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UCT RESEARCH REPORT 2012
how small peptide hormones produced in nerve cells
regulate energy metabolism, growth, development
and reproduction in insects and crustaceans and how
astaxanthin and chitin can be used in an economically
viable way to deal with so-called waste products of the rock
lobster industry.
Departmental Statistics
Permanent and Long-term Contract Staff
Professors
7
Associate Professors
9
Senior Lecturers
2
Lecturers
4
Research Staff
16
Library Manager
1
Technical Support Staff
4
Scientific Officers
5
Administrative and Clerical Staff
5
Laboratory Assistants
1
Total
54
Honorary Staff
Research Associates
34
Emeritus Professors
4
Emeritus Associate Professors
3
Professors
4
Total
45
Contract staff
16
Students
Postdoctoral
38
Doctoral
69
Master’s
104
Honours
16
Undergraduate
560
Total
787
Research Fields and Staff
Permanent Academic Staff
Professor Anusuya Chinsamy-Turan
Head of Department. Palaeobiologist. Undertakes
comparative bone and teeth histology of extant and
extinct vertebrates (such as dinosaurs, Mesozoic birds,
pterosaurs, nonmammalian therapsids, as well as, more
recent Pliocene vertebrates).
Associate Professor Colin Attwood
Marine protected areas; line fish population ecology.
Dr Jacqui Bishop
Lecturer. Evolutionary biology and conservation genetics.
Dr Gary Bronner
Senior Lecturer; systematics, ecology and conservation
biology of African small mammals, with emphasis on
endemic and threatened golden moles; Scientific Editor:
African Zoology
Professor Charles Griffiths
Director of the Marine Biology Research Centre; aquatic
invasive alien species; biodiversity and endemicity patterns
of African marine fauna; coastal marine ecology; amphipod
taxonomy
Associate Professor John Hoffmann
Integrating biological control into the management of
alien invasive weeds in South Africa
Associate Professor David Jacobs
DST & NRF Research Chair in Animal Evolution and
Systematics. Evolutionary biology; behavioural ecology,
systematics and evolutionary development; bats and other
mammals
Associate Professor Astrid Jarre
DST & NRF Research Chair in Marine Ecology & Fisheries.
Ecosystem modeling: ecosystem approach to fisheries
management, collaboration between social and natural
scientists
Associate Professor Mike Lucas
Honorary
Research
Fel lowship,
Nat ional
Oceanography Centre, Southampton, UK. UCT:
biological oceanography; biogeochemical cycling;
phytoplankton dynamics, carbon/nitrogen cycling and
climate change. Research in the Benguela upwelling,
North and South Atlantic and Southern Ocean
ecosystems. South African Surface Ocean Lower
Atmosphere Study (SOLAS) SSC
Dr Heather Marco
Lecturer; Neuropeptide purification/biochemistry;
crustacean neuroendocrinology & physiology; insect
neuroendocrinolgy; Convenor of second year Form and
function (Ecophysiology) course. Alexander von Humboldt
Foundation Research Fellow
Associate Professor Coleen Moloney
Plankton ecology; ecosystem dynamics; fisheries ecology;
ecological modelling.