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 (EpiSegMix)
  • 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

2024 EpiSegMix: Discovering chromatin states using a flexible distribution hidden Markov model with duration modeling ISMB Montreal
2024 From the 1940s until today: An introduction to the unseen species problem HIPS Symposium Saarbrücken
2024 EpiSegMix: Discovering chromatin states using a flexible distribution hidden Markov model with duration modeling Functional Epigenomics Conference Saarbrücken
2023 Discovering chromatin states using a flexible distribution hidden Markov model with duration modeling GCB Hamburg

Tutorials

2024 Just-in-Time Compiled Python for Bioinformatics Research GCB Bielefeld
2024 Just-in-time compiled Python for bioinformatics research ISMB Montréal

Summer Schools

2024 Computational Spatial Transcriptomics and Cell-Cell Communication with application in Biology and Medicine Lipari
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 24/25 BioStatsLab Tutorials Saarland University
SS 2024 Programming Course: Python Tutorials Saarland University
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

Publications

Please visit my Google Scholar page.

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