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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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