Wild animals are vectors and reservoirs of emerging infectious diseases with major implications on human health. Still little is known about the interactions of these pathogens and their main hosts in their natural environment. In my PhD project I studied several aspects of the immune and its interactions between the mallard duck and its pathogens. The methods ranged from gene expression...
This study investigates the disturbance of the chicken microbiome under the influence of minerals phosphorus (P) and calcium (Ca). Microbial taxonomy was elucidated targeting the taxonomic marker 16S rRNA gene, and functionality was acquired through metagenome sequencing. Both tasks comprise bioinformatic processing, which demands computational calculations, and they were done in the bwHPC...
The focus of our work lies in exploring and analyzing the function of large-scale spiking neural networks that are inspired by the cerebral cortex of the mammalian brain. The Leaky Integrate-and-Fire model serves as a starting point to investigate, e.g., biologically inspired learning methods, auditory information processing, or phase transitions in large networks. While there is plenty of...
