Dipl.-Tech. Math. Tanja Gernhard

Zentrum Mathematik Technische Universität München D-85747 Garching bei München Weitere Details zur Postanschrift Büro: 02.04.055 Tel.: +49 +89 289-16882 Fax: +49 +89 289-16859 E-Mail: gernhardma.tum.de Sprechzeiten: während des Semesters: nach Vereinbarung in der vorlesungsfreien Zeit: nach Vereinbarung

Seit 1.10.2008 bin ich als PostDoc an der ETH Zürich: http://www.tb.ethz.ch/people/tstadler

Teaching

Wintersemester 2007/08

• Proseminar "Färbungen von Graphen" (mit Prof. Anusch Taraz), Do 10:00-12:00, Raum 02.06.020

Diplom- und Projektarbeiten

Bearbeiter(in)	Thema/Arbeitstitel
Stefania Chang	Implementierung von Add Taxa
Julian Traut	Parsimony in zufälligen Netzwerken

Research Interests

• Phylogenetics
• Theoretical Population Genetics

Publications

• A method for investigating relative timing information on phylogenetic trees
  D. Ford, T. Gernhard, E. Matsen
  submitted, 2008.
• Sampling trees from evolutionary models
  K. Hartmann, T. Gernhard, D. Wong
  submitted, 2008.
• Testing the temporal framework of speciation in an ancient lake species flock: the genus Dina (Hirudinea: Erpobdellidae) in Lake Ohrid
  S. Trajanovski, C. Albrecht, R. Schultheiß, T. Gernhard, M. Benke, T. Wilke
  submitted, 2008.
• Lineage-through-time plots of neutral models for speciation
  T. Gernhard
  Mathematical Biosciences, in press, 2008.
• Stochastic properties of generalised Yule models, with biodiversity applications
  T. Gernhard, K. Hartmann, M. Steel
  J. Math. Biol. (2008) 57: 713–735.
• The conditioned reconstructed process
  T. Gernhard
  J. Theo. Biol. (2008) 253(4): 769-778.
• New analytic results for speciation times in neutral models
  T. Gernhard
  Bull. Math. Biol. (2008) 70(4): 1082-1097.
• Estimating the relative order of speciation or coalescence events on a given phylogeny
  T. Gernhard, D. Ford, R. Vos and M. Steel
  Evolutionary Bioinformatics Online (2008) 2: 309-317.

Programs

• Cass
  Last update: Sep. 20th, 2008.
  A Python tool for analyzing and manipulating phylogenetic trees (estimating dates in supertrees, testing for neutrality with our runs statistic, the Colless statistic, drawing LTT plots etc). Details are found in the ReadMe. Implemented by Tanja Gernhard.
• TreeSample
  Program for simulating phylogenetic trees with a fixed number of species. In our paper Sampling trees from evolutionary models we explain why other existing simulation programs return inappropriate trees. Implemented by Klaas Hartmann.
• Beast
  Bayesian Evolutionary Analysis Sampling Trees by Alexei Drummond and Andrew Rambaut. The birth-death prior is implemented using the results in The conditioned reconstructed process.

Diplom thesis

• Stochastic Models for Speciation Events in Phylogenetic Trees
  awarded at the DMV (German Math Society) conference 2006 with a main prize

Talks

• Introducing a statistic on ranked trees - the Run statistic
  Theoretical Biology department, ETH Zurich, 2008
  
• Simulating Trees ... a tricky task!?
  Mathematics and Informatics in Evolution and Phylogeny conference, Montpellier, 2008
  
• Introducing a statistic on ranked trees - the Run statistic
  Department of Mathematics, Bielefeld University, 2008
  
• Simulating trees
  Slatkin-Huelsenbeck-Nielsen lab group meeting, UC Berkeley, 2008
  
• Modelling phylogenies
  Lehman College, City University New York, 2008
  
• A neutral model for speciation
  Rosenberg Lab, University of Michigan, 2008
  
• Temporal labeling of reticulation networks
  Napier meeting in algorithms, New Zealand, 2008
  
• Introducing a statistic on ranked trees - the Run statistic
  New Zealand Phylogenetics Conference, 2008
  
• A statistic summarizing relative timing in trees
  Future Directions in Phylogenetic Methods and Models, Cambridge, 2007
  
• Phylogenies - from a modelling perspective
  Systematics and biodiversity group, JLU Gießen, 2007
  
• Ein neutrales Modell für phylogenetische Bäume
  Oberseminar Stochastik, Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität München, 2007
  
• Tree shapes - induced by neutral models for speciation
  Workshop on Current Challenges and Problems in Phylogenetics, Cambridge, 2007
  
• Dating speciation events under neutral models
  New Zealand Phylogenetics Conference, 2007
  awarded best student talk
• The age of a vertex
  Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität München, Department for evolutionary biology, 2006
• Stochastische Modelle für die Artbildung in Phylogenetischen Bäumen
  DMV 2006 (Deutsche Mathematiker-Vereinigung), student conference
• The age of a vertex
  New Zealand Phylogenetics Conference 2006
  awarded best student talk

Conferences, Workshops and Scientific Visits

• Visit of the LIRMM in Montpellier (June 2008)
• Summer school on molecular Evolution, Valencia (May 2008)
• Bielefeld University (Apr. 08)
• UC Berkeley (Apr. 08)
• City University New York, Lehman College (Apr. 08)
• University of Michigan (Apr. 08)
• Napier conference on algorithms (Feb. 08)
• New Zealand Phylogenetics Conference 08, Whitianga
• Biomathematics Research Institute, Christchurch (Jan.-Mar. 08)
• Future Directions in Phylogenetic Methods and Models, Cambridge (Dec. 07)
• Systematics and biodiversity group, JLU Gießen (Nov. 07)
• Phyloinformatics Workshop, Edinburgh (Oct. 07)
• EES (Ecology, Evolution and Systematics) meeting, LMU Munich (Oct. 07)
• Organisation Fall workshop of the 'Graduiertenkolleg' 2007
• Summer school on Randomized Algorithms, Herrsching (Sep. 07)
• Workshop on Current Challenges and Problems in Phylogenetics, Isaac Newton Institute (Sep. 07)
• Visit of the Department for Statistics at UC Berkeley (Apr. 07)
• Cass Workshop 2007 on random models in phylogenetics and resolving ancient divergences, New Zealand
• New Zealand Phylogenetics Conference 07, Doom
• Biomathematics Research Institute, Christchurch (Jan.-Apr. 07)
• Max-Planck-Institut for Computer Science, Saarbrücken (Nov. 06, 1 week)
• GK-Herbstworkshop 06 (Mathematics and Automobile), Munich
• DMV-Conference 06, Bonn
• GCB 06 (German Conference on Bioinformatics), Tübingen
• ICMSB 06 (International Conference on Molecular Systems Biology), Munich
• Cass Workshop 2006, New Zealand
• New Zealand Phylogenetics Conference 06, Kaikoura
• Biomathematics Research Institute, Christchurch (Sep. 05-March 06)
• International Conference on Difference Equations, Special Functions and Applications 05, Munich

Short CV

• 06/2008: Le Laboratoire d'Informatique, de Robotique et de Microélectronique de Montpellier, France
• 01/2007-04/2007 & 01/2008-03/2008: Biomathematics Research Institute Christchurch, New Zealand
• 09/2006-today: PhD student at the TU München, advisor Prof. Anusch Taraz
• 09/2005-03/2006: Diplom thesis at Biomathematics Research Institute Christchurch, New Zealand, advisor Prof. Mike Steel
• 01/2005-06/2005: study abroad in Cardiff, Wales
• 10/2001-07/2006: studies of Mathematics with minors in Biology and Computer Science (Diplom), TU München
• 07/2001: Abitur
• 06/1999: High School Diploma (USA)

Scholarships

• PhD scholarship within the Graduiertenkolleg Angewandte Algorithmische Mathematik (since 01.09.2006)
• Allan Wilson Summerstudentship (2005 & 2006 & 2007)
• Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung scholarship (2003-2006)
• e-fellows scholarship (since 2001)

Homepage Graduiertenkolleg

tanja on tour (private Homepage)