Sebastian Böcker

Konrad Grützmann from the group of Prof. Stefan Schuster has received the “best poster award” at the German Conference for Bioinformatics (GCB 2011) for a poster presenting work from our joint publication, “Combinatorics of aliphatic amino acids”. Congratulations!

Malte will present a paper at the Computing and Combinatorics Conference (COCOON 2011) in Dallas, USA, August 14-16, 2011.

Sebastian will present a paper at the International Workshop on Combinatorial Algorithms in Victoria, Canada, June 20-22, 2011.

Florian, Franziska, Kerstin, and Sebastian will attend 59th ASMS Conference on Mass Spectrometry and Allied Topics in Denver, Colorado. We will present a talk and three posters.

Advances in Bioinformatics has an open call for papers for its special issue on Computational Mass Spectrometry. See here for the pdf version.

We have subjects for bachelor theses avaliable. See here.

Meet us in Vancouver, Canada.

The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation maintains a network of more than 24,000 Humboldtians from all disciplines in over 130 countries worldwide.

Sebastian will visit the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand from October 2010 to March 2011. He will visit Mike Steel at the Biomathematics Research Centre.

The paper “Partitioning biological data with Transitivity Clustering” by Tobias Wittkop et al. has appeared in Nature Methods, see here.

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Sylvain will present a paper at the Theory and Applications of Models of Computation (TAMC) conference, Prague, Czech Republic, on June 7-11, 2010.

Sebastian will attend the RECOMB Satelite Conference on Computational Proteomics 2010 in San Diego, March 27-28, 2010.

Sebastian will give a tutorial on computational mass spectrometry at the DGMS Jahrestagung 2010 in Halle, March 7, 2010.

We will receive funding from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft for our project “Algorithms for the Analysis of Approximate Gene Clusters”. One Postdoc/PhD position is available as part of this project.

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We will receive funding from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft for our project “Identifying the Unknowns: Towards structural elucidation of small molecules using mass spectrometry”. Two Postdoc/PhD positions are available as part of this project.

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We are offering a PostDoc or PhD student position as part of the DFG project “Parameterized Algorithms for Bioinformatics Problems”.

The Institute of Computer Science at the Friedrich-Schiller University Jena, funded by the Carl-Zeiss-Stiftung, offers a Junior Professorship in Bioinformatics. An appointment as junior professor is time-limited to four years, and allows for a prolongation up to six years. The Junior Professorship comes with an additional staff position. Read the announcement.

Meet our diploma student Tamara Steijger at Philadelphia, USA.

Meet Anton, Bao, and our diploma student Birte Kehr in Niagara Falls, USA.