Groups working in Bioinformatics, omics, and related areas at the WWU
The following groups are currently established or in statu nascendi:
Erich Bornberg-Bauer: Molecular Evolution and Bioinformatics (FB 13 Biologie)
- Evolutionary Molecular Design
- Modular Evolution of proteins
- Genome Evolution
- Regular network evolution
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Juan M Vaquerizas: Regulatory Genomics (Max-Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine)
- Analysis of chromatin dynamics during development
- Functional and evolutionary conservation of genome organisation
- Constrains and implications of dosage control
Jürgen Schmitz: Institute of Experimental Pathology (FB 5 Medizin)
- RNomics: Exploring the World of Non-Protein Coding (npc) RNAs
- Phylogenomics: Retroposed Elements as Archives for Evolutionary History
- Functional Genomics: Retroposons - En Route to Protein-Coding Function
Vlad Cojocaru:
Cell and Developmental Biology (Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine)
- Computational Structural Biology
- application of molecular dynamics and related structural bioinformatics methods to investigate processes in stem cell biology
Martin Dugas: Institute of Medical Informatics
(FB 5 Medizin)
Christian Fufezan: Cellular and molecular functions of reactive oxygen species (FB 13 Biologie)
- MS informatics: high throughput mass spectrometry data analysis
- Bioinformatics software development
- Structural bioinformatics (Electrostatics / MD)
Michael Hippler: Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology (FB 13 Biologie)
- Tools for use of mass spectrometric data for genomic data mining
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Xiaoyi Jiang: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (FB 10 Mathematics and Computer Science)
- Application of Pattern Recognition in Bioinformatics
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Matthias Loewe: Institute for Mathmatical Statistics (FB 10 Mathematics and Computer Science)
- Genetic algorithms
- Alignment statistics
- Analysis of high-throughput Gene Expression and Genotyping data
- Developing tools for SNP/Genotype research databases
- Integration and modeling of large-scale 'omics' data
Claudia Acquisti
:
Evolutionary Functional Genomics
(FB 13 Biologie)
- Metatranscriptomics in a biogeochemistry context
- A systems biology approach to nitrogen starvation: from short term responses to experimental evolution
- Stoichiometric variation between species and within natural populations
Andreas Faldum
:
Institut für Biometrie und Klinische Forschung
(FB 5 Mediizin