Posted on May 13, 2015
Researchers and postgraduate students from the Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI) and the Genomics Research Institute (GRI) at the University of Pretoria contributed to eight articles in a special issue of the journal, New Phytologist.
Posted on May 11, 2015
Prof Robert (Bob) Millar, Director of the Mammal Research Institute and the Medical Research Council (MRC) Receptor Biology Unit was recently elected as President of the International Neuroendocrinology Federation (INF).
Posted on May 06, 2015
Prof John Taylor of the Department of Food Science, a research theme leader in the Institute for Food, Nutrition and Well-being, has been elected as Honorary President of the International Association for Cereal Science and Technology (ICC).
Posted on May 04, 2015
A final-year master’s student in Agricultural Economics at the University of Pretoria (UP), was selected as a Student Ambassador of the Talloires Network.
Posted on April 29, 2015
Prof Gerhard Pietersen's research on grapevine leafroll disease is quite literally changing the face of the world’s grape and wine industries.
Posted on April 17, 2015
Prof Leon Vivier (77), a former professor in Statistics and Econometrics at the University of Pretoria passed away on 9 April 2015. He is survived by his wife, Hendrien, their three children and five grandchildren.
Posted on April 14, 2015
A workshop on 'Pollination and Threats to Pollinators', funded by the National Research Foundation (NRF) and the Royal Society (UK), was recently hosted by the University of Pretoria (UP).
Posted on April 07, 2015
Food safety is internationally recognised as one of the most important risks to public health and food security.
Posted on March 24, 2015
Since its inception in August 2013, the South African Research Chair Initiative (SARChI) Chair in Mathematical Models and Methods in Bioengineering and Biosciences (M3B2), has been working towards strengthening collaboration between mathematicians and biologists.
Posted on March 18, 2015
Dr Heike Lutermann of the Department of Zoology and Entomology has been studying the elephant shrew, a small mammal also known as the sengi, for several years.
Posted on March 17, 2015
The one million Euro AFGROLAND project was launched this week at a project team workshop. This ambitious project (African Food, Agriculture, Land and Natural Resource Dynamics), in the context of global agro-food-energy system changes was awarded through a competitive international bidding...
Posted on March 13, 2015
A team consisting of amateur naturalists and students from the Department of Zoology and Entomology will attempt to record all living species within a designated area over a predetermined time period.
Posted on March 11, 2015
UP research has found that leopard survival rates in protected, as well as in non-protected areas, are low and that this is largely a result of human activities.
Posted on March 11, 2015
Food safety research, challenges and cooperative extension were the topics that Professors Cathy Strohbehn and Lakshman Rajagopal shared with faculty staff members and postgraduate students attending the mini symposium on Food Safety Challenges and Opportunities during the last week of February.
Posted on February 25, 2015
The University of Pretoria (UP), with support from Eskom and Sasol, recently launched the Laboratory for Atmospheric Studies (LAS).
Posted on February 23, 2015
Research by Prof Mohammad Naushad Emmambux, associate professor at UP’s Department of Food Science, and his colleagues has shown that it is possible to modify high GI starch using fatty acids so that it becomes a low GI starch.
Posted on February 19, 2015
Imagine castles of clay and flourishing life in the soils below. Endemic to the soils of Africa is the fascinating small mammal known as the mole-rat that lives underground, excavating burrow systems that may extend for more than a kilometre.
Posted on February 10, 2015
Prof J-M (Jean) Lubuma is the new Dean of the Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences with effect from 15 March 2015. Commencing his studies at the University of Kinshasa, DRC where he obtained his BSc and BSc (Hons) degrees, Prof Lubuma completed the MSc and PhD degrees in Mathematics at...
Posted on February 04, 2015
Prof Brenda Wingfield has received the Christiaan Hendrik Persoon medal - the highest award that the SASPP can make to a member.
Posted on November 27, 2014
Research done at the University of Pretoria has found that the abundant occurrence of two species of midges that cause AHS could be due to their ability to withstand cold temperatures.
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