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Prof Brett Pletschke

ProfileProfessor of Biochemistry

 

Current Research Interests:

 

Enzyme Technology, Biotechnology, Biocatalysis:

  • Using enzymes to improve corn (maize)-based animal feeds and kelp-derived enzyme inhibitors to treat diabetes and obesity

 

Brief biography

  • NRF B2 rating (2021-2026)

  • Node of the CSIR/TIA/DSI Industrial Biocatalysis Hub (IBH)

  • Professor of Biochemistry, Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 (January 2013- present)

  • Vice Chancellor’s Distinguished Senior Research Award (2018)

  • Fellow of the African Academy of Sciences (AAS) (since 2018)

  • NRF C2 rating (2015-2020)

  • President of the South African Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (SASBMB) (2010-2012)

  • Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Biotechnology, Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 (January 2010-December 2012) 

  • Senior Lecturer, Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Biotechnology, Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 (January 2005-December 2009)

  • Head of Biochemistry, Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Biotechnology, Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 (January 2007-December 2012)

  • Visiting Scholar (August 2006) Section of Molecular & Cellular Biology, Life Sciences, 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 of California Davis, Davis, California, USA.

  • EBRU (Environmental Biotechnology Research Unit) Research Fellow(June 2003-present)

  • Visiting Lecturer (June-July 2004): Department of Biological Sciences, 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 of Jyvaskyla, Jyvaskyla, Finland

  • Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 Biochemistry Lecturer (January 2000-December 2004)

  • 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 of Cape Town Postdoctoral Fellow (June 1997- Dec 1999): Dept of Chemical Pathology, UCT Medical School, and Dept of Biochemistry, UCT (June 1997- Dec 1999)

  • Visiting Scientist (October 1996): Ludwig Maximilians 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 in the Dept of Clinical Chemistry and Clinical Biochemistry in the Surgical Clinic and Policlinic, Munich, Germany.

  • Ph.D. (Biochemistry) - 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 of Port Elizabeth, 1996

 

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