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Primary roles:Nicola Jane Mulder
nicola.mulder@uct.ac.za
+27 21 406 6058
Professor and head of the Computational Biology
(CBIO) division at the University of Cape Town
Principal investigator of H3ABioNet, a Pan African
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Focus areas - Studying microbial genomics and infectious diseases from both host and pathogen perspectives
- Investigating human genetic factors underlying disease susceptibility
- Studying African population genetic diversity
- Understanding the effect of the microbiome on immunity and disease
- Developing tools and resources to support high-throughput biology data analysis
List of publications -
2018 Received NRF B2 rating 2017 Awarded 5-year NIH grant for H3ABioNet 2016 Elected to University of Cape Town College of Fellows 2014, 2015 Named on Thomson Reuters Highly Cited List 2014 Promoted to Full Professor (University of Cape Town) 2012 Awarded 5-year NIH grant for H3ABioNet 2009 Appointed Associate Professor and Head of Computational Biology (CBIO) division
(University of Cape Town)2007 Appointed Adjunct Extraordinary Associate Professor (University of the Western Cape) 2005 Jointly appointed InterPro Team Leader (European Bioinformatics Institute) and
National Bioinformatics Network Node Manager (University of Cape Town) -
Post-docs PhD students MSc students - Imane Allali
- Jean Bashingwa
- Alexa Heekes
- Arash Iranzadeh
- Ephifania Geza
- Holifidy Arisoa Rapanoel
- Jacquiline Wangui Mugo
- Kenneth Opap
- Kirsty Lee Garson
- Mamana Mbiyavanga
- Matthys Potgieter
- Samar SM Elsheikh
- Twaha Mlwilo
- Wisdom Alemya Akurugu
- Tamlyn Gangiah
- Davis Todt
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International Workshop on Data Science Training Distance-based, online bioinformatics training in Africa: the H3ABioNet experience
Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC) 2017, PragueChaired session, Global Alliance for Genomics & Health 4th Plenary Meeting, Vancouver Women in science and the science of women – studying microbiomes
AIMS public lecture, Cape Town -
Involvement in education and training organisations - Member of Global Organisation for Bioinformatics Learning, Education and Training (GOBLET)
- Co-chair of GOBLET Learning, Education and Training Committee
- Member of EBI External Training Advisory Committee
- Member of the Makerere University UVRI Centre of Excellence for Infection & Immunity Research and Training Scientific Advisory Board
- Co-chair of International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) Education Committee
Courses organised and lectures presented 2010 - present Organised and taught on National Bioinformatics course in Cape Town 2008 - present Course convenor for BSc Med Honours in Bioinformatics at UCT 2012 High-throughput Biology Data Analysis, Masters Program module, University of Mauritius 2010 Taught on ICGEB-IUBMB Genomics and Proteomics course, Cape Town 2008 Organised and taught on WHO TDR course, Bioinformatics Tools for Comparative Genomics of Vectors: towards an understanding of Glossina biology, UWC. 2008 Biological Databases module at National Bioinformatics Network Courses. 2007 Organised and taught on The WHO TDR International Training Course and Workshop on Annotation and Bioinformatics Analysis of Glossina (Tsetse) cDNAs, UWC. 2007 Biological Databases module at National Bioinformatics Network Courses. 2005 - 2012 Bioinformatics undergraduate and Honours teaching, University of Cape Town. 2004 Introduction to Bioinformatics course, third year undergraduate course, UWC South Africa. Lectures and practicals on introduction to bioinformatics. 2004 Introduction to Bioinformatics workshop, NBN, Cape Town, South Africa. Lecture on protein classification and InterPro. 2003 Organised and taught on The Regional Training Course on Bioinformatics Applied to Tropical Disease Genomics, UWC. 2003 Swiss-Prot and InterPro workshop, DKFZ, Heidelberg. Lectures and practicals on InterPro. 2002 InterPro workshop, EMBL-EBI. Lectures and workshops on InterPro database. 2001 International training course on Bioinformatics applied to genomic studies, Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Workshop on Protein sequence analysis and genome annotation. 2001 InterPro workshop, EMBL-EBI. Lectures and workshops on InterPro database. -
Member - University of Cape Town (UCT) College of Fellows
- African Society for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (ASBCB)
Full member - Institute for Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine
Faculty member - F1000 Genomics and Genetics
Research fellow - African Institute for Mathematical Sciences
Member of board of directors - International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB)
Scientific advisory board member - GSK Africa NCD Open Lab
- EU ELIXIR
- EBI Pfam/InterPro
- Makerere University UVRI Centre of Excellence for Infection & Immunity Research and Training
- DELGEME (Developing Excellence in Leadership and Genetics Training for Malaria Elimination in sub-Saharan Africa)
- University of Pretoria Genomics Research Institute
Executive committee member - African Institute for Mathematical Sciences
Committee member - UCT Health Sciences Physical Planning Committee
- UCT University Advanced Computing Committee
- Organising committee for Conference on Infectious Disease and Global Health
Chair - UCT Health Sciences Information and Communication Technology Committee
Co-chair - International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) Nominations Committee
- Organizing committee for ISCB Africa ASBCB Conference on Bioinformatics
Editorial board member - F1000 Research
Guest editor - Special issue of Infection Genetics and Evolution, Vol 11(4), 2011
- Special issue of The Scientific World Journal, Disease Genomics
Associate editor - Frontiers in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
Series editor - CRC Press Taylor & Francis Group Mathematical and Computational Biology Series
Reviewer - FEBS, NAR, BMC Bioinformatics, Bioinformatics, PLOS and other journals
