Conferences & Invited Talks

Presentation: "The MIMAS project and beyond - A collaborative effort for gaining detailed insights into carbohydrate-degrading marine bacteria with a focus on algal blooms in the German Bight" at the VAAM annual meeting, 11 March 2013, Bremen, Germany

Invitational Talk: "Substrate-controlled succession of marine bacterioplankton populations induced by a phytoplankton bloom - part II", Station Biologique de Roscoff, 10 July 2012, Roscoff, France

Invitational Talk: "Taxonomic Binning and Classification of Metagenome Sequences" at the EU-US Short Course on Marine Bioinformatics of the Micro B3 EU project, Jacobs University, 26 June 2012, Bremen, Germany

Presentation: "Bacterial response to a diatom-dominated phytoplankton bloom in the German Bight assessed by modern ’omics techniques" at the 2nd Annual Genomecentre Meeting, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, 15 December 2011, Cologne, Germany

Invitational Talk: "Bacterial response to a diatom-dominated phytoplankton bloom in the German Bight assessed by modern ’omics techniques" 30 November 2011 at the Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment, Oldenburg, Germany

Presentation: “Broad-Scale Next Generation Sequencing in Marine Metagenomics” at ProkaGenomics - 5th European Conference on Prokaryotic and Fungal Genomics, 18 - 21 Sept. 2011, Göttingen, Germany

Presentation: “Bridging the gap between biodiversity and function in NGS-based broad-scale marine metagenomics exemplified by the MIMAS project” at the Microbial Interactions in Marine Systems Symposium, 06 – 08 July 2011, Greifswald, Germany

Presentation: “Broad-Scale Next-Generation Sequencing in Marine Metagenomics – Novel Applications and Future Prospects” at BioIT World, 12 – 14 April 2011, Boston, MA, USA

Invitational Talk: "Interrelation of Biodiversity and Functional Data in Marine Metagenomics" 06 December 2010 at the Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark

Attendance: BioIT World Europe + Biotechnica, 05 - 07 Oktober 2010, Hannover, Germany

Attendance: BioIT World Conference & Expo Pre-Conference Workhop "High Performance Computing and Storage" + BioIT World Conference & Expo, 27 - 29 April 2009, Boston, MA, USA

Attendance: Exploring Next-Generation Sequencing, 21 - 23 September 2009, Providence, RI, USA

Attendance: BioIT World Conference & Expo, 28 - 30 April 2008, Boston, MA, USA

Presentation: "Strategies to cope with metagenomic data" Exploratory Workshop: Marine Environmental Genomics and Gene Expression, 04 - 07 June 2008, Alfred Wegener Insitute, Bremerhaven, Germany

Attendance: Pre-Conference Short Course "Data Management and Storage: The Next Hurdle for NGS" + Next-Generation Sequencing Data Analysis / Exploring Next-Generation Sequencing, 20 - 25 September 2008, Providence, RI, USA

Attendance: Marine Genomics Europe Joint Data Integration Workshop of Bacteroidetes Community: 17.-18. July, 2007, Bremen, Germany

Presentation: "Marine Ecological Genomics" at Marine Genomics Europe Exploratory Workshop, 15 - 17 April 2007, Roscoff, France

Attendance: 1st Annual Joint Genome Institute User Meeting, 29 March - 01 April 2006, Walnut Creek, CA, USA

Attendance: Marine Genomics - an International Conference, 28 October - 01 November 2006, Sorrento, Italy

Invitational Talk: "How genome linguistic approaches can be used to tackle the fragment identification problem in metagenomics", Computational Laboratory for Analysis, Modeling, and Visualization Seminar (CLAMV Seminar), 01 March 2005 at the Jacobs University Bremen, Germany

Poster: "Application of Tetranucleotide Frequencies for the Assignment of Genomic Fragments", European Science Foundation (ESF) Workshop - Environmental Genomics and Environmental Metagenomics, 18 - 20 November 2004, Granada, Spain

Poster: "Application of Tetranucleotide Frequencies for the Assignment of Genomic Fragments", Joint EU-US Workshop on Genomics and Environmental Biotechnology, 29 - 31 March 2004, TIGR, Rockville, MD, USA

Attendance: Proceedings Ocean Biodiverstiy Informatics - International Conference on Marine Biodiversity Data Management, 29 November - 01 December, 2004 Hamburg, Germany

Invitational Talk: "Aspects of the whole genome sequencing of the first Planctomycete,Pirellula sp.strain 1", 31 November 2003 at the Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment (ICBM), Oldenburg, Germany

Attendance: VAAM Meeting, 23 - 26 March 2003, Berlin, Germany

Presentation: "The genome of Pirellula sp. strain 1" at Polish-German Seminar - Perspectives of Structural and Computational Biology and Their Practical Applications, 25 - 26 November 2002, Poznan, Poland

Poster: "Aspects of compartmentalization and cell division in the first planctomycete sequenced: - Pirellula sp. strain 1", VAAM Meeting, 15 - 28 March 2001, Oldenburg, Germany