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Basic Training

  Scientific Activities

1999-2001, Graduate Education in Biology (Biochemistry, Genetics, Virology),
Biological Center, Intitute of Virology, Wuerzburg University.
Undergraduate and Graduate Education in Computer Science, University of Wuerzburg

2001-2002, Master Thesis at the Department of Computer Science II, University of Wuerzburg.
Title of the Thesis: "Web-based Vizualisation of DNA-Sequence Multiple Alignments"

Employment and Research

Scholarships and Awards

Congresses and Workshops

Apr 2003, BREW Bioinformatics Research and Education Workshop, Bielefeld, Germany: "Q-ALIGN: a Graphical Framework for Multiple Sequence Analysis" (long talk)

Jun 2003, Biology and Graphs Workshop, FSPM (Forschungsschwerpunkt Mathematisierung), Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany: "Q-ALIGN: a Graphical Framework for Multiple Sequence Analysis" (talk)

Jul 2003, New Trends in Phylogenetics and Genomics Workshop, ZBIT (Zentrum fuer Bioinformatik Tuebingen), Tuebingen, Germany: "Q-ALIGN: a Graphical Framework for Multiple Sequence Analysis" (talk)

May 2002, ASM 102nd General Meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA: "Q-ALIGN: a Quality Based Multiple Alignment Tool in the Framework of the RIDOM project" (Poster)

Jul 2002, Applications of Biomics (Genomics, Proteomics and Bioinformatics) in the Research and Diagnostic Laboratory, PHLS, London, UK: "Q-ALIGN: a Quality Based Multiple Alignment Tool in the Framework of the RIDOM project" (Poster)

Oct 2002, Gegenwart und Zukunft der bakteriellen Genomforschung (BGF) in Deutschland Universit� Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany:
"Q-ALIGN: a Graphical Tool for Constructing Simultaneous Multiple Alignments"(Poster)

Oct 2002, Comparative Analysis of Protein Evolution (COPE) IZKF Mnster, Mnster, Germany
"Q-ALIGN: a Graphical Tool for Constructing Simultaneous Multiple Alignments" (Short Talk)

Apr 2003, 7th Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology (RECOMB), Maritim, Berlin, Germany
"Introducing Consistency-Based Hyperspace-Alignments" (Poster)

May 2003, ASM 103rd General Meeting, Washington, D.C., USA: "Q-ALIGN: a Free Software Environment for Graphical Multiple Alignment Construction and Phylogenetic Analysis" (Poster)

Sept 2003, New trends in phylogenetics and genomics workshop, ZBIT Tuebingen, Germany: The QAlign framework for multiple sequence analysis (talk)

Sept 2003, ECCB, European Conference on Computational Biology, Paris, France: "Divide-and-Conquer Alignment with Segment-Based Constraints" (long talk)

May 2004, ASM 104th General meeting, New Orleans, USA
"Ridom Tracer: an accurate base quality calling algorithm that smoothly integrates into a DNA diagnostic software" (Poster)

May 2005, ASM 104th General meeting, New Orleans, USA
"Based upon repeat patterns (BURP): a new algorithm and implementation for clustering of sequences containing repeats" (Poster)

Aug 2004, ISMB, Glasgow, UK
"QAlign: Quality based multiple alignments by complementary algorithms" (Poster)

Oct 2004, DNA sequence-based typing of microbes and data analysis, DGHM workshop, Wuerzburg, Germany: Multiple Alignment and Phylogenetic Analysis (talk)

Jun 2005, ASM, General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology, Atlanta, USA: DNA sequence based identification and typing of microbes: generation and analysis of data and interpretation of results (workshop together with E. Feil - UK, D. Raoult - France and D. Harmsen - Germany)

Sep 2005, ECCB, Madrid, Spain
"Aligning intron-exon structures of alternatively spliced genes" (Poster)

Oct 2005, WABI, Palma de Mallorca, Spain: Alignment of tandem repeats with excision, duplication, substitution and indels (talk)

Mar 2006, Symposium on Alternate Transcript Diversity (EMBL), Heidelberg, Germany: A general notation for alternative splicing (poster)

Dec 2002, Max-Planck-Institute for terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg, Germany
"Q-ALIGN: a Graphical Tool for Constructing Simultaneous Multiple Alignments" (Talk)

Languages

JAVA (preferred), C, Perl

Scientific Societies