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Karen van der Merwe

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Member since: November 19, 2009

I have BSc IT - Bioinformatics and BSc (Hons) Bioinformatics degrees from the University of Pretoria. I am currently working as junior programmer for the Forest Molecular Genetics research group of FABI at the University of Pretoria.

Current address

Forest Molecular Genetics
Pretoria, Gauteng
South Africa

Education

BSc (Hons) Bioinformatics
University of Pretoria
2011 — 2011

BSc IT - Bioinformatics
University of Pretoria
2007 — 2010

Experience

Junior Programmer
Forest Molecular Genetics (FABI) University of Pretoria
2011 — Now

Part-time Software Developer
University of Pretoria - Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Unit
2010 — 2011

Software Developer
Team Auroura 3rd year Software Engineering group - University of Pretoria
2009 — 2009

Skills

Programming (Java, Python, JS, PHP)
Research and analysis

Activities

University of Pretoria Postgraduate Bursary
NRF Project Bursary

Interests

Computer programming
Genetics
Phylogenetics