Matthias König

Computational Systems Biochemistry Group

Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Reinickendorfer Str. 61
Haus 10
13347 Berlin
Germany

phone +49 30 450528-404
fax +49 30 450528-937
matthias.koenigcharite.de

Research Interests

  • Glucose homeostasis by the liver
  • Kinetic modeling of metabolic networks, especially glucose and central metabolism
  • FBA and other flux-based methods in networks
  • Metabolic network reconstruction
  • Software Development for metabolic network analysis, data management and visualization

Publications

2011Matthias König and Hermann-Georg Holzhütter, Quantifying the Alterations in Human Hepatic Glucose Metabolism in T2DM Provides an Explanation for Hypoglycemic Events in Insulin Therapy [in submission]
2011Matthias König, Sascha Bulik and Hermann-Georg Holzhütter, Quantifying the Contribution of the Liver to the Homeostasis of Plasma Glucose: A Detailed Kinetic Model of Hepatic Glucose Metabolism Integrated with the Hormonal Control by Insulin, Glucagon and Epinephrine [submitted]
2011Anique Herling, Matthias König, Sascha Bulik and Hermann-Georg HolzhütterEnzymatic Features of the Glucose Metabolism in Tumor Cells, FEBS J. 2011 Jul;278(14):2436-59. [PubMed]
2010Matthias König and Hermann-Georg Holzhütter, FluxViz - Cytoscape Plug-in for Vizualisation of Flux Distributions in Networks, Genome Informatics 2010, Vol.24, p.96-103
2010

Gille C, Bölling C, Hoppe A, Bulik S, Hoffmann S, Hübner K, Karlstädt A, Ganeshan R, König M, Rother K, Weidlich M, Behre J, Holzhütter HG. (2010) HepatoNet1: a comprehensive metabolic reconstruction of the human hepatocyte for the analysis of liver physiology. Mol Syst Biol., 6:411. [PubMed]

Flux Visualization in HepatoNet1 with FluxViz Kinetic Model of Core Hepatocyte Metabolism
Flux Visualization in HepatoNet1 with FluxViz (2010) Kinetic Model of Core Hepatocyte Metabolism (2011)

Software Development

FluxVizCytoscape Plugin for visualization of flux distributions
SBMLReader 2Cytoscape Plugin for the support of SBML
RepositionCytoscape Plugin for reuse of layouts
HepatoCoreWebinterface for hepatocyte network reconstruction

Education, Training, Employment

2011 - PhD Charite Berlin (Virtual Liver Network)
Nov 2011 - Jan 2012 - Internship CIDEIM (Centro Internacional de Entrenamiento e Investigaciones Médicas) in Cali, Colombia
2010 - 2011 PhD Charite Berlin (IRTG International Research Training Group scholarship)
2010 - 2011 Research student Virtual Liver Network
2009 Diploma thesis: Human hepatocyte core network reconstruction &
kinetic network glycolysis, gluconeogenesis and glycogen metabolism at Charite Berlin (supervisors: Prof. Hermann-Georg Holzhütter & Prof. Edda Klipp
2008 - 2009 Research studentHepatoSys Network project
2008 Study Project: Evolutionary algorithms in signal casquade networks at Theoretical Biophysics Group of Humboldt University (supervisor: Dr. Oliver Ebenhöh)
2002 - 2009 Diploma studies Biophysics at Humboldt University Berlin (scholarship Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes)
2001 - 2002 Emergency room springer at Bethesda Krankenhaus Stuttgart

Degrees

2009Diploma in Biophysics at the Humboldt University Berlin and Charite Berlin

Posters

July 17-20, 2011 Berlin, Germany11th International Workshop on Bioinformatics and Systems Biology IBSB2011Mathematical Modelling of Liver Metabolism Predicts Higher Risk of Hypoglycemic Episodes in T2DM
June 22-24, 2011 Boston, MA, USASystems Biology of Human DiseaseMathematical Modelling of Liver Metabolism Predicts Higher Risk of Hypoglycemic Episodes in T2DM (Won Poster Award)
September 11-17, 2010 Island of Spetses, GreeceFEBS Advanced Lecture Course - Analysis and Engineering of Biomolecular SystemsBlood Glucose Control by the Human Hepatocyte
July 26-28, 2010 Kyoto, Japan10th Annual International Workshop on Bioinformatics and Systems Biology IBSB2010 FluxViz - Cytoscape Plug-In for Visualization of Flux Distributions in Networks
July 10-23, 2010 Beijing, ChinaEmergent behavior of biomolecular ensembles and networks FluxViz - Cytoscape Plug-In for Visualization of Flux Distributions in Networks
Juni 03-05, 2010 Freiburg, GermanyConference on Systems Biology of Mammalian Cells Blood Glucose Control by the Human Hepatocyte
Juni 03-05, 2010 Freiburg, GermanyConference on Systems Biology of Mammalian Cells A data model for evidence-based representation, reconstruction and analysis of biochemical networks
July 27-29, 2009 Boston, MA, USAThe 9th Annual International Workshop on Bioinformatics and Systems Biology at Boston University Kinetic model of the human hepatocyte glycolysis,
gluconeogenesis & glycogen metabolism
May 12-15, 2009 Heidelberg, Germany German Symposium on Systems Biology 2009Collection and Integration of Data in SABIO-RK for a Kinetic Model of the Hepatocyte Core Metabolism
January 21-23, 2009 Berlin, Germany Hepatosys II Evaluation Meeting Constructing a large kinetic model of the hepatocyte core metabolism

Presentations

12 January 2012Cali, ColombiaSeminar CIDEIM (Centro Internacional de Entrenamiento e Investigaciones Médicas)Modeling Hepatic Glucose Metabolism in Humans
29 November 2011Cali, ColombiaSeminar Universidad del ValleModeling Hepatic Glucose Metabolism in Humans
11 November 2011Berlin, GermanySeminar in Research Training Group "Computational Systems Biology" CSBModeling Hepatic Glucose Metabolism in Humans
19 August 2011 Heidelberg, GermanyVirtual Liver SAB Review 2011 - WPA3 Highlight TalkMetabolic Effects of Glucose-6-Phosphatase Deficiency Associated with Rab5 KD
20 July 2011 Berlin, Germany11th International Workshop on Bioinformatics and Systems Biology IBSB2011Blood Glucose Control by the Human Hepatocyte
11 July 2011 Berlin, GermanyGroup seminarEffects of Changes in Protein Level on Hepatic Glucose Metabolism
04|2011 Berlin, GermanyGroup seminarFirst model draft of zonated hepatic glucose metabolism
09|2010 Island of Spetses, GreeceFEBS Advanced Lecture Course - Analysis and Engineering of Biomolecular Systems Best poster presentation - Blood Glucose Control by the Human Hepatocyte
08|2010 Tokyo, JapanMeeting Miyano group FluxViz - Cytoscape Plug-In for Visualization of Flux Distributions in Networks
07|2010 Kyoto, Japan10th Annual International Workshop on Bioinformatics and Systems Biology IBSB2010 FluxViz - Cytoscape Plug-In for Visualization of Flux Distributions in Networks
07|2010 Beijing, ChinaEmergent behavior of biomolecular ensembles and networks FluxViz - Cytoscape Plug-In for Visualization of Flux Distributions in Networks
05|05|2010 Berlin group seminar AG VolkmerBiological databases
04|2010 Hiddensee 8th Hiddensee Workshop Genomics and System Biology of Molecular NetworksBlood Glucose Control by the Human Hepatocyte - a kinetic network
02|2010 Berlin group meeting FluxViz - Visualisation of flux distributions in Cytoscape
01|2010 Berlin group meeting Diploma Thesis: Kinetic network of glycolysis, gluconeogenesis and glycogen metabolism
15-16 Juni 2009 Heidelberg SABIO-RK User Meeting" SABIO-RK in the construction of kinetic models

Conferences & Workshops

July 17-23, 2011 Berlin, Germany11th International Workshop on Bioinformatics and Systems Biology IBSB2011
June 22-24, 2011 Boston, MA, USASystems Biology of Human Disease
May 24-28, 2011 Barcelona, SpainBrain2011 - Cerebral Blood Flow, Metabolism and Function
September 26-28, 2010 Island of Spetses, GreeceFEBS Advanced Lecture Course - Analysis and Engineering of Biomolecular Systems
July 26-28, 2010 Kyoto, Japan10th Annual International Workshop on Bioinformatics and Systems Biology IBSB2010
July 10-23, 2010 Beijing, ChinaEmergent behavior of biomolecular ensembles and networks - Workshop / summer school
Juni 03-05, 2010 Freiburg, GermanyConference on Systems Biology of Mammalian Cells
04|2010 Hiddensee, Germany8th Hiddensee Workshop Genomics and System Biology of Molecular Networks
July 27-29, 2009 Boston, MA, USAThe 9th Annual International Workshop on Bioinformatics and Systems Biology at Boston University
2009Heidelberg, GermanySabioRK User Meeting
2009Berlin, GermanyBioCuration
January 21-23, 2009 Berlin, Germany Hepatosys II Evaluation Meeting