Office: 7-9 Agricultural Sciences Building 
Tel: -+27 12 420 8336
Email: mariette.vanderwatt [@] up.ac.za
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Senior Research Officer

Teaching:
Macromolecules of life: structure-function and bioinformatics (BCM 356)
Molecular Basis of Disease (BCM 368-practical)
​Advanced Biochemistry (BCM 775)

Research Interest: Malaria Parasite Molecular Laboratory (M2PL)
Dr Mariëtte van der Watt focusses on the transmissible stages of the human malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum.  Her focus is on the discovery of transmission-blocking (T-B) antimalarials and she contributes to a comprehensive platform of assays and drug discovery knowledge. Her expertise lies in a multi multidisciplinary skill set associated with Biochemistry, Pharmacology and chemi-informatics that she applies in medicinal chemistry guided analyses of T-B compounds.