Sandra Gesing
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Sandra Gesing

Universität Tübingen
Wilhelm Schickard Institut für Informatik
Simulation Biologischer Systeme
Sand 14, D-72076 Tübingen


Work: +49-7071-29-70456

Biography:

Education

  • since 2006 - PhD Student in the group of Oliver Kohlbacher in the Department for Simulation of Biological Systems
  • 1997 - 2005 - Extramural studies in computer science leading to "Diplom-Informatiker" at FernUniversität Hagen, Germany
  • 2001 - Student at UCLA, Los Angeles, US
  • 1991 - 1994 - Apprenticeship "Mathematisch-technische Assistentin" at Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany

Academic Positions

  • since 2006 - Research Associate in the field of Bioinformatics and Grid Computing at Department for Simulation of Biological Systems, University of Tübingen, Germany
  • 2008 - 2009 - Research Associate in the field of Grid Computing at ZDV, University of Tübingen

Work Experience in Industry

  • 1996 - 2006 - LVM Versicherungen Münster (insurance company), Germany
    • 2004 - 2006 - Project Manager for application systems fielded in authentification systems, groupware and web applications
    • 2000 - 2004 - Systems Programmer (C, Perl, Unix scripts) and administrator (MQSeries, SAP, Lotus Notes)
    • 1996 - 2000 - Application Programmer (PL/I, DB2, IMS)
  • 2001 - Internship at Intergest North America, New York, US, Administrator (Windows NT) and programmer (Java, Visual Basic)
  • 1994 - 1996 - Administrator (SAP, Network) and programmer (ABAP/4, C) at PARADOR, Coesfeld, Germany

Research Interests:

  • Portals for Bioinformatics
  • Parallel Programming
  • GPU Programming

Publications:

Schneeberger, K, Hagmann, J, Ossowski, S, Warthmann, N, Gesing, S, Kohlbacher, O, and Weigel, D (2009).
Simultaneous alignment of short reads against multiple genomes
Genome Biology, 10(9):R98.

Research Visits:

 Professional Activities:

  • 2009 - Editor of Proc. of IWPLS'09, Edinburgh, UK, September 2009, CEUR Workshop Proceedings, ISSN 1613-0073, online CEUR-WS.org/Vol-513/.
  • 2009 - Chair of IWPLS'09 (First International Workshop on Portals for Life Sciences), September 2009, Edinburgh, UK
  • 2009 - Reviewer for the CCGRID 2009
  • since 2008 - Reviewer for the Journal of Grid Computing 

Talks: 

  • 2009 - EuSGE - European Science Gateways for e-Science, University of Westminster, London, UK
  • 2008 - A Workflow-enabled Grid-Portal for Bioinformatics, NorduGrid 2008, Budapest, Hungary
  • 2008 - A Workflow-enabled Grid-Portal for Bioinformatics, CCT, LSU, Baton Rouge, US
  • 2007 - Workflow-Engines in a Bioinformatic Portal, e-Science Institute Edinburgh, UK

Posters:

  • 2007 - Generic Portlets for Bioinformatics in a Grid Infrastructure, ISMB 2007
  • 2006 - A Workflow enabled Portal for Bioinformatics in a Grid infrastructure, GCB 2006

Teaching:

  • WS 09/10 - Tutor for "Bioinformatik für Biochemiker"
  • WS 07/08 - Tutor for "Bioinformatik für Biochemiker"
  • SS 2007 - Tutor for "Softwarepraktikum"
  • WS 06/07 - Tutor for "Bioinformatik für Biochemiker"               
  • SS 2006 - Tutor for "Informatik II"