Current Position
Connell University
Biological Statistics and Computational Biology
Ithaca 14853, USA
Education
- October 1998 - February 2005: Physics/Cologne University, graduated as Dipl.-Phys. (comparable to M.Sc.)
- Three years experience as a tutor, especially in the area of theoretical physics
- IMPRS scholarship
Dissertation
- Submitted in February 2008
- Tandem Duplications in the Human Genome
Publications from time as IMPRS fellow
- Philipp W. Messer and Peter F. Arndt (2007)
The majority of recent short DNA insertions in the human genome are tandem duplications
Molecular Biology and Evolution, 24: 1190 - Philipp W. Messer, Ralf Bundschuh, Martin Vingron and Peter F. Arndt (2007)
Effects of Long-Range Correlations in DNA on Sequence Alignment Score Statistics
Journal of Computational Biology, 14: 655 - Nicole de la Chaux, Philipp W. Messer and Peter F. Arndt (2007)
DNA indels in coding regions reveal selective constraints on protein evolution in the human lineage
BMC Evolutionary Biology, 7: 191 - Philipp W. Messer and Peter F. Arndt (2006)
CorGen-measuring and generating long-range correlations for DNA sequence analysis
Nucleic Acids Research, 34: W692-W695 - Philipp W. Messer, Ralf Bundschuh, Martin Vingron, and Peter F. Arndt (2006)
Alignment Statistics for Long-Range Correlated Genomic Sequences
RECOMB 2006, LNBI 3909, pp. 426-440 - Philipp W. Messer, Michael Lassig, Peter F. Arndt (2005)
Universality of Long-Range Correlations in Expansion-Randomization Systems.
Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment 2005, P10004 - Philipp W. Messer, Peter F. Arndt, Michael Lassig (2005)
Solvable Sequence Evolution Models and Genomic Correlations.
Physical Review Letters, 94: 138103