Michelle van der Bank’s Professorial Inauguration

Michelle van der Bank obtained her PhD in 1999 with specialisation in Botany. Currently, Michelle has an h = index of 26 (Google Scholar) and 22 (Scopus) with 86 peer reviewed, ISI accredited journal articles. Some of her papers have been published in high impact factors such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, PLoS Biology and Journal of Ecology.

To date, Michelle has successfully supervised 42 graduate students and has collaborated with a number of National and International colleagues.

In 2010, Michelle founded the African Centre for DNA Barcoding, the first DNA barcoding lab of its kind in Africa.

On Monday 5 March 2018, the Executive Dean of the Faculty of Science Professor Debra Meyer and the Registrar Professor Kinta Burger, hosted the professorial inauguration of Professor Michelle van der Bank, African Centre for DNA Barcoding (ACDB) at the Department of Botany and Plant Biotechnology at UJ. The topic of her address was “DNA barcoding at the ACDB: Current applications and future prospects”.