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Florian Markowetz

Florian develops algorithms and statistics to leverage complex and heterogeneous data sources for biomedical research. His research is driven by the question: How do perturbations to cellular mechanisms shape phenotypes?

If you are interested in working with Florian, please read the guide for applicants.

Publications

• Complete list at the lab's publication page
• Florian's Google Scholar profile, including citations, h-index, et al,

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, ECCB since 2009, AISTATS since 2010, and others
• Journal reviewer for Bioinformatics, PLoS Computational Biology, BMC Bioinformatics, BMC Systems Biology, Genome Biology, Annals of Applied Statistics and others
• Grant reviewer for Wellcome Trust, European Science Foundation, Health Research Board (HRB) Ireland and others
• Member of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) and the Institute for Mathematical Statistics (IMS).

Teaching

Florian teaches in the Computational Biology MPhil program at Cambridge.

• Lent 2011: Network Biology: What is network biology? · Erdös-Renyi and scale-free networks · Local and global properties of networks · Perturbations to cellular networks shape phenotypes · Nested Effects Models · Genetic interaction networks
• Lent 2010: Network Biology: 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:

• Lecture at the EMBO Practical Course 'High-throughput RNAi and data analysis' at EMBL, 2010 June 27 - July 02.
• 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.

Florian has also taught courses in academic and industrial settings:

• A two-day course on Analysis of Globally Coherent Data for GlaxoSmithKline, Stevenage, Oct 28-29 2010.
• From 2002 to 2006 Florian was one of the co-organizers and lecturers of the week-long NGFN microarray data analysis courses held every 3 months in different locations in Germany.

In the media

• In German: NGFN brochure 2005; Unicum Technik, Sept 2010; Faktor C, Sept 2010

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 was a member of 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.

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