Our lab focuses on the interplay of coding and non-coding RNAs, such as the novel class of circular RNAs in heart disease.
Moreover, we develop new computational tools that can be used by other researchers in their field of interest.
The Jakobi Lab is part of the Translational Cardiovascular Research Center (TCRC) in the Department of Internal Medicine at the The University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix.
We are looking for a Research Associate, Master’s, and PhD students.
The new bioinformatics course (CTS 505, see teaching) serves as an introductory exploration into the fundamental principles, algorithms, and practical application of bioinformatics in hypothesis-driven research spanning basic and translational domains. The curriculum encompasses key protein and nucleotide alignment algorithms like BLAST and Smith-Waterman, essential public databases, RNA biology, and various approaches for DNA and RNA sequencing.
A new, large-scale circRNA detection benchmarking studies has just been published in Nature Methods, including our circtools circRNA detection suite. The study is the largest to date including 16 circRNA detection tools. The paper is a very good read for everyone interested in optimizing circRNA detection accuracy and efficacy.
Vivien Kmietczyk from the lab of Mirko Völkers in Heidelberg, Germany just published her newest paper, “Ythdf2 regulates cardiac remodeling through its mRNA target transcripts” in the Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology! Congratulations! In the study we found that m6A the reader protein Ythdf2 controls cardiac function and identified a novel mechanism how reader proteins control gene expression and cardiac function.
The University of Arizona Health Sciences Career Development Awards program recently selected Tobias as one of its five 2023 recipients.
Our lab will investigate the potential of this circRNA as a signature molecule, or a biomarker, which can be used to help physicians monitor the presence or progression of atrial fibrillation from a single blood sample. This new circRNA-based biomarker may provide us with a non-invasive and efficient way to detect atrial fibrillation early and potentially develop personalized therapies tailored to an individual’s unique genetic profile.
The lab received a research grant from the Arizona Biomedical Research Centre to examine the roles of different Ribonucleic acid (RNA) species in cardiovascular diseases. In our quest to find novel RNAs for therapeutic and diagnostic purposes the lab will also continue to work on the development of computational methods that can be used by other researchers with the goal of identifying diseases as early as possible.
Our lab was one of eight from the college to be awarded a grant by the Arizona Department of Health Services, Arizona Biomedical Research Commission. In total, $2.8 million in grants were awarded over a three-year period.
Dr. Jakobi is bioinformatician trained with an emphasis on the interconnection of wet lab research and computational research. His academic and research training included eukaryotic biology, genome research, and wet lab training in addition to comprehensive training in theoretical and applied bioinformatics to allow the fluent communication between wet lab and bioinformatics.
I am working as Assistant Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine and in the new Translational Cardiovascular Research Center (TCRC) at The University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix .
Dr. rer. nat. in Bioinformatics, 2014
Bielefeld University, Germany
MSc in Bioinformatics & Genome Research, 2009
Bielefeld University, Germany
BSc in Bioinformatics & Genome Research, 2007
Bielefeld University, Germany