Kathleen Green, MSc

Kathleen Green, MSc

MMED 2017 Mentor

PhD student in Biochemistry
Stellenbosch University, South Africa

About: Kathleen completed her undergraduate studies at Stellenbosch University in Biomathematics, after which she attended the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) for the joint Honors degree in Biomathematics (with Stellenbosch University). She has always been interested in biochemistry and therefore chose to join the Molecular Systems Biology research group at Stellenbosch University for a Masters degree. In her masters research, she merged existing models to better understand the contribution of increased parasite burden to hypoglycaemia and lactic acidosis in malaria patients. She is currently pursuing a PhD which builds on her Masters work by using reduction methods to simplify large models, still within a whole body modelling framework.

Selected publication:

Snoep, Green, Eicher, Palm, Penkler, du Toit, Walters, Burger, Westerhoff, van Niekerk (2015). Quantitative analysis of drug effects at the whole-body level - a case study for glucose metabolism in malaria patients. Biochemical Society Transactions