Staff Profiles

B.Sc., M.Sc., Ph.D

I am an academic/researcher in applied microbiology & plant pathology with specific focus on food safety and human pathogens. These areas include microbial biomes, pre- & postharvest microbiology, antimicrobial resistance & biocontrol, & mushroom biotechnology. The research includes, but not limited to, rapid molecular detection and source tracking of human pathogens, and gene expression analysis.

Food microbiology (BIO 418)

Medical microbiology (BIO 419)

Plant Pathology (BIO 420)

Bacteriology (BIO 310)

Microbial ecology (BIO 630)

Microbiomes and human pathogens along the food chain

Food safety and post harvest microbiology

Pathogen surveillance and diagnostics 

Antimicrobial resistance in the OneHealth context

Alternative antimicrobial agents

PhD/MSc projects 

Wastewater surveillance as a strategy for early detection of infectious diseases

Cryptococcus gattii’s ecological niche modeling, genetic profiling and source tracking in people living with HIV

Design, synthesis, and characterization of novel silver complexes as potential antibacterial drugs

Seetswane, E.,... and Jongman, M. 2022. Phenotypic and genotypic profiling reveals a high prevalence of Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolated from hospitals, houseflies, and adjacent informal food retailers in Botswana. Microbiol. 168 (10)

Matshwele, J.T.P.,... Jongman, M., Odisitse, S. 2022, Physicochemical properties, crystal structures, antibacterial properties and in silico characterization of cobalt and copper metal complexes and their acido complex crystals with 4-chloromethylpyridine, Polyhedron 226 (2022) 116085 2

Jongman, M, Carmichael, PC, Bill, M. 2020. Technological advances in phytopathogen detection and metagenome profiling techniques. Current Microbiol, 77(4):675-681

Jongman, M., Chidamba, L. and Korsten, L. 2017. Bacterial biomes and potential human pathogens in irrigation water and leafy greens from different production systems described using pyrosequencing. J. App. Microbiol, 123: 1043-1053G

For full list: https://orcid.org/0000-0002--6454-3173