Philipp Koch

Germany
LGSA Member

Development and evaluation of bioinformatics tools for the assembly and annotation of vertebrate genomes using the examples of Nothobranchius furzeri

Friedrich Schiller University Jena (FSU): Faculty of Biological Sciences
Leibniz Institute on Aging - Fritz Lipmann Institute (FLI): Platzer Research Group

First Supervisor:

Matthias Platzer (Leibniz Institute on Aging - Fritz Lipmann Institute (FLI))

Doctoral Disputation:

2016

Publications 2016:

  • Longitudinal RNA-Seq Analysis of Vertebrate Aging Identifies Mitochondrial Complex I as a Small-Molecule-Sensitive Modifier of Lifespan.
    Baumgart* M, Priebe* S, Groth* M, Hartmann* N, Menzel U, Pandolfini L, Koch P, Felder M, Ristow M, Englert C, Guthke R, Platzer M, Cellerino A
    Cell Syst 2016, 2(2), 122-32 * equal contribution
  • Assembly and repeat annotation of the nothobranchius furzeri genome
    Koch P
    Dissertation 2016, Jena, Germany

Publications 2015:

  • Insights into Sex Chromosome Evolution and Aging from the Genome of a Short-Lived Fish.
    Reichwald* K, Petzold* A, Koch* P, Downie* BR, Hartmann* N, Pietsch S, Baumgart M, Chalopin D, Felder M, Bens M, Sahm A, Szafranski K, Taudien S, Groth M, Arisi I, Weise A, Bhatt SS, Sharma V, Kraus JM, Schmid F, Priebe S, Liehr T, Görlach M, Than ME, Hiller M, Kestler HA, Volff JN, Schartl M, Cellerino** A, Englert** C, Platzer** M
    Cell 2015, 163(6), 1527-38 * equal contribution, ** co-senior authors, featured in Cell Preview by Vanisha Lakhina and Coleen T. Murphy: Genome Sequencing Fishes out Longevity Genes. Cell. 2015 163(6):1312-3,Nature News by Ewen Callaway: Short-lived fish may hold clues to human age

Publications 2014:

  • RepARK--de novo creation of repeat libraries from whole-genome NGS reads.
    Koch P, Platzer M, Downie BR
    Nucleic Acids Res 2014, 42(9), e80