Projects: INF, FungiNet total, A1, A2, FungiNet A - Aspergillus projects, A3, A4 (E), A5, A6, FungiNet C - Candida projects, C1, C2, C3, C4 (E), C5, C6 (E), FungiNet B - Bioinformatics projects, B3 (E)
Institutions: HITS Heidelberger Institut für Theoretische Studien gGmbH
Within the de.NBI project my functions in the de.NBI-SysBio node comprise content curation, requirements elicitation, and community engagement for the users of biochemical reaction kinetics database SABIO-RK as well as of the data management platform SEEK.
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
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Projects: Not specified
Institutions: Not specified
The following bullet points characterise my scientific interests and research:
- Metabolic physiology of fungi during host infection
- Biochemical characterisation of metabolic pathways (enzyme purification and characterisation)
- Development of infection models
- Generation of fungal reporter strains
- In vivo imaging of the infection process
- Secondary metabolites from Aspergillus terreus (gene regulation, product formation, biological activity)
