Jacobus Hendricks
University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Biography
Jacobus Hendricks is a qualified Molecular Biologist. He is a lecturer in the Discipline of Human Physiology at the School of Laboratory Medicine and Medical Sciences at UKZN. He is responsible for the supervision of research students within the School of Health Sciences. He completed his Doctoral Degree in the field of Immunogenetics at the University Medical Center Groningen, Netherlands (2015). The tile of his Doctoral study is: “Heterogeneity of memory marginal zone B lymphocytes”, where he has studied the nature and origin of these memory B-cells in the Marginal Zone.
Abstract
Abstract : B cell exhaustion in HIV: A role for programmed death receptor 1 (PD-1) immune checkpoint