
Dr
Eduard
Roos
Dr
Eduard
Roos
Lecturer in Wildlife Health and Immunology
Royal Veterinary College
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Dr Eduard Roos is a Lecturer in Wildlife Health & Immunology at the Royal Veterinary College (RVC), where he teaches across undergraduate and postgraduate programmes and supervises student research. His teaching focuses on wildlife health, immunology, disease ecology, molecular diagnostics, and research skills, contributing to a range of core and elective modules.
He holds a BSc in Zoology from the University of Pretoria (2013) and a BSc Hons in Zoology from the University of the Free State (2014). He began an MSc in Molecular Biology at Stellenbosch University (2015–2016), which he successfully upgraded to a PhD (2017–2018). His doctoral research focused on wildlife tuberculosis diagnostics and host–pathogen interactions, developing molecular assays to detect Mycobacterium bovis infection in warthog (Phacochoerus africanus).
Prior to joining RVC, Dr Roos worked at South Africa’s Agricultural Research Council (Transboundary Animal Disease programme) in 2024, following roles as Specialist: Research & Development at Clinomics (2022–2024) and postdoctoral scientist at The Pirbright Institute (2019–2022).
His current research interests span deployable immunodiagnostics, One Health disease ecology, immune protection in African wildlife species, disease transmission at wildlife–livestock–human interfaces, and immunogenetic diversity in African wildlife.
Research interests
Antibody cross-reactivity, ELISA, q-PCR, Diagnostics, Flow Cytometry, Wildlife Immunology, Wildlife Health
Projects you're working on
Q Fever in the Namibian One Health context
Babesia bovis Vaccine and Diagnostics
Diagnostics and Immune therapy of AHSV
MHC DIversity of African Wildlife
Discipline
Bacteriology Epidemiology Immunology – B-cells Immunology – T-cells Immunology – innate Molecular biology Parasitology Virology Host species
Buffalo Cattle Pigs Small ruminants Wildlife Zoonoses Pathogen
Bacteria Bacteria›Leptospira Bacteria›Mycobacteria bovis Parasites Parasites›Babesia Viruses Viruses›African horse sickness virus Viruses›African swine fever virus Viruses›Foot-and-mouth disease virus Viruses›Rift Valley fever virus Stage of vaccine development
Antigen discovery and immunogen design