| Upcoming seminar
11 Mar | 1pm (LT1, MCB)
Recent advances in the diagnosis of TB and the study of its transmission
(Dr Grant Theron, Lung Infection & Immunity Unit, Dept of Medicine, UCT)
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Positions available at MCB
Two PhD/MSc projects investigating phytoalexins and Maize Disease Resistance are available. The projects are to be supervised by Dr Shane Murray and Dr Dionne Sheperd.
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An MSc position is being offered in the Biopharming Research Unit (BRU) of Prof E Rybicki starting as soon as possible in 2014. This is part of an NRF-funded project to produce Foot and mouth disease virus vaccine candidates and diagnostic reagents in plants.
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Welcome to the Molecular and Cell Biology Department website
University of Cape Town
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The Biopharming Research Unit - affectionately known to its members as 'The Bru' - was accredited by the SEC in September 2013. The new Unit is based in the Department of
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Molecular and Cell Biology, and comprises the research groups led by Professor Ed Rybicki, who is the Director. The BRU has as its central mission the expression of pharmaceutically relevant recombinant proteins in plants and insect cells, and a side mission in engineering virus resistance in maize and other crops. Members of the Unit are inventors on possibly the largest portfolio of patents at UCT, and the largest molecular biotechnology portfolio in South Africa. Principal projects right now are the production of pandemic and potentially pandemic influenza vaccines, candidate vaccines to against bluetongue virus of ruminants, and chimaeric papillomavirus vaccines. Pictured here is PhD student Sandiswa Mbewana with the SA Journal of Science volume which featured her article on the front cover.
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Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Cape Town,
Private Bag, Rondebosch, 7701
Telephone: 021 650 3270
Facsimile: 021 689 7573 |
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