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AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH COUNCIL

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Animal HealthAnimal Genetics/GenomicsBiotechnology Platform

​* Sunflower breeding;
* Genetics, genomics and genetic engineering for yield,
  oil quality, and other traits;
* Biofuel production and processing.

  
SwanevelderD@arc.agric.za(012) 529 9472Onderstepoort, Pretoria
Animal HealthToxicologyFood/Feed

​* Feed Safety - mycotoxin research

  
phokuj@arc.agric.za(012) 529 9256Onderstepoort, Pretoria
Animal HealthToxicologyFood/Feed

​* Genetic Toxicology
* In vitro toxicity and natural products isolation
* Toxicology Diagnostics

  
elgorashie@arc.agric.za(012) 529 9260Onderstepoort, Pretoria
Animal HealthTaxonomyInsects

​* Culicoides identification, taxonomy and surveillance
* Repellent testing using UV light traps
* General biting fly identification. 

  
labuschagnek@arc.agric.za(012) 529 9177Onderstepoort, Pretoria
Animal HealthDiagnostic servicesLivestock diseases

​* Collection and Submission of Specimens;
* ​Collaborating and reference centers;
* Diagnostics​ & ​Submission Forms.

  
BofeloF@arc.agric.za(012) 529 9274/3/2Onderstepoort, Pretoria
Animal HealthVaccine ProductionLivestock diseases

​* Foot and Mouth Vaccines - Antigen Production

  
PetaF@arc.agric.za(012) 529 ​9577Onderstepoort, Pretoria
Animal HealthVaccine ProductionLivestock diseases

​* Foot and Mouth vaccines - Tissue culture services

  
VanStadenL@arc.agric.za(012) 529 ​9576Onderstepoort, Pretoria
Animal HealthVaccine ProductionLivestock diseases

​* Tick-borne disease live blood vaccines

  
TroskieC@arc.agric.za ​(012) 529 ​9436​Onderstepoort, Pretoria
Animal HealthDiagnostic servicesLivestock diseases

​* Molecular diagnostics - African Horse Sickness

  
VanSchalkwykA1@arc.agric.za(012) 529 9108Onderstepoort, Pretoria
Animal HealthDiagnostic servicesLivestock diseases

* Development of potential molecular diagnostic assays
* Growth of viruses in cell culture
* Testing reagents for use as diagnostic tools
* Producing potential reagents for diagnostic tools (purified virus, DNA, RNA)

  
RotherhamL@arc.agric.za(012) 529 9250Onderstepoort, Pretoria
Animal HealthDiagnostic servicesLivestock diseases

* ​Viral Diagnostics: 
  - Virus isolation and neutralisation test
  - Haemaglutination inhibition
  - Agar gel immunodiffusion
  - ELISA

  
LubisiA@arc.agric.za(012) 529 9233Onderstepoort, Pretoria
Animal HealthDiagnostic servicesLivestock diseases

​* Viral Diagnostics:
  - Complement Fixation Test
  - Agar gel immunodiffusion Test
  - Haemaglutination inhibition Test

  
BogatsuM@arc.agric.za(012) 529 9109Onderstepoort, Pretoria
Animal HealthQuality controlLivestock diseases

​* ISO17025 - Implementation
* ISO17025 - Auditing

  
LubisiA@arc.agric.za(012) 529 9233Onderstepoort, Pretoria
Animal HealthBacterial serologyLivestock diseases

​* Bacterial Serology Diagnostics
* Brucellosis, Dourine & CBPP
* Leptospirosis

  
PottsA@arc.agric.za(012) 529 9396Onderstepoort, Pretoria
Animal HealthBacterial zoonoses and diagnosticsLivestock diseases

​* Molecular diagnostics of bacterial diseases: Q- fever, Anthrax, Campylobacteriosis, Brucellosis, Salmonellosis, Clostridial diseases etc.
* Food borne diseases/pathogens
* Non tuberculous mycobacteria

  
Gceben@arc.agric.za(012) 529 9138Onderstepoort, Pretoria
Animal HealthBacterial zoonoses and diagnosticsLivestock diseases

​* Bacterial isolation and identification
* Bacterial typing
* Identification of zoonotic bacterial pathogen
* Antimicrobial profiling of bacterial pathogens

  
Matlei@arc.agric.za(012) 529 9137Onderstepoort, Pretoria
Animal HealthBiosafety/ BiosecurityLivestock diseases

​* Biosafety and Biosecurity

  
LubisiA@arc.agric.za or KekanaH@arc.agric.za(012) 529 9233/9114Onderstepoort, Pretoria
Animal HealthDiagnostic servicesLivestock diseases

​* Diagnostics and epidemiology of Tuberculosis & Johne's disease

  
HlokweT@arc.agric.za(012) 529 9149/452Onderstepoort, Pretoria
Animal HealthDiagnostic servicesLivestock diseases

​* Molecular diagnostics of viral and other veterinary pathogens

  
RomitoM@arc.agric.za(012) 529 9252Onderstepoort, Pretoria
Animal HealthDiagnostic servicesLivestock diseases

​* Molecular Diagnostics
  - Corridor disease
  - Characterization of Theileria parva using next generation sequencing

  
bpule@arc.agric.za(012) 529 9217Onderstepoort, Pretoria
Animal HealthDiagnostic servicesLivestock diseases

​* Diagnostics and Epidemiology of blood-borne parasites
* Genomics of protozoa
* Tick biology, taxonomy and systematics
* Tick genomics, proteomics and transcriptomics

  
mansb@arc.agric.za or VolschenkR@arc.agric.za(012) 529 9200/9168Onderstepoort, Pretoria
Animal HealthEpidemiologyLivestock diseases

​* Field based disease investigation

  
LubisiA@arc.agric.za(012) 529 9233Onderstepoort, Pretoria
Animal HealthMirobiologyLivestock diseases

​* Rabies Diagnostics and Research
  - validation of serological and molecular assays
  - virus characterisation
  - vaccine assessment


  
NgoepeE@arc.agric.za or PhahladiraB@arc.agric.za(012) 529 9439/9448/9477Onderstepoort, Pretoria
Animal HealthDiagnostic servicesLivestock diseases

​* Analysis of anti-nutritive and toxic factors in feeds and plants

  
MawelaKG@arc.agric.za(012) 529 9261Onderstepoort, Pretoria
Animal HealthAnimal Genetics/GenomicsLivestock diseases

​* Tick Identification, sequencing & phylogenetics

  
BakkesD@arc.agric.za(012) 529 9302Onderstepoort, Pretoria
Animal HealthVaccine ProductionLivestock diseases

​* Heartwater vaccines development
* Tissue cultures & Antigen production

  
MolepoLC@arc.agric.za(012) 529 9293Onderstepoort, Pretoria
Animal HealthRisk assessmentLivestock/Aquaculture/Wild Life

​* Chemistry & Pollution Risk Assessment
* Food and Feed Safety
* New Method Development & Validations
* Residue Analysis- Antibiotics, Veterinary drugs, Mycotoxins
* Pesticides and Environmental Contaminants
* Risk Assessment, Exposure Analysis and Remediation


  
elgorashie@arc.agric.za (012) 529 9260Onderstepoort, Pretoria
Animal HealthDiagnostic servicesLivestock/Wildlife

​* Research on helminths of wildlife;
* Helminth diagnostics;
* Curation of National Collection of Animal Helminths

  
junkerk@arc.agric.za(012) 529 9215Onderstepoort, Pretoria
Animal HealthDiagnostic servicesLivestock/Wildlife

​* Transboundary Animal Diseases Diagnostics
* Transboundary Animal Diseases Research
  - Foot and mouth Disease
  - African swine fever
  - Peste des petits ruminants)

 

  
HeathL@arc.agric.za (012) 529 9501Onderstepoort, Pretoria
Animal HealthDiagnostic servicesVaccines

​* Collection and storage of Specimen
* Biobanking and Tissue culture services
* Training
* Laboratory Management Systems & PACS custodian

  
ManyapyeP@arc.agric.za(012) 529 9145Onderstepoort, Pretoria
Animal HealthDiagnostic servicesVaccines

​* Epidemiology & Heartwater diagnostics
* Cell cultures
* Amblyomma hebraeum tick breeding and infection with heartwater

  
steynh@arc.agric.za(012) 5299 205Onderstepoort, Pretoria
Animal HealthDiagnostic servicesVaccines

​* Foot-and-Mouth Disease:
  - Epitope mapping for improved vaccine design
  - Molecular development of improved diagnostic tests
  - Development and validation of FMD diagnostic tests for small ruminants

  
storeyp@arc.agric.za(012) 529 9594/84Onderstepoort, Pretoria
Animal HealthMolecular biologyVaccines

​* Veterinary vaccine and diagnostic development:
  - Cloning. PCR. Nucleic acid extraction & Cell culture techniques
  - Virus isolation and purification
  - Vaccine development for Lumpy skin disease
  - Recombinant vaccine generation
  - Internal quality auditing of SANAS accredited ARC-OVR diagnostic laboratories.

  
karap@arc.agric.za(012) 529 9408Onderstepoort, Pretoria
Animal HealthMolecular biologyVaccines

​* Veterinary vaccine and diagnostic development:
  - Cloning, cell culture, protein expression & animal trials.

  
MatherA@arc.agric.za(012) 529 9236 or 072 246 6799Onderstepoort, Pretoria
Animal HealthSerology/ImmunochemistryVaccines

​* Recombinant antibodies
* Vaccine research support and monitoring
* Immuno-diagnostic development

  
vanwyngaardtw@arc.agric.za, fehrsenj@arc.agric.za or wemmers@arc.agric.za(012) 529 9224/9257Onderstepoort, Pretoria
Animal HealthEpidemiologyVaccines

​* Vaccine Production, Epidemiology & Immunology
* Vector Biology and ecology (Argasid Ticks)

  
HeathL@arc.agric.za (012) 529 9501Onderstepoort, Pretoria
Animal HealthDiagnostic servicesVaccines

​* Vectored livestock vaccine development
* Diagnostic test development support
* Epidemiology of livestock diseases
* OIE Reference Laboratory expert for lumpy skin disease

  
WallaceD@arc.agric.za(012) 529 9442Onderstepoort, Pretoria
Animal HealthDiagnostic servicesVaccines

​* Bacterial- and Comparative genomics
* Identification of vaccine candidates

  
LiebenbergJ@arc.agric.za(012) 529 9229Onderstepoort, Pretoria
Animal HealthCellular ImmunologyVaccines

​* Experts in immune transcriptomics analyses and interpretation of immune responses induced in large animal models by vaccines or pathogen infection.
* Immune assays: LPA; ELISPOT; Phenotypic analyses on flow cytometry
* Vaccine design: Identification of immune epitopes; DNA vaccines; nano vaccines

  
Pretoriusal@arc.agric.za, Theman@arc.agric.za, FaberE@arc.agric.za or vankleefm@arc.agric.za(012) 529 9214/9280/9425/9385Onderstepoort, Pretoria