Curriculum Vitae - Christine Vogel

Research Interests

• Protein and genome evolution
• Systems biology, e.g. post-transcriptional regulation

Education

• 2005 to date: Post-doctoral researcher at UT Austin, Texas with Prof. Edward Marcotte
• 2001 - 2004: PhD in Computational and Structural Biology MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK with Dr Cyrus Chothia and Dr Sarah A. Teichmann Evolution of the combination of protein domains. Details .
• 2000 - 2001: Master of Research in Mathematical Biology Centre of Mathematical and Physics in Life Science and Experimental Biology (CoMPLEX), University College London, UK
• 1995 - 2000: Diploma in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Germany. Specialisation in Structural Biology: X-ray crystallography, NMR. Thesis at the Max-Planck-Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena, Germany (Prof. J. Gershenzon). Summary.

Scholarships and Selected Awards

• 2005 - date Human Frontier of Science Program - Longterm postdoctoral fellow
• 2005 German Academic Exchange Organization (DAAD) - Postdoctoral fellowship (declined)
• 2002 - 2004 Medical Research Council (United Kingdom) - Student fellowship
• 2001 - 2004 Boehringer-Ingelheim Fonds - Pre-doctoral fellowship
• 2001 - 2004 LMB Newton Cambridge /European Trust Scholarship - Honary fellowship
• 2000 - 2001 German Academic Exchange Organisation - Research scholarship (DAAD)
• 1997 - 2000 German National Merit Foundation - Scholarship (Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes)

Professional skills and activities

• Computing: Unix, Windows, MS, Perl, MySQL, HTML, MatLab.
• Experimental: some mass spectrometry (proteomics), protein biochemistry, standard techniques in molecular biology
• Refereed for: Nature Genetics; PLoS Computational Biology; Genome Biology; Genome Research; Israel Science Foundation; FEBS Letters; Molecular Biology and Evolution; Bioinformatics; Development, Genes and Evolution
  - (occasional) associate editor for PLoS Computational Biology
• Affiliations: ISCB (member); Postdoctoral Association UT Austin / School of Biological Sciences (committee since 2005); Biochemical Society / FEBS (member)

Referees

Other skills and activities

• Languages: German (native), English (fluent), French (intermediate), Russian (intermediate), Latin (basic), Spanish (basic)
• Hobbies: choir, dancing, running, swimming, biking, hiking, movies, books