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March 2015 Volume 2, Issue 1
INSIDE THIS ISSUE
Editorial ...................................2
MPhil Orientation ....................3
Feature articles:
SAPS Conference 2015 ....4
UNIPATH 2014 ...............6
Regulars:
Quiz corner ..............................9
Staff news ………………………….10
Academic programme………….13
Bulletin board……………………..14
The back page……………………..15
The official newsletter of the Division of Forensic Medicine ,
University of Cape Town.
FORENSIC INFORMER
Designed to notify, educate and engage
this quarterly newsletter will introduce
you to the dedicated team of forensic
pathologists, administrators and medical
technologists in the Division of Forensic
Medicine. It will report on the day to day
academic activities and services of the
division and notify you of upcoming
events, conferences, workshops and
courses.
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“We would love to connect with you, our dear readers...”
A hearty welcome to everyone
A new year and a new edition of the Fo-
rensic Informer!!!
In the last few months since our last is-
sue, the spotlight has been on our justice
system for all the wrong reasons. The
Oscar Pistorius trial ended with him being
handed a 5 year sentence for culpable
homicide. Opinions are divided as to
whether justice was done, and an appeal
has already been launched. The Dewani
trial ended with the judge dismissing the
case due to a lack of evidence. On a posi-
tive note, a conviction was secured in the
highly publicized Judge Makubela trial.
We at UCT began another year with new
staff appointments, and welcomed a fresh
batch of students for the M.Phil. Biomedi-
cal forensic science course.
In entertainment news, Birdman, Julianne
Moore and Eddie Redmayne took the
main awards at this year’s Oscars, and
currently the entire country is gripped
with Cricket World Cup fever.
We are all behind our boys and we hope
they bring the trophy home!!!
Highlights in this issue:
We report back on the final half of 2014 ,
which includes the UNIPATH Conference
that took place from the 19th -21st Septem-
ber at the CSIR in Pretoria.
We introduce you to our newbies, report
back on the M.Phil. open day, and the 3rd
Forensic Science SAPS Conference, which
took place in February.
As always, are the regular features; quiz
corner, staff news and bulletin board.
A new addition to our editorial team is Dr
Diana Jaravaza. Having her as part of the
team is a real privilege, and we look for-
ward to entertaining and interesting arti-
cles from her in the future.
A big thank you to our fabulous contribu-
tors who made this edition possible! We
would love to connect with you, our dear
readers, so all comments and news items
are most welcome.
So yes, lots to look forward to, and just
enough time to encourage all to keep smil-
ing, and happy reading!
Sairita
FROM THE EDITOR
Our editor atop the Sydney Harbour
Bridge!
M.Phil. Orientation In Pictures
Staff from L to R;
Bronwen Davies , Laura Heathfield, Marise Heyns and Calvin Mole.
Front row; Staff
Back row; 2015 intake
Old and new students with
staff members. What a lively
bunch!!!
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On the 2nd of Febru-
ary 2015, orientation
was held to welcome
the new intake of
students.
This 2 year full– time
and 4 year part– time
Masters course, saw
the enrolment of 7
new students. The
orientation schedule
included a campus
tour, administrative
processes, meeting
with staff members,
library and Vula
training and an ice–
breaker session.
Graduates from this
programme can seek
employment with
organisations like the
South African Police
Services (SAPS), state
and private laborato-
ries, or institutions of
higher learning.
MPHIL BIOMEDICAL FORENSIC SCIENCE ORIENTATION DAY 2015
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By Dr Iekram Hoosen Alli (Specialist Forensic Pathologist, UCT) Event Name: 3rd Forensic Services Con-ference. Theme: The im pact of Forensic Evi-dence on the Criminal Justice System. Date: 16th – 19th February 2015 Conference Organisers: The South African Police Services Division: Forensic Services General Conference Project Leader: Brigadier Mulaudzi under the auspices of Lieutenant General JK Phahlane Venue: Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR International Convention Centre), Pretoria Number of Delegates: 596 registered for the conference, including international and national speakers and academia. Overview The third Forensic Services Conference was held in Pretoria, with a pre-conference registration on Sunday the 15th of February 2015 at the CSIR foyer. The conference was an outcome of the need for forensic services to share best practices and learn from each other on a national and international level. The conference was held under the auspices of South Afri-can Police Services (SAPS) Division: Fo-rensic Services. The conference attracted 596 delegate registrations, a considerable decrease in attendance from 2014 figures, most likely due to re-stricted sponsored delegates by the SAPS. Delegates included forensic pathology specialists, policy makers, forensic science professionals and the police community. The theme for this year’s conference was ‘The impact of Forensic Evidence on the Criminal Justice System'. Spe-cifically, the Conference program ad-dressed leading practice approaches to integrating techniques into crime scene investigation, and workplace training. It also provided an opportunity to discuss and challenge some current practices, and emerging tools and techniques to drive continuous improve-ment in outcomes for crime investigation, as well as the recruitment and retention of forensic
practitioners. The Conference also pro-vided an important forum in which fo-rensic practitioners, educators, investiga-tors and forensic analysts could share, their experiences and
innovations in the field, and future strate-gies. The conference also helped to support collaboration within and between the SAPS, forensic scientists, forensic educa-tors and pathologists, as well as encourage multi-disciplinary and multisectoral link-ages. This was achieved not only through conference proceedings, but also through good attendance at social events like the Gala dinner. Daily conference highlights: Day 1 The undisputed highlight was the presen-tation by the Adv. G Nel who talked about Experts with integrity: ‘A criminal trial is a very blunt implement for digging out the truth’. He was clear and precise about the fact that truthfulness and integrity are what always wins in court proceedings, and that expert witnesses may come in various forms. Mr M Maloney also presented on the first day. He is a private consultant and trainer who retired from Federal Law Enforce-ment. He has 20 years’ experience in the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS). Day 2 There were some very interesting, extra-ordinary cases presented in the form of suicide notes, cybercrime investigation and satanic casework studies, but my highlight for the day was ‘DVI – A Global Perspective’, by Mr H. Way from the UK –Disaster Victim Identification (DVI) pro-ject. He discussed various mass disaster projects and the work they carried out, including that involving the Malaysian flights. I will say that Mr CG Mole and Ms L Coetzee from the Division of forensic pa-thology – University of Cape Town (UCT) did an excellent presentation on the bio-mechanics of blunt force trauma, which aroused a healthy discussion. Day 3 Wednesday began with the DNA Expan-sion presentation by the passionate Ms V Lynch. Later that morning the infamous Dr Klatzow presented his topic in which he warned the audience about DNA, fin-gerprint and other evidence collections not being one hundred percent fool proof. This was very similar to his previous years talk. The afternoon belonged the UCT Division of Forensic Science. Dr M Heyns got the ball rolling with a presentation on the Role of UCT in the fight against crime, and an update on the Masters Programme. Continued on page 5
SAPS CONFERENCE 2015 SAPS Conference 2015
Delegates in session
Advocate Gerrie Nel
Mr Maloney
Mr Mole & Ms Coetzee
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From page 4 A lively debate and discussion on how UCT has got the proper approach to ad-vancing the forensic science ensued. Ms B Davies and Ms L Heathfield presented an excellent ‘Comparison of forensic sciences Academic Training in the USA, UK and SA’. Dr S Maistry, forensic pathologist at UCT shocked the gathering with her experienc-es of the various cases she has been in-volved in her numerous years at the Fo-rensic unit at UCT. The audience clearly realised that it takes a special person to be in the field, and the enormous pressures experienced. Day 4 The final day kicked off with a previous international speaker, Mr J Blozis, who attempted to cover more than 150 slides in crime scene, DNA Collection and preser-vation. Just before lunch, I presented my topic on Dental Identification. It was well received, as per feedback. The focus was on case studies and the details around identification techniques. There were, I am sure, many other numerous excellent presentations. Just too many to discuss in detail here.
Gala Dinner: I must confess this was a glamorous even-ing from the food to the setting to the music. The hall was decorated with beauti-fully laid out tables, and attendees looked gorgeous in their evening dress. I am no fashion police, but some outfits were stunting and hip. The food was excellent, from braised oxtail to salads. One of the highlights I will not forget was the music which was played by two SAPS members. They just seemed to choose songs which were and always will be close to our hearts. Conclusion: All the speakers drew lively portraits of the forensic services situation and reflect-ed a powerful spirit of determination to stop crime and make everything possible so that justice is carried out. There was a sense of ‘We can, and will stop crime get-ting out of control in this country’. We often look down on the SAPS as a flaccid organisation, but the conference shows their determination to fight back this im-pression and all I can say is ‘Well done, and I hope to be there every year!’
Impressions of the 3rd Annual
Forensic Services Conference
From A Forensic Science
Perspective
By Laura Heathfield (Lecturer M
Phil, UCT)
The 3rd Annual Forensic Services conference
hosted by SAPS, 15-19 February 2015, saw a
remarkable 103 papers presented by 108
speakers from numerous institutions in South
Africa and abroad. Among these speakers
were nine from UCT, of which eight were from
the Division of Forensic Medicine. These in-
cluded five academics, two forensic
pathologists and two MPhil students, who
provided a well-rounded taste of the academic
forensics training, service delivery and high
quality research that takes place at UCT.
For many delegates, the highlight of the con
ference was the keynote
address by Advocate
Gerrie Nel, who made his
first public address at a
conference since the State
v Pistorius case. His de
livery focused on the role
of the expert witness in relation to the court-
room and left us with the message: “defend
your opinion; as far as you, with integrity,
can”.
Other highlights included an update of the
DNA Act by Vanessa Lynch, which was passed
on 31 January 2015; several talks by the Sec-
tion Head of the SAPS Investigative Psycholo-
gy Section, Brigadier (Professor) La-
buschagne; and numerous international
speakers such as Mr Michael Maloney, Mr
Jerome Podorski, Mr H Way, Mr M Cariola
and more.
Representatives from companies which sup-
ply forensic-related equipment also had an
opportunity to exhibit their products and
present updates on their latest technology. In
addition, many SAPS personnel from the
Division of Forensic Services presented pa-
pers and posters on their experiences and
findings within the field. The conference thus
provided an ideal platform for the networking
and communication between SAPS, forensic
scientists, academics, doctors, lawyers, Non-
Profit Organisations, forensic suppliers and
students.
Ms Davies & Mr Maloney
Ms Roberts
Dr Alli
Lieutenant General JK
Phahlane
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“Predictive, Preventive, Personalized, and Participatory Medicine”.
By Dr Kaone Panzirah– Mabaka
(Forensic Pathologist, Botswana
Police Services)
I had the opportunity to attend the
2014 UNIPATH conference held in
Pretoria. In addition to networking
with other colleagues in South Africa,
my main aim was to keep up to date
with the current “happenings” in the
world of pathology, considering the
captivating conference theme. This
was the 54th International Congress
of the Federation of South African
Societies of Pathology which was co-
hosted by the University of Pretoria.
The conference took place 19-21 Sep-
tember in the magnificent Pretoria
CSIR International Convention Cen-
tre.
A number of different pathology spe-
cialities were represented at this con-
ference. The theme was “Unipath:
Unifying Pathology and Laboratory
Medicine in the era of P4 Medicine”.
Since P4 Medicine is increasingly
being embraced within the ethos of
medicine, especially diagnostic labor-
atory medicine and pathology, this
was a not a rendezvous to miss. P4
medicine is a short form for
“Predictive, Preventive, Personalized,
and Participatory Medicine”. As stat-
ed by the conference chair, “The
premise of P4 Medicine is that medi-
cal practice over the next 20 years
will be revolutionized by biotechnolo-
gy, to manage a person's health in-
stead of managing a patient's dis-
ease”.
The scientific programme was engag-
ing and highly stimulating. The re-
spective pathology
sub-specialities
had fully packed
scientific programs
with cross-
disciplinary and
cross-cutting presentations from the
fields of Anatomical Pathology, Virol-
ogy, Immunology, Haematopatholo-
gy, Clinical Biochemistry/Chemical
Pathology, Medical Microbiology and
Forensic Pathology. There was a
strong focus on molecular diagnostics
in keeping with the idea of P4 medi-
cine. The conference was divided in
morning plenary sessions and after
tea and noon speciality break-away
sessions.
The plenary sessions were loaded
with topics ranging from The law,
ethics and risk management, Morbid-
ity and pathogenesis of immune fail-
ure in the HAART era, Integrated
diagnostic services for haematological
malignancies, and Phylogenetic epi-
demiology of infections.
The highlight of the plenary session
included introduction to the world of
“omics”. Prof Don Cowan tackled the
topic of “Genomics, the laboratory
and P4 medicine”.
Continued on page 7
UNIPATH 2014
Plenary session
Delegates during a break
Poster session
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“Wrong convictions- how should Forensic Pathol-ogy be responding?”
From page 6
He highlighted the rapidly increasing
scope and speed of genome sequenc-
ing, the dramatic reduction in se-
quencing costs, and the rapid devel-
opment of user-friendly bioinformat-
ics platforms and pipelines which has
opened a new era of opportunities for
genomics research in all fields of biol-
ogy.
Prof Stephen Cordner addressed the
topic “Applying the template of P4
medicine to Forensic pathology”. He
highlighted the difference in applying
P4 in forensic pathology as opposed
to clinical medicine. The issues
around duty of care in forensic pa-
thology were covered, highlighting
the dual responsibility of the practi-
tioner to the state and family.
The take home message here was that
for us forensic pathologists, the en-
gagement with death investigations
makes it difficult for us to fit the field
within the P4 template.
The forensic sections of the break-
away sessions were equally stimulat-
ing. The presentations were largely
didactic and covering topics in law,
ethics, DNA forensic, research pro-
jects and case studies.
The several speakers including re-
searchers from the University of Pre-
toria presented at in the forensic ses-
sions. Postgraduate students were
given ample opportunity to present
their research findings.
My highlight of the forensic sessions
was a presentation by Prof Stephen
Cordner: “Wrong convictions- how
should Forensic Pathology be re-
sponding?”
He discussed and
gave examples of
wrong convictions
exposed by the US
Innocence Project.
He emphasised how this has affected
confidence in the justice system in
the US and across the world. Re-
search has shed light on the reasons
for these wrong convictions; over-
reliance on perpetrator identifica-
tions by witnesses, witnesses, forensic
practitioners and police lying, poor
forensic science and incompetent
defence lawyers.
He revealed that “The Criminal Cases
Review Commission in England” is
perhaps the only governmentally sup-
ported post-conviction review system
in the world. They have recognized
that convictions are not necessarily
reliable, and there needs to be a
mechanism beyond the law for cases
to be reviewed, and possibly sent
back into the courts for re-evaluation.
He further highlighted cases like “The
Goudge Inquiry in Canada”, the Scot-
tish fingerprinting inquiry and prob-
lems at the FBI Forensic Laboratory.
Continued on page 8
UNIPATH 2014
Gala Dinner
Cocktail function
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“I hope to attend many more times.”
From page 7
The question he posed was “What
should we be doing in the discipline
of forensic pathology, to reduce our
contribution to a problem which is
likely to be larger than we think?” He
concluded with a discussion on ways
to minimize the occurrence of bad
forensic pathology.
I also enjoyed the talk on
“Phytotoxicology and herbal intoxica-
tions in South Africa” by Prof Vanessa
Steenkamp. She presented on the
challenging use of traditional reme-
dies (muthi).
The use of muthi is widespread use
throughout South Africa. It has been
estimated that more than 60% of the
population use it as opposed to west-
ern medications. Iatrogenic complica-
tions leading to death may occur in
some cases. However, unlike with
western medicines little information
is available on the clinical effects of
herbal remedies in South Africa. Fur-
thermore, there is a considerable
number of patients that present at
government hospitals after the sus-
pected inappropriate use of tradition-
al remedies. Most attempts to identify
toxic compounds found in traditional
remedies and biological samples have
been unsuccessful.
The reason being that these remedies
contain a vast number of compounds
that need to be analysed using differ-
ent analytical techniques in order to
confirm their presence. She discussed
current methodologies used to detect
the active toxic compounds in herbal
remedies and biological samples ob-
tained from patients.
Apart from this highly scientific pro-
gramme, I had the opportunity to
meet new and old friends from South
Africa and beyond. Some of my col-
leagues in the field included the likes
of Reggie Perumal,
who is an inde-
pendent forensic
pathologist in
South Africa and
also does cases in
Botswana, and old friend Stephen
Cordner from Australia, who hap-
pened to be my mentor and teacher in
forensics. He is passionate about the
formation of forensic societies around
the globe stretching from within Aus-
tralia itself, the Indo-Pacific region
and Africa. He is currently the patron
for the African Society of Forensic
Medicine. I had a reunion with Pro-
fessor Gert Saayman who is a well-
known South African pathologist,
with whom I have had previous inter-
actions at ASFM meetings. Many will
recall him from the high profile case
of Paralympian Oscar Pistorius.
In addition to the above I also had the
opportunity to attend the preconfer-
ence workshop on Anthropology and
ballistics; both run by the well know
departments of human Identification
of the University of Pretoria and the
South African police forensic lab. The
poster sessions were also a educating
and covered a vast array of topics. All
in all, this was a highly memorable
event for me as a first- timer and in-
ternational delegate. I hope to at-
tend many more times. After all,
South Africa is just next- door.
UNIPATH 2014
Kaone is an alumnus of St Georges
Medical University Grenada, and
Monash University Melbourne, having
spent two years at the illustrious Victo-
ria Institute of Forensic Medicine. He
is the former Vice– Chair of the ASFM.
Conference images courtesy of
www.pathconference.com
Sairita, Dr Mugoma my colleague
from Botswana, and I, during one of
the conference breaks
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A 32 year old man died suddenly and unexpectedly. From the history it was reported that he had suffered from new onset seizures (4 months). An autopsy was done and pathology was noted in his cerebellum. Histology shown on right.
Answer: Cerebellar Schisto-
somiasis.
Schistosomiasis (also
known as bilharzia, snail fever,
and Katayama fever is a disease
caused by parasitic worms of the
Schistosoma type. It may infect
the urinary tract, liver or intes-
tines. Rarely the spinal cord and
brain may be affected. Signs and
symptoms may include ab-
dominal pain, diarrhea, bloody
stool, or blood in the urine. In
those who have been infected for
a long time, liver damage, kidney
failure, infertility, or bladder
cancer
may
occur.
In
chil-
dren it
may
cause
poor
growth
and
learning difficulty The disease is
spread by contact with water
that contains the parasites.
These parasites are released
from freshwater snails that have
been infected. The disease is
especially common among chil-
dren in developing countries as
they are more likely to play in
infected water. Other high risk
groups include farmers, fisher-
men, and people using infected
water for their
daily chores.
It belongs to
the group of
helminthic
infections.
Diagnosis is by finding the eggs
of the parasite in a person's
urine or stool. It can also be con-
firmed by finding antibodies
against the disease in the blood.
Schistosomiasis affects almost
210 million people worldwide
and an estimated 12,0000-
200,000 people die from it a
year The disease is most com-
monly found in Africa, as well as
Asia and South America. Schis-
tosomiasis is second only to ma-
laria, as a parasitic disease with
the greatest economic impact.
Types include: haematobium,
mansoni, japonicum, mekongi
and inter-
calatum.
Sites of
infection
Neural schistoso-ma infec-tion is rare and the organism gains ac-cess to the
brain via pulmonary shunts, portopulmonary anastomosis and Batson’s venous plexus (paravertebral venous plexus). Both the brain and the spinal cord can be affected. Schistoso-ma mansoni and Schistosoma haematobium usually cause myelopathy, whereas Schistoso-ma japonicum usually causes encephalic disease. Manifestations include:
Acute schistosomal enceph-alopathy
Pseudotumoral schistosomi-asis
Spinal cord schistosomiasis
QUIZ CORNER– FEEDBACK
Schistosoma ova
Low power view of cerebellum
Characteristic granuloma with
eosinophils
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Bronwen Davies holds a Master of
Forensic Science specializing in
Forensic Toxicology from the
George Washington University,
Washington D.C., USA, where she
was a Fulbright Scholar. She also
holds an undergraduate and post-
graduate degree in Chemistry from
University of Cape Town (UCT).
She worked briefly as a researcher
for the Department of Forensic Sci-
ences in Washington D.C. with Dr.
Max Houck, and went on to work in
the Forensic Toxicology Unit of the
D.C. Office of the Chief Medical
Examiner for the duration of her
Masters studies. She currently
works as an assistant lecturer/
researcher in forensic toxicology, in
the Division of Forensic Medicine
and Toxicology at UCT. Her re-
search interests lie primarily within
post-mortem toxicology, drug-
facilitated crime, drugs and driving,
and designer drugs.
STAFF NEWS
Bronwen Davies
Andrew Radloff joined the De-
partment as an intern.
He received his matric certifi-
cate from Lighthouse Centre of
Learning (now Shiloh) and im-
mediately went into an intern-
ship with the Department of
Cultural Affairs and Sport
where he was placed in the Li-
brary Services. He then took a
gap year and decided he wanted
a career in the medical field.
Andrew was recruit-
ted by the Depar-
tment of Health and
was placed in the
UCT Forensic
Pathology Service which got
him all the more interested
in studying medicine.
In his spare time Andrew plays
tennis, does a little athletics and
is an avid motor sport fan.
Andrew is also a regular blood
donor having donated more
than ten times in the four years
since he signed up. He also reg-
ularly provides the music at a
special needs school’s Matric
dances. Andrew Radloff
Welcome, Sondzela Bronwyn and Andrew!
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Siyakwamukela , Welkom Laura and Diana!
Laura Heathfield grew up in Cape Town and matriculated from Wynberg Girls’ High School. She went on to complete a BSc (human physiology and genetics) as well as a BSc (Med) (Hons) in Human Genetics from the University of Cape Town (UCT). For eight months after her Honours degree, Laura worked as a research assistant for the Division of Human Ge-netics UCT, where she was part of the Retinal Degenerative Dis-orders research group.
While working at UCT, Laura received scholarships through Rotary International as well the Oppenheimer Memorial Founda-tion which enabled her to pursue her MSc degree in the UK. She enrolled in the MSc Forensic Sci-ence course at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow and grad-uated from this course in 2013.
During her time abroad, Laura completed a research internship at Manlove Forensics Ltd, an independent forensic provider in Oxfordshire, England.
Upon return to South Africa in 2013, Laura joined the Depart-ment of Genetics at the Universi-ty of the Free State (UFS) where she lectured and supervised nu-merous students. In addition, she contributed and partly man-aged the development of the un-dergraduate and honours curric-ulum in Forensic Science at UFS. Laura is now a lecturer at UCT in the Division of Forensic Medi-cine and is simultaneously work-ing towards her PhD. Her re-search interests lie primarily in forensic genetics but also extend to epigenetics and the applica-tion of next generation sequenc-ing to DNA profiling.
Diana Jaravaza (aka dj) is the latest
Medical Officer to join the depart-
ment. She grew up in the sunshine
city of Harare, before leaving for Ga-
Rankuwa, where she studied under-
graduate medicine at the then Medi-
cal University of Southern Africa
(Medunsa), now Sefako Makgatho
University (SMU). This was a forma-
tive experience in fuelling her passion
for pathology. She spent her first two
post-graduate years in the coastal city
of Durban. In mid-
2010 Diana moved
yet again to Wind-
hoek where she
began working as a
junior medical
officer in the forensic pathology de-
partment there. Whilst there she be-
came involved with the African socie-
ty of Forensic Medicine. Through the
society’s affiliation with the Victoria
Institute of Forensic Medicine
(VIFM), she was awarded a scholar-
ship to spend a year in Melbourne at
VIFM, and pursue a Masters of Fo-
rensic Medicine with Monash Univer-
sity. She describes it as a gruelling
but enriching experience.
She has a developing interest in fo-
rensic neuropathology.
Interests include travelling, swim-ming, rugby (former Blue Bulls fan), mentoring and reading for pleasure.
STAFF NEWS
Laura Heathfield
Diana R Jaravaza
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Congratulations to Dr Sipho Mfolozi who was recently awarded a Thuthuka Fellowship grant.
Essentially the grant was awarded by the National Re-search Foundation (NRF) and is called the Thuthuka PhD Track. The NRF make annual calls for applications via the University Research Contracts and Intel-lectual Property Office. The grant is for a period of 5 years
maximum, renewable every year, and provides funding for purchase of research equip-ment, hiring of MSc students, conference travel, accommoda-tion and stipend, lecturer re-placement funding, sabbatical leave and such.
Dr Mfolozi’s research is looking at specific post– mortem computa-tional methods for estimation of time of death.
Sipho Mfolozi
GRANT AWARD
Double congratulations to Dr Mandy
Date– Chong on the birth of her son
Peter, last September, and for her
birthday on the 4th March.
In other news...
UCT Summer School
Congratulations to Dr. Maistry who
was invited to present at Summer
School 2015. The theme of the week
long programme was “The genomic
revolution: where have we come
from; where are we going?”
She shared the stage with renowned
academics, and the highlight was a
talk presented by Vanessa Lynch
the pioneer behind the new DNA
Bill. Each session had a capacity
attendance, with full participation
and extremely positive feedback.
Mr Lennon Martin with
a signed cricket bat
from the 2015 SA vs
West Indies game at
Newlands. Congratula-
tions on winning it!
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DATE PRESENTER
18th February Dr Moller (journal club/review of exam questions for Part 1.
25th February Dr Jaravaza
4th March Dr Mfolozi
11th March Dr Maistry
18 March Teaching Meeting
25th March Dr Kirk (journal club)
1st April Research Meeting
8th April Dr Date Chong
15th April Teaching Meeting
22nd April Dr Alli (journal club)
29th April Laura Heathfield
6th May Dr Liebenberg
13th May Bronwen Davies
20th May Dr Molefe (journal club)
27th May Teaching meeting
3rd June Dr Heyns
10th June Research meeting
17th June Dr Van de Heyde
24th June Dr Moller (journal club)
1st July Dr Jaravaza
Presentations are held in the Divisions’ tutorial room from 12h00– 13h00.
All interested persons are most welcome. CPD Accredited!!!
ACADEMIC PROGRAMME
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BULLETIN BOARD
8 January Sairita
15 January Marise
4 March Mandy
20 March Denise
22 March Omar
4 April Izelle
13 April Tumi
16 April Yolande
29 May Iekram
24 June June
25 July Gavin
STAFF
BIRTHDAY’S
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PO Box 13914
Mowbray 7705
Tel: 021 406 6412
Fax: 021 448 1249
EDITORIAL TEAM
Gavin, Sairita and Diana