Michelle Kuttel

Exploring tuberculosis transmission and prevention strategies using a flexible, high performance agent-based model

Co-Supervisor: Nathan Geffen

Molecular Modeling Studies of Carbohydrate Vaccine Antigens: Informing the Future of Vaccine Design

Primary Supervisor: Neil Ravenscroft (Dept. Chemistry, UCT)

Molecular modeling of bacterial polysaccharide antigens to inform future vaccine development.

Primary Supervisor: Neil Ravenscroft (Dept. Chemistry, UCT)

Effective visualisation of callgraphs for optimisation of parallel programs: a design study

Design and implementation of programming tools for the microsimulation of infectious disease epidemics with a focus on HIV and TB

Comparative evaluation of two carbohydrate force fields for modelling polysaccharide conformation

Co-Supervisor: Neil Ravenscroft (Dept. Chemistry, UCT)

NMR and molecular modelling studies of streptococcal and pneumococcal polysaccharide antigens

Primary Supervisor: Neil Ravenscroft (Dept. Chemistry, UCT)

M.Sc. (coursework+dissertation) in Statistics

Principal Supervisor: Tom Dietel (Dept. Physics, UCT)

Effective visualisation of event data from the ALICE experiment at CERN.

M.Sc. (coursework+dissertation)

Conformational analysis of E. Coli carbohydrate antigens

M.Sc. (coursework+dissertation) in Statistics

Designing useful ways to support mid-career professionals in creating better financial futures.

Accelerated Cooperative Co-Evolution on Multi-core Architectures.
Co-supervisor: Geoff Nitschke

Accelerated Coarse-Grained Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Protein-Protein Docking
Co-supervisors: James Gain, Robert Best (NIH, USA)

Design of a Prototype Mobile Application Interface for Efficient Accessing of Electronic Laboratory Results by Health Clinicians

Chemical and conformational studies of bacterial cell surface polysaccharide repeating units.

Principal Supervisor: Neil Ravenscroft (Dept. Chemistry, UCT)

Co-Supervisor: David Gammon (Dept. Chemistry, UCT)

Designing an effective carbohydrate-bulding application user interface for the Android tablet environment.

Handling Radio Frequency Interference for the KAT7 Radio Telescope
Principal Supervisor: Sarah Blyth

Add. Co-supervisor: Anja Schroeder

HPC acceleration of astronomical H1 source detection.
Co-supervisor: Sarah Blyth

Force Field Comparison through Computational Analysis of Capsular Polysaccharides of Streptococcus Pneumoniae Serotypes 19A and F
Co-supervisor: Neil Ravenscroft

Parallelization of the Weighted Histogram Analysis Method.

Lattice Boltzman liquid simulations on graphics hardware
Principal Supervisor: James Gain

Molecular modelling of the Streptococcus Pneumoniae serogroup 6 capsular polysaccharide antigens.
Co-supervisor: Neil Ravenscroft

GPU-based Acceleration of Radio Interferometry Point Source Visibility Simulations in the MeqTrees Framework
Principal Supervisor: Patrick Marais

Force-extension of the Amylose Polysaccharide

Visualization of high-dimensional solution sets for docking of molecular structures into EM micrographs
Co-supervisor: James Gain

Accelerating Bioinformatics Applications using Reconfigurable Computers

Realistic Interactive Sand: A GPU-based Framework
Principal Supervisor: Patrick Marais

Practical Fluid Dynamics for the Animation Industry
Principal Supervisor: James Gain

Parallel Monte Carlo Simulations in LIBOR market models
Principal Supervisor: Peter Ouwehand

Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Molecular Modelling: Glycoinformatics

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