Nicola Mulder
Nicola Mulder | |
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| Institutions | University of Cape Town |
| Thesis | Identification and characterisation of transcriptional regulatory proteins from Mycobacterium tuberculosis (1998) |
Nicola J Mulder is a professor and head of the computational biology division at the University of Cape Town, South Africa.[1] She is also a principal investigator at H3ABioNet, a pan-African bioinformatics network for human heredity and health.[2]
Education
Mulder graduated with a bachelor degree in chemistry and microbiology, and an honours degree in microbiology.[3] She received her PhD from the University of Cape Town in 1998; her thesis subject was identifying and characterizing transcriptional regulatory proteins from Mycobacterium tuberculosis.[4]
Career and research
After graduating, Mulder spent 8 years working at the European Bioinformatics Institute, where she was a team leader responsible for the development of InterPro and the Gene Ontology Annotation Project.[3] Mulder was appointed associate professor and head of the computational biology division (CBIO) at the University of Cape Town in 2009; she was promoted to full professor in 2014.[1] Her research interests include microbial genomics and studying African population genetic diversity.[1]
Awards and honours
Mulder was elected to the University of Cape Town College of Fellows in 2016.[5] In 2018, she was elected Fellow of the African Academy of Sciences.[6] In 2025, she was named by the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) as an ISCB Fellow.[7]
References
- ^ a b c "Profile: Prof. Nicola Mulder | University of Cape Town". Faculty of Health Sciences. Retrieved 21 July 2025.
- ^ Mulder, Nicola J.; Adebiyi, Ezekiel; Alami, Raouf; Benkahla, Alia; Brandful, James; Doumbia, Seydou; Everett, Dean; Fadlelmola, Faisal M.; Gaboun, Fatima; Gaseitsiwe, Simani; Ghazal, Hassan; Hazelhurst, Scott; Hide, Winston; Ibrahimi, Azeddine; Fakim, Yasmina Jaufeerally; Jongeneel, C. Victor; Joubert, Fourie; Kassim, Samar; Kayondo, Jonathan; Kumuthini, Judit; Lyantagaye, Sylvester; Makani, Julie; Alzohairy, Ahmed Mansour; Masiga, Daniel; Moussa, Ahmed; Nash, Oyekanmi; Oukem-Boyer, Odile Ouwe Missi; Owusu-Dabo, Ellis; Panji, Sumir; Patterton, Hugh; Radouani, Fouzia; Sadki, Khalid; Seghrouchni, Fouad; Bishop, Özlem Tastan; Tiffin, Nicki; Ulenga, Nzovu; Consortium, The H3ABioNet (1 February 2016). "H3ABioNet, a sustainable pan-African bioinformatics network for human heredity and health in Africa". Genome Research. 26 (2): 271–277. doi:10.1101/gr.196295.115.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ a b "Professor Nicola Mulder | University of Cape Town". eResearch Africa 2019. Retrieved 21 July 2025.
- ^ "Publications: Prof. Nicola Mulder (ordered by publication date) | University of Cape Town". Faculty of Health Sciences. Retrieved 21 July 2025.
- ^ "New fellows honoured for distinguished work". www.news.uct.ac.za. Retrieved 22 July 2025.
- ^ "Mulder Nicola". African Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 22 July 2025.
- ^ "ISCB Fellows". Retrieved 21 July 2025.