SASBi Council:
President
Prof Fourie Joubert
fourie.joubert at up.ac.za
Fourie Joubert obtained his PhD in Biochemistry in 2000. He is the Director of the Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Unit at the University of Pretoria. His research interest is Human Health Genomics.
Prof Fourie Joubert
fourie.joubert at up.ac.za
Fourie Joubert obtained his PhD in Biochemistry in 2000. He is the Director of the Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Unit at the University of Pretoria. His research interest is Human Health Genomics.
Vice President
Prof Oleg Reva
oleg.reva at up.ac.za
Dr Reva's research interests are in development of new biostatistical algorithms and computer programs for functional genomics, Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) data analysis, metagenomics, genome linguistics, genetic barcoding, metabarcoding and biotechnology. A number of computational tools and databases developed under Dr. Reva’s supervision, which are available from SeqWord project Web-site (www.bi.up.ac.za/SeqWord/). Dr. Reva O.Reva is vice-president of the Bioinformatics Society of South Africa (SASBi). He is lecturing bioinformatics for post-graduate students and also he organizes lectures and training workshops on general bioinformatics and phylogenetics for South African and international students under the auspices of the Continues Education at University of Pretoria. Dr Reva has published 77 papers cited 1220 times. His H-index according to Google Scholar is 18. His scientific NRF rating is C2. Dr. Reva supervised or co-supervised 8 PhD and 6 MSc students. His research is funded by continuously renewing NRF grants for bioinformatics and genomics and by NRF based collaborative grants supporting joint works in biotechnology with German and Tanzanian colleagues. The latest NRF funded project for 2015-2017 aims at NGS based genetic barcoding of bacterial species and specific biological activities of micro-organism important for biotechnology. Long lasting collaboration resulted in multiple joint publications was established also with Rhodes University; Free State University; Bielefeld University; Institute of Catalyze in Madrid; German biotechnological private company ABiTEP in Berlin; Institute of Microbiology and Virology in Kiev, Ukraine; Institute of Anti-infectious Drugs in Almaty, Kazakhstan.
Prof Oleg Reva
oleg.reva at up.ac.za
Dr Reva's research interests are in development of new biostatistical algorithms and computer programs for functional genomics, Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) data analysis, metagenomics, genome linguistics, genetic barcoding, metabarcoding and biotechnology. A number of computational tools and databases developed under Dr. Reva’s supervision, which are available from SeqWord project Web-site (www.bi.up.ac.za/SeqWord/). Dr. Reva O.Reva is vice-president of the Bioinformatics Society of South Africa (SASBi). He is lecturing bioinformatics for post-graduate students and also he organizes lectures and training workshops on general bioinformatics and phylogenetics for South African and international students under the auspices of the Continues Education at University of Pretoria. Dr Reva has published 77 papers cited 1220 times. His H-index according to Google Scholar is 18. His scientific NRF rating is C2. Dr. Reva supervised or co-supervised 8 PhD and 6 MSc students. His research is funded by continuously renewing NRF grants for bioinformatics and genomics and by NRF based collaborative grants supporting joint works in biotechnology with German and Tanzanian colleagues. The latest NRF funded project for 2015-2017 aims at NGS based genetic barcoding of bacterial species and specific biological activities of micro-organism important for biotechnology. Long lasting collaboration resulted in multiple joint publications was established also with Rhodes University; Free State University; Bielefeld University; Institute of Catalyze in Madrid; German biotechnological private company ABiTEP in Berlin; Institute of Microbiology and Virology in Kiev, Ukraine; Institute of Anti-infectious Drugs in Almaty, Kazakhstan.
Out-going President
Prof Ozlem Tastan Bishop
o.tastanbishop at ru.ac.za
Ozlem received her BSc degree in Physics from Bogazici 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. She was co-founder and the first President of the student association of Max-Planck Institute in Berlin. While doing her PhD, Ozlem became interested in structural biology, and during her postdoctoral positions (Texas University, UWC and UP) she gained experience in structural bioinformatics as well as structural biology. In October 2009, Ozlem took up a senior lecturer position at Rhodes University, with the responsibility to develop postgraduate studies in bioinformatics at the University. She established Rhodes University Bioinformatics research group (RUBi) in 2010, and started one-year MSc programme in bioinformatics by coursework and research thesis in 2011. Ozlem’s broad research interest is comparative genomics and structural bioinformatics.
Prof Ozlem Tastan Bishop
o.tastanbishop at ru.ac.za
Ozlem received her BSc degree in Physics from Bogazici 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. She was co-founder and the first President of the student association of Max-Planck Institute in Berlin. While doing her PhD, Ozlem became interested in structural biology, and during her postdoctoral positions (Texas University, UWC and UP) she gained experience in structural bioinformatics as well as structural biology. In October 2009, Ozlem took up a senior lecturer position at Rhodes University, with the responsibility to develop postgraduate studies in bioinformatics at the University. She established Rhodes University Bioinformatics research group (RUBi) in 2010, and started one-year MSc programme in bioinformatics by coursework and research thesis in 2011. Ozlem’s broad research interest is comparative genomics and structural bioinformatics.
Philip Machanick
Treasurer
[email protected]
Philip Machanick is an associate professor of Computer Science at Rhodes University. Aside from pure Computer Science projects, he works mostly in areas related to transcription factor binding specificity. He has worked on the MEME tool chain with Tim Bailey. Projects arising out of working with Prof Bailey include extensions to MEME and initial versions of the popular MEME-ChIP web service and the CentriMo algorithm. You can find out more at http://homes.cs.ru.ac.za/philip
Treasurer
[email protected]
Philip Machanick is an associate professor of Computer Science at Rhodes University. Aside from pure Computer Science projects, he works mostly in areas related to transcription factor binding specificity. He has worked on the MEME tool chain with Tim Bailey. Projects arising out of working with Prof Bailey include extensions to MEME and initial versions of the popular MEME-ChIP web service and the CentriMo algorithm. You can find out more at http://homes.cs.ru.ac.za/philip
Web Administrator
Candice Ryan g07r2763 at campus.ru.ac.za Candice received her BSc degree in Biochemistry, Microbiology and Zoology at Rhodes University. She continued her studies at Rhodes University completing her Honours degree in Biochemistry and Masters degree in Bioinformatics. She is currently doing her PhD in Bioinformatics at Rhodes University, Eastern Cape, South Africa. She is also the President for the SASBi Student Council working to affiliate was a regional student group under the ISCB. |