Taime Sylvester

Taime Sylvester joined the Department of Biomedical Sciences at Stellenbosch University in 2014 when she started her PhD in Molecular Biology, focusing on characterizing the immune response of African lions to Mycobacterium bovis infection. Before joining Stellenosch University she did her undergraduate training in Biomedical Technology at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology. Here she also completed her Masters in Biomedical Technology, focusing on evaluating the cardio-protection of kolaviron in ischaemia-reperfusion. In 2018, Taime joined Prof Rob Warren’s research group as a post-doctoral fellow, where she aims to investigate the molecular epidemiology of tuberculosis in Namibia.