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Save The Date: GGBN & ISBER Joint Biobanking Conference 2025
Save the Date - Biobanking’s Biggest Conference! The biggest biobanking event in Africa is now open for business - and the GGBN / ISBER Joint Biobanking Conference 2025 is looking for you! With this year’s ...
Women Of Biobanking: Changing Faces, Changing Futures
Women Of Biobanking: Changing Faces, Changing Futures When it comes to solving our biggest challenges, biobanks matter. They can help study, preserve and protect our biodiversity - and also help us learn to manage diseases ...
Message From Michelle: A Fond Farewell
Message From Michelle: A Fond Farewell Dear BBSA Community, As many of you may know, I officially retired from SANBI and as the Biodiversity Biobanks South Africa Lead at the beginning of November 2024. This ...
Job Opportunity: Curator Of Ornithology – Durban Natural Science Museum
Job Opportunity: Curator of Ornithology - Durban Natural Science Museum The Durban Natural Science Museum (DNSM) is a small museum with a big mission: to acquire and disseminate knowledge about the Earth, its history, and ...
National Science Week 2024: Sharing Life In A High-Tech World
National Science Week 2024: Sharing Life In A High-Tech World National Science Week is an annual celebration of science, technology, engineering, mathematics and innovation (STEMI) that brings together thousands of students and members of the ...
IMBM Microbial Biobank Provides Training Opportunities For The Next Generation of Microbial Biotechnologists
IMBM Microbial Biobank Provides Training Opportunities For The Next Generation of Microbial Biotechnologists The Institute for Microbial Biotechnology and Metagenomics (IMBM) is recognised as one of the leading research units at the University of the ...
Youth Of The BBSA: The Future Of Biodiversity Biobanking
Youth Of The BBSA: The Future Of Biodiversity Biobanking Biobanks can help study, preserve and protect our biodiversity - and also help us learn to deal with diseases and genetic abnormalities in humans, livestock and ...
Seeds of Hope: Millennium Seed Bank Partnership Preserves Our Plants For The Future
Seeds of Hope: Millennium Seed Bank Partnership Preserves Our Plants For The Future “If you’ve ever had the chance to look at a seed under a microscope, you’ll know that each seed is completely different ...
Message From Michelle: A Change In Leadership
Michelle’s Message: A Change In Leadership After working for more than 30 years, including 15 years at SANBI, it’s time for me to hand over the reins to the next generation to lead the Biodiversity ...
BBSA Job Opportunities – Director & Deputy Director: Project Management
BBSA Job Opportunities: Director & Project Manager The Biodiversity Biobanks South Africa is a network of institutions that preserve, maintain and utilise South Africa’s vast biodiversity biobanking resources - and provide critical research infrastructure for ...
ISBER 2024: Bringing Together The World’s Best Biobankers
Bringing Together The World’s Best Biobankers: ISBER 2024 The Biodiversity Biobanks South Africa (BBSA) provides a coordinating structure across several of South Africa’s biodiversity biobanks. But some problems are too big for one organization - ...
Preserving Our Past, Protecting Our Future: Why We Need Biodiversity Biobanks
Preserving Our Past, Protecting Our Future: Why Biodiversity Biobanks Matter South Africa is one of the most biodiverse regions on Earth. Not only is the country blessed with exceptional species richness, with thousands of plants, ...
Biodiversity Biobanking Reading List: Latest News From SYNTHESYS+ Project
Biodiversity Biobanking Reading List: Latest News From SYNTHESYS+ Project The Biodiversity Biobanks South Africa (BBSA) provides a coordinating structure across several of South Africa’s biodiversity biobanks. But it’s not just about one (albeit megadiverse) country. ...
Biodiversity Biobanks: An Insurance Policy For The Future Of Nature
Biodiversity Biobanks: An Insurance Policy For The Future Of Nature In a world where climate change, habitat destruction, overexploitation and pollution are leading to increasing loss of biodiversity that is altering the capacity of the ...
Webinar Invite | What We Learned At The Global Genome Biodiversity Conference
Webinar Invite | What We Learned At The Global Genome Biodiversity Conference Some problems are too big to handle alone. Preserving and understanding biodiversity is one of those problems. That’s why the Biodiversity Biobanks South ...
Rekha Sathyan: What’s In Our Biodiversity Biobanks Anyway?
Rekha Sathyan: What's In Our Biodiversity Biobanks Anyway? Biobanks are essential to preserving South Africa’s vast biodiversity heritage. But to get the most out of them, we need to know what’s in them - and ...
UFS Yeast Culture Collection: Featuring Fantastic Yeast
UFS Yeast Culture Collection: Featuring Fantastic Yeast Contrary to what many of us may think, yeasts aren’t just found in breads and beers. These unicellular organisms are hundreds of millions of years old, found all ...
ARC National Small Grain Collection – Seeding A Secure Future
ARC National Small Grain Collection - Seeding A Secure Future Grains matter. They’re a food staple in almost every culture on Earth, responsible for almost half the calories we consume (directly and indirectly) for thousands ...
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What are biodiversity biobanks?
Biodiversity biobanks are repositories of biologically relevant resources, including reproductive tissues such as seeds, eggs and sperm, other tissues including blood, DNA extracts, microbial cultures (active and dormant), and environmental samples containing biological communities….
