ICGEB Cape Town

28/07/2025

📢 Calling the Biocontrol and Sustainable Agriculture Community

📅 Join us from 11-13 November 2025 in Johannesburg at the Arturo Falaschi Conference on “Innovative Approaches to Sustainable Pesticide Residue Mitigation”.

ℹ️ https://www.icgeb.org/arturo-falaschi-conference-on-pesticides-south-africa-2025/

🖊 For partnership, exhibition, or registration enquiries, contact: Dr. Kahsay Mawcha (Kahsay.Mawcha@icgeb.org) cc. Ms. Nurhaan Larnie (Nurhaan.Larnie@icgeb.org)

🤝 With partners Croplife Africa&Middle East CABI World BioProtection Forum

24/07/2025

Join us next week as we proudly host Prof Digby Warner's (Director of UCT Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine)
seminar on 'Collapsing boundaries in infectious diseases research' 🫁🧪📊

📍 Tuesday, 29th of July 2025 at 12h00 (noon)

🔗 Link to join ZOOM - email capetown@icgeb.org

21/07/2025

What's happened since?👇

https://www.icgeb.org/we-star-alumni-meet-in-trieste/

21/07/2025

The Biopesticides Group participated in the SABO Plant Protection Workshop held on 17 July 2025 in Cape Town 🌿

🟢 The workshop brought together experts from research, industry, and government to discuss the role of microbial remedies in sustainable agriculture.

🟢 The event provided an excellent opportunity to share insights, strengthen partnerships, and support the advancement of biological solutions in plant protection.

15/07/2025

Partnering with youth, we welcome Aqilah October to , learning from researchers in the Plant Systems Biology Group this week 🫶 🌿 🇿🇦

14/07/2025

Last week in Member State Angola 🇦🇴

Stefano Cacciatore attends International Scientific Meeting - Building Scientific Bridges: Innovation with purpose, with Hon Min Sílvia Lutucuta & Hon Min Albano Lopes Ferreira - Edu, Sci, Tech & Innovation.

Thanks to Angola's Governor to ICGEB, Dr Chimpolo

Instituto do Câncer do Estado de São Paulo (Icesp) Upstate Medical University International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology Universidade Katyavala Bwila

09/07/2025

Our PhD Fellows are from all over the world, working together in a thriving research environment 🌎🌍🌏

💻 Martin Ocharo 🇰🇪 Kenya - Bioinformatics
🌿 Hasamuddin Sayedi 🇦🇫 Afghanistan - Plant Systems Biology
📈 Moussa Kassim Mkm 🇩🇯 Djibouti - Bioinformatics

ℹ️ https://www.icgeb.org/fellowship/

02/07/2025

Upcoming Seminar with Prof Jorge Casal Universidad de Buenos Aires Fundación Instituto Leloir on How Plants Sense Their World to Overcome Stress 🌿🌱🍃

📍 Join us - Tuesday, 8 July 2025 at Noon SAST
🔗 For link to join email: capetown@icgeb.org

02/07/2025

Enjoy the read featuring our ICGEB B-INOC Fellow - Dr Priscillar Mutungi from Kenya 🇰🇪 as part of the ICGEB B-INOC Programme 👇

Dr Priscillar Mutungi, a Kenyan researcher from the Wildlife Research and Training Institute in Naivasha, Kenya joins ICGEB Cape Town, as a Postdoctoral Fellow as part of the ICGEB B-INOC Fellowshi…

27/06/2025

Part 2 of a day in the life of ICGEB NYU Abu Dhabi interns: Hager Hasan, Egyptian biotech student working in the unit 💻📊

26/06/2025

Research collaborations 🔛 Dr Stefano Cacciatore and Dupe Ojo (ICGEB CapeTown Bioinformatics Unit) collaborating with Dr Tshilidzi Van Der Lecq (University of Cape Town and Groote Schuur Hospital Division of Opthamology) on the Glaucoma Project.

26/06/2025

A day in the life of NYU Abu Dhabi Intern Tanisha Chauhan from Fiji 🇫🇯 working in the Cancer Genomics Group, with mentor Dr Akhona Vava 🇿🇦