Research
Constrained optimization of flux-balance models
Kinetic models of cellular processes
Network reconstruction and validation
Relating gene expression to cellular function
Biometry of toxicological alternative methods
Theory-based experimental design
Constrained Optimization of Flux-Balance Models
- Zonation of hepatocyte metabolism
- Prediction of metabolic flux changes (MFC)
- Integration of metabolism and signaling
- Flux-balance analysis of metabolic networks
Kinetic Models of Cellular Processes
- Hepatocyte polarity - signaling. Metabolism and vesicular traffic
- Kinetic model of FLD development
- Integration of metabolism and signaling
- Integrative kinetic model of hepatocyte metabolism
- Development of an electric-metabolic osmotic (EMO) model for neuronal cells
- Neuronal excitations as a perturbation of the energetic and osmotic homeostasis: Implication for rubust network behaviour
- Liver function test - methacetin kinetics
- Membrane biogenesis modeling of a Toxoplasma gondii-infected human cell and deduction of underlying metabolic principles
Network Reconstruction and Validation
Relating Gene Expression to Cellular Function
Biometry of Toxicological Alternative Methods
Theory-Based Experimental Design
- Analysis of degradation of support fixed peptides by the 20S proteasome
- Computer-based identification of fragments in proteasome digest (mass spectrometry)
Future Projects
Finished & Former Projects
- HepatoSys
- Verification of the stoichiometric model of the hepatocyte with flux-balance optimization
- Metabolic network reconstruction and modeling of human hepatocytes
- Knowledgebase and bioinformatic tool development for analysis of large metabolic networks
- Integrative kinetic model of hepatocyte metabolism
- Mathematical modeling of the vesicle transport
- Lipid transport in hepatocytes
- Exploitation of high-throughput data to increase the reliability of metabolic flux predictions
- Antigen presentation
- Development of methods for kinetic modeling of complex systems
- Influence of enzyme costs on fluxes in metabolic networks
- Minimal flux modes (MinModes) - fundamental flux modes with a unique functional interpretation
- Computational estimation of Gibbs free energy values of enzymatic reactions
- Functional relevance of protein-protein interactions in metabolic networks
- Modeling the lipoprotein metabolism
- Molecular dynamics of oxygen transport in lipoygenase
- Substrate binding studies with the 20S proteasome