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Dr Shaun Peters - Post-doctoral fellow
speters@botinst.uzh.ch | +27 21 650 4497
Amogelang Gill - PhD
The role of selected cell wall proteins in protection against mechanical stress during desiccation in plant tissues.
Certain desiccation-tolerant (DT) plants use extensive folding of the cell wall to minimize the damage that occurs from stress experienced during dehydration. Recent work has shown that leaf mechanical properties are also affected by water status. In addition, acquisition of DT involves the synthesis of stress-induced proteins. My aim is to determine whether cell wall proteins influence the mechanical properties of cell walls during the drying of DT plants that display differences in mechanical properties.
amogelang.gill@uct.ac.za | +27 21 650 4682 Alireza Kiyaei - PhD
alireza.kiyaei@uct.ac.za | +27 21 650 4497
Tafara Matekaire - PhD
Analysis of chloroplast proteome in desiccation tolerant homoiochlorophyllous (HDT) and poikilochlorophyllous (PDT) resurrection plants
Resurrection plants cope with desiccation stress and associated light stress in different ways, viz. homoiochlorophylly vs. poikilochlorophylly. This project involves profiling heat stable proteins at organelle level (organelle proteomics) specifically the chloroplast over a time course of dehydration and rehydration of two resurrection plants, Talbotia elegans (HDT) and Xerophyta humilis (PDT).
tafara.matekaire@uct.ac.za | +27 21 650 4497
Mehafo Nepembe - PhD
mehafo.nepembe@uct.ac.za | +27 21 650 4682
Megan Beckett - MSc
megan.beckett@uct.ac.za | +27 21 650 4497
Halford Dace - MSc
halford.dace@uct.ac.za | +27 21 650 4497
Rizqah Kamies - MSc
rizqah.kamies@uct.ac.za | +27 21 650 4682
Ryman Shoko - Msc
ryman.shoko@uct.ac.za | +27 21 650 4682
Keren Cooper - laboratory technician / lab manager
The majority of my work involves the use of electron microscopy to examine the ultrastructure of desiccation-tolerant and -sensitive plants and immunolocalization of various molecules thought to be associated with desiccation tolerance.
keren.cooper@uct.ac.za | +27 21 650 2303 |
