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Team Members
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Image:Philipp_Bayer.jpg|Philip Bayer | Image:Philipp_Bayer.jpg|Philip Bayer | ||
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Prof. Dr. Roland Eils
Thanks to Professor Eils, since he will sponsor travel/participation stipends for all undergraduate students on the team to attend the final jamboree at MIT. He will also provide R&D facilities and a team budget. Professor Eils is head of the Departments of Theoretical Bioinformatics in the institutes Bioquant, IPMB, and DKFZ. Moreover, he is founding director of Bioquant and directs the German-wide Systems Biology in Cancer initiative of the Helmholtz foundation with a volume of 50 Mio. Euro. Together with Professor Wolfrum he directs the Viroquant initiative on modeling and simulation of virus entry. He has won numerous awards in the field of image analysis; in particular he has been twice awarded the Biofuture price by the BMBF for innovations allowing the graphical reconstruction of the eukaryotic mitosis process from 4D microscopy images. In 2004, he was one of the organizers of the International Conference on Systems Biology, which was hosted by him here in Heidelberg. His publication with Martin Bentele, Inna Lavrik and Professor Krammer on the computational determination of the CD95 threshold in The Journal of Cell Biology in 2004 gave birth to the current Applied Systems Biology group, which is now largely involved in the research of cancer signaling. In 2004, Professor Eils, Ivayla Vacheva, and Professor Bock have won the Microsoft Research Award for the development of Optimal Experiment Design tools. His new engagement in the up-coming field of synthetic biology underlines the need for tight interdisciplinary work between experimentalists and theoreticians. back
Dr. Victor Sourjik
Victor Sourjik has studied Molecular Biology and Physics at University of Regensburg. He has done his PhD at the Institute of Physics and Technology in Moskow and in the lab of Professor R. Schmitt at University of Regensberg. He then went as post-doctoral scientist for five years to Professor H. Berg at Harvard University in Cambridge, USA, and became group leader in 2003 at the Center for Molecular Biology in Heidelberg. Victor investigates bacterial chemotaxis as example for the molecular perception of environmental signals and their transduction within cells. He combines quantitative data with computational modeling to obtain a detailed understanding of the signaling mechanisms in complex systems. In his Nature publication in 2005 he could use criteria for systems robustness in order to predict a correct topology for the Che signal transduction network. This approach has become a paradigm for the utilization of systems biology to pursue biological research. For his successful research on prokaryotic signal transduction Victor has won the Chica and Heinz Schaller award in 2007. We are sure that his broad experience in the field of bacterial chemotaxis will be a key asset to the strength of our team. back
Dr. Hauke Busch
Hauke is group leader within the Applied Systems Biology group of Professor Eils at Bioquant. Due to his firm background in systems theory he is an enthusiastic fan of synthetic biology and iGEM; it is for his persevering encouragements that an iGEM team for Heidelberg could be initiated. Hauke has done his Ph. D. in non-linear dynamics at the Technical University of Darmstadt. At the DKFZ in Heidelberg he has been involved in the start-up of today's Applied Systems Biology group. He currently works on several interdisciplinary projects at Bioquant and DKFZ. His findings on the orchestration of multiple signaling pathways controlling keratinocyte migration have recently been accepted by Molecular Systems Biology. Inspired by his background in stochastic modeling he furthermore investigates transient gene expression states that are affected by random reaction kinetics due to low particle numbers, in particular in prokaryotes. He is also involved in the development of optimal experiment design tools for the parameter estimation in large ODE systems. With Jens and Victor he will coordinate and support the team during the summer. His experience with experimental biologists will help the team to find exciting connections between wet-lab biology and systems biology.
Links: http://www.dkfz.de/tbi/people/homepages/busch/ back
Dr. Barbara DiVentura
Barbara has done her Ph.D. at EMBL in Heidelberg in the computational biology group of Louis Serrano. She investigated functional, post-translational modifications of the apoptosis protein p53 by mdm2 and determined a novel role in the recruitment of p53 to nuclear bodies. A reductionist yeast model allows now the investigation of the p53 network to understand the core mechanisms of its regulation. On the theoretical side Barbara has worked on stochastic and hybrid computer simulations. She loves children (and students) and we are glad to have her support for the training in the lab and for theory for our iGEM team. back
Dr. Jan Eufinger
Jan has done his Ph.D. in Biology here in Heidelberg and is now scientific project coordinator of the Systems Biology in Cancer program of the Helmholtz alliance. Jan was from the beginning excited by the idea to start an iGEM team for Heidelberg. He will support the organization of our team and train the students in the lab. back
Dr. David Kentner
David has just obtained his Ph.D. degree in Victor???s group at ZMBH in Heidelberg. His results on the spatial organization of the bacterial chemotaxis system were published early in his Ph.D. career in 2006 in Current Opinion in Microbiology. In this work he could show that clusters of chemotaxis receptors localize specifically inside the cell, probably to ensure their proper distribution during cell division. We are glad to have a scientist from the intersection of experimental systems biology on our team. back
Jens Keienburg
Jens is a Ph. D. student in the Applied Systems Biology group of Professor Eils at Bioquant. With Hauke, Victor and Professor Eils he initiated the iGEM team for Heidelberg and will coordinate the project over the summer. He has studied Molecular Biotechnology at University of Heidelberg with a focus on Systems Biology. As part of his studies he visited in 2005/06 for seven months the Systems Biology Group of Professor Palsson at UCSD in California, where he tested novel FBA methods to predict the metabolic state of bacteria. For his Master thesis he has worked in the Applied Systems Biology group of Professor Eils on a negative feedback loop to analyze the dynamics of transient states in prokaryotic gene expression. Though this project is on-going, his main interest is the application of Optimal Experimental Design tools for the parameter estimation of large ODE sets to model complex biological systems. As mentor with experience in theoretical and experimental tracks, he will encourage students for research across conventional discipline boundaries. back
Philipp Bayer
Yin Cai
Pascal Kramer
Christian Moritz
Maximilian Hoerner
Andreas Kuehne
Marika Ziesack
Dominik Niopek
Maximilian Richter
Maria Muench
Chenchen Zhu
Adjana Eils
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