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Edward P. Rybicki is affiliated with the University of Cape Town in South Africa. Their research spans multiple fields including Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Medicine, with a focus on Plant Science, Biotechnology, Infectious Diseases, Molecular Biology, and Epidemiology.

The scientist's work covers a range of main topics, highlighted by extensive publication activity in Plant Virus Research Studies, Transgenic Plants and Applications, Toxin Mechanisms and Immunotoxins, Herpesvirus Infections and Treatments, Bacteriophages and microbial interactions, Vector-Borne Animal Diseases, and Animal Virus Infections Studies.

Recent papers authored or co-authored include:

  • Integrating plant molecular farming and materials research for next-generation vaccines, 2021, Nature Reviews Materials
  • Co-expression of human calreticulin significantly improves the production of HIV gp140 and other viral glycoproteins in plants, 2020, Plant Biotechnology Journal
  • Prospects for SARS-CoV-2 diagnostics, therapeutics and vaccines in Africa, 2020, Nature Reviews Microbiology
  • Engineering the Plant Secretory Pathway for the Production of Next-Generation Pharmaceuticals, 2020, Trends in biotechnology
  • Extended Set of GoldenBraid Compatible Vectors for Fast Assembly of Multigenic Constructs and Their Use to Create Geminiviral Expression Vectors, 2020, Frontiers in Plant Science

Frequent co-authors in their collaborative work include Ann E. Meyers, Anna-Lise Williamson, Rosamund Chapman, Emmanuel Margolin, and Inga I. Hitzeroth.

Publication venues frequently featuring their work are:

  • Frontiers in Plant Science
  • Vaccines
  • Archives of Virology
  • Science
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Best Publications

  • RDP: detection of recombination amongst aligned sequences

    Darren Martin;Ed Rybicki

  • Revision of taxonomic criteria for species demarcation in the family Geminiviridae, and an updated list of begomovirus species.

    Claude M. Fauquet;D. M. Bisaro;R. W. Briddon;J. K. Brown

  • Plant‐made vaccines for humans and animals

    Edward Peter Rybicki

  • Optimization of human papillomavirus type 16 (HPV-16) L1 expression in plants: comparison of the suitability of different HPV-16 L1 gene variants and different cell-compartment localization

    J. Maclean;M. Koekemoer;A. J. Olivier;D. Stewart

  • A phylogenetic and evolutionary justification for three genera of Geminiviridae

    E. P. Rybicki

  • Plant-produced vaccines: promise and reality

    Edward P. Rybicki

  • A Top Ten list for economically important plant viruses

    Edward P. Rybicki

  • Therapeutic vaccines for high-risk HPV-associated diseases.

    Aleyo Chabeda;Romana J.R. Yanez;Renate Lamprecht;Ann E. Meyers

  • Oral Immunogenicity of Human Papillomavirus-Like Particles Expressed in Potato

    Heribert Warzecha;Hugh S. Mason;Christopher Lane;Anders Tryggvesson

  • An association between HIV-1 subtypes and mode of transmission in Cape Town, South Africa.

    van Harmelen J;Wood R;Lambrick M;Rybicki Ep

  • The molecular biology of mastreviruses.

    Kenneth E. Palmer;Edward P. Rybicki

  • Maize streak virus: an old and complex 'emerging' pathogen.

    Dionne N. Shepherd;Darren P. Martin;Eric Van Der Walt;Kyle Dent;Kyle Dent

  • A polymerase chain reaction method adapted for selective amplification and cloning of 3′ sequences of potyviral genomes: application to dasheen mosaic virus.

    S.S. Pappu;R. Brand;H.R. Pappu;E.P. Rybicki

  • Complete nucleotide sequence and host range of South African cassava mosaic virus: further evidence for recombination amongst begomoviruses.

    L. C. Berrie;E. P. Rybicki;M. E. C. Rey

  • Plant-based vaccines against viruses

    Edward P Rybicki

  • High level protein expression in plants through the use of a novel autonomously replicating geminivirus shuttle vector.

    Guy L. Regnard;Richard P. Halley-Stott;Fiona L. Tanzer;Inga I. Hitzeroth

  • A method for rapid production of heteromultimeric protein complexes in plants: assembly of protective bluetongue virus-like particles.

    Eva C. Thuenemann;Ann E. Meyers;Jeanette Verwey;Edward P. Rybicki

  • Recombination, decreased host specificity and increased mobility may have driven the emergence of maize streak virus as an agricultural pathogen.

    Arvind Varsani;Dionne Natalie Shepherd;Adérito Luis Monjane;Betty E. Owor

  • A protocol for the rapid isolation of full geminivirus genomes from dried plant tissue

    Dionne Natalie Shepherd;Darren Patrick Martin;Pierre Lefeuvre;Adérito Luis Monjane

  • Detection and typing of maize streak virus and other distantly related geminiviruses of grasses by polymerase chain reaction amplification of a conserved viral sequence.

    Edward P. Rybicki;Fiona L. Hughes

  • Plant Virus Disease Problems in The Developing World

    Edward P. Rybicki;Gerhard Pietersen

Frequent Co-Authors

Anna-Lise Williamson
Anna-Lise Williamson University of Cape Town
Arvind Varsani
Arvind Varsani Arizona State University
Pierre Lefeuvre
Pierre Lefeuvre University of La Réunion
Lynn Morris
Lynn Morris University of the Witwatersrand
Penny L. Moore
Penny L. Moore National Health Laboratory Service
Carolyn Williamson
Carolyn Williamson University of Cape Town
Rob W. Briddon
Rob W. Briddon National Institute for Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering
Don A. Cowan
Don A. Cowan University of Pretoria
Peter G. Markham
Peter G. Markham John Innes Centre

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