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Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences
Department of Biochemistry

Postgraduate Student Research Projects 2011

Dissertations/Theses: [10]

Cheng P: Biochemical and molecular characterization of putative immunoprotective molecules of the soft tick, Ornithodoros savignyi Audouin (1827) (Dr ARM Gaspar, Prof AWH Neitz, Dr BJ Mans)

Fonteh P: Gold compounds with anti-HIV and immunomodulatory activity (Prof D Meyer)

Lemmer Y: Assessment of mycolic acids as ligand for nanoencapsulated anti-tuberculosis drug targeting (Prof JA Verschoor, Dr H Swai, Dr B Semete)

Niemand J: Biochemical characterisation of putrescine and spermidine uptake as a potential therapeutic target against the human malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum (Prof L Birkholtz, Prof AI Louw, Prof K Kirk)

Smit S: Functional consequences of the inhibition of Malaria S-adenosylmethionine decarboxylase as a key regulator of polyamine and methionine metabolism (Prof L Birkholtz, Prof AI Louw)

Williams M: Biochemical and structural characterization of novel drug targets regulating polyamine biosynthesis in the human malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum (Prof L Birkholtz, Prof AI Louw, Prof L Persson)

Goolab S: Optimization of the heterologous expression of folate metabolic enzymes of Plasmodium falciparum (Prof AI Louw, Prof L Birkholtz)

Malebe MP: Development of marker assisted selection for drought tolerance in tea Camellia sinensis (L.) O. Kuntze using RAPD Analysis (Prof Z Apostolides)

Schriek CA: Development of a genotyping management and support system for genetic variation studies (Prof F Joubert, Prof AA Myburg)

Steyn A: Transmembrane glycoprotein gp41 of the Human Immunodefiency Virus Type I: gene synthesis, recombinant expression and immunological characterization (Prof JA Verschoor, Prof CP Kenyon)

 

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