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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. Shannon, Claude Elwood (1940) An algebra for theoretical genetics, MIT Niccolò
12.05. Garg, Manik (2022) Prognostic biomarker discovery from omics data using machine learning approaches Cumulative thesis, European Bioinformatics Institute, University of Cambridge Max
19.05. Nabatanzi, Margaret (2022). Bioinformatics Tool and Web Server Development Focusing on Structural Bioinformatics Applications. Rhodes University, South Africa 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. Addie
23.06. 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. Muhammad
30.06. Königs, C. (2025). PharMeBINet: a general-Purpose approach for the integration of heterogeneous biomedical data Sources and its application to drug-drug interaction prediction, Universität Bielefeld. Vanessa
07.07. Czaja, B.E. (2020). Cell resolved blood flow modeling with the Lattice Boltzmann method, Amsterdam. Benjamin S
14.07. Leonie
21.07. Metagenomic data stratified using artificial intelligence by Jakob Nybo Nissen Benedikt
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