Formal name: C. Staiger
Function: PhD student
Email: C.Staiger@cwi.nl
Telephone +31(0)20 592 4014
Room: M278
Research groups:
(MAC4) Life sciences
Research
Christine Staiger
E-mail: staiger@cwi.nl
Personal Details
Date of birth: 08/09/1981
Place of birth: Potsdam-Babelsberg, Germany
Professional Experience
2007/10 - 2008/06 Scientific assistant at the Institute for Biology - Plant Physiology at the
Martin - Luther - University Halle - Wittenberg, Germany (MLU)
Education
Since 2009/08 Joint PhD Student at the CWI and the NKI
2008/09 - 2009/05 PhD Student in the Systems Biology Group, School of Computing, The
University of Leeds
2000/10 - 2007/09 Studies of bioinformatics at the MLU,
degree: diploma, grade: 1.3 (excellent)
Training experiences
2006/01-04 Programming of a manual registration for 2D gelelectrophoresis images
in the research group of Prof. Posch (Institute for Informatics,
Chair of Pattern Recognition and Bioinformatics, MLU)
2004/09-12 Participation in the development of an agent system at the Pehr Brahe
Software Laboratory (Raahe, Finland)
2003/04-05 Graphical modelling of proteins in the research group of Prof. Steinborn
(Institute for Chemistry - Inorganic Chemistry, MLU)
2000/07-09 Studies on plant senescence and heavy metal induced stress in the
research group of Prof. Humbeck (Institute for Biology - Plant Physiology,
MLU)
Publications
Staiger C, Hinneburg A, Klösgen RB: Diversity in degrees of freedom of mitochondrial transit
peptides, Mol Biol Evol. 2009 Aug;26(8):1773-80
Teaching experiences
2008/10-2009/05 Marker at the School of Computing, The University of Leeds
2003, 2005, 2006/05-07 Teaching assistant and marker (Institute of Computer Science at the
Chair of Theoretical Informatics, MLU)
2003-2007 Private lessons in maths for grammar school pupils
2002 Private lessons in French for grammar school pupils
Experiences with
Programming languages: Java (JAI, BioJava), MatLab/Octave, Python, Haskell, C/C++, Prolog
LATEX
Modelling with differential equations
Exact and inexact pattern matching algorithms
Image transformation
Pattern recognition
Languages
Native German speaker, fluent English, good French and good Dutch
Scientific interests
Systems Biology
Statistics
Pattern Recognition
Theoretical informatics
References Prof. Dr. Ralf Bernd Klösgen E-mail: klosgen@pflanzenphys.uni-halle.de MLU Halle-Wittenberg, Institute for Biology - Plant Physiology, Wein- bergweg 10, D-06120 Halle (Saale), Germany
Dr. Alexander Hinneburg E-mail: hinneburg@informatik.uni-halle.de MLU Halle-Wittenberg, Institute for Informatics, Von-Seckendorf-Platz 1, D-06118 Halle (Saale), Germany
Career
| 2010 - 2013 | PhD student MAC4 - Life Sciences |
| 2009 | PhD student LS - Life sciences |
Recent Publications
| C. Staiger, S Cadot, R Kooter, M Dittrich, T Mueller, G.W. Klau, L.F.A. Wessels. A Critical Evaluation of Network and Pathway-Based Classifiers for Outcome Prediction in Breast Cancer. PLoS One, 2012. |
| C. Staiger, A. Hinneburg, R.B. Kloesgen. Diversity in degrees of freedom of mitochondrial transit peptides.. Molecular Biology and Evolution 26, 1773–1780, 2009. |
| C. Staiger. Characterisation of mitochondrial transit peptides by means of fractal dimension. 2007. |
