a passionate being bouncing between research, art, activism & science communication that likes to share their enthusiasm with the world.
Currently: Exploring Previously: Postdoctoral researcher in the Computational Biology group of Richard Morris at the John Innes Centre in the Norwich Research Park, UK Always: Guten Mutes, in high spirits
Life The post carbon world Bayesian Statistics Learning Neuroplasticity Philosophy of science Equality & Justice Colours Cooking meals for others Spreading joy Slowing down & degrowth Information Theory The changing climate Bicycles & Biodiversity Movement & Movements The importance of cultural practices Staring out of the window on ridiculously long train journeys Complex systems New things every day
- Bayesian Inference in the Analysis of RNA-Seq Doctoral Thesis, 2025 - A Bayesian framework for ranking genes based on their statistical evidence for differential expression bioRxiv, 2025 - What is a differentially expressed gene? bioRxiv, 2025 - Re-analysis of mobile mRNA datasets highlights challenges in the detection of mobile transcripts from short-read RNA-Seq data Nature Plants, 2025 + Research briefing: Current RNA-seq evidence of mRNA mobility is largely due to noise in the data Nature Plants, 2025 - Mass screening for mobile mRNAs Trends in Plant Sciences, in press - Exact Bayesian inference for the detection of graft-mobile transcripts from sequencing data Royal Society Inferface, 2022
- 5MinutenClimateChance Climate science podcast & radio broadcast - Let's 'do different': Planetary Citizen Education Proposal by the UEA Biodiversity and Climate Action Network
Music and silence Exploring movement and movements Nature and the outdoors Arts and crafts Tech and low-tech
email: franziska@hoerbst.net github: github.com/franziskaaah linktree: linktr.ee/franziska.hoerbst Some summary of what I have been up to can be found in my CV. (partly)