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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 University, South Africa and distinguished adjunct Professor at Saveetha University, Chennai, India.

She received her BSc degree in Physics from Bo?aziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey. Then she moved to the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics at the same University for her MSc degree. She obtained her PhD from Max-Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics and Free University, Berlin, Germany in 2003. While doing her PhD, Özlem became interested in structural biology, and during her postdoctoral positions (Texas University, USA; University of Western Cape and University 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 University, 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 University. She received Rhodes University Internationalization award for 2018; Rhodes University 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 University, SA
  • 2014-2019: Associate Professor, Rhodes University, SA
  • 09/2012 - 09/2014: President of the South African Society for Bioinformatics (SASBi)
  • 10/2009 - 11/2013: Senior lecturer, Rhodes University, SA
  • 01/2008 - 09/2009: Research fellow / Research officer, University of Pretoria, SA
  • 01/2006 - 10/2007: Postdoctoral fellow, University of Pretoria, SA
  • 07/2004 - 12/2005: Postdoctoral fellow, University of Western Cape, SA
  • 06/2003 - 01/2004: Research scholar, University of Texas, USA
  • 05/1999 - 05/2003: PhD, Max-Planck Institute, Germany

 

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Contact Details:

  • Address:
    Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology & Bioinformatics
    Rhodes University
    GRAHAMSTOWN 6140
    South Africa

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