Internship in Biosciences
The African Centre for Gene Technologies (ACGT) is a collaborative initiative between the CSIR, University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) and University of Pretoria (UP).   The ACGT is situated on the University of Pretoria Experimental Farm.  The Research Office at the University of the Witwatersrand is offering an intern position for a period of 12 months.  The purpose of the internship is to provide dynamic, newly qualified scientists an opportunity to gain experience and skills in science management and exposure to a diverse range of activities related to research such as fund raising, skills and equipment audits and project management.

UJ hosts first scientific meeting of ACGT Regional Plant Biotech Forum
June 2010 - Following the success of the 2009 ACGT Regional Plant Biotechnology Forum workshop, the University of Johannesburg (UJ) hosted the Forum’s first scientific meeting on 25 May 2010.

Plant Genomics Researchers Invited to View the Preliminary 8X Draft Assembly of the Eucalyptus grandis Genome
May 2010 - The preliminary 8X draft assembly of the E. grandis genome, which is being sequenced by the US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), is available from today in our public Eucalyptus Genome Database

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