| Dr. med. Peter N. Robinson Institute for Medical Genetics Universitätsklinikum Charité Humboldt-Universität Augustenburger Platz 1 13353 Berlin Germany email: peter.robinson(at)charite.de, Phone: +49 (0)30 / 450 569 124. |
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Research Interests
I am a physician by training and completed my medical education at the University of Pennsylvania followed by an internship at Yale. Currently I hold a research scientist position at the Institute for Medical Genetics of the Charité Berlin. Additionally, I have obtained a BA in Mathematics and a Master of Science in Computer Science from Columbia University in New York City, and a main focus in my research has been to use mathematical and bioinformatic models to understand biology and hereditary disease. In addition to computational biology, we also do "wetlab" molecular genetics research in hereditary disease as well as in the molecular mechanisms of fracture healing (SFB760).Selected Publications
- Bauer S, Gagneur J, and Robinson PN (2010) GOing Bayesian: model-based gene-set analysis of genome-scale data. Nucleic Acids Research
- Krawitz P, Rödelsperger C, Jäger M, Jostins L, Bauer S, Robinson PN (2010) Microindel detection in short-read sequence data. Bioinformatics, 26:722-729
- Köhler S, Schulz MH, Krawitz P, Bauer S, Dölken S, Ott CE, Mundlos C, Horn D, Mundlos S, Robinson PN
Clinical Diagnostics in Human Genetics with Semantic Similarity Searches in Ontologies. The American Journal of Human Genetics 85:457-64 - Türkmen S, Guo G, Garshasbi M, Hoffmann K, Alshalah AJ, Mischung C, Kuss A, Humphrey N, Mundlos S, Robinson PN (2009) CA8 Mutations Cause a Novel Syndrome Characterized by Ataxia and Mild Mental Retardation with Predisposition to Quadrupedal Gait. PLoS Genet. 5:e1000487.
- Robinson PN et al. (2008) The Human Phenotype Ontology: A Tool for Annotating and Analyzing Human Hereditary Disease. American Journal of Human Genetics
- Köhler S, Bauer S, Horn D, Robinson PN (2008) Walking the Interactome for Prioritization of Candidate Disease Genes. American Journal of Human Genetics 82, 949-958.
- Guo G, Bauer S, Hecht J, Schulz MH, Busche A, Robinson PN (2007) A short ultraconserved
sequence drives transcription from an alternate FBN1 promoter. Int J Biochem Cell Biol : 2007
Oct 2; [Epub ahead of print]. [pubmed] - Booms P, Ney A, Barthel F, Moroy G, Counsell D, Gille C, Guo G, Pregla R, Mundlos S, Alix AJP,
Robinson PN (2006) A Fibrillin-1-Fragment Containing the Elastin-Binding-Protein GxxPG
Consensus Sequence Upregulates MMP-1 Expression: Biochemical and Computational Analysis.
Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology 40:234{246. [pubmed] - Guo G, Booms P, Halushka M, Dietz HC, Ney A, Stricker S, Hecht J, Mundlos S,
Robinson PN. (2006) Induction of macrophage chemotaxis by aortic extracts of the mgR Marfan mouse
model and a GxxPG-containing fibrillin-1 fragment. Circulation. 114:1855-62. [pubmed] - Robinson PN, Böhme U, Lopez R, Mundlos S, Nüurnberg P (2004) Gene-Ontology analysis reveals
association of tissue-specific 5' CpG-island genes with development and embryogenesis. Hum Mol
Genet 13:1969-78. [pubmed]