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Research Experience
06/2005 - present
Group Leader at the Competence Center for Functional Genomics at the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University in Greifswald (funded by BMBF)
06/2000 - 12/2004
Postdoctoral position at the Department of Biology (Dr. David S. Roos), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA. (06/2 000-05/2002 Research Fellowship of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft). with research focusing on:
- Function of the apicoplast - the non-photosynthetic plastid of apicomplexan parasites
- PlasmoDB: The /Plasmodium/ Genome Resource: data generation, gene prediction, amino acid sequence feature prediction
- ToxoDB: The /Toxoplasma/ Genome Resource
Research on Phycobiliprotein genes of the cyanobacterium /Acaryochloris/ /marina/ at the Department of Cell Biology and Applied Botany (Dr. Erhard Mörschel), Philipps University Marburg, Marburg, Germany
08/1999 - 12/1999 Research on Calvin cycle genes of the cryptomonad alga /Guillardia theta/ at the Department of Cell Biology and Applied Botany (Dr. Uwe-G. Maier), Philipps University Marburg, Marburg, Germany
Education
07/1999
Degree: Dr. rer. nat. (PhD), Thesis (translated title) : "The Nucleomorph chromosome II of the cryptomonad alga /Guillardia theta/: structure, sequence analysis, and evolutionary implications"
10/1997 - 07/1999
Continuing work at Department of Cell Biology and Applied Botany (Dr. Uwe-G. Maier), Philipps University Marburg, Marburg, Germany
01/1996 - 09/1997 Initiating research for PhD thesis at the Department of Plant Ecology and Systematics (Dr. Uwe-G. Maier), University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany
11/1995 Diploma (Masters) at Department of Plant Ecology and Systematics (Dr. Uwe Jensen), University of Bayreuth. Thesis (translated title): "Legumins as molecular markers for the evolution of Taxodiaceae
1990 - 1995 University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany
Teaching
since 06/2005: (see "Teaching")
- Course sections within Microbiology Courses (GPI & GPII)
- Lecture on "Microscopy in Life Sciences"
09/22-10/06/2003 South East Asian Training Course on Bioinformatics Applied to Tropical Diseases, International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB), New Delhi, India
07/2002 Computational Biology for Pathogen Investigation, MBL, Kampala, Uganda
01-05/2002 Teaching Assistant, Biol536 "Computational Biology", UPenn
06/2001 Teaching Assistant, Computational Biology Section of 'Biology of Parasitism Course', Woodshole, MA
03/2001 Lecture on computational genefinding within Biol536 "Computational Biology", UPenn
04/2000
Teaching Assistant, Course 'Molecular Biology Methods', University of Marburg, Germany
04/1999
Teaching Assistant, Course 'Molecular Biology Methods', University of Marburg, Germany
