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The 2015 Honours year planned the annual Honours braai with a sporty twist. The theme was Lab Olympics which had all the competitiveness of the real thing but with a whole lot more fun! We divided the Microbiology department into countries and made them participate in the first ever Microbiology inspired Olympic games. The games […]
Authors: Karin Jacobs, Kathryn Wirth
We asked our third year students to run their own research projects… This is the result!
The HonsBSc class of 2013 treated the rest of the Department of Microbiology to a braai on 20 February 2013. It is traditionally our first event on the social calendar and an opportunity to get to know the new recruits better. Thank you to the 2013 Hons class for organizing the event and all the effort they […]
The consensus is that bioenergy production in Africa could not only provide a sustainable modern alternative to traditional sources of energy such as firewood, but could also strengthen food security, combat deforestation and reduce health risks for local communities.
This is the opinion of biofuels expert and microbiologist, Prof Emile van Zyl, after a two-day […]
Wound dressing ‘the first of its kind’
The wound dressing incorporates broad-spectrum antimicrobial peptides into nanofibers, to fight infections that are especially common in burn wound patients.
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