Bioinformatics or Computational Biology provides a new career opportunity for biological scientists as well as for interdisciplinary collaboration between the mathematicians, statisticians, physicists, computer scientists and chemists with life scientists.

Currently there are several exciting research projects in computational biology at UCT that provide opportunities for prospective PhD, MSc and Honours research students. Bioinformatics research at UCT ranges from comparative genomics, to pathogen bioinformatics, protein structure and gene expression bioinformatics as well as computational molecular evolution.

If you are self-motivated and have an Honours or undergraduate degree in the molecular biosciences, mathematics, computer science, statistics, physics or chemistry, you are invited to apply for a research studentship in computational biology.

An Honours programme in Bioinformatics is available through the Health Sciences Med Honours programme (see the Health Sciences website for details).

A Masters and PhD training programme in Bioinformatics is available at UCT, which includes a set of national training courses. Coursework is followed by a bioinformatics project. An MSc. in Structural Bioinformatics provides a three-week module in structural bioinformatics, which forms an integral component of the Structural Biology MSc programme.

For more information contact Assoc Prof Nicky Mulder on: tel (021) 4066058, or email nicola.muldero@uct.ac.za.

See also the Postgraduate poster.