Visualising viral evolution using python

About the talk

It has been 35 years since HIV was discovered, but we are still struggling to produce an effective vaccine. This is because HIV has Thomas A. Anderson (aka Neo)-like abilities that help it escape our immune responses. It does, however, have some weak spots.

This talk by Colin Anthony will cover how researchers at UCT are visualising the way HIV evolves to reveal these weaknesses and exploit them to help drive vaccine development.

More about Colin Anthony

Colin is currently a lecturer and researcher at the University of Cape Town with seven years postdoctoral experience in scientific problem-solving. With a strong background in medical biochemistry and molecular biology, he is passionate about research that has a tangible benefit to society, whether in relation to public health or industrial applications.

Colin's specialty rests in bioinformatics, data analysis, pipeline development, next-generation sequencing, python, and unix.