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Ines Heiland

Job description

Prof. for Molecular Biology and Bioinformatics

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Research interests

Mathematical simulations are an important tool in physics and engineering, but its application to biology and medicine is still in its infancy. However, as our knowledge of the molecular basis of biological processes is progressing, mathematical modelling is increasingly used to understand the complexity of living organisms.

We use existing biochemical data to built dynamic models of metabolisms and dynamic molecular processes. The resulting models can be used to understand the basis of diseases and guide the development of drugs. We work in close collaboration with experimental groups, which is advantageous, as model building is always an iterative process of simulation and experimental verification of model hypothesis. It furthermore guides the developement of our models and usually defines the aim of the model.

Teaching

Current teaching activities

BIO-2018 Anvendt molekylærbiologi og bioinformatikk 

BIO-3027 Scientific Programming with Pyhthon for Life Sciences

BIO-3010/8011 Modelling in Systems Biology I -Metabolic pathway modelling

Chair of the board of the National Research School for Bioinformatics, Biostatistics and Systems Biology (NORBIS)

Past teaching activities:

2015-2016 Course on basic pedagocical competence  - Teaching portfolio as of 2015


Member of research group

Microorganisms and Plants   English content Bioinformatics and Systems Biology   English content

Member of project

'Protein-protein' interactions Metabolic biomarkers Metabolic signalling Stable isotope labelling approaches

CV

Positions

 

Sept/2015 - Prof. for molecular biology and  bioinformatics at the Department of arctic and marine biology

 

Dec/2012 - Sept/2015 Assoc. Prof. for molceular bioinformatics at the Department of arctic and marine biology

2008 - 2012 Postdoctoral researcher and junior group leader at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Department of Bioinformatics
Project: Modelling and simulation of circadiane rhythms and dynamic metabolic processes

2005 - 2006 Postdoctoral reseracher at the FSU Jena Department of General Botany
Project: Data evaluation of large scale proteome projects of C. reinhardtii

2004 - 2005 Postdoctoral researcher at the Ruhr University Bochum Laboratory of Systems Biochemistry
Project: Characterisation of the Pex3p-Complexes of Saccharomyces cerevisiae

 

PhD-Thesis

2003 - 2004 Ruhr Universit Bochum, Laboratory of Systems Biochemistry
2001 - 2002 Department of Biochemistry, Free University Berlin

I have done my PhD-thesis in the group of Prof. Ralf Erdmann. The title of my work was: "Investigating peroxisomal membrane biogenesis". I have defended my PhD thesis at the 19th of November in 2004 at the FU Berlin.

 

Internships

04/2011 - 05/2011 Computational Biology Unit, Uni Reserach, Bergen, Norway

03/2004 - 04/2004 Biological school of sciences, C. Stirling Group, Manchester University, England

06/1999 - 07/1999 Department of Organic Chemistry, S. Oscarsons Group, Arhenius Laboratories, Stockholm University, Sweden

 

Undergraduate Studies in Biochemistry

1995 - 1997 Friedrich Schiller University Jena
1997 - 2000 Free University Berlin