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Postgraduate Symposium 2016

Mon Nov 14, 12:00 - Tue Nov 15, 22:00

Resolution Circle

ABOUT

The department of Botany & Plant Biotechnology (UJ) serves as a home to a number of research fields, including DNA barcoding, molecular systematics, anatomy, plant physiology, chemotaxonomy, biotechnology, indigenous knowledge, and taxonomy. Numerous world class researchers operate under one of these fields, including two ranked NRF researchers. Our vision is to ensure that a successful, and highly partnered symposium is achieved, providing ample opportunity for both the department, and its partners and sponsors alike to increase awareness of its respective institution. 

On the 14th – 15th November 2016 the Department of Botany & Plant Biotechnology, University of Johannesburg is hosting the 12th annual postgraduate symposium where students from various institutions (University of Johannesburg, University of Pretoria, Tshwane University of Technology, North-West University, WITS University and University of the Free State) will have the opportunity to present their research findings and to interact with colleagues and future collaborators and employers.

GUEST SPEAKERS

Prof Erik Holm

Dr. Holm has published over 70 scientific papers on ecology, biogeography, evolution, and taxonomy as well as several major revisions and monographs. He is co-editor (with Clarke Scholtz) of "The Insects of South Africa" and co-author (with Eugene Marias) of "Fruit Chafers of South Africa."  His research for the M.S. degree concerned arthropod ecology in the sand dunes of the Namib desert, and his PhD. dealt with the systematics of buprestids. He became a professor at the University of Pretoria in 1981.  Although now retired from the university, he remains a specialist on the Cetoniinae and Buprestidae of Africa.  He has authored seven popular scientific books, discussed biology on 12 years of radio talk shows, and been in two documentary film series, "Bitten by the Bug" and "Come into my Parlour.”


Prof Alvaro Viljoen

Born in 1969, Pretoria South Africa. Completed a BSc, BSc Hons. (cum laude) and MSc (cum laude) in Botany at Stellenbosch University.  In 1994 Alvaro commenced with a PhD at the University of Johannesburg on the chemotaxonomy of the genus Aloe. In 1999 Alvaro was appointed as a lecturer in Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of Witwatersrand where we was promoted to Associate professor in 2005. In July 2005 he was appointed as a research fellow and full professor in the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tshwane University of Technology (Pretoria). More than fifty post-graduate students have graduated under his supervision since 2002. His research interest is the phytochemistry and biological activity of medicinal and aromatic plants indigenous to South Africa. He has authored / co-authored >200 peer reviewed papers mostly on the phytochemical exploration and biological activity of indigenous medicinal and aromatic plants (h index = 28). He has been elected on to the editorial board of the Journal of Essential Oil Research (Francis & Taylor), Phytochemistry Letters (Elsevier), Phytochemistry (Elsevier) and he is editor-in-chief of Journal of Ethnopharmacology (Elsevier). In October 2013 Alvaro was awarded the National Research Chair in Phytomedicine a position which he holds concurrently as Director of the SAMRC Herbal Drugs Research Unit in South Africa.

www.alvaroviljoen.com


 

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Postgraduate Symposium 2016
Resolution Circle
8, 8 Queens Rd, Johannesburg, 2092, South Africa
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