Research
A consortium of scientists at Boku
University Vienna has won
long-term funding of about €1 mio per year for an international PhD programme at the interface of basic science and applications in the fields of protein biotechnology.
David Kreil has won
a WWTF Chair of Bioinformatics in 2005 as
well as a joint full professorship at Warwick University
2012. His Research Group joined the Department of
Biotechnology in 2014, and the newly founded Institute of
Molecular Biotechnology in 2019.
His current research focus is the development of computational and
quantitative experimental methods for the investigation of
complex biological questions. These can be hard to examine
using traditional gene-by-gene approaches alone because of the
redundancies and complex interactions commonly found in modern
eukaryotes. In contrast, he and his team work on integrated
profile analysis that exploits complementary data sources. His
interdisciplinary unit combines a modern genomics laboratory
and a strong computational group. Together they can draw on
extensive expertise in microarray design and hybridization,
systems for the integration of heterogeneous databases and
bioinformatics tools, like sequence analysis and comparative
genomics, as well as probabilistic and statistical
methods. The group has standing collaborations with the
University of Cambridge as well as leading groups at Boku and other local institutes (such as the GMI, IMP/IMBA, or at the Technical University).