About
Ms. Lerato Nephali is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Johannesburg (UJ) under the supervision of Dr. Fidele Tugizimana. Ms Nephali obtained a BSc in Biochemistry and Psychology in 2016 and BSc Honours (Biochemistry), MSc (Biochemistry, Cum laude) at UJ in 2017 and 2020, respectively. Her PhD project is a metabolomics application to elucidate modes of action of plant biostimulants. Her current research focus, and interests include metabolomics, computational metabolomics, metabolite annotation, biochemical and molecular mechanisms underlying biostimulant-plant interactions. Ms. Nephali is an author/co-author of several metabolomics papers (from both her MSc and PhD work) in leading peer-reviewed international scientific journals. Ms. Nephali is currently working as a Scientist at Omnia Nutriology, South Africa.
Research interests
- Biochemistry
- Natural products
- Molecular networking, bioinformatics tools
- Plant metabolomics
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