Tanja Gesell

Research Interests:

• WHAT IS A STRUCTURE?
  
• WHAT CAN BE VISUALIZED?
  
• Project: Modeling the Dynamics of Sequence Evolution under Constraints.
  
• Key-Words: Structure Evolution - Complex Sequence Evolution Models - Comparative Genomic Screens of ncRNAs -
  A Phylogenetic Definition of Structure - Lineage Specific Neighbourhood Systems - Phylogenetic Methods.

Short Vita:

Degrees:

• 2009 Dr.rer.nat (PhD)
  Molecular Biology, University of Vienna, Austria. 30.10.2009
  Thesis: A Phylogenetic Definition of Structure, University of Vienna, 2009.
  International PhD student in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology at the Bioinformatics Integration Network II, Genome Research (GEN-AU), Austria.
• 2004 Diploma in Fine Art (M.Art)
  with Minors: Philosophy (Aesthetics) and History of Art,
  Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Germany.
• 2003 Diploma in Biology (M.Sc.)
  with Minors: Bioinformatics and Computer Science,
  University of Düsseldorf, Germany.

Fellowships & Awards:

• 2011 GEN-AU Mobility Fellowship to work on Visualizations at Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., US.
  
• 2010 FSIB Fellowship of the University of Vienna to cooperate with the University of Queensland, Australia.
  
• 2008 Participant of the Complex System Summer School 2008, Santa Fe Institute, US.
  
• 2004 EU Marie Curie Fellow at the European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK.
  
• 2003 'Meisterschülerin' with Prof. R. Trockel, Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Germany.

Publications / Conference Contributions

Paper

• 2010 S.E. Seemann, A.S. Richter, T. Gesell, R. Backofen, and J. Gorodkin, PETcofold: Predicting conserved interactions and structures of two multiple alignments of RNA sequences. Bioinformatics, accepted.
• 2010 C. Lorenz, T. Gesell, B. Zimmermann, U. Schoeberl, I. Bilusic, L. Rajkowitsch, C. Waldsich, A. von Haeseler and R. Schroeder, Genomic SELEX for Hfq-binding RNAs identifies genomic aptamers predominantly in antisense transcripts. Nucleic Acids Res., 38, 3794-3808. (DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkq032, PMID: 20348540)
• 2010 S. Washietl and T. Gesell, Graph Representations and Algorithms in Computational Biology of RNA Secondary Structure. In M. Dehmer (ed.) Structural Analysis of Complex Networks., 421-437, Birkhäuser, Boston, USA. (ISBN: 978-0-8176-4788-9)
• 2010 B. Zimmermann^e, T. Gesell^e, D. Chen, C. Lorenz and R. Schroeder, Monitoring Genomic Sequences during SELEX Using High-Throughput Sequencing: Neutral SELEX. PLoS ONE, 5, e9169. (DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0009169, PMID: 20161784)^e contributed equally
• 2009 T. Gesell, A Phylogenetic Definition of Structure. PhD Thesis, University of Vienna.
• 2008 T. Gesell and S. Washietl, Dinucleotide Controlled Null Models for Comparative RNA Gene Prediction. BMC Bioinform., 9, 248. (DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-9-248, PMID: 18505553)
• 2008 S. Klaere, T. Gesell, and A. von Haeseler, 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)
• 2008 M. Dehmer, F. Emmert-Streib, and T. Gesell, 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)
• 2006 T. Gesell and A. von Haeseler, In silico sequence evolution with site-specific interactions along phylogenetic trees. Bioinformatics, 22, 716-722. (DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/bti812, PMID: 16332711)

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