Johannes Maree

JP received his PhD in Biochemistry at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa, in the laboratory of Professor Hugh Patterton. During his postgraduate research he collaborated with groups at the Imperial College London and University of Southern Denmark to investigate genome-wide nucleosomal architecture and histone epigenetics in Trypanosoma brucei. His research focusses on epigenetic mechanisms and marks that are employed by this organism to 1) direct gene transcription and regulate an atypical nuclear genome that lacks canonical eukaryotic transcriptional control and 2) package kinetoplast DNA to possibly regulate mitochondrial activity through epigenetic transcriptional throttling across different life stages of the parasite.

Companies

• Lecturer & Postdoctoral Research Fellow Villanova University (2021)
• PHD Candidate Stellenbosch University (2016 — 2020)
• Editor-in-Chief H3Africa Newsletter Editorial Board (2015 — 2017)
• Visiting Researcher Imperial College London (2017 — 2017)
• Tutor Stellenbosch University (2016 — 2016)
• Chair H3Africa Fellows Club (2014 — 2016)
• Visiting Researcher University of Southern Denmark (2015 — 2015)
• Visiting Researcher Imperial College London (2015 — 2015)
• Demonstrator & Tutor University of the Free State (2011 — 2015)

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Stellenbosch University/Universiteit Stellenbosch (2016 — 2020)
• Master's Degree University of the Free State/Universiteit van die Vrystaat (2012 — 2014)