Dipl.-Bioinf. Ludwig Geistlinger

eMail:	Ludwig.Geistlinger * at * bio.ifi.lmu.de
Phone:	+49-89-2180-4067
Address:	Teaching and Research Unit Bioinformatics Institute for Informatics University of Munich
	Amalienstr. 17, 80333 Munich, Germany
Room:	2-01, 2nd Floor

Curriculum Vitae

Education
since 2011	PhD Studies in the DFG International Research Training Group 1563/1 RECESS
2004-2010	Dipl.-Bioinf. (M.Sc. Equiv.), Passed with High Distinction, Study of Bioinformatics, University of Munich, Germany
1995-2003	Abitur (A-levels Equiv.), High School, Wilhelm-Ostwald-Gymnasium, Leipzig, Germany
Diploma Thesis
title	Mapping of Gene Expression Data onto Networks of Biochemical Processes
supervisors	Prof. Nicola Mulder (University of Cape Town, South Africa) Prof. Ralf Zimmer (University of Munich, Germany)
description	Apr–Oct 2010 Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine University of Cape Town, South Africa
Experience
2009	Student Scientist, Research on the Evolution of the Phosphoproteome, Shanghai Center for Bioinformation Technology, Shanghai, China
2006-2010	Student Assistant, Analysis of High-Throughput Genomic Chip Data, Institute of Genetic Epidemiology, National Research Center for Environment and Health, Helmholtz Center Munich, Germany
2008	Student Assistant, LaTeX and Sweave Support for Scripts and Lectures, Institute of Biostatistics, Technical University, Munich, Germany
2003-2004	Civilian Service

Awards & Scholarships

Sep 2011	Research Highlight Talk at the German Conference on Bioinformatics 2011
Jun 2011	Best Diploma Thesis in Bioinformatics 2010/2011, TU & LMU Munich
Jan 2011	DFG Grant 1563/1 RECESS
Sep 2010	”Paula und Richard von Hertwig”-Award 2010 for Interdisciplinary Cooperation

Publications

2011

Papers

Zhen Wang, Guohui Ding, Ludwig Geistlinger, Hong Li, Lei Liu, Rong Zeng, Yoshio Tateno, Yixue Li. Evolution of protein phosphorylation for distinct functional modules in vertebrate genomes. Molecular Biology and Evolution, vol 28, no. 3, pp. 1131-40, March 2011.

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Ludwig Geistlinger, Gergely Csaba, Robert Küffner, Nicola Mulder, Ralf Zimmer. From Sets to Graphs: Towards a Realistic Enrichment Analysis of Transcriptomic Systems. Bioinformatics, Bioinformatics, vol 27, no. 13, pp. i366-i373, 2011.

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2010

Papers

Carola Marzi, Eva Albrecht, Pirro G. Hysi, Vasiliki Lagou, Melanie Waldenberger, Anke Tönjes, Inga Prokopenko, Katharina Heim, Hannah Blackburn, Janina S. Ried, Marcus E. Kleber, Massimo Mangino, Barbara Thorand, Annette Peters, Christopher J. Hammond, Harald Grallert, Bernhard O. Boehm, Peter Kovacs, Ludwig Geistlinger, Holger Prokisch, Bernhard R. Winkelmann, Tim D. Spector, H.-Erich Wichmann, Michael Stumvoll, Nicole Soranzo, Winfried März, Wolfgang Koenig, Thomas Illig, Christian Gieger. Genome-wide association study identifies two novel regions at 11p15.5-p13 and 1p31 with major impact on acute-phase serum amyloid A. PLoS Genetics, vol 6, no. 11, pp. e1001213, November 2010.

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Theses

Ludwig Geistlinger. Gene Graph Enrichment Analysis (GGEA): Mapping of Gene Expression Data onto Networks of Biochemical Processes. Diploma Thesis, LFE Bioinformatik, LMU München, September 2010.

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2008

Papers

Christian Gieger, Ludwig Geistlinger, Elisabeth Altmaier, Martin Hrabé-de-Angelis, Florian Kronenberg, Thomas Meitinger, Hans-Werner Mewes, H.-Erich Wichmann, Klaus M. Weinberger, Jerzy Adamski, Thomas Illig, Karsten Suhre. Genetics meets metabolomics: a genome-wide association study of metabolite profiles in human serum. PLoS Genet., vol 4, no. 11, pp. e1000282, November 2008.