Full Professor
Section of Bioinformatics and Computational Cardiology
Klaus Tschira Institute for Integrative Computational Cardiology &
Department of Internal Medicine III, University of Heidelberg, Germany
SCIENTIFIC VITA
| 1994 – 2000 | MSc in Technical Biology University of Stuttgart |
| 2000 – 2001 | MRes in Bioinformatics University of York, United Kingdom |
| 2001 – 2005 | PhD in Bioinformatics Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics and Free University, Berlin |
| 2005 – 2009 | Bioinformatics Research Assistant Evolutionary Biology Department, MPI for Developmental Biology, Tübingen |
| 2009 – 2013 | Scientific Platform Leader (Bioinformatics) Institute for Medical Systems Biology, Max Delbrück Centre for Molecular Medicine, Berlin |
| Since 2009 | Research Group Leader, Laboratory of Molecular Genetics and Translational Biotechnology, Heidelberg |
| 2013 – 2015 | Head of Bioinformatics Research Group ‘Computational RNA Biology & Ageing’ and Bioinformatics Core Facility Leader, MPI for Biology of Ageing, Cologne |
| Since 2015 | Principal Investigator DZHK – German Center for Cardiovascular Research |
| Since 2015 | Full Professor Section of Bioinformatics and Computational Cardiology, Klaus Tschira Institute for Integrative Computational Cardiology & Department of Internal Medicine III, University Hospital Heidelberg |
SCIENTIFIC COORDINATION
| 2018 | Site Coordinator BMBF HiGHmed consortium University Hospital Heidelberg |
RELEVANT PUBLICATIONS
Boehm, Volker; Britto-Borges, Thiago; Steckelberg, Anna-Lena; Singh, Kusum K.; Gerbracht, Jennifer V.; Gueney, Elif; Blazquez, Lorea; Altmüller, Janine; Dieterich, Christoph*; Gehring, Niels H.*
‘Exon junction complexes suppress spurious splice sites to safeguard transcriptome integrity.’ Molecular Cell 2018, in press
Siede, D.; Rapti, K.; Gorska, A. A.; Katus, H. A.; Altmüller, J.; Boeckel, J. N.; Meder, B.; Maack, C.; Völkers, M.; Müller, O. J.; Backs, J. & Dieterich, C. (2017), ‘Identification of circular RNAs with host gene-independent expression in human model systems for cardiac differentiation and disease.’, Journal of molecular and cellular cardiology 109, 48–56.
Malone, B.; Atanassov, I.; Aeschimann, F.; Li, X.; Großshans, H. & Dieterich, C. (2017), ‘Bayesian prediction of RNA translation from ribosome profiling.’, Nucleic acids research 45, 2960–2972.
Piechotta, M.; Wyler, E.; Ohler, U.; Landthaler, M. & Dieterich, C. (2017), ‘JACUSA: site-specific identification of RNA editing events from replicate sequencing data.’, BMC bioinformatics 18, 7.
Tain, L. S.; Sehlke, R.; Jain, C.; Chokkalingam, M.; Nagaraj, N.; Essers, P.; Rassner, M.; Grönke, S.; Froelich, J.; Dieterich, C.; Mann, M.; Alic, N.; Beyer, A. & Partridge, L. (2017), ‘A proteomic atlas of insulin signalling reveals tissue-specific mechanisms of longevity assurance.’, Molecular systems biology 13, 939.