Building pan-African Bioinformatics Capacity
About the node


- UCT - CBIO (PI: Prof Nicola Mulder)
- AIMS (PI: Dr. Gaston Mazandu)
- AiBST (PI: Prof. Collen Masimirembwa)
- BHP (PI: Dr. Simani Gaseitsiwe )
- CPGR (PI: Dr. Judith Kumuthini)
- CU (PI: Prof. Ezekiel Adebiyi)
- IPD (PI: Dr. Cheikh Loucoubar)
- IPM (PI: Dr. Fouzia Radouani )
- IPT (PI: Dr. Alia Benkahla)
- ICIPE (PI: Dr. Dan Masiga)
- KNUST (PI: Dr. Pandam Salifu)
- MUHAS (PI: Prof. Julie Makani
- NABDA (PI: Prof. Nash Oyekanmi )
- NRC (PI: Prof. Mahmoud ElHefnawi)
- RU (PI: Prof. Ozlem Tastan Bishop)
- SANBI (PI: Dr Judit Kimuthini)
- SU (PI: Prof. Hugh Patterton)
- UVRI (PI: Dr. Jonathan Kayondo)
- MFU (PI: Dr. Hassan Ghazal)
- AEU (PI: Prof. Ahmed Moussa)
- UCT - Genetics (PI: Dr. Emile Chimusa)
- UCT - IBS (PI: Prof. Nicki Tiffin)
- UDSM (PI: Prof. Sylvester Lyantagaye)
- UL (PI: Prof. Jennifer Cornick )
- UI (PI: Dr. Angela Makolo)
- UIUC (PI: Dr. Chris Fields)
- UofK (PI: Prof. Faisal Fadlelmola)
- UKZN (PI: Prof. Tulio de Oliveira)
- UoM (PI: Dr. Shakuntala Baichoo)
- USTTB (PI: Prof. Seydou Doumbia)
- WITS (PI: Prof. Scott Hazelhurst)
- ZU_ASU (PI: Prof. Ahmed M. Alzohairy)
Computational Biology Division, CBIO - UCT
Central Node
The Computational Biology Division is the central node of H3ABioNet and the centre of Bioinformatics activities at the University of Cape Town. The division is part of the Department of Integrative Biomedical Sciences and is based in the Institute for Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine in the Health Science Faculty.
Prof. Nicola Mulder : Head of Computational Biology Division

Assoc. Prof. Darren Martin (Faculty Member)

Mr. Gerrit Botha - Senior Bioinformatician

Dr. Sumir Panji - Network Manager

Mr. Ayton Meintjes - Software Developer

Mr. Suresh Maslamoney - Systems Administrator

Mr. Ziyaad Parker - Data Manager

Mrs Katherine Johnston - Software Developer

Mr. Mamana Mbiyavanga - Software Developer

Mr. Paballo Chauke - Training and Outreach Coordinator

Miss Verena Ras - Training and Outreach Coordinator

Mr. Wisdom A. Akurugu - PhD Student
Wisdom Akurugu holds BSc Biochemistry (Single Major) and MSc Bioinformatics degrees. Wisdom is interested in understanding genetic factors that place a person at risk of developing diseases. He has been mining human genetic exome data for variations that may protect or predispose asthmatic children on corticosteroid treatment to hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal suppression (HPAS). He is using various Bioinformatics, Computational and Statistical algorithms to identify, annotate and assess the impact of the potential variants on HPAS. Wisdom is enthusiastic about contributing to the effective and efficient treatment of asthmatics on corticosteroids based on his current project. In the near future, he looks to developing Bioinformatics, Computational and Statistical competencies in analyzing large-scale robust genomic data. He is opened to collaborations in the areas of genomics, proteomics, transcriptomics, structural biology, software development and teaching.

Mr. Musalula Sinkala - PhD Student

Mr. Lyndon Zass- Project Officer
Lyndon Zass is a Project Officer at H3ABioNet’s Central Node, at the University of Cape Town, in Cape Town, South Africa. With a background in Molecular Biology and Human Genetics, he currently holds an MSc Human Genetics which he obtained from Stellenbosch University. His research focus on psychiatric genetics, and more specifically, the epigenetic underpinnings of common psychiatric disorders such as anxiety disorders and PTSD. Currently. He is currently involved in several H3ABioNet projects, focusing primarily on phenotype harmonisation and the development of an African Genomic Medicine Portal.
