2008: Bachelor in Bioinformatics, University of Saarland (Germany)
2010: Master in Bioinformatics, University of Saarland
Since December 2010: PhD studies supervised by Prof. Dr. Martin Vingron
Since May 2011: Member of the IMPRS-CBSC
Dissertation
Submitted June 2015
Bioinformatic Approaches for Understanding Chromatin Regulation
Scientific Interests
Statistical learning and data mining
Chromatin and gene regulation
Developmental genetics
Publications as IMPRS fellow
J Perner, J Lasserre, S Kinkley, M Vingron, HR Chung (2014) Inference of interactions between chromatin modifiers and histone modifications: from ChIP-Seq data to chromatin-signaling. Nucleic Acids Res., 42 (22): 13689-95
Publications from earlier appointments
J Perner and E Zotenko (2011) Characterizing cell types through differentially expressed gene clusters using a model-based approach. Advances in Data Mining. Application and Theoretical Aspects. Proceedings of ICDM 2011, New York, NY, USA; Springer, pp 106-120. Best Student Paper Award.
J Perner, A Altmann, T Lengauer (2009) Semi-supervised learning for improving prediction of HIV drug resistance. Proceedings of German Conference on Bioinformatics 2009, Halle, Germany; GI, pp 55-65