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.
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 October 14, 2016
Scientists from seven sub-Saharan African countries met at the University of Pretoria during the second week of October 2016 to launch the African Soil Microbiology Project.
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.
Posted on September 27, 2016
Andries van der Walt is a first year Masters student at the Centre for Microbial Ecology and Genomics with a research focus on microbial community involvement in Fairy Circle formation in the Namib Desert.
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