Johanna Schmitz

Office

Campus E2.1,
room 1.13

Mails

Johanna Schmitz
Algorithmische Bioinformatik
Zentrum für Bioinformatik, Campus E2.1
Universität des Saarlandes
66123 Saarbrücken, Germany

Phone

+49 (681) 302-70848

I am a bioinformatician with a strong background in computer science and a focus on statistical modeling and data analysis. I am working in the Algorithmic Bioinformatics group, led by Sven Rahmann at Saarland University. My current topics are:

Development of an efficient and accurate chromatin segmentation method based on epigenetic marks
Investigating the diversity or species richness of a large population

Talks

2024

EpiSegMix: Discovering chromatin states using a flexible distribution hidden Markov model with duration modeling

DSB

Montpellier

Posters

2023

Discovering chromatin states using a flexible distribution hidden Markov model with duration modeling

GCB

Hamburg

Summer Schools

2023

Computational Single-Cell Analysis with application in Biology and Medicine

Lipari

Thesis Topics

Feb. 2023	Master Thesis	Multivariate Hidden Markov Models with Flexible Distributions for Chromatin–State Discovery
Feb. 2021	Bachelor Thesis	Identification of Key Transcriptional Regulators Using Single Cell Data

Teaching

Courses

WS	23/24	BioStatsLab	Tutorials	Saarland University
SS	2023	Elementare Effiziente Algorithmen für Stochastische Fragestellungen	Proseminar	Saarland University
WS	22/23	Programming with Python	Tutorial	Saarland University
SS	21	Bioinformatics 2	Tutorial	Saarland University
WS	20/21	Bioinformatics 1	Tutorial	Saarland University
SS	20	Concurrent Programming	Tutorial	Saarland University
WS	19/20	Programming 1	Tutorial	Saarland University