Eduard Roos

Dr
Eduard
Roos

Postdoctoral Scientist
The Pirbright Institute
Biography

Eduard is an avid lover of the natural world and amatuer wildlife photographer. He completed his BSc. Zoology at the University of Pretoria in 2013. There after he moved to the University of the Free State to complete his BSc. Hons. Zoology, studying the phylogenetic relationships of haemoparasites in the local lizard population. In 2018 he finished his PhD in Molecular Biology at Stellenbosch University where he developed a number of molecular diagnostic techniques to detect Mycobacterium bovis infection in Phacochoerus africanus (Common Warthog). Currently he is investigating antibody cross-reactivity, to develop novel bio-imaging techniques for various viral diseases, such as African Swine Fever and Foot-and-Mouth disease.

Research interests

Antibody cross-reactivity, ELISA, q-PCR, Diagnostics, Flow Cytometry, Ruminant Immunology

Projects you're working on

Building Optimised Multicoloured Immunofluorescence Panels for ruminants to distinguish B and T Cell sub-populations.

Developing tools to measure Antibody Secreting Cells in ruminants.

Discipline
Bacteriology Epidemiology Immunology – B-cells Immunology – T-cells Immunology – innate Molecular biology Virology
Host species
Cattle Small ruminants
Pathogen
Viruses VirusesFoot-and-mouth disease virus
Stage of vaccine development
Antigen discovery and immunogen design