I am guest member in the lab of Dr. Eli Zamir, "Systems Biology of Cell Matrix Adhesion" at Max-Planck-Institute of Molecular Physiology Dortmund.

My Diploma thesis was "Propagating Interaction Logic toward Predictive Protein Hypernetworks". It was awarded with the Uhde-Preis 2011.

Johannes Köster, Eli Zamir, Sven Rahmann. Protein Hypernetworks: a Logic Framework for Interaction Dependencies and Perturbation Effects in Protein Networks; a preprint including the supplement is available at arXiv: 1106.2562.

Johannes Köster, Eli Zamir, Sven Rahmann. Protein Hypernetworks. It got an "honorable mention" at the Doktorantenkolleg Informatik Ruhr 2011, and a Poster Award at the Forschungstag 2011 of the University Hospital Essen. (poster as PDF)

Mini-Workshop Theoretical Computer Science in Dortmund, May 2011, on theoretical aspects of protein hypernetworks. (slides as PDF)

9th International Conference on Pathways, Networks and Systems Medicine on Crete, June 2011, on protein hypernetworks. It was honored with a Travel Award. (slides as PDF)

Teaching

Teaching Assistant (TU Dortmund):

Summer Term 2011: Datenstrukturen Algorithmen und Programmierung (DAP1)

Theses co-supervised:

Finished:
Michael Nimbs: Konstruktion von Protein-Hypernetzwerken durch Text-Mining in der PubMed Datenbank (Bachelor)

Christiane Küch: Entwurf einer Datenstruktur für Pangenome (Diploma)