Disease-free buffalo genetics
Dr Deon de Jager is a conservation geneticist interested in understanding how the present-day genetic diversity of African ungulates was shaped by past climatic changes and recent human impact, and how to effectively manage and conserve these species, from a genetic standpoint, for long-term persistence in a rapidly changing world. His PhD, completed at the University of Pretoria, assessed the genetic and genomic diversity of Cape buffalo in southern Africa.
Dr Cindy K. Harper is the Director of the Veterinary Genetics Laboratory, Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Pretoria (UP). She qualified as a veterinarian from the UP in 1993 and subsequently obtained a Master’s and PhD degree from the same university. Her main research interests are in applied veterinary genetics and molecular-based veterinary forensics of both domestic animals and wild African species.
Prof. Paulette Bloomer of the University of Pretoria’s Department of Biochemistry, Genetics and Microbiology, is a zoologist specialising in vertebrate phylogeography and conservation genetics over the past 26
