Email: laurenz(DOT)holcik(AT)univie.ac.at
Phone: ++43 +1 / 4277 - 74325

Postal address:
Center for Integrative Bioinformatics Vienna (CIBIV)
Max Perutz Labs
Dr. Bohr Gasse 9
A-1030 Wien, Austria

Research interests

• Next Generation Sequencing Data Analysis
• Cancer Subtype Discovery
• Machine Learning

Education

• Oct 2017 - Nov 2019: M.Sc. in Biotechnolgy with specialization on Bioinformatics, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna
• Aug 2018 - Dec 2018: Exchange Semester, University of Georgia, USA
• Oct 2014 - Jun 2017: B.Sc. in Food- and Biotechnology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna

Professional experience

• Dec 2019 - present: PhD Student at the Center for Integrative Bioinformatics Vienna (CIBIV)
• Jul 2017 - Oct 2017: Internship at Boehringer Ingelheim Vienna, Bioprocess Development

Publications

2024

• N.S. Häfker, L. Holcik, A.M. Mat, A. Ćoric, K. Vadiwala, I. Beets, A.W. Stockinger, C.E. Atria, S. Hammer, R. Revilla-i-Domingo, L. Schoofs, F. Raible, and K. Tessmar-Raible (2024) Molecular circadian rhythms are robust in marine annelids lacking rhythmic behavior. PLoS Biol., 22, e3002572. (DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3002572, PMID: 38603542)
• L. Holcik, A. von Haeseler, and F.G. Pflug (2024) GuaCAMOLE: GC-bias aware estimation improves the accuracy of metagenomic species abundances. bioRxiv, 2024.09.20.614100 (DOI: 10.1101/2024.09.20.614100)
• J. Naas^e, M. Balmana^e, L. Holcik, M. Novatchkova, L. Dobnikar, T. Krausgruber, S. Ladstatter, C. Bock, A. von Haeseler, C. Esk, and J.A. Knoblich (2024) Reconstitution of Human Brain Cell Diversity in Organoids via Four Protocols. bioRxiv, 2024.11.15.623576 (DOI: 10.1101/2024.11.15.623576)
  ^e contributed equally

2022

• M. Huth, L. Santini, E. Galimberti, J. Ramesmayer, F. Titz-Teixeira, R. Sehlke, M. Oberhuemer, S. Stummer, V. Herzog, M. Garmhausen, M. Romeike, A. Chugunova, K.F. Leesch, L. Holcik, K. Weipoltshammer, A. Lackner, C. Schoefer, A. von Haeseler, C. Buecker, A. Pauli, S. Ameres, A. Smith, A. Beyer, and M. Leeb (2022) NMD is required for timely cell fate transitions by fine-tuning gene expression and regulating translation. Genes Dev., 36, 348-367. (DOI: 10.1101/gad.347690.120, PMID: 35241478)

2018

• V. Pfanzagl, L. Holcik, D. Maresch, G. Gorgone, H. Michlits, and P. Furtmüller (2018) Coproheme decarboxylases - Phylogenetic prediction versus biochemical experiments. Archives of biochemistry and biophysics, 2018 Feb 15;640:27-36 (DOI:10.1016/j.abb.2018.01.005)