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Cowan, Prof. Don    University Professor  Director, Research Institute Centre for Microbial Ecology and Genomics University of Pretoria Hatfield Campus 0028 Pretoria South Africa Phone: +27 12 4205873  don.cowan@up.ac.za Thematic Expertise: Microbiology, microbial ecology, metagenomics, extremophiles, soil microbiology, applied microbiology  Regional Expertise: African soil microbiology, desert soil microbiology

Strohbach, Marianne    Vegetation Ecologist Departmet of Plant Sciences University of Pretoria vetman Building 1-7 Pretoria 0002 Pretoria South Africa  marstr@tuks.co.za Thematic Expertise: use of plants for rural development, vegetation description, -mapping and -dynamics, plant functional types  Regional Expertise: Arid and semi-arid vegetation in Southern Africa