Posted on September 16, 2016
Three students from the Centre for Microbial Ecology and Genomics (CMEG) at the University of Pretoria recently had their honours research published in international peer-reviewed journals.
Posted on August 24, 2016
The Centre for Microbial Ecology and Genomics at the University of Pretoria is proud to announce that our very own Dr Thulani Makhlanyane has received the International Society for Microbial Ecology (ISME) award for service excellence!
Posted on July 07, 2016
According to Professor Don Cowen, Director of the Centre for Microbial Ecology and Genomics and the Genomics Research Institute at the University of Pretoria, we are currently in the midst of a new scientific revolution.
Posted on June 03, 2016
Prof. Cowan, director of the Centre for Microbial Ecology and the Genomics Research Institute, was invited to provide a lecture at "Science & Cocktails" in Johannesburg.
Posted on May 31, 2016
Scientists from the Centre of Microbial Ecology and Genomics (CMEG) have shed more light on the enigmatic fairy circles of the Namib Desert.
Posted on April 28, 2016
Life can thrive in the most extreme climates - from the very hot to the very cold. Something that not long ago was believed to belong in science fiction has now been brought into the realm of reality by a researcher at UP.
Posted on April 08, 2016
Prof Sir Tom Blundell, Director of Research and Professor Emeritus in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Cambridge, presented a public lecture titled 'Genomes, structural biology and drug discovery: fighting drug resistance in cancer and tuberculosis', at the University of...
Posted on July 08, 2015
They are called extremophiles - microorganisms that can survive under extreme conditions such as in the Namib Desert or the Antarctic Dry Valleys.
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