Wouter van der Westhuizen

Dr
Wouter
van der Westhuizen

Specialist: Research and Development
Clinomics
Biography

I obtained my PhD in Microbiology at the University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa in 2017. Thereafter I was a post doctoral fellow at the same institution before joining Clinomics in July 2019.

I have worked in the field of veterinary biotechnology during my post graduate studies during which I've developed molecular techniques, performed some protein expression in E. coli and Y. lipolytica and learnt some basic bioinformatic methods.

Research interests

Vaccine development through recombinant protein expression (heterologous or homologous) methods

Molecular assay development

Third generation sequencing

Discipline
Bacteriology Molecular biology Protein biology
Host species
Cats Cattle Dogs Poultry
Pathogen
Bacteria BacteriaE. coli Parasites ParasitesBabesia ParasitesTheileria annulata ParasitesTheileria parva ParasitesTicks ParasitesTrypanosoma
Stage of vaccine development
Antigen discovery and immunogen design