Vernon Coyne, PhD
Cape Town, South Africa
Research field: Biological Sciences
Marine Biotechnology; aquaculture; abalone; seaweed; molecular biology; innate immunity in marine invertebrates; defence response; stress response
Publications
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Journal Article (20)
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A. F. Maarten Altelaar, Javier Munoz, Albert J. R. Heck (2012) Next-generation proteomics: towards an integrative view of proteome dynamics, 35-48. In Nature Reviews Genetics 14 (1).Download PDF (9.64 MB)
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Doeschate KI ten, VE Coyne (2008) Improved growth rate in farmed Haliotis midae through probiotic treatment, 174-179. In AQUACULTURE 284 (1-4).
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R Iyer, JJ Bolton, V Coyne (2005) Gracilarioid species (Gracilariaceae, Rhodophyta) in southern Africa, with a description of Gracilariopsis funicularis sp nov., 97-105. In AFRICAN JOURNAL OF MARINE SCIENCE 27 (1).
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R Iyer, EM Tronchin, JJ Bolton (2005) Molecular systematics of the Gracilariaceae (Gracilariales, Rhodophyta) with emphasis on southern Africa, 672-684. In JOURNAL OF PHYCOLOGY 41 (3).
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R Iyer, Clerck O De, JJ Bolton (2004) Morphological and taxonomic studies of Gracilaria and Gracilariopsis species (Gracilariales, Rhodophyta) from South Africa, 521-539. In SOUTH AFRICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY 70 (4).
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LA Tow, VE Coyne (1999) Cloning and characterisation of a novel ompB operon from Vibrio cholerae 569B, 269-275. In BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-GENE STRUCTURE AND EXPRESSION 1444 (2).
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J Shi, VE Coyne, RM Weiner (1997) Identification of an alkaline metalloprotease produced by the hydrothermal vent bacterium Hyphomonas jannaschiana VP3, 15-26. In MICROBIOS 91 (366).
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AE Jaffray, RJ Anderson, VE Coyne (1997) Investigation of bacterial epiphytes of the agar-producing red seaweed Gracilaria gracilis (Stackhouse) Steentoft, Irvine et Farnham from Saldanha Bay, South Africa and Luderitz, Namibia, 569-576. In BOTANICA MARINA 40 (6).
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JH Erasmus, PA Cook, VE Coyne (1997) The role of bacteria in the digestion of seaweed by the abalone Haliotis midae, 377-386. In AQUACULTURE 155 (1-4).Download PDF (624.15 KB)
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AE Jaffray, VE Coyne (1996) Development of an in situ assay to detect bacterial pathogens of the red alga Gracilaria gracilis (Stackhouse) Steentoft, Irvine et Farnham, 409-414. In JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYCOLOGY 8 (4-5).
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Biographical Information
Vernon Coyne obtained a BSc degree in Microbiology and Zoology from Rhodes University in 1978, a BSc (Hons) degree and a PhD degree in Microbiology from UCT in 1979 and 1985, respectively. In 1986, he left for Washington, D.C. where he worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Microbiology Dept. at Georgetown University. From 1987 until 1990, he was a member of the Centre of Marine Biotechnology at Maryland University where he was a Research Assistant and later a Research Assistant Professor. He returned to the New South Africa in 1991 to take up a position as a Lecturer in the Microbiology Dept. at UCT. He was promoted ad hominem to Senior Lecturer in 1998, Assoc. Prof. in 2006 and became Head of Department in 2007.
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Professional Experience
2006 - Present
Associate Professor at Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Cape Town
Cape Town, South Africa
Cape Town, South Africa
Education
Feb 1981 - Dec 1985
University of Cape Town
in Cape Town, South Africa
Feb 1979 - Dec 1979
University of Cape Town
in Cape Town, South Africa
BSc (Hons)
BSc (Hons)
Feb 1976 - Dec 1978
Rhodes University
in Grahamstown, South Africa
BSc
BSc
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