Professor in Bioinformatics and Director of Research Unit in Bioinformatics (RUBi)
Özlem is full Professor in structural bioinformatics at Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网, South Africa and distinguished adjunct Professor at Saveetha 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网, Chennai, India.
She received her BSc degree in Physics from Bo?aziçi 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网, Istanbul, Turkey. Then she moved to the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics at the same 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 for her MSc degree. She obtained her PhD from Max-Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics and Free 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网, Berlin, Germany in 2003. While doing her PhD, Özlem became interested in structural biology, and during her postdoctoral positions (Texas 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网, USA; 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 of Western Cape and 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*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 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*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 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网. She received Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 Internationalization award for 2018; Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*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.
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