24th of June 2019: Sarvesh successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis. Congratulations Sarvesh.

3rd of May 2019: Our web server web-rMKL has been accepted for publication at the web server issue of Nucleic Acids Research (contributions by Benedict, Nicolas, Marius, Nora, and Nico).

30th of April 2019: Matthias successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis. Congratulations Matthias.

9th of April 2019: Our domain adaptation paper “Weighted Elastic Net for Unsupervised Domain Adaptation with Application to Age Prediction from DNA Methylation Data” (including authors Lisa, Ralf and Nico) has just been accepted for presentation at ISMB/ECCB 2019 and will be published in Bioinformatics at the time of the conference.

27th of September 2018: Our proposal for an excellence cluster ‘Machine Learning: New Perspectives for Science’ where Nico is the PI for Machine Learning in Medicine got accepted, so we will have the excellence cluster in Tübingen starting January 1st 2019. See press release of the University of Tübingen. Go to cluster webpage

16th of August: Our latest research on data from a bNAbs trial was just accepted for publication at Nature Medicine (go to paper)

3rd of August: Our H2020 grant proposal CARE: “COMMON ACTION AGAINST HIV/TB/HCV ACROSS THE REGIONS OF EUROPE” was just accepted

30th of July 2018: Our latest analyses on data from a bNAbs trial were just accepted for publication at Nature (go to paper)

21st of April 2018: Our geno2pheno[ngs-freq] paper just got accepted at NAR (first author Matthias, last author Nico): [go to website]

8th of March 2018: Nico gave a keynote talk at the Workshop on Computational Models in Biology and Medicine 2018 in Regensburg

Our (Anna and Nico) PLOS Comp Bio paper got the front cover of the November 2017 issue (predicting, visualizing and analyzing bNAbs resistance against HIV)

24th of October 2017: Our (Anna and Nico) paper on predicting, visualizing and analyzing bNAbs resistance against HIV was just published at PLOS Comp Bio.

29th of September 2017: Our proposal for an excellence cluster ‘Machine Learning: New Perspectives for Science’ where Nico is the PI for Machine Learning in Medicine made it to the next round. See press release of University of Tübingen.

22nd of August 2017: Sarvesh presented our latest work on machine learning methods for classification problems with variable length sequences at WABI.

10th of July 2017: The proposal of our consortium (DIFUTURE) within the medical informatics initiative of the BMBF was evaluated successfully: BMBF Website

6th of May 2017: Nico gave a talk at the Arevir meeting in Cologne.

18th of April 2017: Our paper on predicting long-range chromatin interactions (first author Sarvesh, last author Nico) just got published.

7th of March 2017: Nico gave a keynote talk at the 1st European Virus Bioinformatics Center meeting (http://evbc.uni-jena.de/meetings/1st-evbc-meeting/).

16th of January 2017: Our latest analysis of the 10-1074 trial was just published at Nature Medicine: Antibody 10-1074 suppresses viremia in HIV-1-infected individuals.

1st of January 2017: Nico is now full professor for ‘Methods in Medical Informatics’ at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Tübingen.

20th of December: Our work (first author Matthias, last author Nico) on HIV-2 coreceptor usage prediction has just been published at Retrovirology: go to journal homepage

13th of December: Our latest analysis of the 10-1074 trial was just accepted at Nature Medicine.

9th of December: Nora gave a spotlight presentation at the NIPS workshop on Machine Learning for Health.

22nd of June: Our Nature paper (co-authors Anna and Nico) was just published: HIV-1 antibody 3BNC117 suppresses viral rebound in humans during treatment interruption

16th of June: Nico presented the 2016 research project funded by the supporting members of the Max Planck Society during the annual meeting of the Max Planck Society.

15th of June: Our manuscript submitted to Nature just got accepted. More details after the press embargo.

16th of May: Our Nature Medicine paper was just published: Impact of Pre-adapted HIV Transmission

5th of May 2016: Our Science paper (co-authors Anna and Nico) was just published: HIV-1 therapy with monoclonal antibody 3BNC117 elicits host immune responses against HIV-1

The new semester started. Check out our lecture on Statistical Learning in Computational Biology.

27th of February 2016: Our paper on HLA footprints in transmitted HIV sequences got accepted at Nature Medicine.

2015 was a new max for program committee memberships. Nico was PC member of ISMB/ECCB 2015 (Disease models & Epidemiology track), ISMB/ECCB 2015 (Applied Bioinformatics track), MLCB 2015, GCB 2015, PSB 2016 (Precision Medicine track) , and Recomb 2016