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Dr mohloPheNi mArAkAlAlA
Investigation of C-type lectin receptors in immunity to
Candidiasis,Tuberculosis and Staphylococcus infections
Dr JeNNiFer ClAire hoviNg
Asthma and Allergy
elective students – part-time foreign
SAeeDA bobAt – University of Birmingham
ANitA mASiC – University of Wuerzburg
liANNA wooD, Seattle Biomedical Research Institute,
USA
elective – local
leANie kleyNhANS – University of Stellenbosch
NelitA Du PleSSiS – University of Stellenbosch
Distinguished Visitors
harukazu Suzuki riken institute-Japan
Sugata roy riken institute-Japan
bernhard ryffel CNrS France
Daniel barber max Planck, germany
martin bachmann Cytos,Switzerland
Claudia Jakubzic virginia, uSA
mattias Svensson karolinska institute, Sweden
benjamin marsland eth Zurich, Switzerland
gordon brown univ Aberdeen, uk
luisa
martinez
Pomares univ Nottingham, uk
Cecilie Svanes univ bergen, uk
howard Clark univ Southampton, uk
Jim Alexander univ Strathclyde, uk
Andrew mcdonald univ edinburgh, uk
Abhay Satoskar ohio State university, uSA
Catherine lawrence univ Strathclyde, uk
Don Sodora Seattle biomedical research
institute, uSA
helen horton Seattle biomedical research
institute, uSA
lianna wood Seattle biomedical research
institute, uSA
michael Pepper university of Pretoria, SA
guido Ferrari Duke university, uSA
mike betts univ of Pennsylvania, uSA
martin ota mrC gambia
Simon Draper univ oxford, uk
mario roederer Nih/vrC uSA
Steve De rosa univ of washington, uSA
gaelle breton
the rockefeller university,
uSA
rick koup Nih/vrC uSA
Steve Perfetto Nih/vrC uSA
tony moody Duke university, uSA
ken rosenthal
mcmasters university,
Canada
bill Cameron university of ottawa
Johanna Spaans university of ottawa
Stefan magez vrije university, belgium
CoNtACt DetAilS
Postal Address: Division of Immunology, Faculty of Health
Science, Private Bag X3, Observatory, 7935
Telephone: +27 21 406 6616
DiviSioN oF meDiCAl
bioChemiStry
heAD oF DiviSioN: ProFeSSor Peter meiSSNer
The Division of Medical Biochemistry is a preclinical,
basic science division in the UCT Faculty of Health
Sciences and is associated, either wholly or partly, with
a number of advanced research entities. Some such
entities are laboratory research groups contained entirely
within Division, while some have certain components or
personnel falling within the Division, affiliated to other
Institutes or Departmental groupings.
Specifically: The Division incorporates the MRC/UCT
Research Group for Receptor Biology (co-directed by A/Prof
Arieh Katz and Dr Colleeen Flanagan, ex-UCT now at WITS,
and Prof Bob Millar, now a Senior Scholar in our Division); the
MRC/UCT Oesophageal Cancer Research Group (directed
by Prof Iqbal Parker); members of the Institute of Infectious
Disease and Molecular Medicine (IIDMM) at UCT (Profs
Sturrock, Blackburn, Meissner, Parker, Katz and Leaner);
and the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and
Biotechnology (ICGEB) (Prof Iqbal Parker). At the end of
2011, the Structural Biology research Unit (under Prof Sewell)
became an accredited URC-recognised entity.
Through 2011 there were 57 research postgraduate
students registered for either master’s or PhD (44 in 2010),
and a further 6 Honours students were based wholly in
Medical Biochemistry for the duration of their research
projects (April – November) (9 in 2010). The Division
graduated 6 PhD and 3 MSc students during the course of
2011 (1 PhD and 2 MSc during 2010). Together with various
scientific and academic staff our postgraduate students
and 18 postdoctoral fellows (13 in 2010) continued to form
the basis of a vibrant and on-going research thrust and
culture in the Division, forming the core of our Divisional
research strategy – out of which flows a contemporary and
effective approach to teaching at both under- and postgraduate
levels. During 2011 the Division and its’ affiliates
published 46 papers in ISI accredited science journals
and and 2 chapters in text books.
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