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Education

• 1984 M.S., Electrophysics, Electro-Technical University, St Petersburg, Russia

• 1991 Ph.D., Biochemistry, Institute of Evolutionary Physiology and Biochemistry, Academy of Sciences, St Petersburg Russia

• 1992-1993 Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship, at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany

 

Career History

• 1984 - 1987 Research fellow, Institute of Medical Laboratory Equipment, St Petersburg, Russia

• 1987 - 1991 Research fellow, Institute of Evolutionary Physiology and Biochemistry, Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia.

• 1992 - June 1996 Post-doctoral fellow, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Heidelberg, Germany

• June 1996 - 2000 Senior scientist, Munich Information Center  for Protein Sequences (MIPS),  Martinsried, Germany

• 2001 - April 2003 Deputy Head, Institute for Bioinformatics at the German Research Center for Health and Environment

• since May 2003 Professor of Bioinformatics, Technical University of Munich

Research interests

• Genome analysis
• Bioinformatics of viruses
• Prediction and analysis of protein interactions
• Disease informatics
• Protein structure analysis and prediction
• mRNA evolution

Teaching

• Structural Bioinformatics
• Methods in Genome Analysis
• Proseminar Bioinformatics
• Seminar Bioinformatics

Professional services

• Editorial Board Member, Bioinformatics
• Editorial Board Member, Biology Direct
• Editorial Board Member, OMICS: A Journal of Integrative Biology
• German Conference on Bioinformatics 1997 (Conference co-chair), 1998-2014 (Member of the Program Committee)
• 7th Georgia Tech International Conference "Genome Biology and Bioinformatics", 2009, Member of the Program Committee
• 8th Georgia Tech International Conference "From Genomics to Synthetic Biology", 2011, Member of the Program Committee
• Moscow Conference on Computational Molecular Biology, Member of the Program Committee
• Intelligent Systems in Molecular Biology 1999-2009, 2011-2015, Member of the Program Committee
• Pacific Symposium on Bioinformatics 1997, 1998, and 2000, Session Chair

 

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