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Department of Botany and Zoology
New review on the legacy of the “botanist from Belvidere”
The living legacy of Dr Augusta Vera Duthie (1881–1963), founder of the Department of Botany at Victoria College in 1902 (renamed Stellenbosch University in 1918), has been captured in a review article published in a special edition of the...
Department of Botany and Zoology
New velvet worm species a first for the Little Karoo
In March 2022, Stellenbosch University (SU) student Rohan Barnard was out and about on a farm in the Swartberg Mountains between Calitzdorp and Oudtshoorn, flipping over rocks looking for ants, reptiles and other critters, when he stumbled...
Department of Botany and Zoology
New dataset will support global scale analysis of climate trends in river flow
With one of the largest streamflow networks globally, administered by South Africa's Department of Water Affairs (DWA) and the South African Environmental Observation Network (SAEON), South Africa is one of 30 countries worldwide to have...
Chemistry and Polymer Science
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Microbiology
Microorganisms play important role in ecosystems, human health – Prof Thulani Makhalanyane
Prof Thulani Makhalanyane from the Department of Microbiology and the School for Data Sciences and Computational Thinking at Stellenbosch University delivered his inaugural lecture on Tuesday 8 October. The title of his lecture was...
Microbiology
Plankton Manifesto unveils importance of “invisible organisms”
Ongoing disruptions to plankton ecosystems due to human activities in our oceans will inevitably have major impacts on marine life as we presently know it, likely leading to unforeseen and potentially dramatic consequences. But while the...
Physiological Sciences
Research on Alzheimer drug memantine sheds light on novel mechanism in maintaining cell health
Memantine is one of the main drugs prescribed for patients with mild to severe Alzheimer's disease. Yet, despite an 8.5% increase worldwide in the use of the drug between 2008 and 2018, uncertainties remain regarding the most favorable...
Microbiology
Tiny microbes called up in fight against climate change
Prof. Thulani Makhalanyane from Stellenbosch University is one of 18 leading microbiologists worldwide, representing 24 microbiology scientific societies and institutions, urging international governments to deploy microbes against climate...
Physiological Sciences
SU convenes second workshop on emerging field of extracellular vesicle research
The emerging field of extracellular vesicle (EV) research in biology, physiology and biotechnology was again the focus of attention when South African researchers recently reconvened at Stellenbosch University (SU) for the second time since...