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Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences
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Department of Biochemistry

Postgraduate Student Research Projects 2008

Dissertations/Theses: [10]

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)

De Bruin JJ: Discovery and characterization of polyamine analogues as inhibitors using chemoinformatics (Prof F Joubert)

Dias ASP: The effects of combinations of a green tea extract and an active ingredient thereof, with standard antiretroviral drugs on SC-a1cells infected with the LPBM5 virus (Dr MJ Bester, Prof Z Apostolides)

Emmett WA: Using oligonucleotide signatures to build a system for effective detection of pathogenic bacteria in metagenomic samples (Dr O Reva)

Law PJ: Development and application of analysis modules in MADIBA, a Web-based toolkit for the interpretation of microarray data (Prof DK Berger, Prof F Joubert)

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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