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Prof. Dr. Abdullah Kahraman,

Job title/activity of the person
Team leader, Data Science in Life Sciences

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+41 61 228 62 23
E-Mail
abdullah.kahraman@fhnw.ch

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School of Life Sciences FHNW
Institute for Chemistry and Bioanalytics
Hofackerstrasse 30
4132 Muttenz

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Activities

  • Team leader, Data Science in Life Sciences
  • Lecturer, Data Science in Life Sciences

Expertise

Research

Data Science in Life Sciences, Computational Structural Biology / Cancer Omics

Data science in life sciences

Algorithms, machine learning and databases for life sciences
Institute
Institute for Chemistry and Bioanalytics

Conferences

  • 2022 Founder and Organizer, "Clinics meets Data Science Symposium 2022", Zurich
  • 2021 Founder and Organizer, "Clinics meets Bioinformatics Symposium 2021”, Zurich
  • 2015 Organizer, Scientific symposium, "First Symposium of the Swiss EMBL Alumni Chapter”, Zurich
  • 2013-2017 Founder and Organizer of NanoTalks, Scientific talks for the lay public, Zurich

Review and commission activities

  • since 2022: Associate Editor in Frontiers Biological Modeling and Simulation, Lausanne, Switzerland
  • 2020-2021: Editor of Frontiers Molecular Biosciences Research Topic: Alternative Splicing in Health and Disease, Lausanne, Switzerland
  • since 2020: Editorial Board Member of Journal BioMedInformatics, Basel, Switzerland

Memberships

  • Platform Co-Leader, Data Science: Biotechnet Switzerland
  • Group Leader: Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
  • Member: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Pathologie

Research funding

  • 2022 EMDO Stiftung Zürich, Switzerland, Research Grant
  • 2019 Zürcher Krebskommission, Switzerland, Research Grant
  • 2017 EMBO Installation Grant, Heidelberg, Germany
  • 2017 Best presentation award at ISMB 2017, Prague, Czech Republic
  • 2005 EMBL Pre-doctoral Fellowship
  • 2005 FTG e.V. Certificate for 2nd best diploma degree

Career


Professional career

Education

  • 2005 – 2009 Ph.D. in Computational Biology, European Bioinformatics Institute, University of Cambridge, UK
  • 2000 – 2005 Diploma in Bioinformatics, Depart. for Hospital & Clinical Eng., Environmental Technology & Biotech, University of Applied Science Giessen-Friedberg, Germany

Current position(s)

  • since 08/2022: Lecturer and Group Leader, Institute for Chemistry and Bioanalytics, School for Life Sciences, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland, Muttenz, Switzerland.
  • since 04/2021: Group Leader, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Lausanne, Switzerland.

Previous Positions

  • 2017 – 2022 Head of Clinical Bioinformatics, Department of Pathology and Molecular Pathology, University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland
  • 2013 – 2017 Senior Postdoc, Institute of Molecular Life Science, University of Zurich, Switzerland
  • 2012 – 2013 Research Scientist, Institute of Biochemistry, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
  • 2009 – 2012 Postdoc, Institute of Molecular Systems Biology, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

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Teaching


Teaching activity

  • seit 2023 Dozent, "Human Genetik", FHNW.
  • seit 2023 Organisator, Dozent, "Biomarker", FHNW.
  • seit 2022 Dozent, "Bioinformatik und Datenbanken", FHNW.
  • seit 2022 Dozent, "Biopython Praktikum", FHNW.
  • seit 2019 Dozent, "Bioinformatics in Next Generation Sequencing", Mantelstudium - Medizin und Technik Modul 1, University of Zurich.
  • seit 2019 Dozent, "Bioinformatics in Molecular Pathology", ETH Curriculum Pathologie

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