Posted on November 07, 2017
Storme de Scally, a student at the Centre for Microbial Ecology and Genomics, won the best oral presentation at the 2017 Annual Genetics Postgraduate Student Symposium. Storme is currently in the final stages of her Master's degree in Genetics, and works on microbial communities in the Southern...
Posted on October 20, 2017
Dr Riaan Rifkin, a Research Fellow at the University of Pretoria Centre for Microbial Ecology and Genomics, was recently awarded the best presentation at the 8th Oppenheimer De Beers Research Conference.
Posted on October 04, 2017
Marc Van Goethem, a final year Ph.D. student at the University of Pretoria Centre for Microbial Ecology and Genomics (CMEG), was recently selected as one of the Top 100 university students in South Africa through the Gradstar Awards programme.
Posted on October 03, 2017
Storme de Scally, an MSc student at the Centre for Microbial Ecology and Genomics (CMEG) at the University of Pretoria, was awarded the Best Performing Student at the 2017 Gauteng Biotech Fundi Awards.
Posted on July 19, 2017
Extreme conditions of the Namib Desert attract researchers from across the world eager to study its ecosystems and to find out more about life on other planets
Posted on July 13, 2017
Storme de Scally, an MSc. student from the University of Pretoria Centre for Microbial Ecology and Genomics was recently awarded the Best MSc. Presentation at the 13th South African Society for Systematic Biology (SASSB) Conference.The theme of the conference was "Celebrating Southern African...
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.
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