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

Özlem received her BSc degree in Physics from Bogazici bck体育app_bck体育官网下载-二维码平台, Istanbul, Turkey. Then she moved to the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics at the same bck体育app_bck体育官网下载-二维码平台 for her MSc degree. She obtained her PhD from Max-Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics and Free bck体育app_bck体育官网下载-二维码平台, Berlin, Germany in 2003. She was co-founder and the first President of the student association of Max-Planck Institute in Berlin. While doing her PhD, Özlem became interested in structural biology, and during her postdoctoral positions (Texas bck体育app_bck体育官网下载-二维码平台, UWC and UP) she gained experience in structural bioinformatics as well as structural biology. In October 2009, Özlem took up a senior lecturer position at Rhodes bck体育app_bck体育官网下载-二维码平台, with the responsibility to develop postgraduate studies in bioinformatics at the bck体育app_bck体育官网下载-二维码平台. She established Rhodes bck体育app_bck体育官网下载-二维码平台 Bioinformatics research group (RUBi) in 2010, and started one-year MSc programme in bioinformatics by coursework and research thesis in 2011. Since October 2013, RUBi is a research unit (Research Unit in Bioinformatics). Özlem was the first president of the South African Society for Bioinformatics (SASBi) between 2012 and 2014. Özlem’s broad research interest is comparative genomics and structural bioinformatics.

Research Interests:

• Structural bioinformatics
• Comparative genomics

Brief Biography:

• 2014-current: Associate Professor, Rhodes bck体育app_bck体育官网下载-二维码平台, SA
• 09/2012 - 09/2014: President of the South African Society for Bioinformatics (SASBi)
• 10/2009 - 11/2013: Senior lecturer, Rhodes bck体育app_bck体育官网下载-二维码平台, SA
• 01/2008 - 09/2009: Research fellow / Research officer, bck体育app_bck体育官网下载-二维码平台 of Pretoria, SA
• 01/2006 - 10/2007: Postdoctoral fellow, bck体育app_bck体育官网下载-二维码平台 of Pretoria, SA
• 07/2004 - 12/2005: Postdoctoral fellow, bck体育app_bck体育官网下载-二维码平台 of Western Cape, SA
• 06/2003 - 01/2004: Research scholar, bck体育app_bck体育官网下载-二维码平台 of Texas, USA
• 05/1999 - 05/2003: PhD, Max-Planck Institute, Germany

More Information:

• Research
• History of RUBi
• Students
• Publications

Contact Details:

• Address:
  Department of Biochemistry & Microbiology
  Rhodes bck体育app_bck体育官网下载-二维码平台
  GRAHAMSTOWN 6140
  South Africa

• Tel: +27-46-603-8072
• Fax: +27-46-603-7576
• E-mail: O.TastanBishop@ru.ac.za or Ozlem.TastanBishop@gmail.com 

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