On the 26th of June, Elena Sügis defended her PhD on “Integration methods for heterogeneous biological data” in which she addresses the question of how to combine and analyze diverse biological data originating from various biological experiments and databases.  Importance of biological data integrationA fast advance in biotechnological innovation and decreasing production costs have led […]

On the 14th of June, Vijayachitra Modhukur defended her PhD on “Profiling of DNA methylation patterns as biomarkers of human disease” in which she addresses the question of how DNA methylation patterns can be used as biomarker candidates as abnormal methylation patterns are studied for early detection, diagnosis and prognosis of disease outcome as well […]

On June 7, Mohan Liyanage, who is an assistant in the Chair of Distributed Systems defended his doctoral thesis “A framework for mobile web of things” in which he presents an energy efficient lightweight mobile web service provisioning framework for mobile sensing utilizing the protocols that were designed for the constrained Internet of Things environment. […]