en: PH Dr. Kersten, Birgit

Institute of

FG Forest Genetics

PD Dr. Birgit Kersten

Institute of Forest Genetics

Sieker Landstraße 2
22927 Großhansdorf

Telephone: +49 4102 696 105
Fax: +49 4102 696 200
Email: birgit.kersten@thuenen.de

Employee in the Field of Activity Genome Research, Focus Bioinformatics

Study of Biology/Biophysics at the Humboldt University of Berlin (diploma in 1988; PhD in 2000)

2000 – 2006 Group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics and at the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in Berlin; active in genomics and proteomics; development of plant protein microarrays and of different applications

2006-2010 After switch to bioinformatics (2006), leader of bioinformatic teams at the former RZPD in Berlin and the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology in Potsdam-Golm; responsible for GabiPD, the GABI Primary Database
(http://www.gabipd.org)

since 2010 Staff scientist (bioinformatics) at the Thünen Institute of Forest Genetics in the field of activity „Genome Research“; bioinformatic analyses of genomic and transcriptomic data from next generation sequencing of different tree species

2017 Habilitation at the department of Molecular Biology at the University of Potsdam

2017 Habilitation and venia legendi in Molecular Biology at the University of Hamburg

Projects (management):

TaxGen
Survivor-Oaks
Holz-DNA-Barcoding
Entwicklung von Forschungsdatenbanken

Projects (involved):

Poplar dioecy
Oak defence
Genomanalyse bei Bäumen

Editorial Boards

BMC Genomics