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| ICGC-project featured in BILD
The DKFZ-lead ICGC-project "ICGC-PedBrainTumor" was featured in the Rhein-Neckar issue of "BILD", Germany's best-selling newspaper on January 6, 2010. Within the article Otmar D. Wiestler, Peter Lichter and Roland Eils and ICGC are presented and its implications for the treatment of patients are described.
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| iGEM featured in German magazine Der Spiegel
The Heidelberg iGEM team Heidelberg and Prof. Roland Eils are featured in a recent article by the German news-magazine "Der Spiegel" in the title story entitled "Konkurrenz für Gott" ("Competition for God").
To the read the full article follow this link:Spiegel
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| When Geneticists play Lego - radio report on Synthetic Biology featuring iGEM
The German radio station SWR2 has brought a special feature on synthetic biology and iGEM entitled "When geneticists play Lego". It features statements from Roland Eils and members of the iGEM team Heidelberg.
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| Radio report on ICGC-project
The German Radio Station has reported on the ICGC project, which will start at the DKFZ 2010. iBioS is carrying out the bioinformatics and data management for the project. |
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 iGEM 2009: HEIDELBERG WINS SECOND PLACE!
The team from Heidelberg was awarded the second place out of over 100 teams in the overall judgment during the “International Genetically Engineered Machine competition (iGEM)”. iGEM is the premiere undergraduate Synthetic Biology competition hosted by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Further the team of Professor Roland Eils secured the prizes for the best new technical standard and the best internet documentation. Read a concise project abstract below and find the detailed project on the iGEM-Homepage and on the price-winning Heidelberg-Wiki.
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| New open IT-positions
2009 November 10
In the field of “Next Generation Sequencing (NGS)” data management in the Petabyte scale
is required. Concepts and strategies must be elaborated and implemented for our new IT infra structure.
Therefore, we extend our developer team and offer jobs for
Fachinformatiker and
database administrators
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 Organization of „German Symposium on Systems Biology 2009“ with over 500 participants
On May 12-15, 2009
The German Symposium on Systems Biology 2009 took place in the scenic “Stadthalle Heidelberg” and attracted over 500 participants. The conference, organized by Roland Eils (speaker of the Helmholtz Alliance on Systems Biology and the ForSys initiative), featured speakers presenting the state of the art of systems biology in Germany, as well as international key-note speakers such as Peter Sorger (Harvard Medical School), Fabio Piano (New York University), Adam Arkin (University of California, Berkeley) Luis Serrano (Center for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona) and many more. After the great success of this conference, further meetings are planned. One highlight will certainly be the organization of the ICSB 2011 in Heidelberg by Roland Eils and colleagues. Further information on the German Symposium on Systems Biology: www.sysbio2009.de Newspapers on the Symposium: Warum die Biologie viel mehr Mathematiker braucht - Rhein Neckar Zeitung Bakterien greifen Krebszellen an - morgenweb - Mannheimer Morgen online |
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 iGEM Team from Heidelberg wins three Prizes plus Gold-Medal during iGEM-Jamboree at MIT in Boston for „Ecolicence to Kill“
Newcomers from Heidelberg get prizes for best Human Practice, best presentation and best poster as well as a Gold Medal
2008 November 12 The team, comprised of 16 students, has worked continuously during the last four months under supervision of Roland Eils and Victor Sourjik from the ZMBH on the project named Ecolicence to Kill. On November 8 and 9, 2008 they presented their work at the iGEM-Jamboree in Boston and had great success: at their premier appearance the team won three special prizes, as well as one of only 16 teams out of 84 a gold medal for their scientific achievements. All results of the project are available on the team's wiki. View press release (german) Download press release (english) |
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| MIT IGEM Competition 2008
Roland Eils, Victor Sourjik, Hauke Busch, and Jens Keienburg initiate first iGEM Team for Heidelberg
2008 August 22
iGEM is the leading international competition on "Genetically Engineered
Machines" in the up-coming field of synthetic biology. A team of
undergraduate students is developing a biological device that is able to
detect and to kill pathogens or tumor cells. The results will be presented
in November at the competitive jamboree at MIT in Boston. All students will
receive an "all-inclusive" stipend for participation in the jamboree. For
more information please visit the Heidelberg IGEM pages or read the journal
publication ³bacteria killers out of the gene constructor box. Download press release (english) View press release (german) View FAZ article (german) |
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| Publication
2008 July 15
In a recent publication in Molecular Systems Biology a research team around Roland Eils, Hauke Busch and Axel Szabowski described a novel approach to reverse engineer dynamic regulatory gene networks based on time-resolved high-throughput gene expression data. They used this approach to describe how a cell computes a decision towards cell migration. Read more...
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| Neuroblastoma Diagnostics Chip on TV 3SAT magazine nano shows report on neuroblastoma diagnostics chip 2008 February 29 The German television has broadcasted a report on the neuroblastoma diagnostics chip, which has been developed in our department. The 29 February 2008 has been announced by EU as Rare Disase Day. On that occasion, the science magazine nano (3SAT) reported on new developments in neuroblastoma diagnostics (see video on 3SAT homepage). Neuroblastoma is a rare cancer of early childhood developing from the peripheral nervous system. The course of the disease may differ widely, and accordingly the treatment options vary considerably. A precise prognosis estimate is crucial for optimal treatment. In joint work between groups of Benedikt Brors (Theoretical Bioinformatics, DKFZ), Frank Westermann (Tumorgenetik, DKFZ) and Matthias Fischer (University Children's Hospital, Cologne), a gene expression microarray has been developed that predicts prognosis with unprecedented accuracy (Oberthür et al., J. Clin. Oncol. 2006) based on gene expression measurements of 144 genes. | |
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| NGFN SMP Bioinformatics Workshop From Bioinformatics to Medical Systems Biology 2007 November 12-13 in Heidelberg The SMP Bioinformatics within NGFN has developed methods for the analysis of biomedical data, often in close collaboration with biomedical groups. This covers steps from statistical data analysis, database development, software development and training to the functional analysis of gene groups and reconstruction of molecular networks. Our future aims go into the direction of Medical Systems Biology and to a full dynamical understanding of the underlying complex systems. In this workshop we would like to present our findings to the scientific community, along with a chance to meet and discuss and to have some outlook into the field by the presentations of some external high-profile keynote speakers. | |
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| Recent publication Our most recent publication of a threshold behaviour of apoptotic signalling is selected as one of the best hits of the month. | |
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 Bioquant
Bioquant is a compentence center for quantitative analysis of molecular and cellular biosystems. It will be officially opened by Günther H. Oettinger, Ministerpräsident of Baden-Württemberg on April 19th, 2007.
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| SBCancer Roland Eils is directing a Helmholtz initiative on systems biology. Within this €50 million programme, DKFZ will lead a €20 million programme on Systems Biology of Signaling in Cancer. | |
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 Viroquant
Roland Eils has successfully led an interdisciplinary team of scientists for recruiting a BMBF funded centre for systems biology.
The research programme will focus on modeling of host-virus interactions.
more... (external)
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| Bioquant Prof. Roland Eils has been appointed founding director of Bioquant, the new centre for quantitative biology at the University of Heidelberg. | |
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| Publication The following article was pubished in Nature Cell Biology: C.P. Bacher, M. Guggiari, B. Brors, S. Augui, P. Clerc, P. Avner, R. Eils, and E. Heard Transient colocalization of X-inactivation centres accompanies the initiation of X inactivation Nature cell biology - Published online 01/24/06 For further details regarding this publication, please have a look at the corresponding DKFZ press release (also available as PDF). This work is highlighted by a NEWS AND VIEWS article by Céline Morey & Wendy Bickmore in Nature Cell Biology. | |
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 Publication
"Computational systems biology" edited by Andres Kriete and Dr. Roland Eils, has just been published. The article "database concepts for system biology" was
contributed by Jürgen Eils and
Chris Lawerenz.
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 Publication
A joint paper by Jan Ellenberg's and our group has been accepted as an article in Nature.
Further information about this paper can be found on the Nature Homepage and also in a related press release on the EMBL Homepage. For a complete list of our group's publications please refer to our publications page. |
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| Ideenwettbewerb der Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft Within the internal competition of the Helmholtz society for new innovative research topics the proposal suggested by Roland Eils and colleagues from DKFZ and other HGF centres for establishing a research program on "Systems Biology of Complex Diseases" has been awarded by the jury as one out of five most innovative proposals. more...(external) | |
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| Microsoft Research Award A joint proposal by Roland Eils, Ivayla Vacheva, and Hans-Georg Bock (IWR, University of Heidelberg) for building a platform for modelling and simulation of signal transduction networks was awarded by Microsoft Research. In the highly competitive call "Computational tools for advancing science", more than 100 proposals were submitted out of which only six were selected. | |
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Publications
A number of papers have recently been published:
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