Dr. Torsten Pook,

Aktuelle Forschung und Projekte

• Projekt: "Accessing the genomic and functional diversity of maize to improve quantitative traits" (MAZE)

Mitgliedschaft in wissenschaftlichen Vereinigungen

• Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Zuechtungskunde (DGfZ)

Studium

• Titel der Masterarbeit: "Forecast of daily shipments in logistics" (in Kooperation mit DB Schenker)

• Titel der Bachelorarbeit: "Analysis of the imputing algorithm BEAGLE"

Arbeitserfahrungen

• Werkstudent in Management board: Finance and Controlling

• Werkstudent in Finance & Controlling

Lehre

• M.Agr.0186 Multivariate statistics with application in agriculture sciences

• M.Agr.0138 Selection theory, design and optimisation of breeding programs

• Hilfswissen schaftliche Taetigkeit: Tutor in Lineare Algebra I (HWS 12/13, HWS 13/14)

• Hilfswissenschaftliche Taetigkeit: Tutor in Analysis II (FSS 13)

Publikationen

• Pook T, Schlather M, de los Campos G, Mayer M, Schoen CC, Simianer H (2019) HaploBlocker: Creation of subgroup specific haplotype blocks and libraries. Genetics

• Pook T, Schlather M, Simianer H (2020) MoBPS – Modular Breeding Program Simulator. G3: Genes, Genome, Genetics, 10(6):1915-1918

• Pook T, Mayer M, Geibel J, Weigend S, Cavero D, Schoen CC, Simianer H (2020) Improving imputation quality in BEAGLE for crop and livestock data. G3: Genes, Genome, Genetics, 10(1):177-188

• Pook T, Freudenthal J, Korte A, Simianer H (2020) Using local convolutional neural networks for genomic prediction. Frontiers in Genetics, 11:1366.

• Pook, T. , Nemri, E., Gonzalez Segovia, E.G., Simianer, H., Schoen, C.C., (2021), Increasing calling accuracy, coverage, and read depth in sequence data by the use of haplotype blocks, PloS Genetics 17 (12): e1009944

Liste der Software

• Published via CRAN: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/MoBPS/index.html and available at https://github.com/tpook92/MoBPS and www.mobps.de

• Available at https://github.com/tpook92/HaploBlocker

• Available at https://github.com/tpook92/HBimpute

• Available at https://github.com/evojgani/EpiGP

Wissenschaftliche Preise

• EAAP Scholarship 2017

• Werner-Oettli-Award (2016) - Best Master thesis of the year

Workshops

• Using gene bank material for livestock populations: case studies and optimization using the MoBPS software

• Simulation of animal and plant breeding programs

• Deep Learning - from theory to application in genetics

Liste der patente