Posted on June 02, 2017
Fiyinfoluwa Adesioye is a Ph.D. student at the Centre for Microbial Ecology and Genomics. Her work focuses on determining the crystal structure of a novel esterase from the Namib Desert.
Posted on May 24, 2017
In southwestern Africa, a dozen scientists dig in the dirt. In a week, they’ve transected 100 miles of shifting sand dunes and flat gravel plains across the Namib Desert, one of the driest places on Earth. They’ve filled hundreds of small sandwich bags with soil along the way.
Posted on May 23, 2017
The Australia Awards–Africa Program is an initiative funded by the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT). The main objectives of this initiative are to contribute to the research capacity of South African tertiary institutions and to build long-term, sustainable links...
Posted on May 23, 2017
Professor Don Cowan, Director of CMEG, and the rest of the CMEG team would like to welcome Professor Teresa Coutinho and her research group to CMEG.
Posted on May 03, 2017
A collaborative study by researchers from UP, the Garvan Institute of Medical Research and the University of Sydney in Australia, have mapped the entire genome of a prostate cancer tumour for the first time.
Posted on November 16, 2016
Felix Oloo, who was an honours student at the Centre for Microbial Ecology and Genomics (CMEG) under the supervision of Dr Angel Valverde, was awarded the "highest impact first-author publication by a postgraduate student in Genetics" prize.
Posted on November 02, 2016
Every April for the past 9 years, researchers from the Centre for Microbial Ecology and Genomics at the University of Pretoria have spent a week at the Gobabeb Research and Training Centre (GRTC), expanding their research on the microbial ecology of Namib Desert soil ecosystems.
Posted on October 14, 2016
The University of Pretoria's Centre for Microbial Ecology and Genomics (CMEG) is delighted to announce that they were successful in their bid to host the 18th International Symposium on Microbial Ecology (ISME) 2020.
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