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PEB Conference in Poland
The third PEB conference took place in Bialowieza, Poland, in the Fall 2017. After PEB at CIBIO in Porto and in Belgrade, Serbia, this was another very successful and fun conference. We heard many interesting talks and enjoined well-prepared bioinformatics … Continue reading
Moved to Freie Universität Berlin
I accepted the position in the Spring 2017 and am now professor at the Freie Universität Berlin since 1st of July 2017. After being professor for Bioinformatics at the University of Hohenheim for about 1.5 years, I am now starting my … Continue reading
Programming for Evolutionary Biology
One last time in Leipzig: Our programming course will take place in March next year. You can still apply for it until the end of this year. More information about the course are here: http://evop.bioinf.uni-leipzig.de.
Alvaro defended his PhD
Late but not forgotten: Alvaro defended his PhD this August. Congratulations to an excellent thesis and defense!
Programming for Evolutionary Biology (PEB) Conference 2016
The next Programming for Evolutionary Biology (PEB) Conference will take place in Belgrade, from September 7th-12th. The website is already online and you can already register for it: http://pebconference.info/ This conference was initiated by students of our third Programming for Evolutionary Biology course, … Continue reading
Our paper about a consensus transcription factor network of the human brain is out
With this work we aimed at obtaining more insights into the gene regulatory networks of the human prefrontal cortex, which is important for cognitive abilities. Analyzing multiple independent genome-wide expression datasets from healthy individuals we realized that the transcription factor … Continue reading
Stefano defended his PhD
Stefano, you made it! Congratulations, Dr. Berto!
Programming for Evolutionary Biology
We are currently running our fifth “Programming for Evolutionary Biology” course in Leipzig. We are taking the students of our course on a tour on analyzing Next-Generation-Sequencing data, genome annotation, population genomics, phylogenomics, gene expression evolution, biological networks, and other … Continue reading
Our paper on human specific transcriptional regulation accepted
Our paper on the evolution of binding sites of the transcription factor GABPa has been accepted for publication in MBE. This work was originally started by Robert Querfurth at the Max-Planck-Institute for Molecular Genetics in Berlin. Alvaro and I got … Continue reading
Our paper on “The Relativity of Biological Function” is accepted
When we started writing this paper we were inspired by the debate about the question of how much of the human genome is functional. Estimates for that proportion range from 5% to 90%, a huge difference that obviously cannot be … Continue reading