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Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences
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Department of Biochemistry

The biochemistry, immunology and molecular biology of parasites and bacteria of medical-veterinary significance in Southern Africa - Postgraduate Student Projects

Dissertations/Theses:
Deysel MSM: Structure-function relationships of mycolic acids in tuberculosis (Prof JA Verschoor, Prof MS Baird)

Thanyani TS: An assessment of two evanescent field biosensors in the development of an immunoassay for tuberculosis (Prof JA Verschoor)

Prinsloo W: Computational models for conformations of cell wall mycolates from Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Prof JA Verschoor, Dr A Croft, Prof MS Baird)

Stutzer C: Molecular characterization of two Ornithodoros savignyi enzyme isoforms belonging to the 5’-nucleotidase family (Prof AWH Neitz, Dr ARM Gaspar, Dr C Maritz-Olivier)

Venter L: Dynamics of interaction between mycolic acids and cholesterol in tuberculosis (Prof JA Verschoor)

Williams M: Delineation of functional roles of parasite-specific inserts in the malarial S-adenosylmethionine decarboxylase/ ornithine decarboxylase (Prof AI Louw, Dr L Birkholtz)

 

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