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Name: |
Thorsten Henrich |
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Address: |
Albert-Mays Str. 14 69115 Heidelberg Germany (+49)-(0)6221 387 516 email: henrich@embl.de |
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Birth: |
17.07.1968 |
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Marital
Status |
married, one child |
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Nationality: |
German |
Abitur
(High school graduation, Mark: 1.9) 1988
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”
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Diploma
Thesis (29.9.1995): “Very Good”
·
Diploma
Examn (29.9.1995): “Very Good”
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
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
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Mirana Ramialison |
Master thesis |
03/2002 – 03/2003 |
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Andreas Scheucher |
Internship |
10/2005 – 01/2006 |
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Xi Wang |
Internship |
03/2006 – 06/2006 |
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Ong-Chuang Kee |
Internship |
07/2006 – 12/2006 |
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Paul-Daniel Weeber |
Master thesis |
08/2006 – 01/2007 |
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Yannick Haudry |
PhD |
01/2007 - now |
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Baptise Brault |
Master thesis |
02/2008 - now |
The
software I developed for describing and organizing phenotypes: GSD has been
licensed at EMBLEM Technology Transfer GmbH.
· 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
· Eclipse, Ant, CVS
· 7 years experience with relational databases
· SQL, PL/SQL, PostgreSQL, MySQL,
Oracle and IBM DB2
· Database Clients: PgAdmin,
DbVisualizer, MyEclipse
Web
Server:
· Tomcat, Apache
Mac OS X,
Linux, UNIX, Windows
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
Molecular
Cloning (PCR, Digestion, Translation, Ligation, Southern/Northern Blot, Gel
electrophoresis, Transformation, Transgenesis, Micro-injection in fish, fish
genetics, microscopy, in situ hybridisation)
German: native
English: fluently
Japanese: daily
conversation, reading and writing of Hiragana, Katakana and ~300 Kanji
Latin: Latinum