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Prof ?zlem Tastan Bishop

‌Professor in Bioinformatics and ‌Director of Research Unit in Bioinformatics (RUBi)

Professor in Bioinformatics

Özlem is full Professor in structural bioinformatics at Rhodes 欧洲杯足球网_外围买球app推荐-投注|官网, South Africa and distinguished adjunct Professor at Saveetha 欧洲杯足球网_外围买球app推荐-投注|官网, Chennai, India.

She received her BSc degree in Physics from Bo?aziçi 欧洲杯足球网_外围买球app推荐-投注|官网, Istanbul, Turkey. Then she moved to the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics at the same 欧洲杯足球网_外围买球app推荐-投注|官网 for her MSc degree. She obtained her PhD from Max-Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics and Free 欧洲杯足球网_外围买球app推荐-投注|官网, Berlin, Germany in 2003. While doing her PhD, Özlem became interested in structural biology, and during her postdoctoral positions (Texas 欧洲杯足球网_外围买球app推荐-投注|官网, USA; 欧洲杯足球网_外围买球app推荐-投注|官网 of Western Cape and 欧洲杯足球网_外围买球app推荐-投注|官网 of Pretoria, South Africa) she gained experience in structural bioinformatics as well as structural biology.

In 2009, Özlem took up an academic position at Rhodes 欧洲杯足球网_外围买球app推荐-投注|官网, South Africa. She established the Research Unit in Bioinformatics (RUBi) in 2013. She has graduated 25 PhD and 38 MSc students since she joined Rhodes 欧洲杯足球网_外围买球app推荐-投注|官网. She received Rhodes 欧洲杯足球网_外围买球app推荐-投注|官网 Internationalization award for 2018; Rhodes 欧洲杯足球网_外围买球app推荐-投注|官网 Vice Chancellor’s Distinguished Senior Research award for 2020 and South African Society for Bioinformatics (SASBi) Silver Award, 2022.

She serves on the Editorial Board for PLOS One and Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences and Frontiers in Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Biological Modeling and Simulation Section, and she is an Advisory Board member of F1000Research Bioinformatics Gateway.

Özlem’s broad research interest is structural bioinformatics and its applications to drug design and development. Her recent interest is in the allosteric mechanisms of proteins and understanding the effects of nonsynonymous single nucleotide variations on protein structure and function in the context of drug resistance and drug metabolism. She has published over 100 research articles.

 

Brief Biography:

  • 2020 – Professor, Rhodes 欧洲杯足球网_外围买球app推荐-投注|官网, SA
  • 2014-2019: Associate Professor, Rhodes 欧洲杯足球网_外围买球app推荐-投注|官网, SA
  • 09/2012 - 09/2014: President of the South African Society for Bioinformatics (SASBi)
  • 10/2009 - 11/2013: Senior lecturer, Rhodes 欧洲杯足球网_外围买球app推荐-投注|官网, SA
  • 01/2008 - 09/2009: Research fellow / Research officer, 欧洲杯足球网_外围买球app推荐-投注|官网 of Pretoria, SA
  • 01/2006 - 10/2007: Postdoctoral fellow, 欧洲杯足球网_外围买球app推荐-投注|官网 of Pretoria, SA
  • 07/2004 - 12/2005: Postdoctoral fellow, 欧洲杯足球网_外围买球app推荐-投注|官网 of Western Cape, SA
  • 06/2003 - 01/2004: Research scholar, 欧洲杯足球网_外围买球app推荐-投注|官网 of Texas, USA
  • 05/1999 - 05/2003: PhD, Max-Planck Institute, Germany

 

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  • Address:
    Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology & Bioinformatics
    Rhodes 欧洲杯足球网_外围买球app推荐-投注|官网
    GRAHAMSTOWN 6140
    South Africa

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