The ITN VIROINF assists media representatives in finding experts in specific areas of virus/bioinformatics research, arranges interview partners and provides background information. Please contact us with any questions you may have. For past media appearances, see below.
Awards

Best Oral Presentation
Ninth European Congress of Apidology – EurBee9 2022
Nikolas Basler, KU Leuven

Best Poster Award
International Virus Bioinformatics Meeting 2022
Gabriel Lenconi Lovate, FSU Jena
Presentations
VIROINF ESRs presented their work at various conferences (posters and talks) and also to a broader public.
Systematic benchmarking and error evaluation of basecallers for Nanopore Direct RNA-seq Presentation
Poster at 21st European Conference on Computational Biology 2022, 20.09.2022.
FrameRate: predicting coding frames direct from unassembled DNA reads Presentation
Poster at 21st European Conference on Computational Biology 2022, 19.09.2022.
Read error correction for heterogeneous NGS samples using Dirichlet mixture models Presentation
Poster at Asonca 2022 - Biological systems: from first principles to data-driven modelling and back , 27.03.2022.
Error correction and local haplotype reconstruction for NGS data Presentation
Poster at International Virus Bioinformatics Meeting 2022, 24.03.2022.
Media
VIROINF: Jenaer Viren-Forscher steuern europaweites Programm
24. März 2021, MDR Thüringen Journal
Viren, ihre Mutationen und Wechselwirkungen mit ihren Wirten sind längst nicht so gut erforscht, wie man denken könnte. Ein europaweites Forschungsprogramm soll das nun ändern – koordiniert von der Uni Jena.