GRI seminar day
Friday 31 October 2014
Program
08:30
Registration
09:00
Welcome and introduction: Prof Don Cowan, Director
09:20
PLENARY LECTURE: Prof Yves van de Peer, Department of Plant Biotechnology
and Bioinformatics, Ghent University and Genomics Research Institute,
University of Pretoria:
Using novel bio-inspired principles to improve adaptability of evolutionary swarm
robots in dynamically changing environments.
10:00
L1: Jandeli Niemand, Centre for Sustainable Malaria Control, Department of
Biochemistry:
The human malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum, makes use of proliferationquiescent decision making to enforce cell cycle control and regulation.
10:15
L2: Carlo S Jackson, Department of Immunology and Institute for Cellular and
Molecular Medicine:
Improving the expansion and transduction of hematopoietic stem cells.
10:30
Morning tea
11:00
KEYNOTE LECTURE: Dr. Carsten Kulheim, Research School of Biology, Australian
National University College of Medicine, Biology and Environment:
Genetic control of quantitative and qualitative variation of plant secondary
metabolites in Australian Myrtaceae.
11:30
L3: Leandro Guerrero, Centre for Microbial Ecology and Genomics:
Metagenomics reveals lifestyle diversity in bacterial hypolithons from Antarctica.
11:45
L4: Wai Yin Chan, Department of Microbiology and Plant Pathology and
Department of Plant Production and Soil Science:
Genome comparisons reveal the evolution of Nitrogen Fixation in Burkholderia
12:00
L5: John Liversage, Department of Plant Science, & Forestry and Agricultural
Biotechnology Institute:
Functional characterisation of the Cercospora zeina crp1 gene as a putative
pathogenesis regulation factor.
12:15
L6 Eoin Gunnigle, Centre for Microbial Ecology and Genomics:
Evidence of Dynamic bacterial communities in Namib Desert Soil detected over
short temporal scales.
12:30
Lunch
13:30
L7: Antoinette Čolić, Department of Biochemistry & Department of Immunology
and Institute for Cellular and Molecular Medicine:
Pharmacogenetics of CYP2B6, CYP2A6 and UGT2B7: relevance to HIV treatment
in African populations.
13:45
KEYNOTE LECTURE: Prof Kathleen Marchal, Department of Plant Biotechnology
and Bioinformatics, Ghent University:
Network-based data-integration: applications to clonal systems.
14:15
L8: Marco Allesandrini, Department of Immunology and Institute for Cellular
and Molecular Medicine & Department of Haematology:
AMLprofiler
14:30
L9: Cheryl Stewart, Department of Immunology and Institute for Cellular and
Molecular Medicine & Department of Paediatrics &Child Health:
In the Blood – Identifying cystic fibrosis mutations in South African patients.
14:45
L10: Janet Mans, Department of Medical Virology:
Analysis of norovirus diversity by next generation sequencing.
15:00
L11: Stanford Kwenda, Department of Plant Science, & Forestry and Agricultural
Biotechnology Institute:
Discovery if small RNAs in the plant pathogen Pectobacterium atrosepticum
15:15
Afternoon tea
15:45
L12: Ingrid Rossouw, Department of Genetics & Department of Biochemistry:
Transcriptional response to the herbicide-derived compound A51B1C1_1 in the
zoonotic parasite – Babesia divergens.
16:00
L13: Luise Robbertse, Department of Genetics:
Genetic diversity and acarida resistance status of Rhipicephalus microplus in
South Africa and the isolated Mnisi area.
16:15
L14: Liberata Mwita, Department of Biochemistry & Department of
Microbiology and Plant Pathology:
Gene Expression regulation of a plant groeth promoting rhizobacterium Bacillus
atrophaeus UCMB-5137 in response to maize root exudate stimulation.
16:30
L15: Maryke Carstens, Department of Plant Science, & Forestry and Agricultural
Biotechnology Institute:
QTL resistance to grey leaf spot disease in a sub-tropical population of maize
from multiple seasons and field sites.
16:45
L16: Evelien Adriaenssens, Centre for Microbial Ecology and Genomics:
Metaviromics of extreme terrestrial habitats: A comparison between Antarctic
and Namib Desert hypoliths.
17:00
Evening Cocktail Function at the Plant Science Auditorium – Roof Top