Dr Johan Steyl

BVSc (Pretoria), MSc (Vet Sci)(Pretoria)

Senior Lecturer: Pathology

Orchid ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5940-6799

Summary CV   

Dr Johan Steyl qualified as a veterinarian in 2001 and registered with the South African Veterinary Council. He worked in a mixed animal practice before returning to the University of Pretoria in 2002 to further his studies. He was initially appointed in a temporary position as lecturer in the section of Pathology, but in 2007 he was appointed on a permanent basis. Dr Steyl obtained his MSc degree, with distinction, in 2012. As an anatomical pathologist he performs diagnostic necropsy duties and lectures in several pathology modules to undergraduate and postgraduate students. In 2017 he was awarded the lecturer of the year prize in the Faculty of Veterinary Science and in 2018 he was the module coordinator of the Diagnostic Pathology module that was voted by the student body the Module of the Year.

Dr Steyl collaborates with other researchers within the department, in the faculty, the university, nationally, and internationally. He has published 30 scientific, peer-reviewed articles in accredited journals.

Research Expertise/Interest

Wildlife diseases – Veterinary ecology, pathology and epidemiology.

Theileriosis in wild antelope.

Production animal pathology.

Patents - Tick derived, T. hippotragi infected stabilate

Postgraduate Students

MMedVet            Nicolize O’Dell - Pathology of fatal, natural African Horsesickness virus infection in dogs.

MSc                    Gillian Taylor - Health assessment of tilapia (Oreochromis spp.) aquaculture systems in the northern provinces of South Africa.