computational
modeling in
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Florian Blöchl

PhD student


Tel.: +49 (0) 89 3187 4217


Research

  • Modeling and topological analysis of graphs and hypergraphs in biology
  • Application of machine-learning techniques to biological problems
  • Modeling of the mid-hindbrain boundary

 

Publications

  • Blöchl F, Wittmann DM, and Theis FJ: Effective parameters determining the information flow in hierarchical biological systems, Bull. Math. Biol., accepted
  • Hartsperger ML, Blöchl F (equal contributor), Stümpflen V and Theis FJ. Structuring biological data using fuzzy clustering of k-partite graphs. submitted
  • Blöchl F, Rascle A, Kastner J, Witzgall R, Lang EW, Theis FJ. Are we to integrate previous information into microarray analyses? Interpretation of a Lmx1b-knockout experiment. In Recent Progress in Biomedical Signal Processing, Eds. Górriz JM, Lang EW, Ramírez J, Bentham Science Publishers, to appear.   
  • Wittmann DM, Blöchl F, Trümbach D, Wurst W, Prahash N and Theis FJ: Spatial analysis of expression patterns predicts genetic interactions at the mid-hindbrain boundary, PLoS Comp. Biol. 5:11, 2009
  • Blöchl F and Theis FJ. Estimating hidden influences in metabolic and gene regulatory networks, In Proc. ICA 2009, volume 5441 of LNCS, pages 387-394, Paraty, Brasil, 2009. Springer.
  • Wittmann DM, Schmidl D, Blöchl F and Theis FJ. Reconstruction of graphs based on random walks. Journal of Theoretical Computer Science, 410, 2009
  • Wong P, Althammer S, Hildebrand A, Kirschner A, Pagel P, Geissler B, Smialowski P, Bloechl F, Oesterheld M, Schmidt T, Strack N, Theis F , Ruepp A, Frishman D. An evolutionary and structural characterization of mammalian protein complex organization. BMC Genomics 2008, 9:629

Conference Contributions

  • Blöchl F, Wittmann DM and Theis FJ. Effective parameters determining the information flow in hierarchical biological systems, Workshop Data 2 Dynamics 2009, Freising 
  • Wittmann DM, Blöchl F, Trümbach D, Wurst W, Prahash N and Theis FJ. Modeling maintenance of the mid-hindbrain boundary. In Proc. ICSB 2008, 2008.
  • Blöchl F, Riehle K, Dietmann S, Theis FJ. Generative models and statistics of hypergraphs in biology, Status Seminar of the Helmholtz Alliance on Systems Biology, Postsdam 2008
  • Wittmann DM, Blöchl F, Trümbach D, Wurst W, Prahash N and Theis FJ. Modeling the Mid-Hindbrain Boundary, Spring School 2008 on Systems Biology, Kloster Seeon
  • Blöchl F, Gutch HW, and Theis FJ. On similarities of biological and technical networks. In Proc. DGMP 2006, pages 341-342, Regensburg, 2006.

 

Curriculum Vitae

Florian Blöchl studied physics at the University of Regensburg. During his studies he focused on quantum field theory, condensed matter physics and mathematics. He wrote his diploma thesis about "Independent Graph Analysis" at the Computational Intelligence and Machine Learning Group of Prof. Elmar W. Lang.