MD, Gerber V, Bruckmaier RM, van   der Kolk JH, Burger D, Ramseyer

A. Increased adrenocortical response to   adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) in

sport horses with equine glandular gastric disease   (EGGD). Vet J. 2017

Oct;228:7-12. doi: 10.1016/j.tvjl.2017.09.002.   Epub 2017 Sep 11. PubMed PMID:

29153110.

3: Koch C, Ramsauer AS, Drögemüller M, Ackermann M, Gerber V, Tobler K.   Genomic

comparison of bovine papillomavirus 1 isolates   from bovine, equine and asinine

lesional tissue samples. Virus Res. 2017 Nov   4;244:6-12. doi:

10.1016/j.virusres.2017.11.005. [Epub ahead of   print] PubMed PMID: 29113823.

4: Lange CD, Axiak Flammer S, Gerber V, Kindt D,   Koch C. Complementary and

alternative medicine for the management of   orthopaedic problems in Swiss

Warmblood horses. Vet Med Sci. 2017 May   29;3(3):125-133. doi: 10.1002/vms3.64.

eCollection 2017 Aug. PubMed PMID: 29067209;   PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5645843.

5: Lanz S, Brunner A, Graubner C, Marti E, Gerber V. Insect Bite   Hypersensitivity

in Horses is Associated with Airway   Hyperreactivity. J Vet Intern Med. 2017

Nov;31(6):1877-1883. doi: 10.1111/jvim.14817. Epub   2017 Sep 18. PubMed PMID:

28921663; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5697210.

6: Schaefer RJ, Schubert M, Bailey E, Bannasch DL,   Barrey E, Bar-Gal GK, Brem G,

Brooks SA, Distl O, Fries R, Finno CJ, Gerber V,   Haase B, Jagannathan V,

Kalbfleisch T, Leeb T, Lindgren G, Lopes MS, Mach   N, da Câmara Machado A, MacLeod

JN, McCoy A, Metzger J, Penedo C, Polani S, Rieder   S, Tammen I, Tetens J, Thaller

G, Verini-Supplizi A, Wade CM, Wallner B, Orlando   L, Mickelson JR, McCue ME.

Developing a 670k genotyping array to tag ~2M SNPs   across 24 horse breeds. BMC

Genomics. 2017 Jul 27;18(1):565. doi:   10.1186/s12864-017-3943-8. PubMed PMID:

28750625; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5530493.

7: Schnider D, Rieder S, Leeb T, Gerber V,   Neuditschko M. A genome-wide

association study for equine recurrent airway   obstruction in European Warmblood

horses reveals a suggestive new quantitative trait   locus on chromosome 13. Anim

Genet. 2017 Dec;48(6):691-693. doi:   10.1111/age.12583. Epub 2017 Jul 24. PubMed

PMID: 28737212.

8: Moine S, Flammer SA, de Jesus Maia-Nussbaumer   P, Klopfenstein Bregger MD,

Gerber V. Evaluation of the effects of performance   dentistry on equine

rideability: a randomized, blinded, controlled   trial. Vet Q. 2017

Dec;37(1):195-199. doi:   10.1080/01652176.2017.1329598. PubMed PMID: 28488462.

9: Heliczer N, Gerber V, Bruckmaier R, van der   Kolk JH, de Solis CN.

Cardiovascular findings in ponies with equine   metabolic syndrome. J Am Vet Med

Assoc. 2017 May 1;250(9):1027-1035. doi: 10.2460/javma.250.9.1027.   PubMed PMID:

28414603.

10: Ziegler A, Gerber V, Marti E. In vitro effects   of the toll-like receptor

agonists monophosphoryl lipid A and CpG-rich   oligonucleotides on cytokine

production by equine cells. Vet J. 2017   Jan;219:6-11. doi:

10.1016/j.tvjl.2016.11.013. Epub 2016 Nov 22.   PubMed PMID: 28093114.

11: Pacholewska A, Marti E, Leeb T, Jagannathan V,   Gerber V. LPS-induced modules

of co-expressed genes in equine peripheral blood   mononuclear cells. BMC Genomics.

2017 Jan 5;18(1):34. doi:   10.1186/s12864-016-3390-y. PubMed PMID: 28056766;

PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5217269.