MEET OUR MOLECULAR BIOLOGIST – PROF. ANH-TUAN DUONG, IS AN EXPERIENCED PROFESSIONAL DEDICATED TO GUIDING OUR TEAM TOWARD SUCCESS AND INNOVATION.

Department of Biochemistry, Genetics and Microbiology                   [email protected]

Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI)                      [email protected]

University of Pretoria, South Africa                                                                 027-74-554 1404

Education

PhD in Genetics, University of Pretoria, South Africa                                              2009 – 2013

MSc in Microbiology, Hanoi University of Science, Vietnam                                  2002 – 2004

BSc in Microbiology, Hanoi University of Science, Vietnam                                   1998 – 2002

Academic positions

Associate professor, Department of Biochemistry, Genetics and Microbiology     2023 – Present

Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI)

University of Pretoria, South Africa

Senior lecturer, Department of Biochemistry, Genetics and Microbiology                2017 – 2022

Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI)

University of Pretoria, South Africa

Research fellow, Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI)             2014 – 2017

University of Pretoria, South Africa

Researcher, Department of Microbiology                                                               2005 – 2009

Food Industries Research Institute, Hanoi, Vietnam

Lecturing responsibilities

Microbe interactions (MBY 365 – 3^rd year undergraduate): 2019 – 2023

Molecular cell biology (MLB 721 – BSc Hons Genetics): 2021 – 2023

Research method (MCP 751 – BSc Hons Microbiology): 2021 – 2023

Research method (GTK 705 – BSc Hons Genetics): 2018 – 2023

Management experience

Member of the management committee of Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute: 2017 – Present

Member of the management committee of the Tree Protection Co-operative Programme (TPCP):  2014 – Present

Member of the management committee of the DSI/NRF Centre of Excellence in Plant Health Biotechnology (CPHB): 2014 – Present

Awards and honours

University of Pretoria: Exceptional Young Academic Achiever Award (2022)

National Research Foundation (NRF): Y1-rated scientist (2017 – 2022)

FABI award for best student of the year (2012)

FABI award for best mentor of the year (2010)

UNESCO scholarship: Postgraduate Inter-University Training Course (2006/2007)

Award for outstanding final grade for BSc study (2002)

Grants and funding

Present  Yearly contribution to the central funding of TPCP/CPHB research programmes (2017)

CERC, China (External doctoral funding for Ms WenWen Li): Species diversity, population biology and pathogenesis of Calonectria associated with Eucalyptus in China. ZAR 900 000 (2021 – 2023  )

University of Queensland, Australia (Part to project code 024171): Resolution of disease epidemiology and detection of genetic and genotypic diversity in Australian populations of myrtle rust. AUD 6 000 (2021)

NRF Global Change Grand Challenge (as co-PI): Alternaria alternata populations from different crops in South Africa. ZAR 800 000 (2020 – 2022)

CERC, China (External postdoctoral funding for Dr. FeiFei Liu): Comparative and population genomics of the Eucalyptus leaf blight pathogens in the genus Calonectria. ZAR 900 000 (2019 – 2020)

University of Pretoria: Conference attendance support. ZAR 40 000 (2018)

NRF KIC: Conference attendance support. ZAR 20 000 (2018)

NRF Incentive Funding: Genomics of ophiostomatoid fungi. ZAR 90 000 (2017 – 2019)

UP-Research Development Programme: Genomics, Molecular Systematics and Evolution of lineages in the Ophiostomatales. ZAR 150 000 (2016 – 2018)

IRT Genomics: Taxonomy, mating type genes and biology of three varieties of Leptographium wageneri as inferred from genomic comparison. ZAR 84 000 (2015)

Professional membership and activity

Southern African Society for Plant Pathology

South African Society of Microbiology

Southern African Society for Systematic Biology

Mycological Society of America

Genetics Society of America

Reviewing and Editorial

Reviewers: Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, Current Genetics, Ecology and Evolution, Environmental DNA, Forest Pathology, Frontiers in Microbiology, Fungal Biology, Fungal Ecology, Fungal Genetics and Biology, Fungal Systematics and Evolution, Genome Biology and Evolution, IMA Fungus, Insects, International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, PeerJ, Peersonia, Phytopathology, Plant Disease, Plant Pathology

Editorial responsibility: associate editor – Fungal Genetics and Biology