Francolins: A "fowl" taxonomic, phylogenetic and biogeographical history
Professor Tim Crowe, will present the Department of Biological Sciences seminar, with a talk entitled, "Francolins: a "fowl" taxonomic, phylogenetic and biog
Extreme Drug Discovery: Discovering Medicines from Extreme Environments
Professor Marcel Jaspars, from the Marine Biodiscovery Centre, University of Aberdeen, Scotland, will present the Royal Society of Chemistry
Dual induction of microbial secondary metabolites by fungal / bacterial co-cultivation
Dr Rainer Ebel from the Marine Biodiscovery Centre, University of Aberdeen, Scotland, will present the Department of Molecular & Cell Biology
Unravelling the complexity in the multi-protein heme shuttle pathway in Staphylococcus aureus: Cog-wheel kinetics from time-resolved, electrospray ionization mass spectrometry
Professor Martin J.
The Kenyan dragonflies: past, present and future
Laban Njoroge will present the Department of Biological Science seminar with a talk entitled, "The Kenyan dragonflies: past, present a
New lens on how Middle Stone Age stone tools were used
Dr Ben Schoville’s PLOS One paper describes a new model to determine how our Middle Stone Age ancestors used ubiquitous stone points to extract resources from the landscape.
AXA awards first research chair in Africa to UCT
AXA Research Fund has awarded its first research chair in Africa to Professor Mark New, Director of the African Climate and Development Initiative.
International team discovers major supercluster of galaxies hidden by Milky Way
An international team of astronomers, led by Professor Renée C Kraan-Korteweg, has discovered a previously unknown major concentration of galaxies in the constellation Vela, which they have dubbed the Vela supercluster.
Is general relativity's take on black holes outdated?
Dr Diego Rubiera-Garcia argues that Einstein’s theory of general relativity might need some rethinking to match up to current observations in cosmology.
Kelp: The canary in the coal mine
A new study suggests that losing the world’s kelp forests may indicate that our environment has finally “tipped over the edge of the precipice”.