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Prof Dave Berger is a Professor in the Plant Science
Department, Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI) at
the University of Pretoria. He obtained his PhD in Microbiology at the
University of Cape Town in 1990. This was followed by a Postdoc at the
University of California at Berkeley, USA (1991-1993) on "Biochemical
studies of the transcriptional activator NIFA (Nitrogen fixation
protein A) from Klebsiella pneumoniae". He returned to South Africa and
took up a position as senior researcher at ARC-Roodeplaat Vegetable and
Ornamental Plant Institute, Pretoria (1993-2000), where he was involved
in Agricultural Biotechnology projects, such as the first field trials
of transgenic potato and maize developed in South Africa. He joined the
University of Pretoria in 2000.
Prof. Berger is leader of the Molecular Plant-Pathogen
Interactions (MPPI) research group situated in the Plant Sciences
Complex at the University of Pretoria. His research focuses on the
molecular basis of plant-pathogen interactions and the mechanisms of
plant defence using a range of approaches from whole plant phenotyping
to functional genomics, as well as developing bioinformatics tools.
Research projects mainly deal with the maize-grey leaf spot and
Arabidopsis-bacterial wilt pathosystems. The MPPI group has particular
experience in transcriptomics using microarrays, and is now
increasingly using RNAseq.
For more information about the MPPI research group click
here. Prof Berger
manages the ACGT
Microarray facility.
Prof
Dave Berger,
Tel: +27 12 420 4634,
Fax: +27 12 420 6668
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