Curriculum Vitae

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Steffen Heber

Department of Computer Science and Engineering
University of California, San Diego
La Jolla, CA 92093-0114

Education

2001
Ph.D. in Bioinformatics, 
German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Germany.
University of Heidelberg, Germany.
Title: Algorithms for Physical Mapping.
Supervisors: Prof. M. Vingron, Dr. J. Hoheisel,
Prof. W. Jaeger, Prof. A. Brandis.

1998
Staatsexamen in mathematics and biology,

1995
Diploma in mathematics,
University of Heidelberg, Germany.
Title: Additive Periodizitaet bei Nim-Spielen.
Supervisor: Prof. A. Brandis
University of Heidelberg, Germany.

Professional Experience

2001-present
Postdoctoral Research Associate. 
Department of Computer Science and Engineering.
Research in bioinformatics with Prof. P. Pevzner.
University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA. 

1997-2001
Predoctoral fellow.
Functional Genome Analysis group, head: Dr. J. Hoheisel, Theoretical Bioinformatics group, head: Prof. M. Vingron. German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ).

1992 (summer), 1993 (summer)
Research assistant at Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany

Teaching Experience 

2000-2001
Lecturer at the Heidelberg Life Science Lab.

1994-1996
Teaching Assistant, University of Heidelberg, Germany.

Publications

S. Heber, J. Stoye., 2003. "The European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB 2002)," Drug Discovery Today, Vol. 8, No. 3, 113-114.

A. Bergeron, S. Heber, J. Stoye, 2002. "Common Intervals and Sorting by Reversals: A Marriage of Necessity," European Conference on Computational Biology 2002 (ECCB 2002), Bioinformatics, Suppl. 2, 54-61.

S. Heber, M. Alekseyev, SH. Sze, H. Tang, P. Pevzner, 2002. "Splicing Graphs and EST Assembly Problem," The 10th International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB 2002), Bioinformatics, Suppl. 1, 181-188.

S. Heber, J. Stoye, M. Frohme, J. Hoheisel, M. Vingron, 2002. "Resampling Methods in Physical Mapping," In W. Gaul, G. Ritter (Eds.): Classification, Automation, and New Media: Proc. 24th Annual Conference of the GfKl, 2000. Volume 20 of Studies in Classification, Data Analysis, and Knowledge Organization (Springer Verlag), 437-444.

S. Heber. "Algorithms for Physical Mapping," Ph.D. thesis, IWR/SFB preprint.

S. Heber, J. Stoye. "Algorithms for finding gene clusters," Proceedings of WABI 2001, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2149, 254-265.

S. Heber, J. Stoye. "Finding all Common Intervals of k Permutations," Proceedings of CPM 2001, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2089, 207-218.

R. Wambutt, G. Murphy, G. Volckaert, et al., 2000. "Progress in Arabidopsis genome sequencing and functional genomics," J. Biotechnology 78, 81-292.

S. Heber, J. Hoheisel, M. Vingron, 2000. "Applications of Bootstrap Techniques to Physical Mapping," GENOMICS, 69(2), 235-241, 2000.

M. Frohme, A. Camargo, S. Heber, C. Czink, A. Simpson, J. Hoheisel, A. de Souza, 2000. "Mapping analysis of the Xylella fastidiosa genome," Nucleic Acids Res., 28(16), 3100-3104, 2000.

S. Heber, J. Stoye, M. Frohme, J. Hoheisel, M. Vingron, 2000. "Contig Selection in Physical Mapping," J. Comp. Bio., 7(3/4), 395-408, 2000.

S. Heber, J. Stoye, J. Hoheisel, M. Vingron, 2000. "Contig Selection in Physical Mapping," Proceedings of the Fourth Annual International Conference on Computational Molecular Biology (RECOMB 2000), 155-164.

K. Mayer, C. Schuller, R. Wambutt, et al., 1999. "Sequence and analysis of chromosome 4 of the plant Arabidopsis thaliana," Nature 402, 769-777.

P. Scholler, S. Heber, J. Hoheisel, 1998. "Optimization and automation of fluorescence-based DNA hybridizatrion for high-throughput clone mapping," Electrophoresis 19, 504-508.

Awards

Best poster at the DKFZ poster presentation, 2000.

Diploma passed with distinction, 1995.

School-leaving exam passed with distinction, 1987.

1st Place in the Baden-Wuertenberg mathematics contest, 1986.

Member of the Robert Bosch Stiftung, 1984-1986.