Markus Riester

                                                   Lehrstuhl für Bioinformatik
                                                           Universität Leipzig
                                                              Härtelstr. 16-18

                                                      D-04107 Leipzig, Germany

                                                              +49 341 97 16685



Moved to Boston

Publications:

* Reconstruction of pedigrees in clonal plant populations. Riester M., Stadler
  P.F. and Klemm, K. Theoretical Population Biology. 2010. In press.

* A differentiation-based phylogeny of cancer subtypes.  Riester M*,  Stephan-
  Otto Attolini C*, Downey RJ, Singer S, Michor F. PLoS Computational Biology. 
  2010. 6(5): e1000777. *Equal contribution.

* FRANz: Reconstruction of wild mult-generation pedigrees. Riester M., Stadler
  P.F. and Klemm, K. Bioinformatics. 2009. 25(16):2134-2139.

Contributions:

* Evolutionary genomics of microRNAs and their relatives. Tanzer, A., Riester,
  M., Hertel, J.,  Bermudez-Santana, C.I., Gorodkin, J., Hofacker, I.L.,
  Stadler, P.F. (2010).  In Evolutionary Genomics and Systems Biology, edited
  by Gustavo Caetano-Anollés. Wiley-Blackwell, Hoboken, pp 295-327. 

* ESTs and EST-linked polymorphisms for genetic mapping  and phylogenetic re-
  construction in the guppy, Poecilia reticulata. Dreyer C, Hoffmann M,  Lanz
  C,   Willing EM,  Riester M, Warthmann N, Sprecher A,  Tripathi N, Henz SR,
  Weigel D. BMC Genomics. 2007 Aug 8;8:269.

* Highly specific gene silencing by artificial microRNAs in Arabidopsis.Schwab
  R, Ossowski S,  Riester M,  Warthmann N,  Weigel D.   Plant Cell.  2006 May;
  18(5):1121-33.

* Specific effects of microRNAs on the plant transcriptome. Schwab R, Palatnik
  JF,  Riester M,  Schommer C, Schmid M,  Weigel D.  Dev Cell.  2005 Apr;8(4):
  517-27.

Conference Paper:

* FRANz: Fast reconstruction of wild pedigrees. Riester M., Stadler P.F. and 
  Klemm, K. (GCB 2008). Lecture Notes in Informatics.

Diploma Thesis:

  A  survey  of  Natural Antisense  Transcripts in  the bacteria  and  archaea 
  kingdoms. 2006. Supervised by Kay Nieselt, Stephan Steigele.

Software:

FRANz