 Schultheiss completed his undergraduate degree at the University of Tübingen with a year spent abroad at University of Michigan where he majored in Bioinformatics.Upon graduation, Schultheiss pursued his doctorate in Bioinformatics at the Friedrich Miescher Laboratory of the Max Planck Society under Gunnar Rätsch and Jan Lohmann.Detlef Weigel is a Director of the Molecular Biology Department at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology in Tübingen.