Curriculum Vitae
Positions
| 2019 - present |
Postdoctoral Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Medical Research,
Heidelberg, Germany Advisor Dr. Matthias G. Fischer |
| 2016 - present |
Postdoctoral Fellow, Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA Advisor: Prof. Sallie W. Chisholm |
| 2015 - 2016 |
Graduate Researcher, Max Planck Institute for Medical Research,
Heidelberg, Germany Advisor Dr. Matthias G. Fischer |
| 2012 - 2015 |
Graduate Student, University of Wuerzburg, Germany Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Jörg Schultz & PD. Dr. Dirk Becker |
| 2005 - 2011 |
Undergraduate Student University of Wuerzburg, Germany Major: Bioinformatics, Minors: Genetics, Plant Physiology |
Education
| 2016 - May 4th | Dr. rer. nat, magna cum laude, University of Wuerzburg, Germany (eq. to PhD) |
| 2011 - June 21st | Diplom Biologe, excellent, University of Wuerzburg, Germany (eq. to B.Sc. & M.Sc. in Biology) |
Presentations
| Invited Talks | My enemys enemy: How host-virophage mutualism provides population level defense against pathogenic giant viruses. Microbial Systems Seminar Series, MIT, Cambridge, USA, 2018 |
| Evolutionary and ecological drivers of pangenome diversity in the globally abundant marine cyanobacterium Prochlorococcus. Center for Computational and Theoretical Biology, Wuerzburg, Germany, 2017 | |
| Integration of the virophage Mavirus into the genome of the marine flagellate Cafeteria roenbergensis. Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany, 2015 | |
| proovread: high accuracy PacBio hybrid correction for large genomes and transcriptomes. PacBio User seminar, Wageningen UR, Wageningen, Netherlands, 2014 | |
| Talks | C. roenbergensis - CroV - Mavirus – an intriguing Ménage-à-trois. 4th Heidelberg Forum for Young Life-Scientist, Heidelberg, Germany, 2015 |
| Posters | Leveraging 600 single-cell genomes for pangenome analysis of the global Prochlorococcus collective. ISME17, Leipzig, Germany, 2018 |
| The global pangenome of Prochlorococcus. SCOPE annual meeting, New York, NY, USA, 2017 | |
| Ocean microbiome: Challenges in single-cell based pangenomics and quantitative metagenomics. New Approaches and Concepts in Microbiology, EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany, 2017 | |
| Integrating large-scale single-cell and metagenomics sequencing with environmental data across the global ocean. Moore Foundation Early-Career Ocean Summit, Waikoloa, HI, USA, 2017 | |
| ChloroExtractor: A fully automated plastid assembly pipeline reveals dozens of novel plastid genomes in public databases. ESF-EMBO Symposium: Biology of plastids – towards a blueprint for synthetic organelles, Pultusk, Poland, 2014 | |
| proovread: 3rd generation sequencing length with 2nd generation accuracy. ISMB/ECCB, Berlin, Germany, 2013 | |
| proovread: large-scale PacBio hybrid correction through iterative short read consensus. NGS Data Congress, London, United Kingdom, 2013 |