DILS Seminar

Summer Semester 2026

Tuesdays, 14:15

Hybrid: U10-116 and online via Zoom.

This doctoral research seminar of the DILS graduate school is dedicated to PhD students of the Bielefeld Institute for Bioinformatics Infrastructure (BIBI) and friends. Guests are welcome.

This semester, we explore the landscape of PhD theses – comparing monographs to cumulative theses, theses from different fields, theses from different universities/countries etc.

Date	Topic	Name
14.04.	Orga	all
	Bayesian modeling	Niccolò
21.04.	Selection & distribution of theses, collecting questions	all
	Christie, David Alan (1998) Genome Rearrangement Problems, University of Glasgow. How to present to not having solved a problem (Chapter 3) and motivate a putatively irrelevant result (Chapter 1.1, second last paragraph).	Leonard
28.04.	Application talks in U10-146 and online
	13:00 Franziska, 13:30 Mads, break, 15:00 Xaver
05.05.		Niccolò
12.05.		Max
19.05.		Daniel
26.05.	Kanter, Frederic Georg (2023). Deep Learning for Mass Spectrometry Imaging and Image Registration. University of Lübeck.	Ann-Cathrin
02.06.		Andreas
09.06.	del Castillo Cerecer, I. D. (2023). A systems biology understanding of protein constraints in the metabolism of budding yeasts. Chalmers Tekniska Hogskola, Sweden.	Emanuel
16.06.
23.06.		Muhammad
30.06.		Vanessa
07.07.		Benjamin S
14.07.		Leonie
21.07.

Suggestions

Jünemann, S. (2023). Quality is a Myth - Assessing and Addressing Errors in Sequencing Data. Bielefeld. How to structure data, methods, results, discussion.
Rescheneder, P. (2022). Fast, accurate and user-friendly alignment of short and long read data with high mismatch rates, Vienna. How to base a thesis on your nature publications.
Schwarzhans, J. P. (2017). Systematic investigation into the clonal variability of the non-conventional yeast Pichia pastoris. Bielefeld. An example of a cumulative thesis in biotechnology.

Graduate School DILS

DILS Seminar

Summer Semester 2026

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