Dr. Michael Specht
Michael Specht
Institute of Plant Biology and Biotechnology
University of Münster
Schlossplatz 8
48143 Münster
Germany
Phone: +49 251 83-24862
Email: michael.specht@uni-muenster.de
Personal website: www.thinkingaloud.net
Fields of interest
- proteomics and mass spectrometry
- peptide and protein quantitation
- genome annotation
- high-throughput data processing
Publications
- Pan, J., Naumann-Busch, B., Wang, L., Specht, M., Scholz, M., Trompelt, K. and Hippler, M. (2011) Protein phosphorylation is a key event of flagellar disassembly revealed by analysis of flagellar phosphoproteins during flagellar shortening in Chlamydomonas. Journal of Proteome Research, in press; doi: 10.1021/pr200428n.
- Terashima, M., Specht, M. and Hippler, M. (2011). The chloroplast proteome: A survey from the Chlamydomonas reinhardtii perspective with a focus on distinctive features. Current Genetics, 57(3), 151-168; doi: 10.1007/s00294-011-0339-1
- Specht M., Stanke M., Terashima M., Naumann-Busch B., Janßen I., Höhner R., Hom E. F. Y., Liang C., Hippler M. (2011). Concerted action of the new Genomic Peptide Finder and AUGUSTUS allows for automated proteogenomic annotation of the Chlamydomonas reinhardtii genome. Proteomics, 11(9), 1814-1823; doi: 10.1002/pmic.201000621.
- Specht M., Kuhlgert S., Fufezan C., Hippler M. (2011). Proteomics to go: Proteomatic enables the user-friendly creation of versatile MS/MS data evaluation workflows. Bioinformatics, 27(8), 1183-1184; doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btr081.
- Terashima M., Specht M., Naumann B., Hippler M. (2010). Characterizing the anaerobic response of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii by quantitative proteomics. Mol Cell Proteomics, 9(7), 1514-32.
- Fufezan C., Specht, M. (2009). p3d – Python module for structural bioinformatics. BMC Bioinformatics, 10:258.
- Ropinski T., Specht M., Meyer-Spradow J., Hinrichs K., Preim B. (2007). Surface Glyphs for Visualizing Multimodal Volume Data. Vision, Modelling and Visualization (VMV) (3-13), Saarbrücken, 2007 (PDF)
Workshops
- 05/2011
- Proteomatic: a platform for high-throughput MS/MS data evaluation and deployment of processing scripts (HIBIT 2011, Izmir, Turkey)
Talks
- 03/2011
- Proteomics to go: Proteomatic enables the user-friendly creation of versatile MS/MS data evaluation workflows (DGMS 2011, Dortmund)
Software
- Proteomatic
- A platform for the user-friendly creation and execution of versatile MS/MS data evaluation pipelines.
http://www.proteomatic.org - GPF (Genomic Peptide Finder)
- A program which matches de novo predicted amino acid sequences to the genomic DNA sequence of an organism.
http://github.com/specht/gpf
Teaching
- 05/2010 – 06/2010
- Computational proteomics course
- 02/2011, 2010, 2009, 2008
- Proteomics course
- 05/2009 – 06/2009
- Internship mentoring: Tracking and retrieval of individual processing steps in high-throughput mass spectrometry.
Curriculum vitae
- since 06/2011
- Postdoctoral researcher in the lab of Prof. Michael Hippler at the Institute of Plant Biology and Biotechnology, University of Münster.
- 04/2007 - 05/2011
- Ph.D. position in the lab of Prof. Michael Hippler at the Institute of Plant Biology and Biotechnology, University of Münster.
- 10/2006 – 03/2007
- Software developer in the Realtime Rendering Group of Provisio GmbH, Münster.
- 09/2006
- Diploma thesis entitled Glyph-enhanced volume visualization, developed in the Visualization and Computer Graphics group of Prof. Klaus Hinrichs, Univeristy of Münster.
- 10/2001 – 09/2006
- Studying Computational visualistics at the Department of Computer Science, University of Magdeburg.
- 12/1981
- Born in Magdeburg, Germany.