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Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences
School of Biological Sciences
Department of Biochemistry

Postgraduate Student Research Projects 2009

Dissertations/Theses: [11]

Burger PB: Development of a dinamic receptor-based pharmacophore model of Plasmodium falciparum spermidine synthase for selective inhibitor identification (Prof AI Louw, Prof F Joubert, Dr L Birkholtz, Prof JM Briggs)

De Beer TAP: The development of a structural bioinformatics information management system and its application to variation in foot-and-mouth disease virus proteins (Prof F Joubert, Dr FF Maree)

Ganesan H: New tools for comparative genomics based on analysis of oligonucleotide compositional constraints and single nucleotide polymorphisms (Dr O Reva, Prof F Joubert)

Van Brummelen AC: Functional genomics analysis of the effects of co-inhibition of the malarial S-adenosylmethionine decarboxylase/ornithine decarboxylase (Dr L Birkholtz, Prof AI Louw, Prof M Llinas)

Bezuidt KIO: Development of novel tools and the database for precise identification and study of distribution of mobile genomic elements in bacterial genomes (Dr O Reva)

Du Rand EE: Identification of digallated and methylated catechins using UPLC/MS/MS and development of a rapid analysis method for theanine in tea [Camellia sinensis (L.) O. Kuntze] utilizing evaporative light scattering detection (Prof Z Apostolides)

Harrison CM: In silico annotation of molecular interactions in Plasmodium falciparum (Prof F Joubert, Dr AO Tastan Bishop)

Reeksting SB: Metabolomic analyses of the malaria parasite after inhibition of polyamine biosynthesis (Dr L Birkholtz, Prof AI Louw)

Roberts VV: Immunochemistry of mycolic acid antigens in tuberculosis (Prof JA Verschoor, Dr LA Pilcher (Collett))

Stopforth E: Proteomic analysis of the humoral antifungal immune response of the soft tick, Ornithodoros savignyi Audouin (1827) (Dr ARM Gaspar, Prof AWH Neitz)

Wium M: Characterization of genetic diversity in selected cultivars and identification of a possible molecular marker for drought tolerance in tea Camelia sinensis (L.) O.Kuntze (Prof Z Apostolides)

 

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