STUDENT FOCUS: Reddy wants to revolutionise chemogenetics

STUDENT FOCUS: Reddy wants to revolutionise chemogenetics

Kaylan Reddy is a 24 year old first generation student both to university and as a post-graduate student whose initial interests were biochemistry. He grew up in Pretoria. He recalls that from a young age he sought to understand what made people the way they are...
FBIP Doctoral Students: Vivienne Coetzee

FBIP Doctoral Students: Vivienne Coetzee

Vivienne is 26 years old and is very passionate about conservation. Discovering novel methods that can be used to assist managers and policy makers to protect our oceans and wildlife has been the driving force behind her PhD – she would love to continue in this...
WATCH: Forests – Exploring South Africa’s smallest biome

WATCH: Forests – Exploring South Africa’s smallest biome

Cape Town – Experts believe that range declines in mobile taxa like birds and bats might mean bad news for less mobile animals like land snails, shrews, and the like. Stellenbosch University’s Prof Mike Cherry led a team of researchers and students to...
FBIP Doctoral Students: Lucan Page

FBIP Doctoral Students: Lucan Page

Lucan has lived and grown up in a little beach town called Gordon’s Bay, Cape Town, his entire life. Getting to his current field of study has been a process. He started his studies in human biology where he majored in Genetics and Human Physiology, he then did...