Prof. Dr. Abdullah Kahraman
Prof. Dr. Abdullah Kahraman
Activities at the FHNW
- Group Leader, Data Science in Life Sciences
- Lecturer, Data Science in Life Sciences
Research
Data Science in Life Sciences, Computational Structural Biology / Cancer Omics
Profile
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
- 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
- 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
- ICGC/TCGA Pan-Cancer Analysis of Whole Genomes Consortium. (2020). Pan-cancer analysis of whole genomes. Nature, 578(7793), 82–93.
- Kahraman, A., Karakulak, T., Szklarczyk, D., von Mering, C. (2020), Pathogenic impact of transcript isoform switching in 1,209 cancer samples covering 27 cancer types using an isoform-specific interaction network, Sci Rep 10, 14453.
- Leuenberger, P., Ganscha, S., Kahraman, A., Cappelletti, V., Boersema, P. J., Mering, von, C., et al. (2017). Cell-wide analysis of protein thermal unfolding reveals determinants of thermostability. Science, 355 (6327).
- Feng, Y.*, De Franceschi, G.*, Kahraman, A.*, Soste, M., Melnik, A., Boersema, P., Polv`erino de Laureto, P., Nikoaev, Y., Oliveira, A.P., Picotti, P. (2014). Global analysis of protein structural changes in complex proteomes. Nature Biotech 32, 1036-1044.
- Herzog, F.*, Kahraman, A.*, Bohringer, D.*, Mak, R., Bracher, A., Walzthoeni, T., Leitner, A., Beck, M., Hartl, F. U., Ban, N, Malmstroem, L., Aebersold, R. (2012). Structural probing of a protein phosphatase 2A network by chemical cross-linking and mass spectrometry. Science 337, 1348–1352.
- Leitner, A., Kahraman, A.*, Walzthoeni, T.*, Herzog, F., Rinner, O., Beck, M., Aebersold, R. (2010). Probing native protein structures by chemical cross-linking, mass spectrometry and bioinformatics. Mol Cell Proteomics 9, 1634-1649
- Kahraman, A., Morris, R. J., Laskowski, R. A. & Thornton, J. M. (2007). Shape variation in protein binding pockets and their ligands. J Mol Biol, 368, 283-301.
- Morris, R. J., Najmanovich, R. J., Kahraman, A., Thornton, J. M. (2005). Real spherical harmonic expansion coefficients as 3D shape descriptors for protein binding pocket and ligand comparisons. Bioinformatics 21, 2347-2355
- 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
- Platform Co-Leader, Data Science: Biotechnet Switzerland
- Group Leader: Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
- Member: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Pathologie
Contact
- Prof. Dr. Abdullah Kahraman
- Group Leader, Data Science in Life Sciences
- Telephone
- +41 61 228 62 23 (direct)
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- School of Life Sciences FHNW
Institute for Chemistry and Bioanalytics
Hofackerstrasse 30
4132 Muttenz
Institute for Chemistry and Bioanalytics
FHNW University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland
School of Life Sciences,
Institute for Chemistry and Bioanalytics
Hofackerstrasse 30
CH - 4132 Muttenz
- Telephone
- +41 61 228 55 45
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