People

Principal investigator

Zasha Weinberg

Zasha did his B.A. in computer science at New York University and his M.S. and Ph.D. studies in computer science with Larry Ruzzo at the University of Washington. His postdoc was in the biochemistry lab of Ron Breaker at Yale University.

zasha.weinberg@informatik.uni-halle.de

Current Ph.D. students

Iris Eckert

Iris did her B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Bioinformatics with a focus in chemoinformatics at the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg. She is currently completing her dissertation on discovery of non-coding RNAs in bacteria and was funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) (WE 6322/1-1).

Maximilian Sack

Maxi did his B. Sc. in Biology at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University Bonn and his M. Sc. in Bioinformatics at the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg. He is working on discovery of novel non-coding RNAs in plants, and their analysis. He is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) (WE 6322/3-1).

Maximilian Feussner

Maximilian did his B. Sc. in Biochemistry and his M. Sc. in Bioinformatics at Leipzig University. He is working on the impact of RNA structures in CRISPR-Cas biology and is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) (WE 6322/4-1).

Former Master’s students

Viola Braunmüller

Viola did her B.Sc. in Biology at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University in Bonn with a bachelors thesis in Bioinformatics at the Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig. She completed her Bioinformatics Master’s thesis in the Weinberg lab on analysis of selfish introns in bacteria. She currently works as a software developer in the Medical Data Integration Center at the University Hospital Tübingen.

Sarah Strobel

Sarah did her B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Biology at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg with a focus on Cell and Molecular Biology. She completed her Bioinformatics Master thesis in the Weinberg lab on analyzing RNA-seq data to create data for machine learning relevant to transcription termination. She is currently working on software development in the Innovation Center Computer Assisted Surgery at Leipzig University.

Kilian Ilius

Kilian recently completed his Bioinformatics Master thesis in the Weinberg lab on using comparative information to improve prediction of transcription termination.