Posted on November 13, 2020
As celebration of the research conducted during 2020, the Department of Biochemistry, Genetics and Microbiology hosted a research day on 12 November. A selection of talks were presented by postgraduate students and research staff.
Posted on November 12, 2020
UP dominated this year’s Absa Gradstar Top 100 with 19 students making it onto the list, the most from any other institution.
Posted on October 20, 2020
Dr Riaan Rifkin, a Research Fellow at the University of Pretoria (UP), was honoured with a profile in a recent edition of National Geographic Society for his work on tracing the DNA of ancient human diseases.
Posted on October 15, 2020
Prof Sanushka Naidoo appointed as new Head of Biochemistry, Genetics and Microbiology
Posted on October 08, 2020
The Department of Biochemistry, Genetics and Microbiology is excited by the announcement of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry being awarded to Emmanuelle Charpentier (France/Germany) and Jennifer Doudna (USA) for their discovery of a bacterial immune system that allows DNA of living cells to be...
Posted on September 26, 2020
The University of Pretoria (UP) is part of a consortium that has been awarded €11 million (about R 216 million) to study the microbiomes in the South Atlantic Ocean.
Posted on September 23, 2020
The University of Pretoria's (UP) first Community of Practice (CoP) focusing on eliminating malaria, hosted in the UP Institute for Sustainable Malaria Control (UP ISMC), has been renewed for a second round of funding. Through the CoP initiative, the National Research Foundation (NRF) provides...
Posted on September 20, 2020
UP’s Professor Thulani Makhalanyane is part of an international team of scientists that has mapped the microbiomes of public parks worldwide for the first time, and he hopes park managers will take note of the results.
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