Current Position

Imperial College

Faculty of Medicine, School of Public Health

Charing Cross Campus, London SW7 2AZ, UK

www.imperial.ac.uk/people/u.pape

Education

• College / University
  • 1999 - 2000 Technical University of Dresden
  • 2000 - 2001 Eberhards Karl Univerity of Tübingen
  • 2001 - 2004 Free University of Berlin
• Degrees
  • M.Sc. (Bioinformatics, 2004)
  • Intermediate Diploma (Philosophy, 2004)
  • B.Sc. (Bioinformatics, 2003)
• Projects / Research
  • 2006 Count Statistic for Position Frequency Matrices (PFMs), University of Southern Californa, Molecular Computational Biology, Los Angeles, USA.
  • 2004 "Prediction of Lignification Genes in Arabidopsis by Comparative Genomics", VIB Plant Systems Biology, Ghent, Belgium.
  • 2003 "Analysis of Microarray Time Course Data from Floral Knockouts of Arabidopsis", Max-Planck-Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany, and Max-Planck-Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany.

Dissertation

• Submitted in August 2008
• Statistics for Transcription Factor Binding Sites

Publications from time as IMPRS fellow

• Pape, U.J., Klein, H., Vingron, M. (2009)
  Statistical detection of co-operative transcription factors with similarity adjustment.
  Bioinformatics 25 (16): 2103-9
• Pape, U.J., Vingron, M. (2008)
  Statistics for Co-Occurrence of DNA Motifs.
  Proc. of the International Workshop for Applied Probability (IWAP), 2008.
• Pape, U.J., Rahmann, S., Sun, F., Vingron, M.
  Compound Poisson approximation of the number of occurrences of a position frequency matrix (PFM) on both strands.
  Journal of Computational Biology 15 (6): 547-64
• Toenjes, M., Schueler, M., Hammer, S., Pape, U.J., Fischer, J.J., Berger, F., Vingron , M., Sperling, S.
  Prediction of cardiac transcription networks based on molecular data and complex clinical phenotypes.
  Molecular BioSystems, 4 (6): 589-98.
• Pape, U.J., Rahmann, S., Vingron, M.
  Natural Similarity Measures between Position Frequency Matrices with an Application to Clustering.
  Bioinformatics, 24 (3): 350-357.
• Utz J. Pape, Steffen Grossmann, Stefanie Hammer, Silke Sperling and Martin Vingron (2006).
  A new statistical model to select target sequences bound by transcription factors.
  Genome Informatics 17 (1): 134-40
• Markus Schmid, Timothy S. Davison, Stefan R. Henz, Utz J. Pape, Monika Demar, Martin Vingron, Bernhard Schölkopf, Detlef Weigel and Jan U. Lohmann (2005).
  A gene expression map of Arabidopsis thaliana development.
  Nature Genetics 37 (5): 501-5.
• Pape, U.J., Rombaults, S., Sterck, L., Boerjan, W., Van de Peer, Y., and Vingron, M. (2005)
  Prediction of Genes involved in Lignification.
  Proceedings of the 4th Bioinformatics Research and Education Workshop (BREW 2005)