gobics.de [ Katharina Hoff ]

Address: Katharina Hoff, Ph.D. Biostatistics/Bioinformatics Group Dept. Medical Statistics Universität Göttingen Humboldtallee 32 37073 Göttingen Germany Affiliation with the gobics department Teaching R-Courses. email: katharina (@gobics.de) phone: +49 551 39 10709

Research Interests:

• Metagenome analysis
  -> for metagenomic gene prediction, see Orphelia web server
• Eukaryotic gene prediction
• Evaluation of confocal microscopy imaging experiments
• System biology of breast cancer

Publications:

Research Papers

• K. J. Hoff
  The effect of sequencing errors on metagenomic gene prediction
  BMC Genomics 2009, 10:520
• K. J. Hoff, T. Lingner, P. Meinicke, M. Tech
  Orphelia: predicting genes in metagenomic sequencing reads
  Nucleic Acids Research 2009, 37, W101-W105
• K. J. Hoff, M. Tech, T. Lingner, R. Daniel, B. Morgenstern, P. Meinicke
  Gene prediction in metagenomic fragments: a large scale machine learning approach
  BMC Bioinformatics 2008, 9:217

Conference Posters

• K. J. Hoff, F. Schreiber, M. Tech, P. Meinicke
  The effect of sequencing errors on metagenomic gene prediction
  ISMB/ECCB 2009
• K. J. Hoff, M. Tech, P. Meinicke
  Predicting genes on metagenomic pyrosequencing reads with machine learning techniques
  GCB 2008
• K. J. Hoff, M. Tech, T. Lingner, R. Daniel, B. Morgenstern, P. Meinicke
  Gene prediction in metagenomic DNA fragments
  Horizons in Molecular Biology 2008
• K. J. Hoff, M. Tech, P. Meinicke
  Gene prediction in metagenomic DNA fragments with machine learning techniques
  Genomes 2008
• K. J. Hoff, M. Tech, P. Meinicke
  Predicting genes in metagenomic DNA fragments with high specificity using machine learning techniques
  ECCB 2008
• K. J. Hoff, M. Tech, P. Meinicke
  Predicting genes in short metagenomic sequencing reads with high specificity
  Metagenomics 2008

Talks

• Gene prediction in metagenomic sequencing reads, Department für Geo- und Umweltwissenschaften,
  Paläontologie & Geobiologie, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, 2009
• Orphelia: a tool for predicting genes in metagenomic sequencing reads, sIT 2009, Göttingen

Theses

• PhD Thesis (University of Göttingen, Germany, 2009):
  Gene prediction in metagenomic sequencing reads
  Supervisor:
  Dr. Peter Meinicke
  Thesis committee:
  Prof. Dr. Burkhard Morgenstern (University of Göttingen)
  Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Liebl (TU-München)
  Prof. Dr. Lutz Walter (German Primate Center, Göttingen)
• Bachelor Thesis (University of Hannover, Germany, 2005):
  R-Handbook for Biostatistics
  Supervisors:
  Prof. Dr. L. A. Hothorn (University of Hannover)
  Universitetslektor Jan Eric Englund (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences)
  (English version of thesis, German version of thesis)

Teaching:

• Methods Course Bioinformatics for MSc Molecular Biology (Exercises as html or pdf )
• Introduction to Biostatistics with R (Einfuehrung in die Biostatistik mit R)
• Typesetting Scientific Presentations with the LaTeX-Beamer Class (Course Script)
• Bioinformatics Tutorial for Molecular Biology Students
• Biotechnology Tutorial for Molecular Biology Students

Short CV

• since 01/2010: Postdoc at Dept. Medical Statistics
• 11/2009-12/2009: Postdoc at gobics department
• 2006 - 2009: PhD studies at gobics department
• 2005 - 2006: MSc segment of MSc/PhD program Molecular Biology (University of Goettingen)
• 2004 - 2005: Erasmus studies and internship at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Alnarp (Sweden),
  6-months internship in the research group for plant lipid biotechnology.
• Feb./March 2003: Internship at the Institute for Pharmacognosy, Department for Pharmacy, Semmelweis University Budapest (Hungary).
• 2002 - 2005: BSc program Plantbiotechnology (University of Hannover), Thesis: R-Handbook for Biostatistics.
• 2002: Abitur with the majors German, Biology and English at Stefan-George-Gymnasium in Bingen am Rhein.