The Biochemistry Department ended 2016 on a high note; settled and ready to accelerate productivity in its new home, the refurbished top floor of the C2 Laboratories at Auckland Park Kingsway Campus.
The year-end lunch and inauguration of the department’s new floor was attended by the Executive Dean of the Faculty of Science, Prof Debra Meyer, who acknowledged their research output and overall achievements in 2016, and said plant metabolomics – the scientific study of chemical processes involving metabolites – was still a major selling point for biochemistry research at UJ.
Prof Meyer encouraged staff, postgraduate and postdoctoral candidates to maximise their potential at the new building, echoing the words of Department HoD, Prof Marianne Cronje, who took the Dean on a tour of the new facilities.