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Heiko A. Schmidt

Research Interests:

• Phylogeny
• Evolution
• Parallel Computing

Short Vita:

Born:

• 14.02.1969 in Bonn, Germany

Education:

• 1979-1988: Katholische Grundschule, Bonn-Holzlar
• 1979-1988: Beethoven-Gymnasium, Bonn
• 1988-1989: Army service at Radio Andernach, PSV-Bataillon 850 (now OpInfo-Bataillon 950), Krahnenberg-Kaserne, Andernach
• 1989-1996: Studied Biology at Cologne University
• 1991-1994: Studied Computer Science at Bonn University

Jobs:

• 1995-1997: Software engineer and system administrator at the Theoretical Bioinformatics, DKFZ, Heidelberg
• 1997-2001: Staff scientist at the Theoretical Bioinformatics, DKFZ, Heidelberg
• 2001-present: Staff scientist at the Computational Molecular Biology, MPI for Molecular Genetics, Berlin

Degree:

• Diploma in Biology, Cologne, Germany, in 1996
  Advisors: Prof. Andreas Radbruch, Prof. Rainer Schrader
  Thesis: Parallelization of Phylogenetic Methods for the Analysis of the Crown Group Radiation

Publications / Conference Contributions

In Journals

• N. Pollet, H.A. Schmidt, V. Gawantka, M. Vingron, C. Niehrs (2000) Axeldb: a Xenopus laevis database focusing on gene expression. Nucleic Acids Res., 28, 139-140

In Books and Conference Proceedings

• Bhattacharya, D. and Schmidt, H.A. (1997) Division Glaucocystophyta. In Bhattacharya, D.(ed.), The Origin of Algae and their Plastids, Springer Verlag, Vienna, ISBN 3-211-83036-7
• Bhattacharya, D., Friedl, T. and Schmidt, H.A. (1999) The Phylogeny of Thermophiles and Hyperthermophiles and the Three Domains of Life. The Phylogeny of Thermophiles. In Seckbach, J.(ed.), Enigmatic Microorganisms and Life in Extreme Environments, 291-304, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, Netherlands, ISBN 0-7923-5492-3
• N. Pollet, H.A. Schmidt, V. Gawantka, C. Niehrs, M. Vingron (2000) In Silico Analysis of Gene Expression Patterns During Early Development of Xenopus laevis. Proceedings of the 5th Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (PSB2000), 5, 440-451

Conference Posters

• H.A. Schmidt, and M. Vingron (1998) pfastDNAml: Using Parallel Computing for Maximum Likelihood Phylogenetic Analysis. Poster at The 13th German Conference on Bioinformatics (GCB 1998)
• H.A. Schmidt, K. Strimmer, A. von Haeseler, and M. Vingron (1999) PUZZLE/PPUZZLE: Using Parallel Computing for Maximum Likelihood Phylogenetic Analysis. Poster at The 7th International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB 1999)
• H.A. Schmidt, K. Strimmer, M. Vingron, and A. von Haeseler (2000) TREE-PUZZLE 5.0: Maximum Likelihood Phylogenetic Analysis Using Quartets and Parallel Computing. Poster at The 15th German Conference on Bioinformatics (GCB 2000)

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H.A. Schmidt - Last Change: 15.06.2001 .