Education

• 2004-2007: B.Sc. in Bioinformatics at Free University Berlin (Germany)
• Since Oct. 2007: preparatory PhD studies at the IMPRS-CBSC supervised by Prof. Dr. Edda Klipp
• Dec. 2008 - August 2012: PhD studies at the IMPRS-CBSC supervised by Prof. Dr. Edda Klipp

Dissertation

• Submitted September 2012
• Localized Signaling and Communication during Yeast Mating

Scientific Interests

• Dynamics of signaling pathways in time and space
• Scaffold proteins in MAPK networks
• Stochastic properties of the early stage signaling response

Publications from time as IMPRS fellow

• C Diener et al. (2014)
  Yeast mating and image-based quantification of spatial pattern formation.
  PLoS Comput Biol., 10 (6): e1003690
• F Rubelt et al. (2012)
  Onset of immune senescence defined by unbiased pyrosequencing of human immunoglobulin mRNA repertoires.
  PLoS One, 7 (11): e49774
• M Barberis, C Beck, A Amoussouvi, G Schreiber, C Diener, A Herrmann, E Klipp (2011)
  A low number of SIC1 miRNA molecules ensures a low noise level in cell cycle progression of budding yeast.
  Mol Biosyst., 7 (10): 2804-12
• Spiesser TW, Diener C, Barberis M, Klipp E (2010)
  What influences DNA replication rate in budding yeast?
  PLoS One, 5 (4): e10203
• Spatiotemporal simulations for the pheromone signaling pathway in MATa cells of Saccharomyces cerevisiae
  B.Sc. thesis at the Free University Berlin, 2007