Ruslan Kalendar
Professor (Biology), Senior Research Scientist, Adjunct Professor (Docent)
Genetics, genomics, bioinformatics, PCR assay design, repeats and genome dynamics
Appointments
- Professor (Biology) — Nazarbayev University profile
- Adjunct Professor (Docent) (No. 325/114/2007) — University of Helsinki , Department of Biosciences, Division of Genetics
- Senior Research Scientist — LUKE / BI, Plant Genome Dynamics, University of Helsinki
- Senior Research Scientist — National Laboratory Astana (NLA) , Nazarbayev University, Republic of Kazakhstan
Education
- Ph.D. (Molecular Genetics & Molecular Biology) — Institute of Molecular Biology and Genetics (NAS of Ukraine)
- M.S. (Molecular Genetics & Molecular Biology) — Odessa National University, Ukraine
Research interests
General evolution, Goethe's science, genetics, DNA, biology of retrotransposons, the role of viruses in genome evolution and adaptation, biodiversity and genetic marker applications, synthetic biology, bioinformatics (string search and complexity analysis, repeat search, DNA alignment and assembly, PCR primer design) and mathematics (projective geometry).
Editorial contributions
Current
- Frontiers in Plant Science: Specialty Chief Editor (Technical Advances in Plant Science)
- Heliyon: Associate Editor (Plant Genetics)
- Hereditas: Associate Editor (Data Mining and Genome Technology)
- PLoS Computational Biology: Editorial Board Member (Genomics, Epigenomics, and Proteomics)
- BMC Biology: Editorial Board Member (Genetics and Genomics)
- BMC Genomics: Editorial Board Member
- BMC Plant Biology: Editorial Board Member
- BMC Genomic Data: Editorial Board Member
- Frontiers in Bioscience — Elite: Editorial Board Member
- BioTech: Editorial Board Member