Members » Manja Marz

E-Mail: manja*
Room: N0805
Phone: +49-3641-9-46480

*@uni-jena.de

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Short CV

Manja Marz
*May 06 1981, Leipzig, Germany
Married to Michael Marz
Mother of three children (2006, 2011, 2013)

• since 2015 Full Professorship for High Throughput Sequencing Analysis at Friedrich Schiller University Jena
• since 01/2015 Group leader at Leibniz Institute for Age Research – Fritz Lipmann Institute
• 02/2012–06/2015 Junior-Professorship for “High Throughput Sequencing Analysis” at Friedrich Schiller University Jena
• 01/2010–01/2012 Group Leader of “RNA Bioinformatics” at Philipps-University Marburg

• since 2018 Scientific advisory board member of RNA Central and Rfam
• since 2017 Founding member, board member and managing director of European Virus Bioinformatics Center
• since 2015 Founding and board member of FIFI (Fördervereinverein des Instituts für Informatik)
• 2015 Founding member of MSCJ (Michael Stifel Zentrum Jena for Data-Driven and Simulation Science)
• since 2013 Founding and board member of ARC (Aging Research Center Jena)

• Studies of Biology, Computer Science and Bioinformatics
  Diploma: Biology (2005), Computer Science (2006)
• 2009 Dr. rer. nat: Bioinformatics, University of Leipzig
  Doctoral Thesis: Strategies of Homology-Based Identification of Non-Coding RNA Genes

GO

Go is the oldest board game.
In 2003 I learned Go in Edinburgh (Scotland).
Since 2005 tournaments have been part of my life.
Now, I am 4 dan, teaching a lot of beginner groups all over Germany.
I distribute Go in kindergardens and primary schools.