Florian Markowetz
Florian develops statistical and mathematical models of complex
biological systems and analyzes large-scale molecular data. His research interests range
from the analysis of microarray data in clinical settings to inference of cellular networks from
high-throughput gene perturbation screens and integration of heterogeneous data sources
using machine learning techniques and probabilistic graphical models.
Vita
since 01/2009
Junior Groupleader in Computational Biology at Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute
07/2006 - 12/2008
Postdoctoral research in the Lewis-Sigler Insitute for Integrative Genomics at
Princeton University, Princeton, USA. Advisor: OG Troyanskaya
01/2002 - 06/2006
Doctoral student at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin,
Germany. Advisors: R Spang, M Vingron
06/1999 - 12/2001
Research assistant at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg,
Germany. Advisor: M Vingron
Degrees
Computational Biology: Dr. rer. nat.
Free University Berlin, Germany, 2006
[ thesis ]
Philosophy: Magister Artium
University of Heidelberg, Germany, 2002
[ thesis ]
Mathematics: Diplom-Mathematiker
University of Heidelberg, Germany, 2001
[ thesis ]
Awards and Honors
Otto Hahn Medal of the Max Planck Society, 2007
Publications
Complete list at http://markowetzlab.org/publications.html
Professional activities
- Talks, seminars, workshops: See the events page for a summary of recent and up-coming talks as well as conferences Florian (co-)organizes
Associate Editor for BMC Cancer in the section 'Systems Biology, Post-genomic Analyses and Emerging Technologies'. - Conference program committee member of ISMB since 2008, AISTATS 2010, and others
- Journal reviewer for Bioinformatics, PLoS Computational Biology, BMC Bioinformatics, and others
Teaching
Florian is teaching courses in the Computational Biology MPhil program at Cambridge.
- Lent 2010: Network Biology (with Lorenz Wernisch).
Perturbations and phenotypes · Exploratory analysis: enriched gene sets and sub-networks · Probabilistic graphical models and Bayesian networks · (Non-)linear Multiple-Input Multiple-Output models · Nested Effects Models · Genetic interaction networks
Florian has taught tutorials at several international conferences, summer schools and workshops. In particular:
- Tutorial on Computational analysis of single and combinatorial gene perturbations (jointly with Chad Myers), ISMB 2009 Stockholm and ISMB 2010 Boston
- Tutorial on Inferring cellular networks with probabilistic graphical models. Otto Warburg Summer School 2007, Berlin, Germany. [real media stream 1 2 ]
- Tutorial on Statistical classification and molecular diagnosis. Course on Microarray Data Analysis, Oslo University, Oslo, Norway, Nov 2007
- Tutorial on Computational inference of cellular networks. German Conference on Bioinformatics (GCB 2005), Hamburg, Germany, October 5-7, 2005
- Tutorial on Classification and graphical modeling. Workshop on Bioinformatics and Biomathematics, Tehran, Iran, April 2005.
- Tutorial on Classification and class discovery. Advanced Microarray Data Analysis course, Elsinore, Denmark, 2004 May 17-21.
- From 2002 to 2006 Florian was one of the co-organizers and lecturers of the NGFN microarray data analysis courses held every 3 months in different locations in Germany. [ brochure ]
Beyond science
When not beating cancer, Florian likes to beat people (kind of). He has been practicing Shotokan Karatedo for more than 15 years and holds Ni-Dan. He has trained in several dojo: starting in Bensheim, continuing in Berlin, often visiting Erfurt, and finally Princeton.
In New Jersey Florian started to learn Hontai Yoshin Ryu Jujutsu with Sensei Stephen Fabian. He really likes to work with the sword and recently joined the Cambridge Kendo Club "Tsurugi Bashi Kendo Kai".
Florian's interests also include the history, philosophy and culture of the martial arts. He has co-edited "Kampfkunst als Lebensweg" (Martial Art as a Way of Life), a collection of essays describing in examples how martial arts masters live their art: from Karatedo and Kendo to Gongfu and Taiji-quan.
