Academic background

Since October 2010: PhD in systems biology at the university of Warwick

September 2009-September 2010: Systems biology Msc at the university of Warwick

October 2004-September 2009: Biosystemtechnik (Biosystems engineering) Diplom (equivalent to Msc) in Magdeburg, Germany

Research

The topic of my PhD is "A systems perspective on cell polarity". I am trying to understand cell polarity in the fission yeast Sz.pombe and in Dictyostelium discoideum using experimental techniques like microscopy and mathematical modelling.

Diploma thesis: "Modelling of the competence related signalling pathway in Streptococcus mutans" at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems in Magdeburg, Germany

Contact

I.T.tigges (at) warwick.ac.uk