Alexis and Tomas received a certificate for teaching excellence from the dean of the CS faculty at the Karlsruhe
Institute of Technology for their programming practical "Hands-on Bioinformatics Practical" tought in summer 2015 based on the practical
evaluation by the students.
May 2016
Kassian Kobert succesfully defended his PhD thesis at KIT.
April 2016
Our PostDoc Diego Darriba, succesfully defended his PhD thesis at the university of A Coruna in Spain.
Alexis was part of his committee.
December 2015
Andre J. Aberer succesfully defended his PhD thesis at KIT.
July 2015
Alexey, Alexis, Andre, Kassian, Mark Holder, and Tomas received a certificate for teaching excellence from the dean of the CS faculty at the Karlsruhe
Institute of Technology for their course on "Introduction to Bioinformatics for Computer Scientists" tought in winter 2014/15 based on the course
evaluation by the students.
March 2015
Jiajie Zhang succesfully defended his PhD thesis at the University of Lübeck.
January 2015
The course evaluation by the students for the course: "Introduction to Bioinformatics for Computer Scientists" which Alexis, Tomas, Alexey, Kassian, Andre, and Mark
teach at the CS department of KIT was very
positive. We received a teaching quality index (Lehrqualitätsindex) of
100 out of 100.
November 2014
Our visiting PhD student Paschalia Kapli, that visited our lab twice, successfully defended her PhD at the University of Crete on November 24.
Members of the committee included her supervisor Nikos Poulakakis, as well as our collaborators and friends from the Hellenic Center of Marine Research
Antonis Magoulas and Giorgos Kotoulas.
July 2014
Our new PhD student, Lucas Czech, joined the lab.
June 2014
Fernando Izquierdo-Carrasco succesfully defended his PhD thesis on June 3rd at the CS department of KIT.
Prof. Arndt von Haeseler, Prof. Wolfgang Karl, Prof. Klemens Böhm, and Alexis were on his committe which was kindly
headed by Prof. Beckert.
January 2014
Our new PostDoc and prior visiting PhD student, Diego Darriba, joined the lab.
June 2013
Our new PhD student, Alexey Kozlov, joined the lab.
January 2013
The course evaluation by the students for the course: "Introduction to Bioinformatics for Computer Scientists" which Alexis, Solon, Tomas, Kassian, Andre, and Pavlos teach at the CS department of KIT was very
positive. We received a teaching quality index (Lehrqualitätsindex) of
100 out of 100.
Simon Berger succesfully defended his PhD thesis on January
14 at the CS department of KIT. Prof. C. v. Mering, Prof. W. Karl,
Prof. H Meyerhenke and Alexis were on his committe which was kindly
headed by Prof. Beckert.
November 2012
Nikos Alachiotis successfully defended his PhD thesis on
November 21 at the CS department of TU Munich. Prof. A. Bode, Prof. A.
Dollas, and Alexis were on the committee which was kindly headed by
Prof. B. Rost.
August 2012
Jörg Hauser
submitted his Master's thesis that deals with the protein model
assignment problem for multi-gene alignments of amino acid data.
July 2012
Alexis was appointed as full professor at the department of computer science
(in conjunction with his job at HITS) of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
January 2012
Antonis Rokas has written a nice chapter about hands-on phylogeny reconstruction that uses RAxML as example program.