Postgraduate projects available

                 AME2: Shotgun metaproteomics and metabolomics analysis of Antarctic  permafrost  (Ph.D.:

                            Makhalanyane/Cowan) 

                 AME3: Comparative metagenomics of microbial communities across Antarctic terrestrial

                            environmental gradients (Ph.D.: Cowan)

                 AME4: Using genomics to monitor stress-induced mutations in Antarctic bacteria  (2 x MSc: Cowan)

                  SOMME2: What is the influence of trace elements on microbial communities and chemoautotrophs

                                    in the SO? (Ph.D.: Makhalanyane)

                 SOMME3: Which specific chemoautotrophic taxa are likely to contribute significantly to oceanic

                                 CO2 assimilation processes? (Ph.D.: Makhalanyane)

                 SOMME4: Determining the quantitative rates of heterotrophic and chemoautotrophic guilds to CO 2

                                 fixation in the Southern Ocean (Ph.D.: Makhalanyane)

                SASME2: Understanding the influence of carbon: nitrogen stoichiometry on the microbial community

                                 structure (Ph.D.: Makhalanyane)

                SASME3: The effects of nutrient amendments on soil bacterial and fungal communities in South

                                 African biomes (2 x MSc: Makhalanyane)

                SASME4: Phylogenetic fingerprinting of microbial communities in sub-Saharan African soils (Ph.D.:

                                 Cowan/Valverde)

                NDME2: The pathways and kinetics of hypolithic community development (MSc: Cowan/Ramond)

                NDME3: Genomics of Namib Desert cyanobacteria (Ph.D.: Cowan/Ramond)

                SAHMP2: Assessing the antibiotic resistome in the gut microbiota of healthy South African individuals

                                (Ph.D.: Makhalanyane)