Volunteering

Reviewer for the following journals 

  • Agriculture
  • Genes
  • Journal of Heredity
  • Agriculture
  • Animal Conservation
  • Conservation Genetics
  • Diversity
  • Fisheries & Wildlife Sciences
  • Forests
  • Genes
  • Heredity
  • Marine and Freshwater Research
  • Marine Molecular Biology and Ecology
  • PeerJ
  • PLoS ONE
  • Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries
  • Scientific Reports
  • Turkish Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, and Poultry

Editorial board member to the following journals

  • Frontiers in Marine Molecular Biology and Ecology (Review Editor) 
  • Sustainability (Topic Editor)
  • Frontiers in Genetics (Guest Associate Editor) 
  • Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution (Guest Associate Editor)

Public lectures, Meetings & Conferences 

  • Delegate. Conference on DNA methods in environmental monitoring and management - 2020. Virtual. December 2020. 
  • Maduna SN*. Molecular Ecology of Polar Bear in Svalbard, Public lecture (in Norwegian), NIBIO-Svanhovd, Svanvik, Norway, 24 November 2020.
  • Delegate. 6th International Conference of Quantitative Genetics. Virtual. November 2020.
  • Maduna SN*. Lumpfish (Cyclopterus lumpus) genomics and progress on its applications to aquaculture. Breeding Program for Lumpfish (CYCLOSELECT). April 2019. Svanvik, Norway.
  • Maduna SN*. Lumpfish (Cyclopterus lumpus) genomics and its applications to aquaculture and fisheries management. Arctic Research and Innovation Workshop. November 2018. Svanvik, Norway.
  • Maduna SN*. Lumpfish (Cyclopterus lumpus) genomics and its applications to aquaculture and fisheries management. Breeding Program for Lumpfish (CYCLOSELECT). September 2018. Bodø, Norway.
  • Hull KL*, Asbury TA, Maduna SN, Da Silva C, Dicken M, Veríssimo A, Marino IAM, Zane L, Wintner SP, Bester-van der Merwe AE. Global population structure of the common smoothhound shark, Mustelus mustelus: Implications for conservation and fisheries management. Sharks International. June 2018. João Pessoa, Brazil: 205
  • Maduna SN, Bester-van der Merwe AE. A multidisciplinary approach in assessing molecular ecology and biology of smoothhound sharks (genus Mustelus) with reference to species from southern Africa. Sharks International. June 2018. João Pessoa, Brazil: 267
  • Maduna SN*, Bester-van der Merwe AE. Oral presentation: Unraveling the mystery of the shark genus Mustelus in southern Africa using a multidisciplinary approach: implications for management and conservation. 4th Southern African Shark and Ray Symposium. September 2017. Hermanus, South Africa.
  • Hull KL*, Maduna SN, Da Silva C, Dicken ML, Marino IAM, Zane L, Bester-van der Merwe AE. Oral presentation: Global population structure and mitogenome assembly of the common smoothhound shark, Mustelus mustelus. 4th Southern African Shark and Ray Symposium. September 2017. Hermanus, South Africa.
  • Maduna SN, Hull K*, Da Silva C, Soekoe M, Bester-van der Merwe AE. Poster presentation: Development of molecular identification methods of houndsharks (Carcharhiniformes: Triakidae) from southern Africa. 3rd Joint SASBi-SAGS Congress. September 2016. Durban, South Africa: PG2-105 (Awarded best poster presentation)
  • Maduna SN*, Rossouw C, Da Silva C, Soekoe M, Bester-van der Merwe AE. Oral presentation: Discovery and application of molecular markers in a bio-economically important demersal shark Mustelus mustelus using next-generation sequencing technology. 3rd Joint SASBi-SAGS Congress. September 2016. Durban, South Africa: 67
  • Maduna SN*, Farrell ED, Boomer JJ, Da Silva C, Soekoe M, Wintner SP Mariani S, Bester-van der Merwe AE.Oral presentation: The historical biogeography of the systematically challenging smoothhound shark genus Mustelus in southern Africa. 3rd Joint SASBi-SAGS Congress. September 2016. Durban, South Africa: 49
  • Maduna SN*, Farrell ED, Boomer JJ, Da Silva C, Soekoe M, Wintner SP Mariani S, Bester-van der Merwe AE.Oral presentation: From whence they came: Unravelling the evolutionary origin of the shark genus Mustelus in southern Africa using a molecular phylogenetic approach. 3rd Southern African Shark and Ray Symposium. September 2015 False Bay, Cape Town, South Africa.
  • Delegate. The SA PhD Project Regional Conference: Western Cape Province. March 2015. NH The Lord Charles Hotel, Somerset West, South Africa.
  • Rhode C*, Maduna SN, Roodt-Wilding R, Bester-van der Merwe AE. Oral presentation: The genetic effects of mass selection in a commercial abalone population: A model for the genetic consequences of domestication events. 2nd Joint SASBi-SAGS Congress. September 2014. Pretoria, South Africa: S5-4
  • Rossouw C*, Maduna SN, Roodt-Wilding R, Slabbert R, Bester-van der Merwe AE. Poster presentation: Microsatellite cross-species amplification and high throughput development of single nucleotide polymorphisms in commercially important sharks. 2nd Joint SASBi-SAGS Congress. September 2014. Pretoria, South Africa: P4-6 (Awarded best poster presentation)
  • Maduna SN*, Roodt-Wilding R, Bester-van der Merwe AE. Oral presentation: Regional population genetic structure of a declining coastal shark species, Mustelus mustelus, in the South-East Atlantic and South-West Indian Ocean. 2nd Joint SASBi-SAGS Congress. September 2014. Pretoria, South Africa: S4-5
  • Maduna SN*,Roodt-Wilding R, Bester-van der Merwe AE.Oral presentation: Evaluating genetic connectivity amongst Mustelus mustelus populations across the Indian/Atlantic boundary. 15th Southern African Marine Science Symposium. July 2014. Stellenbosch, South Africa: 98
  • Maduna SN*, Roodt-Wilding R, Bester-van der Merwe AE. Oral presentation: Spatio-temporal assessment of genetic variation in the South African commercially important shark species, the common smoothhound (Mustelus mustelus). Sharks International. June 2014. Durban, South Africa: 156
  • Maduna SN, Rossouw C*, Roodt-Wilding R and Bester-van der Merwe AE. Oral presentation: Microsatellite cross-species amplification and utility in southern African elasmobranchs: A valuable resource for fisheries management and conservation. Sharks International. June 2014. Durban, South Africa: 126
  • Maduna SN*, Roodt-Wilding R, Bester-van der Merwe AE. Oral presentation: Population genetic structure of the common smoothhound shark (Mustelus mustelus) in South Africa. 2nd Southern African Shark and Ray Symposium. April 2013. Mossel Bay, South Africa: 6
  • Delegate. Joint Congress of the South African Society for Bioinformatics (SASBi) and the South African Genetics Society (SAGS). September 2012. Stellenbosch, South Africa

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