Personal profile
Biography
Zbynek Bozdech holds currently a position as Assistant Professor at the School of Biological Sciences at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore leading a research team investigating molecular aspects of malaria parasite life cycle. In 1990, he has received his masters’ degree in Biochemistry from Charles University in Prague. From here he moved to McGill University in Montréal Canada to start his PhD studies involving protein trafficking in Plasmodium infected erythrocytes. In 1998 he moved to UCSF, where he worked in the laboratory of Joseph L. DeRisi exploring the transcriptome of Plasmodium falciparum using the fast emerging microarray technology. This work has lead to assembly of one of the first P. falciparum microarray and explorations of the global transcription pattern of the P. falciparum intraerythrocytic developmental cycle. In 2004, he moved to the newly forming School of Biological Sciences at NTU, to start his own research group. Presently Dr Bozdech is exploring several molecular aspects of translation and posttranslational regulation associated with the progression of the P. falciparum life cycle. In addition, using several technologies of high throughout genomics and proteomics his group is exploring molecular mechanisms associated with virulence and drug resistance in field strains of P. falciparum and P. vivax.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
