Ed Rybicki's profile
What I do
Research on geminiviruses, plant biotechnology, and human and animal vaccines – and sometimes all of them at the same time. Like using geminiviruses to vector foreign proteins into plants.
I teach Molecular Virology and Biotechnology and molecular biology techniques to unfortunate under- and post-graduate students at the University of Cape Town.
And complain a lot.
Affiliations
Current affiliations
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- Position
- Professor in Microbiology
- Company
- University of Cape Town
- Further information
Location
- City:
- Cape Town, Province of the Western Cape, South Africa
- Hub:
- Southern Africa
Interests
Family, hard science fiction, 70s and other rock, blues and jazz.
Walking dogs. Occasionally.
Projects
Producing vaccine antigens in plants; making plants resistant to viruses; trying to read all of Neal Asher’s books….
Trying to finish a novel on hot viruses, Africa and global conspiracy.
Writing blogs for fun, satire and teaching.
Retroid Raving and ViroBlogy.
Publications
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Two dicot-infecting mastreviruses (family Geminiviridae) occur in Pakistan. Archives of virology (2008) (Epub 20 Jun 2008) PubMed ID:(18566736)
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Govan V, Rybicki E, Williamson A. Therapeutic immunisation of rabbits with cottontail rabbit papillomavirus (CRPV) virus-like particles (VLP) induces regression of established papillomas. Virology journal , 45 (2008) (Epub 20 Mar 2008) PubMed ID:(18355406)
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Halsey R, Tanzer F, Meyers A, Pillay S, Lynch A, Shephard E, Williamson A, Rybicki E. Chimaeric HIV-1 subtype C Gag molecules with large in-frame C-terminal polypeptide fusions form virus-like particles. Virus research (2) , 259-68 (2008) (Epub 10 Mar 2008) PubMed ID:(18329748)
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Meyers A, Chakauya E, Shephard E, Tanzer F, Maclean J, Lynch A, Williamson A, Rybicki E. Expression of HIV-1 antigens in plants as potential subunit vaccines. BMC biotechnology , 53 (2008) (Epub 23 Jun 2008) PubMed ID:(18573204)
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Rybicki EP. All of Me Nature , 1028 (2008)
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