Segun Adeyemi Fatumo

Objectives:

Development of novel bioinformatics methods, tools, and systems to biological research especially as it applies to common infectious diseases in Africa and more particularly Malaria (Plasmodium falciparum).

Application of sequence analysis methods and other computational tools to the experimental projects.

Collaboration with world class experimental researchers worldwide.

Education:
2006 - Covenant University Ota Nigeria
PhD (in-view) in Computer Science (Bioinformatics opt.)
Supervisors : Dr Ezekiel Adebiyi, Covenant Uni, Nigeria
Dr Rainer Konig DKFZ, Germany

2006-2007 Cologne University Bioinformatics Center,
One Year Postgraduate Training in Applied Bioinformatics
Supervisor : Dr Rainer Konig @ DKFZ, Heidelberg

2004 – 2005 Covenant University, Ota Nigeria
M.Sc in Computer Science (DISTICTION) with thesis in computational Molecular Biology: Suffix Tree based Oligonucleotide Design Algorithm
Supervisor : Dr Ezekiel Adebiyi

1999 – 2002 University of Science and Technology, Port-Harcourt,
Rivers – State , Nigeria
B.Sc Computer Science(Second Class Upper Division)

Professional Experience
2004 – Date Lecturer/Research Fellow; Covenant University, Ota
2006 – 2007 Research Fellow, DKFZ Heidelberg, Germany
2002 – 2003 Training Coordinator; Online systems Limited, PH

Professional Membership
ISCB – International Society for Computational Biology
ASM – American Society for Microbiology
ASBCB – African society for Bioinformatics and computational Biology
NISBCB- Nigerian society for bioinformatics and computational Biology
NCS – Nigerian Computer Society

Technical skill
Operating Systems - Linux , Windows, SOLARIS.

Programming Languages: Perl, C, Python, Visual-Basic, R

Databases : MySQL, FileMarker, Ms-Access, PDB, BRENDA,
SWISS-MODEL, PFAM, ENTREZ etc

Other Bioinformatics tools: BLAST, Fasta, Several EMBL-EBI Tools,
RASMOL, Swiss PDB Viewer, JMOL, PyMol, BRAGI,
GLIMMER, etc

Publications
Reviewed :
Adebiyi, E. F., Fatumo, S.A.and Osamor V.C A Significant Difference in Output among Microarray Experiment Front-end Tools, Poster proceeding of 13th Annual International conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB), Michigan, USA. June 2005.

Adebiyi, E. F., Fatumo, S. A. and Osamor, V. C. Conventional Doctor’s Medication steps versus Technologies emerging from Bioinformatics. (13 pages) Presented at the 1st International Conference on Human Development (ICHD), Covenant University, Ota, Nigeria, June 27-30, 2005

Sofoluwe A. B, Ayo C. K, Adetiba E. and Fatumo S. (2004): Online Recharge Card Loading:”A test case for m-banking implementation”, Journal of Computer Science and its Applications, vol. 11, no 1, pp. 72-80.

Books
Adebiyi, E. F. and Fatumo, S.A Mathematical Methods and Their Applications. Covenant University Press (more than 700 pages), 2006

Segun Fatumo and Olalere Alao Pathway To Academic Success (A motivational book) Mass Standard Publishing, Nigeria 2005

Award/Fellowship
Federal Ministry of Education and Research Germany(BMBF) for one year Postgraduate Bioinformatics training course at the Cologne University Bioinformatics Center, University of cologne.

WHO/TDR Fellowship to participate in the second training course on functional Genomics of insect vectors of Human disease, MRTC Bamako

Travel Fellowship to 13th Annual International conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB), Michigan, USA.

Covenant University Staff support fellowship for Masters Degree

Employer of the year 2002(Tagged Top Two), Online systems, Limited, Port-Harcourt, Nigeria

Conferences & Workshops
Second Biomodels.net Training Camp, MIB, Manchester, United-Kingdom
10-13 January, 2007

Course in Practical DNA Microarray Analysis, 27-30 November, 2007 Heidelberg, Germany. Funded by NGFN Germany.

Structural and functional Genomics Retreat Kloster Schontal, Heilbronn, Germany. 2-3 November, 2006

Second training course on functional genomics of insect vectors of Human Disease MRTC, Bamako , Mali , Nov 2005

International Workshop on Pattern Discovery in Biology ,held at Covenant University Ota Nigeria .18 April – 27 April 2005

Danifol BioTechnology Consult Workshop– A 5 day Workshop on Molecular Biology Techniques held in Lagos Nigeria. 8th November – 12 November 2004

International Centre for Mathematical and Computer Sciences-International Conference on New Developments in the Mathematical and Computer Science, Lagos Nigeria. –25th-27th Oct, 2004

Personal
Birth : 16th November, Place : Lagos
Nationality : Nigerian
Sex : Male
Marital Status : Single
Languages : English(Very Good), German (Basic) and Yoruba(Native)

Reference:
Available on Request