Tulio de Oliveira and Sharon Cassol Research Groups

Tulio de Oliveira research group is based on the South African National Bioinformatics Institute, the University of the Western Cape, South Africa.
Sharon Cassol group is based on the MRC Inflamation and Immunity Unit, Department of Immunology, University of Pretoria, South Africa.

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	Dr. Tulio de Oliveira - My research concentrates on inter- and intra- host aspects of HIV-1 evolution. In particular determining the causes and consequences of HIV-1 epidemic in Africa and its introduction to other continents. In the process of studying the evolutionary aspects of HIV, I am also creating and developing bioinformatics software applications...
	Prof. Sharon Cassol
	Dr. Gordon Harkins - Post-Doc,
	Allan Kamau - Developer, I am a database administrator and software developer. My current research interests are in HIV drug resistance, monitoring factors that may be closely associated with resistance acquisition and datamining.
	Sean McLaughlin - PhD student, Currently I am writing up the results of phylogenetic analyses of HIV 1 Subtype C sequences to investigate the phylodynamics and phylogeography of the global epidemic. These results, combined with theory and data drawn from anthropological, demographic and epidemiological literature will attempt to enhance our understanding of the Subtype C epidemic, with an emphasis on aiding health care workers in strategies and practices to limit the spread of HIV, especially in developing regions most severely affected by the epidemic.
	Samuel Kwofie - PhD Student, My current Research: Evolutionary studies and functional annotation of RNA virus genome. I am also interested in science education curricula development and policy.

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Page last updated 27 September 2008 by Tulio de Oliveira.