We are glad to have Stefan Legewie from the University of Stuttgart in our Colloquium with his talk entitled "Alternative splicing by the numbers"
Thursday, 20.04.2023 at 10 am
Maud-Menten Hall, Phillipstr. 13, House 18, 3rd floor
Short bio:
Stefan Legewie studied biochemistry at the University of Witten / Herdecke. During his studies, showed interest in the field of systems biology (still young then), in which mathematical tools are used to interpret experimental data. He did his PhD in Biophysics at the Humboldt University in Berlin under the supervision of Hanspeter Herzel and in 2008 he received his doctorate with distinction (summa cum laude). In his dissertation he examined cellular information networks that transmit hormonal signals from the cell surface to the cell nucleus, and was able to derive design principles that give these networks robustness and switch-like decision-making behavior. The dissertation was awarded the MTZ Prize for Medical Systems Biology and the Reinhart Heinrich Prize for Theoretical Biology. After a short stay at the German Cancer Research Center, Stefan moved to the newly founded Institute for Molecular Biology (IMB) in Mainz as a group leader in 2010. There he was able to expand his work on the robustness and heterogeneity of biological systems and also deal with the question of how the activity of genes can be reliably controlled. He has been Professor of Systems Biology at the University of Stuttgart since September 1, 2020.