PROFILE: She “had no idea” she’d be working on fish parasites

PROFILE: She “had no idea” she’d be working on fish parasites

At age six she had her own “toktokkie” beetle collection, hidden from her parents in empty match boxes. While her father worked the garden, the curious tot would be searching for creepy crawlies to concoct a “garden soup”.  By the time Marliese Truter hit her teenage...
OPEN CALL: Nominations for 2023 GBIF Graduate Researchers Award

OPEN CALL: Nominations for 2023 GBIF Graduate Researchers Award

The call is now open for the GBIF 2023 Graduate Researchers Award (previously the Young Researchers Award). The award fosters innovative research and discovery in biodiversity informatics by graduate students in masters and doctorate programmes at universities, whose...
600 “climate indicator” strains deposited into ARC fungi vault

600 “climate indicator” strains deposited into ARC fungi vault

In 2017 several soil samples journeyed from the sparsely vegetated Karoo to the vault-like National Collection of Fungi (NCF) at the Agricultural Research Council (ARC) in Pretoria. Upon arrival at the facility, a meticulous process was initiated under the watchful...