Jan Baumbach

I studied Applied Computer Science in the Natural Sciences Department at Bielefeld University in Germany. My research career started at Rothamsted Research in Harpenden (UK), where I worked on computational methods for the integration of molecular biology data. I returned to the Center for Biotechnology in Bielefeld for my PhD studies on the reconstruction of bacterial transcriptional regulatory networks. I developed CoryneRegNet, the reference database and analysis platform for corynebacterial gene regulations. Afterwards, at the University of California at Berkeley, I worked in the Algorithms group of Richard Karp on protein homology detection. In Berkeley, I also developed Transitivity Clustering, a novel clustering framework for large-scale biomedical data sets. Since March 2010, I have been the head of the Computational Systems Biology group at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics and the Cluster of Excellence for Multimodal Computing and Interaction at Saarland University in saarbrücken, Germany. Recently, I moved with parts of my group to the University of Southern Denmark, as the head of the Computational Biology group. My current research concentrates on the combined analysis of biological networks together with OMICs data and the modeling of genetic expression pathways. I currently established Computational Breath Analysis as bioinformatics discipline dedicated to metabolic biomarker discovery in human exhaled air.