Tanja Gesell

Research Interests:

• Evolution and Structure
• Complex Models of Sequence Evolution
• RNA Molecules

Short Vita:

Degrees:

• 'M.Sc.' in Biology (Diplom Biologin), Düsseldorf, Germany, in 2003
  Advisors: Arndt von Haeseler, Gerhard Steger
• 'M.Art' in Fine Arts (Diplom), Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Germany, in 2004
  Advisors: Rosemarie Trockel, Magdalena Jetelova
• Award 'Meisterschülerin' of Rosemarie Trockel, in 2003
  

Education:

• 2008/06 : CSSS-08 Participant Fellow, Santa Fe Institute, US.
• 2006/01-2008/12: Graduate studies in Molecular Biology, University of Vienna, Austria.
• 2004/08-2005/12: Graduate studies in Computer Science, University of Duesseldorf.
• 2004/03-2004/07: EU Marie Curie Fellow at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI), Goldman Group, Cambridge, Uk.
• 1993/04-2004/07: Undergraduate studies in Biology, University of Duesseldorf and Muenster, Germany.
• 1993/04-2004/07: Undergraduate studies in Fine Art, Kunstakademie Duesseldorf, Germany.

Professional Experience:

• 2006/07-present: Research assistant at the Center for Integrative Bioinformatics Vienna (CIBIV), Max F. Perutz Laboratories (MFPL), Vienna, Austria.
• 2006/01-present: International PhD student in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology of the Bioinformatics Integration Network II, Genome Research (GEN-AU), Austria.
• 2004/01-2006/06: Research assistant at the Institute for Bioinformatics, Duesseldorf, Germany.
• 2002/09-2003/12: Student research assistant at the Institute for Bioinformatics, Duesseldorf, Germany.
• 1998/01-2000/12: Student research assistant at the C. and Vogt-Institute for Brain Research, Duesseldorf, Germany.
• 1996/01-1996/12: Student research assistant (excavations of the Bronze Age) at the Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe, Germany.
• 1994/01-1995/12: Student research assistant at the Laboratory Stolle, Duesseldorf, Germany.

Publications / Conference Contributions

Paper

• T. Gesell and S. Washietl (2008) Dinucleotide Controlled Null Models for Comparative RNA Gene Prediction. BMC Bioinform., 9, 248. (DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-9-248, PMID: 18505553)
• S. Klaere, T. Gesell, and A. von Haeseler (2008) The impact of single substitutions on multiple sequence alignments. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B, 363, 4041-4047. (DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2008.0140, PMID: 18852110)
• M. Dehmer, F. Emmert-Streib, and T. Gesell (2008) A comparative analysis of multidimensional features of objects resembling sets of graphs. Appl. Math. Comput., 196, 221-235. (DOI: 10.1016/j.amc.2007.05.058)
• T. Gesell and A. von Haeseler (2006) In silico sequence evolution with site-specific interactions along phylogenetic trees. Bioinformatics, 22, 716-722. (DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/bti812, PMID: 16332711)

Talks

• Struktur.
  Invited Talk, Kick-Off Event Interdisziplinaeres Dialogforum, Vienna, Austria, 04.12.2008.
• Who is SISSI? SISSIz: An Application to RNA Gene Predictions.
  Invited Talk, Cornell University, US, 01.07.2008.
• Towards Accurate Background Models for Comparative Genomic Screens.
  BIN II PhD Workshop, Vienna, Austria, 25.04.2008.
• A Phylogenetic Definition of Structure and Further Animations on the Sequence Space.
  Phylogenetics (PLG), Future Directions in Phylogenetic Methods and Models, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, UK, 17.12-21.12.2007.
• A Phylogenetic Definition of Structure.
  MASAMB (Mathematical and Statistical Aspects of Molecular Biology), Manchester, UK, 29-30.03.2007.
• SISSI: Simulating Site-Specific Interactions.
  BIN II PhD Workshop, Vienna, Austria, 21.03.2007.
• Simplicity versus Complexity: Examples of Sequence Evolution Models and Structure.
  22th TBI Winterseminar, Bled, Slovenia, 18.02-24.02.2007
• A Phylogenetic View on Structure Evolution.
  PhyloGroup Meeting, European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI), Hinxton, Cambridge, UK. 12.01.2007
• A Phylogenetic View on Structure Evolution.
  EBSV06: Evolution of Biomolecular Structure, A Symposium on current topics at the interface of molecular and computational biology and bioinformatics (Peter Schuster's birthday conference), Vienna, Austria, 25.05-27.05.2006.

Conference Posters

• T. Gesell and S. Washietl (2008) Towards Accurate Background Models for Comparative Genomic Screens. Posterprize, BIN II PhD Workshop, Vienna, Austria.
• B. Zimmermann, T. Gesell, C. Lorenz, J. Boots, F. von Pelchrzim, D. Chen R. Schroeder (2008) Structural Stability of RNA Sequences under SELEX Selection Constraints, RNA 2008, Berlin, Germany.
• U. Schauer, C. Lorenz, T. Gesell, C. Waldsich, A. von Haeseler, and R. Schroeder (2007) Characterization of high affinity Hfq binding sites FEBS J., 274, 86. (DOI: 10.1111/j.0014-2956.2007.05861_1.x) and RNA Society., Madison, US.
• M.R. Eckert, T. Gesell, M. Grabner, A. Gruber, K. Gonzales, I.L. Hofacker, A. von Haeseler, and E. Charpentier (2007) A bioinformatic screen reveals novel small noncoding RNAs in Streptococcus pyogenes FEBS J., 274, 189. (DOI: 10.1111/j.0014-2956.2007.05861.x)
• T. Gesell and S. Washietl (2007) Improved RNA gene predictions through dinucleotide controlled randomization of multiple sequence alignments, RNA in Biology, Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, Minnesota, US.
• T. Gesell (2007) SISSI: Simulating Site-Specific Interactions. BIN II PhD Workshop, Vienna, Austria.
• T. Gesell and A. von Haeseler (2006) In Silico Sequence Evolution with Dependencies. WWTF Life Science Day, Vienna, Austria.

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