Thomas Dandekar

Name Prof. Dr. Thomas Dandekar Position Professor and Chairman Affiliation Dept. of bioinformatics, Biocenter University of Würzburg Am Hubland 97074 Würzburg Phone 0931-318-4551 dandekar@biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de Born 23.07.1960

Career 1979-1986 Studies in medicine at the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich 1982-1986 MD, Max Planck Inst. of Psychiatry, Dept. Neuropharmacology, Martinsried 1987-1988 Post-Doc, Institute Pasteur, Paris 1988- now Scientist at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory Heidelberg; 1994 Habilitation for Biochemistry, Univ. Heidelberg 2000-2001 Reader (AR) for bioinformatics, Medical School Freiburg since 2001 Professor (C4) and Chair, Department of bioinformatics, University of Würzburg

Research Fields Bioinformatics: regulatory and metabolic cellular networks, protein function and structure, regulation in RNA and DNA; experimental verification, often in collaborations.

Professional Activities University: Since 2002 board member Theodor Boveri Institute; Vice-speaker (03-05) and Speaker (05-07) of the biocenter; vice-dean (07-09; 11-13); Dean (09- Sept. 11) of the faculty of biology German Research Foundation (DFG): Since 2004 Member of Review Board for Bioinformatics; Reviewer for Leibniz Association, for Humboldt Foundation; for bioinformatics and molecular journals, Reviewer for Search Committees at universities (German/ Foreign) and for MPI

Assoc. Editor for BMC Bioinf.; Bioinf. Biol. Insights; Chemtracts; Am. J. of Molecular and Cellular Biology