1       Curriculum vitae

Name:

Thorsten Henrich

Address:

Albert-Mays Str. 14

69115 Heidelberg

Germany

(+49)-(0)6221 387 516

email: henrich@embl.de

Birth:

 

17.07.1968
Bad Nauheim (Germany)

Marital Status

married, one child

Nationality:

German

 

1.1     Academic Record:

1.1.1    School:

Weidiggymnasium Butzbach

Abitur (High school graduation, Mark: 1.9) 1988

1.1.2    University Education:

Justus-Liebig-University in Giessen:

Study of biology leading to the Diploma
in Biology (Masters degree) 1989-1995

University of Sussex in Brighton

Study of Neurobiology and
Artificial Intelligence 1992-1993

Philipps-University in Marburg

Institute for Neurophysics (Department of Physics)

Computer Simulations of Neural Networks
Diploma Thesis: "Effects of Delayed Signal
Transduction on the Synchronization of Neurons" 1994-1995

Examinations:

·       Prediploma (18.10.1991): “Very Good”

·       Diploma Thesis (29.9.1995): “Very Good”

·       Diploma Examn (29.9.1995): “Very Good”

1.1.3    PhD Thesis:

Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Goettingen:

in the laboratory of Joachim Wittbrodt

(Department of Developmental Biology, Prof. Dr. Herbert Jäckle)

PhD Thesis: Enhancer Trapping in a Vertebrate
Using the DNA Transposon "Sleeping Beauty"
Scholarship from the Graduiertenkolleg: "Molecular
Genetics of Development" 1996-1998

European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) Heidelberg

in the laboratory of Joachim Wittbrodt

(Developmental Biology Programme)

Continuation of PhD Thesis 1998-1999
Dissertation (Dr. rer. nat.) with Magna Cum Laude

at the Faculty of Biology of the
University of Heidelberg December 1999

1.1.4    Research:

EMBL Heidelberg

from December 1999 till July 2000

ERATO Kondoh differentiation signaling project in Kyoto (Japan) financed by JST the Japan Science and Technology Corporation

from August 2000 till March 2003

Projects:

1.    Establishment of a Medaka Expression Pattern Database MEPD.

2.    Development of a database and software for a large mutagenesis screen in Medaka in the Developmental Mutant Group DMG.

3.    Computational coordination of the Medaka Genome Initiative MGI.

Supervisor of Master Thesis
Mirana Ramialison: “MEPD: A Medaka Expression Pattern Database”

EMBL Heidelberg

Staff Member Scientist: Database Programmer / Developer

(Developmental Biology Programme)

from April 2003 till August 2005

Projects:

1.    A Medaka Expression Pattern Database MEPD.

2.    A Platynereis Expression Pattern Database PEPD.

3.    Development of a database and software for a large-scale mutagenesis screen: GSD, Genetic Screen Software

4.    Development of a Medaka Anatomy Ontology

5.    Identification of Cis-regulatory Modules in Conserved Non-coding Regions of Developmental Genes

 

Staff Member Scientist: Computational Biologist

(Centre for Computational Biology)

since September 2005

Projects:

1.      Responsible for the 4D expression project: Development of a Cross Species Expression Pattern Database.

2.      Gene Expression Data Analysis: Hierarchical Clustering; Cis-regulatory Modules

 

1.1.5    Supervised Students:

Mirana Ramialison

Master thesis

03/2002 – 03/2003

Andreas Scheucher

Internship

10/2005 – 01/2006

Xi Wang

Internship

03/2006 – 06/2006

Ong-Chuang Kee

Internship

07/2006 – 12/2006

Paul-Daniel Weeber

Master thesis

08/2006 – 01/2007

Yannick Haudry

PhD

01/2007 - now

Baptise Brault

Master thesis

02/2008 - now

 

1.1.6    License:

The software I developed for describing and organizing phenotypes: GSD has been licensed at EMBLEM Technology Transfer GmbH.

1.2     Skills

1.2.1    Programming Languages:

·       JAVA:           7 years experience of server sided Web interfaces (J2EE, Servlets/JSPs), Struts, Applets, JAVA applications

·       PERL:          4 years experience, using BioPerl, ensembl-APIs

·       C / C++        basics

·       Fortran:        basics

1.2.2    SoftwareDevelopment Tools

·       Eclipse, Ant, CVS

1.2.3    Databases:

·       7 years experience with relational databases

·       SQL, PL/SQL, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle and IBM DB2

·       Database Clients: PgAdmin, DbVisualizer, MyEclipse

 

Web Server:

·       Tomcat, Apache

1.2.4    Operating Systems:

Mac OS X, Linux, UNIX, Windows

1.2.5    Bioinformatics Applications:

Ontologies (e. g. OBOedit), alignment tools (AVID/VISTA, clustalw/x, blastz), stand-alone-blast, EST-clustering (tgicl), microarrays analysis (TIGR MeV), motif discovery (MEME, Gibbs, trawler), workflows (Taverna), applications package (EMBOSS), statistics (R), network analysis, Cytoscape

1.2.6    Molecular Biology

Molecular Cloning (PCR, Digestion, Translation, Ligation, Southern/Northern Blot, Gel electrophoresis, Transformation, Transgenesis, Micro-injection in fish, fish genetics, microscopy, in situ hybridisation)

1.3     Languages

German:             native

English:              fluently

Japanese:          daily conversation, reading and writing of Hiragana, Katakana and ~300 Kanji

Latin:                   Latinum