Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Wolfgang R. Hess

geb. am 08.02.1961 in Berlin

2004 – present Professor for Experimental Bioinformatics, University Freiburg, Germany 2003 – 2004 Funding Director Ocean Genome Legacy Foundation in Beverly, U.S. 1999 - 2003 Associate Professor Genetics (C2), Humboldt-University Berlin Sep-Dec 2000 Visiting Research Scholar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA, U.S. 1994 – 1999 Assistant Professor Genetics (C1), Humboldt-University Berlin 1993 – 1994 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Observatoire Océanologique de Roscoff, CNRS, France 1990 - 1993 Research Assistant, Humboldt-University Berlin Sep – Dec 1990 Friedrich-Miescher-Institut Basel, Switzerland, post-doc

Fakultät für Biologie

Hauptforschungsgebiete

RNA Biology, Functional and Comparative Genomics of Cyanobacteria

Wichtige Publikationen

Axmann I.M., Kensche P., Kohl S., Vogel J., Herzel H., Hess W.R. (2005) Identification of cyanobacterial non-coding RNAs by comparative genome analysis. Genome Biol. 6, R73: 1-16. Hess W.R. (2004) Genome analysis of marine photosynthetic microbes and their global role. Curr. Opin. Biotechnol. 15, 191-198. Rocap G., Larimer F.W., Lamerdin J., Malfatti S., Chain P., Ahlgren N.A., Arellano A., Coleman M, Hauser L., Hess W.R., Johnson Z.I., Land M., Lindell D., Post A.F., Regala W., Shah M., Shaw S.L., Steglich C., Sullivan M.B., Ting C.S., Tolonen A., Webb E.A., Zinser E., Chisholm S.W. (2003) Genome divergence in two Prochlorococcus ecotypes reflects Oceanic niche differentiation. Nature 424, 1042-1047. Dufresne A., Salanoubat M., Partensky F., Artiguenave F., Axmann I., Barbe V., Duprat S., Galperin M., Koonin, E.V., Le Gall F., Makarova K.S., Oztas S., Robert C., Rogozin I.B., Scanlan D.J., Tandeau de Marsac N., Vaulot D., Weissenbach J., Wincker P., Wolf Y.I. and Hess W.R. (2003) Genome sequence of the cyanobacterium Prochlorococcus marinus SS120, a nearly minimal oxyphototrophic genome. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 100, 10020-10025. Vogel J., Axmann I.M., Herzel H., Hess W.R. (2003) Experimental and computational analysis of transcriptional start sites in the cyanobacterium Prochlorococcus MED4. Nucleic Acids Res. 31, 2890-2899. Hess W.R., Rocap G., Ting C., Larimer F., Lamerdin J., Stilwagon S., Chisholm S.W. (2001): The photosynthetic apparatus of Prochlorococcus: Insights through comparative genomics. Photosynth. Res. 70, 53-72. Garczarek L, Hess WR, Holtzendorff J, van der Staay GWM, Partensky F. Multiplication of antenna genes as a major adaptation to low light in a prokaryote. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 97, 4098-4101

Kontaktaufnahme

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Email: wolfgang.hess@biologie.uni-freiburg.de

Adresse / Postanschrift:
Institut für Biologie II
Biochemie / Funktionelle Proteomik
Schaenzlestr. 1
79104 Freiburg i. Br.

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