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Dr Oleg Reva has joined the Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Unit of the University of Pretoria as a NBN Node Manager from April 2006.
Dr Reva obtained a PhD in Microbiology (taxonomy of endophytic Bacillus applicable for plant protection) in 1995 from the Institute of Microbiology and Virology in Kiev, Ukraine. He did his post-doc in Bioinformatics (functional genomics of stress response of Pseudomonas putida KT2440) in the lab of Klinische Forschergruppe at the Medizinische Hochschule Hannover in 2002-2004.
As Node Manager, he is responsible for inter- and intra-node communications for the Pretoria National Bioinformatics Network node. He also is involved in managing bioinformatics services and support, short courses and post-graduate lectures.
Dr Reva's research interesests are in the development of new biostatistical algorithms and computer programs for functional and structural genomics. Namely: development of new biostatistical methods and computer programs for functional and structural genomics; in silico comparison and 'linguistic' analysis of bacterial genomes (see a newly published applet); bacterial response to stresses on the level of genome functionality and gene expression regulation; identification and annotation of mobile genome islands, islets, prophages, transposons and IS-elements; reconstruction of genome evolution in a historical perspective.
Dr Oleg Reva,
Tel: +27 12 420 5810,
Fax: +27 12 420 5800
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