The WITS PhD Seminar, Day 1
When: | Tuesday, 29 September 2020 - Tuesday, 29 September 2020 |
Where: | Online Event |
Start time: | 9:00 |
Enquiries: | |
RSVP: | PHD Seminar 1 Session |
Wits PhD presentation by competition finalists
PROGRAMME
29 September 2020: Session 1
Speakers:
- 09:00 Professor Joao Rodrigues, Acting Deputy Vice-Chancellor: Research & PG Affairs (Opening Remarks)
- 09:10 Professor Zeblon Vilakazi, Wits Vice-Principal and Vice-Chancellor (designate) (Keynote Address)
- 09:30 Professor Robert Muponde, Director: Postgraduate Affairs Office (On The PhD Seminar)
Finalists:
- 09:45 1 Albert Whata: Change Point Detection for SARS-CoV-2 DNA Sequences
- 10:10 2 Anza Thiba: HYPERTENSION: A GLOBAL PANDEMIC
- 10:35 3 Carol Preston: Responding to multiple pandemics through arts-based activities with primary school children in a rural community
- 11:00 4 Caroline Rimmer: ANXIETY: THE UNSEEN KILLER
- 11:25 5 Chia-yu Chen: Transgenic crops: The missing link in the battle against pandemics
- 11:50 6 Claire Hart: The sibling pandemic: What psychoanalytic sibling research can teach us about the COVID-19 world
- 12:15 hr 7 Jorge da Rocha: Parallel Pandemics - Pharmacogenomics and Prevaricators
- 12:40 hr 8 Leigh Crymble: Driving positive behavioural change during a pandemic using language, personality values and decision-making insights
- 13:05 hr 9 Lerato E. Mohalajeng: Crowdsourcing: The Solution to Efficient Drug Development During Pandemics
- 13:30 hr 10. Melusi M. Makhoba: Recalibration of the marketing strategy during a pandemic
- 13:55 hr 11 Marifa Muchemwa: Family Changes and Child Maintenance Effect on Men’s Mental Health in South Africa in the context of the COVID 19 Pandemic.
