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.
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 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.
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 May 23, 2016
Sci21 (http://sci21.co.nz/) is an outreach programme sponsored by the Auckland University of Technology in New Zealand that showcases short scientific videos. Prof. Don Cowan was invited to participate in the programme. In this webcast, Prof. Cowan talks about the new genomics revolution.
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 February 18, 2016
At the end of April 2016, Loftie will embark on a self-supported bicycle tour from Nairobi to Cape Town to raise awareness towards antibiotic resistance and also to highlight some of the science that is being done in emerging African economies.
Posted on February 03, 2016
SASM is an association that supports microbiology research in South Africa. Every year CMEG students participate in the conference with both oral and poster presentations.
Posted on January 25, 2016
Olivier Zablocki started his PhD with CMEG during 2013.
Posted on October 09, 2015
The CMEG team participated in Spring Day 2015 as part of our team building activities. The group competed in both the volleyball and soccer teams.
Posted on August 18, 2015
Miss Ntsoaki Leticia Mosina recently won one of five TATA African Scholarships for Women in Science Engineering and Technology hosted by the Department of Science and Technology (DST). Ms Naledi Pandor, Minister of Science and Technology, approved all the finalists and announced the winners on...
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