Dr Ralf Andreas Bundschuh

2010 Physics Research Building
191 W Woodruff Ave
Columbus, OH 43210

Phone: (614) 688-3978

Email: bundschuh.2@osu.edu

Current OSU Appointment

Associate Professor, Physics

Degrees

1989 Vordiplom, University of Cologne, Mathematics and Physics

1993 Diploma, University of Cologne, Physics and Mathematics

1996 Ph.D., Universität Potsdam, Theoretical Physics

1997 Postdoctoral, University of Cologne, Physics

2001 Postdoctoral, University of California, San Diego, Biophysics

Editorial Activities

Editorial Board

2005Physical Review E.

Grant Reviewer

Ohio Supercomputer Center (2).

Los Alamos National Laboratory internal grant competition (1).

Israel Science Foundation (2).

Dutch National Science Foundation (1).

German Research Foundation (1).

US-Israeli Binational Science Foundation (1).

Biological Physics Program of the National Science Foundation (1).

Division of Molecular and Cellular Biology of the National Science Foundation (3).

Materials Theory Program of the National Science Foundation (7).

Division of Biological Infrastructure of the National Science Foundation (5).

Plant Genome Program of the National Science Foundation (1).

Peer Reviewer

Trends in Genetics.

BioSystems.

IEEE Transacations on Parallel and Distributed Systems.

Algorithms for Molecular Biology.

Journal of Statistical Physics.

PLoS Computational Biology.

GENE.

Science.

Nature.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Physical Review Letters.

Physical Review E.

Europhysics Letters.

European Physical Journal B.

Journal of Physics A.

International Journal of Modern Physics.

Physical Biology.

Biophysical Journal.

Journal of Computational Biology.

Proceedings of RECOMB.

Bioinformatics.

Nucleic Acids Research.

Journal of Theoretical Biology.

Journal of Physics - Condensed Matter.

Journal of Physical Chemistry.

Journal of Chemical Physics.

Journal of Applied Probability.

Macromolecular Theory and Simulations.

RNA Biology.

Biophysical Reviews & Letters.

BMC Bioinformatics.

BMC Genomics.

Review Board

Department of Energy grant review panel member.

Proposal Review Panel member for the National Science Foundation (5).

Honors

1990 - 1993 Fellow.

1997 - 1999 Fellow.

1999 Outstanding paper award.

2000 Best paper by young scientist award.

Memberships

2005 - 2007 Member. American Physical Society. Nominating Committee of the Division of Biological Physics

2006 - 2007 Member. American Physical Society. Committee to reorganize section 87 (Biological Physics) of the PACS scheme

Peer Reviewed Journal Articles

Bundschuh, Ralf. "Rapid significance estimation in local sequence alignment with gaps." Journal of computational biology : a journal of computational molecular cell biology. Vol. 9, no. 2. (2002): 243-60.

Yu, Yi-Kuo; Bundschuh, Ralf; Hwa, Terence. "Hybrid alignment: high-performance with universal statistics." Bioinformatics (Oxford, England). Vol. 18, no. 6. (2002): 864-72.

Gerland, Ulrich; Bundschuh, Ralf; Hwa, Terence. "Mechanically probing the folding pathway of single RNA molecules." Biophysical journal. Vol. 84, no. 5. (2003): 2831-40.

Chia, Nicholas; Bundschuh, Ralf. "Finite width model sequence comparison." Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics. Vol. 70, no. 2 Pt 1. (2004): 021906.

Gerland, Ulrich; Bundschuh, Ralf; Hwa, Terence. "Translocation of structured polynucleotides through nanopores." Physical biology. Vol. 1, no. 1-2. (2004): 19-26.

Liu, Tsunglin; Bundschuh, Ralf. "Analytical description of finite size effects for RNA secondary structures." Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics. Vol. 69, no. 6 Pt 1. (2004): 061912.

Bundschuh, Ralf; Gerland, Ulrich. "Coupled dynamics of RNA folding and nanopore translocation." Physical review letters. Vol. 95, no. 20. (2005): 208104.

Gott, Jonatha, M; Parimi, Neeta; Bundschuh, Ralf. "Discovery of new genes and deletion editing in Physarum mitochondria enabled by a novel algorithm for finding edited mRNAs." Nucleic acids research. Vol. 33, no. 16. (2005): 5063-72.

Habib, Farhat; Bundschuh, Ralf. "Modeling DNA unzipping in the presence of bound proteins." Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics. Vol. 72, no. 3 Pt 1. (2005): 031906.

Liu, Tsunglin; Bundschuh, Ralf. "Model for codon position bias in RNA editing." Physical review letters. Vol. 95, no. 8. (2005): 088101.

Liu, Tsunglin; Bundschuh, Ralf. "Quantification of the differences between quenched and annealed averaging for RNA secondary structures." Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics. Vol. 72, no. 6 Pt 1. (2005): 061905.

Chia, Nicholas; Bundschuh, Ralf. "A practical approach to significance assessment in alignment with gaps." Journal of computational biology : a journal of computational molecular cell biology. Vol. 13, no. 2. (2006): 429-41.

Guttal, Vishwesha; Bundschuh, Ralf. "Model for folding and aggregation in RNA secondary structures." Physical review letters. Vol. 96, no. 1. (2006): 018105.

Habib, Farhat; Johnson, Andrew, D; Bundschuh, Ralf; Janies, Daniel. "Large scale genotype-phenotype correlation analysis based on phylogenetic trees." Bioinformatics (Oxford, England). Vol. 23, no. 7. (2007): 785-8.

Itaya, Asuka; Zhong, Xuehua; Bundschuh, Ralf; Qi, Yijun; Wang, Ying; Takeda, Ryuta; Harris, Ann, R; Molina, Carlos; Nelson, Richard, S; Ding, Biao. "A structured viroid RNA serves as a substrate for dicer-like cleavage to produce biologically active small RNAs but is resistant to RNA-induced silencing complex-mediated degradation." Journal of virology. Vol. 81, no. 6. (2007): 2980-94.

Professional Activities

Conference Participation

2001Organization of a three-week section on sequence alignment and RNA folding of the workshop "Statistical Physics of Biological Information". Moderator.
2002 - 2008Poster judge at Rustbelt RNA meeting. Reviewer.
2003Grand awards judge. Reviewer.
2003 - 2005Special awards judge at the Ohio State Science Fair. Reviewer.
2004Co-organizer of a workshop on "Regulatory Networks". Co-organizer.
2005Organizing committee chair for the ``Biological Membranes'' workshop. Chair of organization commitee.
2006Vice chair of Rustbelt RNA meeting. Vice chair.
2006Poster judge. Reviewer.
2007Chair of Rustbelt RNA meeting. Chair.

Consultation

2001 - presentModerator of the "Genomics'' and "Quantitative Methods'' subsections of the q-bio preprint archive. Education.
2004Ad hoc member of a Board of Scientific Counselors. Government.