Date: Thursday 21 May 2026 Time: 10:30am (SAST) Venue: Lecture Room Teams Link: https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/343447198197111?p=3xiccJcyo5zhiCwiJ7 By Dr Josephine Pegg Conservation Scientist, Organisation for Tropical Studies Honorary Research Associate, NRF-SAIAB Lessons from Laos: Industrial Aquaculture and sustainable fisheries? Freshwater aquaculture and inland...

Date: Thursday 30 April 2026 Time:10:30pm (SAST) Venue:Lecture Room By Maisha Gragnolati Fernandes PhD Candidate, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, NRF-SAIAB Small-scale processes, convergent outcomes: reef fish functional vulnerability in the mesophotic zone Despite the long history of human...

Date: Thursday 26 March 2026, 15:00pm (SAST) Venue: Lecture Room  Teams link: https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/cffd6bd9-bf65-4245-ac8b-812e606a723f@30878ba0-2f66-4b77-8fde-8dfc1652ff39 Professor Alan Whitfield Emeritus Chief Scientist, and Honorary Research Associate, NRF-SAIAB                                    Our Southern African Heritage Advanced modern humans evolved in the southern portion of South Africa from...

Thursday 21 August 2025, 10.30am (SAST) Zoom Registration link: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/MzAlJA8qRWS-cR1AaBtjbw Passcode: 035119 by Hesmarié Botha Research Student, NRF-SAIAB  From the last meal to first breath: Developmental insights into the temporary parasitic isopod, Gnathia pantherina Smit & Basson, 2002. Gnathiid isopods...

Thursday 14 August 2025, 10.30am (SAST) Venue: Lecture Room Zoom Registration Link: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/ayB5S54cTtai22lQicctvg Passcode: 200496 by Dr Tadiwa Mutizwa (Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, NRF-SAIAB) Hidden in the Riffles: The Amazing Diversity of Suckermouth Catfishes (Mochokidae, Chiloglanis) in the Zambezi River, Southern...

Wednesday 4 June 2025, 10.30am (SAST) Zoom Registration link: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/hnJ370yxR6iUP0z28Ew4YA Passcode: 255283 by Dr Nokubonga Mbandzi-Phorego Postdoctoral Researcher, NRF-SAIAB   Ecological risk assessment of metal pollution in shellfish along the south coast of South Africa: implications for healthy and sustainable coastal...

Thursday 22 May 2025, 10:30AM (SAST) Venue: NRF-SAIAB Lecture Room Zoom Registration Link: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/_nFt7FePS02nYOe4iekeYA Passcode: 012307 by Cornel-Mari du Preez NYS Research Intern, NRF-SAIAB Microplastics Associated with Shoreline Marine Organisms at Nature’s Valley in South Africa Join Cornel-Mari du Preez...