Rudiger Brauning Email & Phone Number

Mosgiel, New Zealand

• Bioinformatics consultation: Development of appropriate Bioinformatics protocols for wetlab questions:o Sequence annotation.o Genome assembly.o Detection of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs).o Handling of next generation sequencing data.o Sequence submission.o Expression analysis.• Documentation of Bioinformatics solutions.• Organization, development and presentation of in house Bioinformatics courses. Topics taught: Introduction to VectorNTI, Introduction to PossumBase.

Cape Town, South Africa

• Organization, development and presentation of Bioinformatics courses in South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria and Thailand resulting in more than 500 scientists trained in Bioinformatics. Topics taught by me: Biological Databases, SRS (Sequence Retrieval System), EMBOSS , Pairwise sequence alignment (principles & methods), Multiple sequence alignments, Similarity Searches, PAUP , BioEdit.• Involved in setting up the National Bioinformatics Network of South Africa to support the Biotech industry and to develop capacity in Bioinformatics.• Development and provision of an online server to provide research tools that effectively deploy the latest genome technology, skills and training to the South African research community:o Installation of EMBOSS and GUIs for EMBOSS.o Installation of SRS and indexing of various biological databases for this sequence retrieval system.o Mirroring the Ensembl Genome Browser.o Continuously updating databases and software.• Bioinformatics support for researchers across South Africa via email and telephone

• Organization, development and presentation of Bioinformatics courses in South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria and Thailand resulting in more than 500 scientists trained in Bioinformatics. See http://http://www.ssi-tdr.net/news/tdr_trainingcourses.html Topics taught by me: Biological Databases, SRS (Sequence Retrieval System), EMBOSS , Pairwise sequence alignment (principles & methods), Multiple sequence alignments, Similarity Searches, PAUP , BioEdit.• Involved in setting up the National Bioinformatics Network of South Africa to support the Biotech industry and to develop capacity in Bioinformatics.• Development and provision of an online server to provide research tools that effectively deploy the latest genome technology, skills and training to the South African research community:o Installation of EMBOSS and GUIs for EMBOSS.o Installation of SRS and indexing of various biological databases for this sequence retrieval system.o Mirroring the Ensembl Genome Browser.o Continuously updating databases and software.• Bioinformatics support for researchers across South Africa via email and telephone

Cape Town, South Africa

Partner in EMBCORE, The core European bioinformatics research infrastructure in the life sciences; Fifth Framework Programme (FP5) proposal; European Union (EU)

Heidelberg, Germany

Partner in EMBCORE, The core European bioinformatics research infrastructure in the life sciences; Fifth Framework Programme (FP5) proposal; European Union (EU)

Heidelberg, Germany

• Literature search, development of new methods and algorithms for sequence analysis, software design and implementation. User consulting, scientific collaboration with in house groups: developing tailor-made databases and software. Structuring, implementing and maintaining sequence databases. Presenting courses, developing new teaching materials.• Organization, development and presentation of Bioinformatics courses for users of the HUSAR (Heidelberg UNIX Sequence Analysis Resources) program package in Germany. Topics: Usage of the HUSAR package, UNIX, SRS.• Presentation of lectures on Bioinformatics to Medical Informaticians.

Phd, Molecular Genetics

Activities and Societies: DFG Graduate College 'Biotechnology' http://http://www.gk388.uni-hd.de/mitglieder.htmlThesis entitled: '.

Master, Biology (Specialization: Microbiology)

Thesis entitled: 'Investigating the biosynthesis of antibiotics produced by Streptomyces tendae Tü901'

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