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Dr. Eugene Kabwe
Position: Postdoctoral Researcher
Department: Bioinformatics and Mathematical Modelling, CPSBB
Eugene completed his PhD degree in a joint programme between the University of Cape Town, South Africa, and the University of Potsdam, Germany. His research focused on two extreme traits in plants: vegetative desiccation tolerance and nickel hyperaccumulation, where he assembled and analyzed the genomes of resurrection plants and hyperaccumulators. His interests mainly focus on studying plant stress responses and evolutionary biology, by applying comparative genomics and transcriptomics analyses.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
Eugene N. K. Kabwe, Michael P. Edwards, Rafe Lyall, Mamosa Ngcala, Stephen A. Schlebusch, Oliver Marketos, Zoran Nikoloski, Robert A. Ingle, and Nicola Illing. (2026). Transcriptional regulation of the response to water availability in the resurrection plant Xerophya elegans. bioRxiv. DOI: https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.04.01.716012
Brenda D. Wingfield, Dave K. Berger, Martin P. A. Coetzee, Tuan A. Duong, Anke Martin, Nam Q. Pham, Noelani van den Berg, P. Markus Wilken, Kiruba Shankari Arun‑Chinnappa, Irene Barnes, Sikelela Buthelezi, Buddhika Amarasinghe Dahanayaka, Alvaro Durán, Juanita Engelbrecht, Alice Feurtey, Arista Fourie, Gerda Fourie, Jesse Hartley, Eugene N. K. Kabwe, Mkhululi Maphosa, Deborah L. Narh Mensah, David L. Nsibo, Lizel Potgieter, Barsha Poudel, Eva H. Stukenbrock, Chanel Thomas, Niloofar Vaghefi, Tanya Welgemoed, and Michael J. Wingfield. (2022). IMA genome‑F17: Draft genome sequences of an Armillaria species from Zimbabwe, Ceratocystis colombiana, Elsinoë necatrix, Rosellinia necatrix, two genomes of Sclerotinia minor, short‑read genome assemblies and annotations of four Pyrenophora teres isolates from barley grass, and a long-read genome assembly of Cercospora zeina. IMA Fungus. 13(19). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s43008-022-00104-3
