The Centre secured a metagenomics expert for a national metagenomics symposium, which was hosted on the 23rd of November 2016. Professor Peter Golyshin (Bangor University, Wales) is a well-known international metagenomics expert and agreed to be the keynote at the national event held at the Department of Science and Technology (DST). A number of national institutions and prominent local researchers were also represented (69 in total), including the Universities of Pretoria, North-West, Cape Town, the Western Cape, VUT, TUT, UNISA, the ARC as well as the CSIR. Research from the CSIR, UP, NWU, UWC as well as UCT was showcased at the event. The symposium ended with a discussion about collaborative opportunities in the field, and it was agreed that the ACGT would make available the research interests, expertise and relevant infrastructure of those in the field of metagenomics on its website.
ACGT and DST host first Metagenomics Symposium