Medical Systems Biology
ODE modeling
Quantitative models have a long tradition in developmental biology. The most common approach specifies the systems as ordinary differential equations (ODE). The equations describe the concentrations of reactants over time.
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Our research particularly focuses on the Wnt signaling pathway, and on models for stem cell renewal and ageing.
Selected publications
K. Hein, G. Mittler, W. Cizelsky, M. Kühl, F. Ferrante, R. Liefke, I. M. Berger, S. Just, J. E. Sträng, H. A Kestler, F. Oswald, T. Borggrefe. Site-specific methylation of Notch1 controls the amplitude and duration of the Notch1 response. Science signaling, 8(369):ra30, 2015.
J. Wang, Q. Sun, Y. Morita, H. Jiang, A. Groß, A. Lechel, K. Hildner, L. M. Guachalla, A. Gompf, D. Hartmann, A. Schambach, T. Wuestefeld, D. Dauch, H. Schrezenmeier, W. Hofmann, H. Nakauchi, Z. Ju, H. A. Kestler, L. Zender, and K. L. Rudolph. A differentiation checkpoint limits hematopoietic stem cell Self-Renewal in response to DNA damage. Cell, 148(5):1001–1014, 2012.
H. A. Kestler and M. Kühl. Generating a Wnt switch: it's all about the right dosage. J Cell Biol, 193(3):431–3, 2011.
H. A. Kestler, C. Wawra, B. Kracher, and M. Kühl. Network modelling of signal transduction: establishing the global view. BioEssays, 30(11-12):1110–1125, 2008.
C. Wawra, M. Kühl, and H. A. Kestler. Extended analyses of the Wnt/beta-catenin pathway: Robustness and oscillatory behaviour. FEBS Lett, 581/21:4043–4048, 2007.
Latest News
Our first quantum computing paper "Leveraging quantum computing for dynamic analyses of logical networks in systems biology" has been published in Patterns.
Our paper "Unsupervised domain adaptation for the detection of cardiomegaly in cross-domain chest X-ray images" has been published in Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence.
- "The HLA ligandome of oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinomas reveals shared tumour-exclusive peptides for semi-personalised vaccination" has been published online first in the British Journal of Cancer.
"Vaccine Side Effects in Health Care Workers after Vaccination against SARS-CoV-2: Data from TüSeRe:exact Study" has been published in Viruses-Basel.
"PREDICT-juvenile-stroke: PRospective evaluation of a prediction score determining individual clinical outcome three months after ischemic stroke in young adults – a study protocol" has been published in BMC Neurology.
Our paper "Federated Electronic Data Capture (fEDC): Architecture and Prototype" has been accepted for publiaction in the Journal of Biomedical Informatics.
Our paper "Efficient cross-valdation traversals in feature subset selection" has been published in Scientific Reports.
Our paper "CANTATA - prediction of missing links in Boolean networks using genetic programming" has been published in Bioinformatics.
Our paper "Interaction Empowerment in Mobile Health: Concepts, Challenges, and Perspectives" has been published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research mhealth and uhealth.
Our paper "Identification of dynamic driver sets controlling phenotypical landscapes" has been published in the Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal.
Congratulations to Dr. Silke Werle for winning the 1st Prize with her pitch at the 1. Science Day held by ProTrainU.
Our paper "Reconstructing Boolean network ensembles from single-cell data for unraveling dynamics in the aging of human hematopoietic stem cells" has been published in the Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal.
The position paper "Is there a role for statistics in artificial intelligence" has been published online first in Advances in Data Analysis and Classification.