Louis S. Le Clercq is a Molecular Biologist, who completed a Bachelors of Science (B.Sc.) degree majoring in Medical Sciences at the University of Pretoria. This afforded him theoretical and practical training in diverse fields such as applied cellular biology, embryology, histology and histological techniques, genetics, hematology and immunology.
Upon graduation he completed a B.Sc. Honors degree, based on intensified theoretical and practical training, alongside a mini research project which largely focused on cell culture in vitro experimentation to analyze nuclear transcription factors in macrophages.
He then elected to continue his training with a research and dissertation based Masters of Science (M.Sc) degree as further, post-graduate specialization. During this period he worked mostly on the full genome of a dsDNA virus, as well as some gene specific work, using novel Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) platforms.
After graduation Mr Le Clercq opted to do a post-graduate internship, administered by the Department of Science and Technology (DST) and National Research Foundation (NRF), where he was placed within the Molecular Genetics research facilities of the South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI).
At present he is an enrolled candidate of the postgraduate development program, performing thesis research towards the conferment of the Ph.D. degree in Genetics, from the University of the Free State, with a focus on genetic and epigenetic footprints that correlate to behavior and aging.
It is envisioned that he would then proceed with post-doctoral research at a national or internationally accredited institution in one of many fields of interest.