Ina Koch

Research Interests

• Bioinformatics / Computational Systems Biology

• Qualitative and quantitative modelling of biochemical networks

• Application of Petri net theory to biochemical pathway analysis

• Theoretical protein structure analysis 
• Protein structure topology
• Protein structure comparison

• Structural aspects of SNPs and alternative splice sites

• Graph theory and graph algorithms in computational chemistry and computational biology and computational systems biology

Scientific background

• Study of chemistry at the University of Leipzig with specialization in theoretical and physical chemistry (1978 - 1983) 

• Diploma thesis in the field of quantum chemistry in the group of Cornelius Weiss: "Theoretical investigations of equilibria of valence isomerizations of the type benzenoxide-oxepine" (1983)

• Scientist at the Scientific Information Centre of the Academy of Sciences in Berlin (1983-1985)

• Scientist at the Institute for Cybernetics and Information Processes of the Academy of Sciences in Berlin in the Department of Artificial Intelligence  (group of Fritz Wysotzski) (1986-1991)

• Scientist at the Institute for Algorithms and Scientific Computing of the GMD-German National Research Center for Information Technology in St.Augustin (group of Thomas Lengauer) (1992-1996)

• PhD (Dr. rer. nat.) thesis in the field of computer science: "A graph-theoretical approach for pairwise and multiple comparison of protein structures" at the Brandenburg Technical University of Cottbus (1997) 

• Scientist at the MDC - Max-Delbrueck-Centre in Berlin in the Department of Bioinformatics (group of Jens Reich) (1997-2000) 

• Scientist at the MPI - Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics in Berlin-Dahlem in the Department of Computational Molecular Biology (group of Martin Vingron) (2000-2002) 

• Professorship for Bioinformatics at the Technical University of Applied Sciences Berlin (TFH) (2002 - 2010)

• Temporary professorship for Bioinformatics  at the Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena  (winter term 2005/2006) 

• Guest scientist at the MPI - Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics in Berlin-Dahlem in the Department of Computational Molecular Biology (group of Martin Vingron) (2006 - 2.2010)

• Full Professorship for Bioinformatics at Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main (2010 - ...)

Scientific activities

Publications (peer reviewed)

Publications (not peer reviewed)

Invited talks

Conference, workshop and colloquia talks

Reviewing activities

Supplementary Materials

• Application of Petri net theory for modelling and validation of the sucrose breakdown pathway in the potato tuber in Bioinformatics (2005) 21(7):1219–1226, doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/bti145 

• Application of Petri net based analysis techniques to signal transduction pathways in BMC Bioinformatics (2006) 7:482, doi:10.1186/1471-2105-7-482. 

• Modelling molecular processes in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy using Petri nets in BioSystems (2008) 92(2):, doi:1016./j.biosystems.2008.02.005. 

• Modularization of biochemical networks based on classification of Petri net t-invariants in BMC Bioinformatics (2008) 9:90, doi:10.1186/1471-2105-9-90.

Teaching

• Courses

• The Master's course for Bioinformatics at the Technical University of Applied Sciences Berlin

Other interests

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