Curriculum vitae

Administration of windows and unix-based systems; microsoft office; programming in (Bio)Java; basic knowledge of Smalltalk, C#, Pascal,. Delphi, and Basic ...
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Curriculum vitae

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Simon Michael Dittami 06.11.1978 30 Munich, Germany German and American PhD Student Single 6 rue des capucins 29680 Roscoff, France [email protected]

University education: 2000-2006 2004 2006

since Nov. 2006

Student of biology at the University of Kiel Student exchange (Erasmus) at the Università della Calabria, Italy Diploma in biology with distinction Major: Ecology Minors: Zoology und and Computer sciences Diploma thesis: “The influence of different culture conditions on the production of aldehydes by diatoms” at the AWI Alfred Wegner Institute on the island of Helgoland, Germany PhD Thesis: “Abiotic Stress in Ectocarpus siliculosus: a global approach” at the “Station Biologique de Roscoff”

Key skills: Culture work: Laboratory work: Statistics: Informatics:

Culturing of micro- and macroalgae HPLC, GC, PAM, Spectrophotometry, nucleic acid extraction, RTqPCR, preparation of microarray samples, sequencing, etc. Basic parametric and non-parametric tests, use of Statistica, basic knowledge in R, analysis of large datasets - microarray data. Administration of windows and unix-based systems; microsoft office; programming in (Bio)Java; basic knowledge of Smalltalk, C#, Pascal, Delphi, and Basic; basic knowledge in bioinformatics (blasts, sequence assembly etc.); genome annotation.

Language skills: German: English: French: Italian:

Mother tongue Raised bilingually + Student exchange, Minnesota, USA (1996/1997) Good (2 ½ years in France) Basic (6 month of Erasmus exchange in 2004)

Publications accepted: A. Le Bail*, S. M. Dittami*, P.O. De Franco, S. Rousvoal, J. M. Cock, T. Tonon, B. Charrier, (2008). "Normalisation genes for expression analyses in the brown alga model Ectocarpus siliculosus." BMC Molecular Biology 9(75). * equal contribution Manuscripts currently under review: S. M. Dittami, T. Wichard, A. Malzahn, G. Pohnert, M. Boersma, K. H. Wiltshire, (submitted). “Culture conditions affect fatty acid content along with wound-activated production of polyunsaturated aldehydes in Thalassiosira rotula (Bacillarophyceae).” Nova Hedwigia Beiheft Series. S. M. Dittami, D. Scornet, E. Corre, M. Dondrup, K.H. Glatting, R. König, J.M. Cock, C. Boyen, T. Tonon, (submitted). “Global expression analysis of the brown alga Ectocarpus siliculosus (Phaeophyceae) reveals largescale reprogramming of the transcriptome in response to abiotic stress.” Genome Biology. Manuscripts currently in preparation: S. M. Dittami, A. Gravot, S. Goutliquer, A. Bouchereau, C. Boyen, T. Tonon, (in prep.). “Integrative analysis of metabolite and transcript abundance during the short-term response to abiotic stress in the brown alga Ectocarpus siliculosus.” A. Gravot*, S. M. Dittami*, S. Rousvoal, A. Eggert, C. Boyen, A. Bouchereau, T. Tonon, (in prep.). “Diurnal oscillations of metabolite abundances in Ectocarpus siliculosus and genome analysis provide new insights into central metabolic processes of brown algae”. * equal contribution S. Rousvoal, A. Groisillier, S. M. Dittami, K. Heyl, A. Eggert, C. Boyen, T. Tonon, (in prep.). “Molecular insights on mannitol metabolism in the model brown alga Ectocarpus siliculosus.” Oral presentations: T. Tonon, S. M. Dittami, A. Gravot, A. Bouchereau, C. Boyen: Transcriptomic and metabolomic response to saline and oxidative stress in the model brown alga Ectocarpus siliculosus. Plant Abiotic Stress Tolerance, February 2009, Vienna, Austria S. M. Dittami and T. Tonon (May 2008). Etude transcriptomique de la réponse aux stress abiotiques chez l'algue brune modèle Ectocarpus siliculosus. Oral communication presented at the Platform Transcriptome OUESTgenopole® users day, Rennes, France. S. M. Dittami, T. Tonon, P. Wincker, E. Corre, D. Scornet, J.M. Cock, C. Boyen: Transcriptomic study of abiotic stress in Ectocarpus. 3rd Ectocarpus meeting, June 2008, Oban, Scotland, United-Kingdom B. Charrier, A. Le Bail, S. M. Dittami, C. Maisonneuve, M. Gicquel, P.O. de Franco, S. Rousvoal, J. M. Cock, T. Tonon: Additional Ectocarpus post-genomic tools: a mini-library of mutants and identification of normalisation genes for expression analyses. 3rd Ectocarpus meeting 2008, Oban, Scotland, United-Kingdom S. M. Dittami, A. Gravot, S. Goulitquer, J. Collén, E. Corre, P. Wincker, M. Cock, A. Bouchereau, C. Boyen, T. Tonon: Abiotic stress response in the model brown alga Ectocarpus siliculosus (Phaeophycaea). Session P3 – developments in plant biology, SEB annual meeting 2008, Marseille. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology a-Molecular & Integrative Physiology 150(3): S191-S191. S. M. Dittami, A. Gravot, S. Goulitquer, J. Collén, E. Corre, P. Wincker, M. Cock, A. Bouchereau, C. Boyen , T. Tonon: Transcriptomic study of abiotic stress in Ectocarpus. Oest genopole Stress meeting, Plouzané, September 2008 Posters: T. Tonon, S. Goulitquer, A. Ritter, S. M. Dittami, J.-P. Salaün, J. M. Cock, P. Potin, C. Boyen. From the shore: Molecular changes in the fatty acid metabolism of brown algae under abiotic stress conditions. Poster presented at the 18th International Symposium on Plant Lipids, Bordeaux, France, July 2008 Roscoff, March 20th, 2008