PeopleWe are based at the Africa Centre for Health and Population Studies, the Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa and the HIV-1 Mucosal Pathogenesis and Treatment Program, Department of Immunology, University of Pretoria, South Africa. Find below Tulio de Oliveira and Sharon Cassol contact details, research interests
and information on members and associates of their research groups.
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Dr. Tulio de Oliveira - My research interests concentrates on HIV evolution under selection pressure created in the transmission, acquisition and drug escape processes. A particular point of interest is on the study of the origins of HIV and the effect of network of transmissions in the spread of HIV in Africa and other continents and the study of ARV drug resistance development in HIV-1 subtype C. In addition, I am also very interested in the development of open-source bioinformatics software applications and databases. tdeoliveira@africacentre.ac.za, telephone: +27 (0)35 550 7542, facsimile: +27 (0)35 550 7565. |
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Professor Sharon Cassol is the Head of the HIV-1 Mucosal Pathogenesis and Treatment Program, Department of Immunology, University of Pretoria, South Africa. Prof. Cassol has over 25 years HIV research experience and is interested in virological and immunological basic science questions related to the role of macrophages in HIV-1 subtype C infection. sharon.cassol@up.ac.za, telephone: +27 (0)12 319 2161 , facsimile: +27 (0)12 323 7032. |
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Justen Manasa - PhD student under the supervision of Tulio de Oliveira and Prof. David Katzenstein from Stanford Univ. Justen PhD concentrates on the development laboratory assays for HIV-1 genotyping as well as bioinformatics analysis of HIV-1 ARV drug resistance in Southern Africa. jmanasa@africacentre.ac.za, telephone: +27 (0) 31 260 46 54, facsimile: +27 (0) 31 260 40 15 |
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Dr. Siva Danivah - PostDoc at the Africa Centre for Health and Population Studies laboratory at the DDRMI at the Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine. Siva is interested in the combination of molecular and bioinformatics research to study HIV/TB co-infection, of particular interest is how TB drives the compartimentalization of HIV-1 strains on spinal TB patients. sdanaviah@africacentre.ac.za, telephone: +27 (0) 31 260 46 54, facsimile: +27 (0) 31 260 40 15 |
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