Dr. Anika Küken
Junior group leader, Bioinformatics Department, University of Potsdam
Email: ankuekenuuni-potsdampde
Research Interests
I found my passion in the field of computational systems biology that looks for network patterns to explain emerging properties of biological systems. Plants as sessile organisms provide a fantastic playground to study the interplay between molecular phenotypes and their effect on agriculturally relevant traits. As part of the CRC 1644 my group focus on the development of large-scale kinetic models that can be used to study constraints in phenotypic plasticity of metabolic traits and their relation to plasticity in growth.
Education
03/2015 – 02/2020 PhD, Systems Biology and Mathematical Modeling Group, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Germany
10/2012 – 05/2015 Master of Sc. Bioinformatics, University of Potsdam, Germany
10/2009 – 09/2012 Bachelor of Sc. Biology, Humboldt-University of Berlin, Germany
Awards
2020 Jeff Schell Price for best PhD thesis at Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology
Teaching
Constraint-based modeling – MSc level
Data integration in cellular networks – MSc level
Publications
A Küken, H Treves, Z Nikoloski (Frontiers in Plant Science 2023)
A simulation-free constrained regression approach for flux estimation in isotopically nonstationary metabolic flux analysis with applications in microalgae
doi: 10.3389/fpls.2023.1140829
