Rhodes Å·ÖÞ±×ãÇòÍø_ÍâΧÂòÇòappÍÆ¼ö-Ͷע|¹ÙÍø distinguished academic becomes an honorary fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry
Rhodes Å·ÖÞ±×ãÇòÍø_ÍâΧÂòÇòappÍÆ¼ö-Ͷע|¹ÙÍø’s Director of the DST Institute for Nanotechnology Innovation, Distinguished Professor Tebello Nyokong, has been named an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.
Rhodes Å·ÖÞ±×ãÇòÍø_ÍâΧÂòÇòappÍÆ¼ö-Ͷע|¹ÙÍø sweeps the board at national three-minute thesis competition
Two Rhodes Å·ÖÞ±×ãÇòÍø_ÍâΧÂòÇòappÍÆ¼ö-Ͷע|¹ÙÍø PhD candidates walked away with a first place tie in the national Three-Minute Thesis (3MT) competition last week.
Rhodes Å·ÖÞ±×ãÇòÍø_ÍâΧÂòÇòappÍÆ¼ö-Ͷע|¹ÙÍø partners with Grocott’s Mail to bring you your paper
This Friday you would not have found your Grocott’s Mail at the supermarket as usual, and here’s why.
Rhodes Å·ÖÞ±×ãÇòÍø_ÍâΧÂòÇòappÍÆ¼ö-Ͷע|¹ÙÍø assists grade 11 pupil to realise research dream
Rhodes Å·ÖÞ±×ãÇòÍø_ÍâΧÂòÇòappÍÆ¼ö-Ͷע|¹ÙÍø academics are assisting grade 11 Stutterheim High School pupil, Konwaba Putsu, to realise his dream. The 17-year-old Konwaba has aspirations of discovering what can be done to stop cancer from spreading in the body.
Rhodes Å·ÖÞ±×ãÇòÍø_ÍâΧÂòÇòappÍÆ¼ö-Ͷע|¹ÙÍø assists grade 11 pupil to realise research dream
Rhodes Å·ÖÞ±×ãÇòÍø_ÍâΧÂòÇòappÍÆ¼ö-Ͷע|¹ÙÍø academics are assisting grade 11 Stutterheim High School pupil, Konwaba Putsu, to realise his dream.
Five Posters Selected For Presentation During Session at Old Town 2018 Symposium
The selected presenters were Abantika Chakraborty (Adrienne Edkins lab at Rhodes Å·ÖÞ±×ãÇòÍø_ÍâΧÂòÇòappÍÆ¼ö-Ͷע|¹ÙÍø), Eileen Burchfiel (Dennis Thiele lab, Duke Å·ÖÞ±×ãÇòÍø_ÍâΧÂòÇòappÍÆ¼ö-Ͷע|¹ÙÍø), Sarah Backe (Mehdi Mollapour lab, SUNY Upstate Medical Å·ÖÞ±×ãÇòÍø_ÍâΧÂòÇòappÍÆ¼ö-Ͷע|¹ÙÍø), and Irene Zohn (Children’s National Medical Center) (Figure 1).
Rhodes Å·ÖÞ±×ãÇòÍø_ÍâΧÂòÇòappÍÆ¼ö-Ͷע|¹ÙÍø Professor among research consortia awarded £7 million to tackle HIV-related cancer
Rhodes Å·ÖÞ±×ãÇòÍø_ÍâΧÂòÇòappÍÆ¼ö-Ͷע|¹ÙÍø’s Professor Adrienne Edkins has received close to 2 million rand from the UK Government to tackle HIV-related cancer as part of an international initiative to understand and treat HIV related cancer.
SARChI Chair awarded Newton Fellowship grant
Rhodes Å·ÖÞ±×ãÇòÍø_ÍâΧÂòÇòappÍÆ¼ö-Ͷע|¹ÙÍø SARChI Chair for Molecular and Cellular Biology of the Eukaryotic Stress Response Professor Adrienne Edkins, has been awarded a 2018 Newton Advanced Fellowship grant of £101 000 (which is close to R2 million) from the Academy of Medical Sciences.
BioBRU celebrates 10 years
A talk organised by Rhodes Å·ÖÞ±×ãÇòÍø_ÍâΧÂòÇòappÍÆ¼ö-Ͷע|¹ÙÍø’s Biomedical Biotechnology Research Unit (BioBRU) was held recently in celebration of BioBRU’s 10-year anniversary.
Å·ÖÞ±×ãÇòÍø_ÍâΧÂòÇòappÍÆ¼ö-Ͷע|¹ÙÍø of Stellenbosch Collaboration
Nathan Holm, a first year MSc candidate, visited Prof Kathy Myburgh’s lab at Stellenbosch Å·ÖÞ±×ãÇòÍø_ÍâΧÂòÇòappÍÆ¼ö-Ͷע|¹ÙÍø in October, 2018.
BioBRU Runs 21kms
The Mountain Drive Half Marathon was a gruelling 21km run that took on the steep climb towards Grahamstowns toposcope
CrossFit Scientists
The Grahamstown Games was a fun CrossFit event in which multiple members of the research group participated –
Footwork Instead of Labwork
Recently the department of Biochemistry and Microbiology took on the Department of Zoology in a riveting game of soccer.
BioBRU in Scotland
Abir Chakraborty, a TWAS-NRF Doctoral fellow of Rhodes Å·ÖÞ±×ãÇòÍø_ÍâΧÂòÇòappÍÆ¼ö-Ͷע|¹ÙÍø and a member of BioBRU, visited the Å·ÖÞ±×ãÇòÍø_ÍâΧÂòÇòappÍÆ¼ö-Ͷע|¹ÙÍø of Edinburgh on a research exchange program to execute certain research experiments at the Department of Chemistry.
Advanced Proteomics Workshop
BioBRU students: Nathan Holm (MSc candidate), Lili Flax (MSc candidate), Robert Rossouw (MSc candidate), Abir Chakraborty (PhD candidate) and Kemi Oladipo (PhD candidate) attended the ACGT Advanced Proteomics Workshop and Symposium.
BioBRU Attends the SASBMB-FASBMB 2018
Ten members of BioBRU participated in the conference with Principal investigator Professor Adrienne Edkins delivering a talk on the chaperones Hsp90 and Hsp70 as well as the co-chaperone HOP as drug targets in cancer.
The 9th International Conference on the Hsp90 Chaperone Machine
Prof Adrienne Edkins and two of her supervised PhD students, Natasha Boel and Michaelone Vaaltyn, made their way to Leysin in Switzerland to present their research at the 9th International conference on the Hsp90 chaperone machine.
Rhodes Å·ÖÞ±×ãÇòÍø_ÍâΧÂòÇòappÍÆ¼ö-Ͷע|¹ÙÍø women in science honoured
The Rhodes Å·ÖÞ±×ãÇòÍø_ÍâΧÂòÇòappÍÆ¼ö-Ͷע|¹ÙÍø community celebrates the achievements of two women in science - Professor Adrienne Edkins and her Masters student, Ms Kelly Schwarz.
BioBRU goes to India
NRF SOUTH AFRICA / INDIA JOINT SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH COLLABORATION
Mandela Rhodes Scholar Attends Leadership Workshop
Lili Marie Flax, currently registered to do her masters in biochemistry at Rhodes Å·ÖÞ±×ãÇòÍø_ÍâΧÂòÇòappÍÆ¼ö-Ͷע|¹ÙÍø is the newest member of the BioBRU group. Her research focuses on the effects of HIV on the expression of STIP1 in common South African cancers.