Dr Dirk Swanevelder - Acting Senior Manager ARC-BTPEmail: SwanevelderD@arc.agric.za Phone: +27 (0)12 529 9472
Dr Swanevelder works on various projects of agricultural interests in the fields of molecular breeding, phenomics, genomics and genetic engineering. His research focusses on the development of high throughput identification technologies for pests and microbes, crop genome engineering for traits, like disease resistance, and functional genomics of industrial and agricultural important microbes and their application.
Lerato Mpye - Project Co-coordinator ARC-BTPEmail: MpyeL@arc.agric.zaPhone: +27 (0)12 529 9121
Mrs Mpye has been coordinating ARC-BTP projects since 2011. She administrates HR, finance and BTP students’ related matters.
Dr. Khanyisile Hadebe – Senior Researcher Email: MdladlaK@arc.agric.zaPhone: +27 (0)12 529 9227External Link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ktzS2pcAAAAJ&hl=en
Dr. Khanyisile Hadebe (Mdladla) is a Senior Researcher: Genomics. Her research interests are characterizing biodiversity and the use of population and landscape genomics to investigate signatures of selection and adaptation in indigenous Animal Genetic Resources (AnGR). She is involved in developing sustainable improvement and conservation strategies, such as genomics-assisted community-based breeding programs (CBBP) to assist small scale rural farmers optimize production and environmental fitness of their livestock to help farmers overcome future challenges of climate change. She has published as lead author in Heredity, Animal Genetics, Small Ruminant Research, Tropical Animal Health and Production and Preventive Veterinary Medicine.
Application Specialist: Bioinformatics
Email: SantanaQ@arc.agric.zaPhone: +27 (0)12 529 9483Google Scholar Link: https://scholar.google.co.za/citations?user=grg6tKMAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
Dr Santana is an Application Specialist in Bioinformatics and provides biological data analysis services on genomes and transcriptomes and helps with the dissemination of data for clients of the BTP-Core facility. Dr Santana holds a PhD in Genetics from the University of Pretoria. His research interests include genomics and evolution in fungal plant pathogens.
Dr. Bulelani Sizani - Senior Researcher: Plant Genomics Email: SizaniB@arc.agric.za Phone: +27 (0)12 529 9121 External link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&tzom=-120&user=gEYrt-EAAAAJ
Dr. Bulelani Sizani's research focuses on plant natural resistance to pathogens (primarily viruses), plant genomics, and the Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues (ELSI) related to plant genomics and genome editing. His work involves the use of advanced microscopy techniques for 3D imaging of plant cells, structures, and whole tissues.
Dr. Amanda Beylefeld - Researcher: Bioinformatics
Email: beylefelda@arc.agric.za Phone: +27 (0)12 529 9352 External link: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9308-6530
Dr. Amanda Beylefeld is a Researcher: Bioinformatics. Her research interests mainly focus on bacterial genomics, including bacterial identification, comparative genomics, antimicrobial resistance. She is currently involved in studies involving bacteria, aphids and phytophthora using high-throughput sequencing, as well as developing bioinformatic workflows for various applications.
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