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Freelance medical writer | Academic writing and editing | Patient Facing Materials

Profile Summary

Phd Medical Virology | 15 years of lab research | Certificate in Medical Writing

Subject Matter Expertise

• ☆ Microbiology
• ☆ Microbiome Research
• ☆ Virology
• ☆ Retrovirology
• ☆ Molecular Virology
• ☆ Biostatistics
• ☆ Molecular Biology
• ☆ Microarrays
• ☆ Omics
• ☆ Transcriptomics
• ☆ Comparative Genomics
• ☆ PCR
• ☆ Molecular Cloning
• ☆ Next Generation Sequencing (NGS)
• ☆ DNA Sequencing
• ☆ Gene Expression Analysis
• ☆ Recombinant DNA
• ☆ Cell Biology
• ☆ Histology
• ☆ Pathogenesis
• ☆ Cell Culture
• ☆ Primary Cells
• ☆ Phylogenetics

Services

• Writing
• Research

Writing Clinical Trial Documentation, Medical Writing, Technical Writing, General Proofreading & Editing

Research Fact Checking, Gap Analysis, Scientific and Technical Research

Work Experience

Freelance Medical writer/editor and researcher

PublicMed

July 2023 - Present

Education

PhD Molecular Biology

University of Cape Town

March 2010 - October 2018

MSc Biomedical Sciences

University of Cape Town

January 2008 - July 2010

BSc (Hons)

University of Cape Town

January 2007 - December 2007

Certifications

• Certification details not provided.

Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Akiko Suzuki and Rosamund Chapman and Nicola Douglass and Olivia Carulei and Johan van Rensburg and Anna-Lise Williamson(2020). Phylogenetic Analysis of South African Bovine Leukaemia Virus (BLV) Isolates . Viruses. 12. (8). p. 898. {MDPI} {AG}

S. Ndlovu, A.-L. Williamson, L. Heath, O. Carulei, Simon Roux(2020). Genome Sequences of Three African Swine Fever Viruses of Genotypes IV and XX from Zaire and South Africa, Isolated from a Domestic Pig (Sus scrofa domesticus), a Warthog (Phacochoerus africanus), and a European Wild Boar (Sus scrofa) . Microbiology Resource Announcements. 9. (32). American Society for Microbiology

Olivia Carulei, Henry Munyanduki, Nicola Douglass, Kristy Offerman, Anna-Lise Williamson(2020). Influence of the lumpy skin disease virus (LSDV) superoxide dismutase homologue on host transcriptional activity, apoptosis and histopathology . Journal of General Virology. Microbiology Society

Ruzaiq Omar and Antoinette Van Schalkwyk and Olivia Carulei and Livio Heath and Nicola Douglass and Anna-Lise Williamson(2020). South African bovine ephemeral fever virus glycoprotein sequences are phylogenetically distinct from those from the rest of the world . Archives of Virology. 165. (5). p. 1207--1210. Springer Science and Business Media {LLC}

S. Ndlovu and A.-L. Williamson and R. Malesa and J. van Heerden and C. I. Boshoff and A. D. S. Bastos and L. Heath and O. Carulei(2020). Genome Sequences of Three African Swine Fever Viruses of Genotypes I, III, and XXII from South Africa and Zambia, Isolated from <i>Ornithodoros</i> Soft Ticks . Microbiology Resource Announcements. 9. (10). American Society for Microbiology

Carulei, O., Douglass, N., Williamson, A.-L.(2017). Comparative analysis of avian poxvirus genomes, including a novel poxvirus from lesser flamingos (Phoenicopterus minor), highlights the lack of conservation of the central region . BMC Genomics. 18. (1).

Offerman, K., Deffur, A., Carulei, O., Wilkinson, R., Douglass, N., Williamson, A.-L.(2015). Six host-range restricted poxviruses from three genera induce distinct gene expression profiles in an in vivo mouse model . BMC Genomics. 16. (1).

Offerman, K., Carulei, O., van der Walt, A.P., Douglass, N., Williamson, A.-L.(2014). The complete genome sequences of poxviruses isolated from a penguin and a pigeon in South Africa and comparison to other sequenced avipoxviruses . BMC Genomics. 15. (1).

Offerman, K., Carulei, O., Gous, T.A., Douglass, N., Williamson, A.-L.(2013). Phylogenetic and histological variation in avipoxviruses isolated in South Africa . Journal of General Virology. 94. (PART10). p. 2338-2351.

Zimmermann, D., Anderson, M.D., Lane, E., van Wilpe, E., Carulei, O., Douglass, N., Williamson, A.-L., Kotze, A.(2011). Avian poxvirus epizootic in a breeding population of lesser flamingos (Phoenicopterus minor) at Kamfers Dam, Kimberley, South Africa . Journal of Wildlife Diseases. 47. (4). p. 989-993.

Carulei, O., Douglass, N., Williamson, A.-L.(2009). Phylogenetic analysis of three genes of Penguinpox virus corresponding to Vaccinia virus G8R (VLTF-1), A3L (P4b) and H3L reveals that it is most closely related to Turkeypox virus, Ostrichpox virus and Pigeonpox virus . Virology Journal. 6.