BBSA Updates: Share Your Biodiversity Biobanking Stories

Happy new year, BBSA Community – and welcome back! We’re grateful for your continued commitment to biodiversity biobanking excellence, and to preserving, protecting and promoting biobanks to benefit students, researchers and South Africa as a whole.

We’re sure you’ve hit the ground running, and you’re up to many new and exciting things…but we’d like to take a minute to celebrate some of your many interesting achievements before you forget all about them.

After all, the Biodiversity Biobanks South Africa is made up of researchers from all over South Africa, in universities, research institutes, national parks and more. They’re a very busy bunch, doing a lot of interesting work in a variety of environments – so we’d love to share some of that work with the rest of the community (and beyond).

Share Your Biobanking Story

Has your biobank produced some interesting research in the last quarter of 2025? Do you have new staff you’d like to introduce to the rest of the BBSA Community? Or do you have opportunities you’d like to share? We’d love to hear about it!

Just contact us at info@bbsa.org.za or n.kruger@sanbi.org.za, and we’ll see what we can do, not to worry.

To Share An Achievement Or Opportunity:

If you’d like to share an achievement or update

• EITHER A short paragraph (1 to 3 sentences) OR A short article (600 words max) describing the highlight.
• At least one high quality image to go along with it
• If appropriate, a link for more information
  OR just let us know that you have a story to share, and we’ll follow up ASAP.

Submission deadlines: please submit content by 15 February 2026.

BBSA Communications: What Does It Mean To You? 

The purpose of the BBSA Communications function is to support the vision, mission and objectives of the Biodiversity Biobanks South Africa by advancing awareness of the work done by the institution, enhancing collaboration and support across the network, and enabling collaboration via a variety of means. That means BBSA Comms works for you – and we’d like to work with you to make sure we do that right. So we’d love to hear what YOU want from BBSA Comms. More profiles? Changes to the website? More (or fewer) newsletters? Whatever your thoughts, we’d love to hear them.

How can BBSA Communications work for you? Just drop us an email at info@bbsa.org.za  or contact us here, and let us know how to work with you to help build a better biobanking community.