ICGEB Cape Town

17/04/2026

📍Dr. Dennis Ndolo, Group Leader – Biopesticides, participated in a writeshop on the development of continental guidelines for the registration of biopesticides and biological control agents in Africa, held from 13–17 April 2026 in Nairobi, Kenya 🇰🇪

📔The guidelines are expected to provide a cohesive framework to support a more harmonised and streamlined registration process for biopesticide products and biocontrol agents across Regional Economic Communities and African Union Member States, advancing sustainable agricultural innovation across the continent 🌍

08/04/2026

Join our next International Seminar with Shahida Moosa from Stellenbosch University 🇿🇦

🗓️ 14 April 2026 at noon (SAST)
🔗 Email: capetown@icgeb.org for link to join

08/04/2026

🔜1 week to go before applications close on 15 Apil 2026: Department of Science,Technology and Innovation SA National Research Foundation

📢 CALL NOW OPEN ❗️

The ICGEB-SAWBP Postdoctoral Fellowship Scheme, in partnership with the Department of Science,Technology and Innovation SA and the National Research Foundation will support South African 🇿🇦women researchers holding a PhD degree, in Biotechnology or a related discipline, having outstanding ability, and who will perform hypothesis-driven research.

The Fellowships comprise a very attractive package:
☑️ Two-year Postdoctoral Fellowship at ICGEB Cape Town
☑️ Applying the latest techniques and methodologies to the applicant’s chosen research topic
☑️Opportunities for mentoring, peer-to-peer learning and complementary skills
☑️ Immersion in a top class international scientific environment

ℹ️ https://www.icgeb.org/fellowships/icgeb-south-african-women-in-biotechnology-programme-sawbp-postdoc-fellowship-call/

30/03/2026

📢 South African Women in Biotech Postdoc Fellowship Opportunities with National Research Foundation and Department of Science,Technology and Innovation SA

⏰ Deadline approaching: 15 April 2026

ℹ️https://www.icgeb.org/fellowships/icgeb-south-african-women-in-biotechnology-programme-sawbp-postdoc-fellowship-call/

📢 CALL NOW OPEN ❗️

The ICGEB-SAWBP Postdoctoral Fellowship Scheme, in partnership with the Department of Science,Technology and Innovation SA and the National Research Foundation will support South African 🇿🇦women researchers holding a PhD degree, in Biotechnology or a related discipline, having outstanding ability, and who will perform hypothesis-driven research.

The Fellowships comprise a very attractive package:
☑️ Two-year Postdoctoral Fellowship at ICGEB Cape Town
☑️ Applying the latest techniques and methodologies to the applicant’s chosen research topic
☑️Opportunities for mentoring, peer-to-peer learning and complementary skills
☑️ Immersion in a top class international scientific environment

ℹ️ https://www.icgeb.org/fellowships/icgeb-south-african-women-in-biotechnology-programme-sawbp-postdoc-fellowship-call/

27/03/2026

Team building at ICGEB Cape Town today with 🫶 🍬

19/03/2026

Dalia M Ahmed (ICGEB Postdoctoral Fellow - Bioinformatics Unit) presents her research 'High-Risk Human Papillomavirus (HPV) E6 and E7 Oncoprotein Expression Associated with Prostate Cancer Aggressiveness' at the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology University of KwaZulu-Natal Course on Translational Virology of Oncogenic Viruses: From Epidemiology to Intervention in Sub-Saharan Africa in Durban 🇿🇦

19/03/2026

Sharing her expertise, Dr Georgia Schafer (Group Leader- Emerging Viruses) presents on 'The infection dynamics of gammaherpesviruses in South Africa' at the University of KwaZulu-Natal Course on Translational Virology of Oncogenic Viruses: From Epidemiology to Intervention In Sub-Saharan Africa

19/03/2026

Today in Durban, ICGEB Director General Dr Lawrence Banks International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology at the University of KwaZulu-Natal with ICGEBCapeTown's Dr Georgia Schafer (Group Leader - Virology - Emerging Viruses) and Dr Dalia M Ahmed (Postdoc Fellow - Bioinformatics) at the ICGEB UKZN Course on Translational Virology of Oncogenic Viruses: From Epidemiology to Intervention In Sub-Saharan Africa 🇿🇦 🌍 🦠

19/03/2026

This week at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, ICGEBCapeTown's Dr Georgia Schafer (Group Leader - Virology - Emerging Viruses) and Dr Dalia M Ahmed (Postdoc Fellow - Bioinformatics Unit) participate in the ICGEB UKZN Course on Translational Virology of Oncogenic Viruses: From Epidemiology to Intervention In Sub-Saharan Africa 🦠🔬

ℹ️https://www.icgeb.org/virology-of-oncogenic-viruses-course-south-africa-2026 and https://virology.ukzn.ac.za/international-translational-virology-of-oncogenic-viruses/

17/03/2026

Last week International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology Department of Science,Technology and Innovation SA SAWBP PhD Fellow, Prishanta Pillay attended the Viruses 2026- New Horizons in Virology conference, a three-day international conference held in Barcelona, Spain.

The conference, sponsored by MDPI and the journal Viruses aimed to bring together global experts to discuss cutting-edge research across the entire field of virology including human, animal and plant viruses.

Prishanta presented her research in a poster titled “Assessment of gammaherpesvirus infection dynamics and associated tumorigenesis in the context of Covid-19”. The poster abstract is now available online via MDPI Sciforum: https://sciforum.net/paper/view/29574.

Prishanta was also awarded 2nd place in the "Engage to Win" in-app challenge.

In another highlight, Prishanta was able to connect with fellow ICGEB researcher Pamela Martinez-Orellana from the Molecular Virology lab in Trieste, Italy.

Special thanks to National Research Foundation for awarding Prishanta travel support.

13/03/2026

This week in Johannesburg, ICGEB Arturo Falaschi Postdoc Fellow, Dr Dalia M Ahmed participates in the inaugural African Metabolomics Conference, presenting her research in the Poster Session

13/03/2026

🎉 Congratulations to Dr Temilola Aina, recently awarded a National Research Foundation Freestanding Postdoc Fellowship 🙌

🌾Temi is a researcher in the Plant Systems Biology Group. Her research is on 'Microbial and CRISPR-Mediated Genome Editing Strategies for Striga Control in Sorghum' 🎋