Animal Ecology, Evolution and Biodiversity Faculty of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology   Content: Address  | Members    Deutsch Animal Ecology, Evolution and Biodiversity » Members » Dr. Christoph Mayer    Dr. Christoph Mayer       Research assistent in the department of    Animal Ecology, Evolution and Biodiversity,       Address:    Animal Ecology, Evolution and Biodiversity,    ND 05/785    Ruhr-Universität Bochum    44780 Bochum    Germany    Email:   cm@tp4.rub.de    Phone:   +49 234 32 25072    Fax:   +49 234 32 14114 Research interests: · High performance computing, parallel computing (in bioinformatics) · Phylogenetic systematics · Information content and quality of data sets in systematics · Simulating genetic evolution · Algorithms for the detection of perfect and imperfect tandem repeats · Analysis of repetitive elements in genomes · Microsatellite and satellite evolution · Parallel programming in bioinformatics (using OpenMP and the MPI library) Software: Phobos - A microsatellite, minisatellite and satellite search tool by Christoph Mayer Phobos has been integrated into the following molecular biology analysis tools, which in particular offer a convenient interfaces for designing flanking primers of microsatellites. Commercial users always need to obtain a user license directly from the author of Phobos, Christoph Mayer. STAMP: Microsatellite marker design extension for the Staden package Reference: Kraemer, L., Beszteri, B., Gaebler-Schwarz, S., Held, C., Leese, F., Mayer, C., Poehlmann, K. & Frickenhaus, S. (2009) STAMP: Extensions to the STADEN sequence analysis package for high throughput interactive microsatellite marker design. BMC Bioinformatics 10:41. Phobos plugin for Geneious. Geneious is a commercial and easy to use DNA and protein sequence analysis tool. In order to use the tandem repeat detection capabilities of Phobos in Geneious one has to install the command-line version of Phobos (version 3.3.10 or higher) as well as the Phobos plugin. Sat-stat - Statstical analysis of Phobos output. Sat-stat compuputes tandem repeat characteristics of genomes analysed with Phobos. (Will be made available soon.) Multimoseqsim - A program to simulate molecular evolution, such that every branch of a tree can be assigned a different evolutinary model. (Will be made available soon.) SAMS - Splits Analysis Methods, Christoph Mayer Available upon request from the author. Publications: Publications Teaching (Information available only in German) Summer term 2003 Theorie und Praxis der Datenauswertung in molekularer Systematik Winter term 2003/2004 Theorie und Praxis der Datenauswertung in Populationsgenetik und molekularer Systematik Summer term 2004 Einführung in das Programmieren für Biologen Winter term 2004/2005 Molekularbiologie & Taxonomie: Theorie und Praxis Summer term 2005 Einführung in das Programmieren in C mit Anwendungen aus dem Bereich Biomathematik Winter term 2005/2006 Objektorientiertes Programmieren in C++ (mit Anwendungsbeispielen aus der Biologie) Summer term 2006 Einführung in das Programmieren in C/C++ Winter term 2006/2007 Einführung in das Programmieren in C/C++ Winter term 2006/2007 Introduction to phylogenetic systematics Summer term 2007 Einführung in das Programmieren in C/C++ Winter term 2006/2007 Einführung in das Programmieren in C/C++ Winter term 2007/2008 Einführung in das Programmieren in C/C++ Summer term 2008 Introduction to phylogenetic systematics and population genetics Winter term 2008/2009 Introduction to phylogenetic systematics and population genetics Winter term 2008/2009 Objektorientiertes Programmieren in C++ und Bearbeitung eines Softwareprojekts Summer term 2009 Einführung in das Programmieren in C/C++ Winter term 2009/2010 Phylogenie und Populationsgenetik Summer term 2010 Einführung in das Programmieren in C/C++ Winter term 2010/2011 Phylogenie und Populationsgenetik       Last Update: February 2010, Christoph Mayer