Staff Profiles

Dr. Mbaki Darkie Muzila

Mbaki Muzila

Faculty of Science

Biological Science

Senior Lecturer

Location: Block 246/A103
Phone: +(267)3555547 /+(267)74056146
Email Dr. Mbaki Darkie Muzila

BSc Agric, University of Botswana; BSc Genetics (Honours), Free State University; MSc (Systematics & Biodiversity), University of Cape Town; PhD (Biology especially Plant Breeding), Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences.

A Biosystematist and Plant Breeder with interests in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology.

Evolution

Genetics

Plant Structure and Function

Biology of Flowering Plants (Angiosperms)

Diversity of plants (Bryophytes, Ferns, Gymnosperms, Angiosperms)

Plant Systematics

Research interests are in the application of bioinformatics tools to study the effect of medicinal plants on microbes of economic importance (e.g. pathogens). Other interests include anything to do with agriculture and working in the bush.

PhD student project: A synopsis of genetic structure of Cryptococcus neorfomans and C. gattii species complex in Botswana.

MSc student  project: Plant transgenerational adaptation to heavy metal stress at BCL mines in Selibe Phikwe 

In pursuit of academic excellence