Current Position

Stanford University School of Medicine

265 Campus Drive, Stanford 94305-5458, USA

http://med.stanford.edu/labs/ash_alizadeh

Education

• Undergraduate studies in Engineering at the Hamburg University of Technology
• Bachelor's thesis (Studienarbeit) in the Computational Biology group at the University of Waterloo, Canada
• Graduate studies in Computer Science at the Hamburg University of Technology
• Master's thesis (Diplomarbeit) at the Centre for Bioinformatics, University of Hamburg
• Scholarships
  • Scholarship of the Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation, 1998 - 2002
  • DAAD scholarship for studies at the University of Waterloo, 2001 - 2002
  • IMPRS scholarship for PhD research at the MPI for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, 2005

Dissertation

• Submitted May 2011
• Graph-based Approaches to Protein Structure- and Function Prediction

Publications from time as IMPRS fellow

• A Haupt, G Joberty, M Bantscheff, H Fröhlich, H Stehr et al (2012)
  Hsp90 inhibition differentially destabilises MAP kinase and TGF-beta signalling components
  in cancer cells revealed by kinase-targeted chemoproteomics.
  BMC Cancer, 12: 38
• H Stehr, SH Jang, JM Duarte, C Wierling, H Lehrach, M Lappe, BM Lange (2011)
  The structural impact of cancer-associated missense mutations in oncogenes and tumor suppressors.
  Mol Cancer, 10: 54
• C Vehlow, H Stehr, M Winkelmann, JM Duarte, L Petzold, J Dinse, M Lappe (2011)
  CMView: Interactive contact map visualization and analysis.
  Bioinformatics, 27 (11): 1573-4
• H Stehr, JM Duarte, M Lappe, J Bhak, DM Bolser (2010)
  PDBWiki: added value through community annotation of the Protein Data Bank.
  Database (Oxford), 2010:baq009
• JM Duarte, R Sathyapriya, H Stehr, I Filippis, M Lappe (2010)
  Optimal contact definition for reconstruction of Contact Maps.
  BMC Bioinformatics, 11 (1): 283
• R Sathyapriya, JM Duarte, H Stehr, I Filippis, M Lappe (2009)
  Defining an essence of structure determining residue contacts in proteins.
  PLoS Comput Biol., 5 (12): e1000584
• M Lappe, G Bagler, I Filippis, H Stehr, JM Duarte, R Sathyapriya (2009)
  Designing evolvable libraries using multi-body potentials.
  Current Opinion in Biotechnology, 20 (4): 437-46 [doi:10.1016/j.copbio.2009.07.008]
• B Jain, H Stehr, M Lappe and K Obermayer (2009)
  Multiple Alignment of Contact Maps.
  International Joint Conference on Neural Networks 2009, [doi:10.1109/IJCNN.2009.5178907]
• DM Bolser, I Filippis, H Stehr, JM Duarte and M Lappe (2008)
  Residue contact-count potentials are as effective as residue-residue contact-type potentials for ranking protein decoys.
  BMC Structural Biology 2008, 8:53, [doi:10.1186/1472-6807-8-53]
• Constrained matching of large biological sequences.
  Master's thesis, Hamburg University of Technology, 2005
• An efficient group-by-sequence approach for identifying regulatory elements in whole genomes
  Bachelor's thesis, Hamburg University of Technology, 2002