2020

• Prof Wilhelm de Beer receives the SAIF Distinguished Forestry Award  
• Mike Wingfield wins NSTF Award
• Dr Osmond Mlonyeni appointed as a trustee of the Mandela Rhodes Foundation
• Stephanie van Wyk becomes the first FABIan to present her prestige seminar online
• Professor Bernard Slippers awarded the prestigious Havenga prize for natural sciences
• World-leading work on bacteria, fungi and insects rewarded with prestigious FLAIR Fellowships in FABI
• FABI celebrates the achievements of its Spring graduates
• Big data, biotechnology and the future of tree health management at FABI
• Panel discusses the merits of ongoing monitoring in tree health research at the annual meeting of the TPCP and CPHB
• Reflections on the application of fundamental research to keep plantation trees healthy
• The Tree Protection Co-operative Programme: 31 years of serving the forestry industry 
• Tree health in a changing world: Planning for the "new normal"
• FABI's first "virtual" symposium successfully connects academia-industry-government networks
• Stakeholders consider strategic partnerships post-Covid-19 at the first online meeting of the TPCP and CPHB
• Introductory Microsatellite Workshop hosted online during lockdown
• FABIans participate in virtual APS Plant Health 2020 meeting
• FABIans take part in the first virtual SASBI-SC student symposium
• A webinar on plant health in botanical gardens amid the Covid-19 pandemic
• FABI mycologists participate in the Annual MSA Meeting: Mycology in the Cloud
• FABIans' living heritage comes to life in "Picking the fruit of the heritage tree"
• Phyloge-knows-it crowned "brains" of FABI at first virtual quiz night
• FABIans uphold SPOOF tradition with an historic virtual meeting
• The first JoVE video shoot in Africa 
• NSTF Award video interview 
• A different way of communicating our research
• Scientists warn of increasing threats posed by invasive alien species
• FABI's blanket drive brings warmth to the community
• Donating reusable cloth face masks for the children at Steve Biko Hospital 
• Two FABIans among 17 FameLab SA finalists
• Inspection of trees dying in the Hennops River Valley 
• National maize cultivar evaluation trials seed packing at FABI
• FABIans participate in bark beetle mycobiome research network meeting
• FABI advances plant health research in Africa with the launch of two satellite laboratories
• Sampling the iconic and declining cedars in the Cedarberg mountains
• FABI launches its multi-disciplinary Grain Research Programme
• Grain Research Programme field trip to the Eastern Cape
• Getting a PSHB research project done before the lockdown
• FABI focusses on the United Nations 2020 International Year of Plant Health
• Two articles in Wood Southern Africa and Timber Times highlight the work done by PSHB Research Network
• FABI seminars go virtual for Covid-19 social distancing measures
• Ten interns welcomed into the CTHB
• FABIans look forward to outstanding science and exciting developments at 2020 opening and welcome breakfast 
• FABIans feature at the French-SA Science and Innovation Days 
• Biosafety SA and FABI host Women in Biotech panel discussion
• FABIans thank and wish Prof. Lubuma well on his retirement
• FABI opens its doors for undergraduate students to "meet the scientists"
• CTHB welcomes 20 students into its Mentorship Programme
• Fungi for Future project launches at a 3rd primary schools
• CTHB awards certificates to 13 undergraduate mentees
• University Vice-chancellor participates in a fungal citizen science project
• Autumn graduation honours for 68 FABIans at the University of Pretoria's first virtual graduation ceremony
• FABIan wins 3rd place in the South African Science Lens photographic competition
• A celebration of women in Science at the first TPCP-CTHB publication party in 2020
• FABIans talk science and earn two spots in FAME Lab SA
• FABI's "gentle giant" passes his PhD
• Joey Hulbert becomes the first FABIan to complete his PhD in 2020 
• Quentin Guignard wins CTHB-The Conversation writing competition  
• Two FABIans awarded the Best Presentation at the Zoology AGM
• Fifteen FABI PhDs for the year as Andi Wilson completes her PhD
• FABI academics end year on a high
• FABI Bionformatics tool, the Ripper, selected for the PeerJ Feature Collection
• Congratulations to Mohammad on successfully defending his PhD
• FABIans attend the Mycosafe South workshop
• FABI participates in the first annual meeting of the HOMED project
• FABIans present at the Australasian Plant Pathology Society Conference
• FABI postdoc attends IUFRO Phytophthora Conference in Sardinia 
• Getting a PSHB research project done before the lockdown
• Moth pheromone trial in Underberg, KZN
• Collaborative effort reveals diversity and distribution on Eucalypt insect pests across 14 African countries
• Emergency tree planting at FABI
• Brazilian forestry researchers visit FABI
• FABI launches Applied Chemical Ecology Satellite Lab
• Data jamboree at FABI
• Building collaborations in Uganda
• Tree planting goes on despite wet conditions
• PSHB is spreading in the Western Cape
• FABI hosts the Forest Invasive Species Network for Africa
• Researchers from 27 countries meet to discuss biological control of forest insect pests 2019
• FABI contributes to CIB workshop
• Two eminent scientists present a special seminar at FABI
• Ambrosia beetle expert presents a special seminar at FABI
• Rhizobial collection trip with Polish collaborators

2019

• FABI students return from Penn State exchange visit
• FABI chemical ecology trials planned for 2019 and 2020 
• FABI home to the Mike Wingfield Library
• FABI postdoc presents a seminar on the dangers of unregulated plant movement throughout history
• FABI considers dying trees and fungal biodiversity in Namaqualand
• Fourteen FABIans capped at the 2019 Spring Graduation Ceremony  
• Michel becomes the latest FABIan to fulfill requirements for a PhD 
• FABIans celebrate Arista Fourie's prestige seminar - the eighth in 2019 
• FABI celebrates first publications by students
• FABIans celebrate another PhD in the bag at Chrizelle Beukes's prestige seminar 
• Seven FABI researchers honoured at the UP 2019 Academic Achievers' Awards ceremony
• Benedicta Swalarsk-Parry beats 40 competitors to win Inqaba Biotec's mini pipetting contest
• Prof Martin Coetzee attends the Mycological Society of America (USA) Meeting 2019  
• MPI Fungal Symposium 2019 
• Significant FABI presence at ESSA Congress
• Modelling workshop hosted at FABI
• Gearing up for a pest and pathogen arms race
• Prof Mike Wingfield shares insights on running a successful tree health programme
• The power of partnerships, basic research and new technologies highlighted at the 30th Annual Meeting of the TPCP  
• The CTHB celebrates 15 years of tree health research
• FABI flag flies high at the XXV IUFRO World Congress 2019
• Fungi for Future School Outreach launched
• FABI donates bicycles to Nwa-Vangani Primary School
• CTHB Outreach Team participates in another National Science Week
• CTHB at FABI hosts delegation from the University of Venda 
• FABI features prominently at AgriCareerConnect
• FABIans take part in various activities during UP's Anti-discrimination and Social Justice Week
• FABIans enter the Magic Kingdom at SPOOF 2019
• Prof Robin Crewe draws FABIans into the intricacies of bee colonies 
• West African Science Leadership Programme launched
• FABI PhD student speaks about his prize-winning science communication video and tree health matters in interview with VOC FM
• An "engaging plant scientists" initiative
• Thirteen students join CTHB Undergraduate Mentorship Programme in 2019
• FABIans herald 2019 at the Institute's welcome breakfast and first Monday Morning Meeting 
• Leaders in the TPCP outline strategy for the months ahead 
• FABIans strengthening collaboration between France and South Africa
• Chinese student delegation visits FABI 
• Global leader in Antarctic Science and Biodiversity visits FABI
• International Day of Forests celebrated at Future Africa and FABI
• New UP Vice-Chancellor visits FABI
• Quentin Santana becomes the third FABIan to earn the title "Dr" in 2019
• FABIans celebrate two prestige seminars in as many days 
• TPCP field extension services boosted by the appointment of Dr Trudy Paap
• Teratosphaeria research represented at the 30th Fungal Genetics Conference 
• FABIans attend the Fungal Genetics meeting 
• FABI students do well at SA Botany Congress
• FABIans attend Orchids Conference 
• FABI shines at SASPP meeting 
• FABI shines at SASBI/SAGS conference
• Exciting initial results towards the management of the pine emperor moth
• Guide on biological control of insect pests in forests published
• Mites and malformations close to home
• PSHB fungus tested for pathogenicity on commercial forest trees
• The beetles, the hawkmoths and the bees: Observation of baobab nocturnal visitation by potential pollinators 
• FABIans flexed their green fingers at 2019's first tree planting session
• Functional dioecy in the African baobab
• Sex differentiation in Baobabs
• A tree health engagement in Florida
• Fieldwork to understand the emerging Ceratocystis threat to Eucalyptus in South Africa 
• PSHB projects launched in forests of the Southern Cape
• Scouting for Eucalyptus pests on the Cape Peninsula 
• Mammoth inoculation trial of pine seedlings 
• FABIan participates in the first NRF-NSF funded beetle fungus workshop in Florida 
• FABI and CABI hosts first PSHB workshop in Africa 
• CTHB team visits UniVen 
• FABI Professor attends workshop of microbial systematics
• Expanding an understanding of South Africa's mycodiversity 
• Prof Andre Drenth explores tree health issues in the Western Cape

2018

• Shot hole borer invasion places FABI in spotlight
• Key drivers of the CTHB's Mentorship and Outreach Programmes in 2018 speak about their inspiration and experiences
• FABI research work features on Carte Blanche
• Prof Mike Wingfield appointed Advisor to the UP Executive
• Andi Wilson awarded FWIS Doctoral Fellowship
• First publications celebrated 
• Runlei Chang rounds off a baker's dozen of prestige seminars at FABI in 2018
• Professor Fanus Venter appointed Deputy Director of FABI
• FABI rewards excellence and looks to the future at 2018 Year-end function 
• FABI postdoctoral fellow appointed to Innovation Hub Board
• FABIan participates in FAO event on forest invasive species
• FABI flies high at the International Mycological Congress
• FABIan attends Commonwealth Science Advisors Meeting
• Opportunities for trailblazing research discussed on the second day of the 29th annual meeting of the TPCP
• ICPP brings "wicked smaht" people to Boston: A FABI student's perspective
• Collaborators, researchers and core team members of the CTHB celebrate the programme's successes at its 14th annual meeting 
• FABIans make significant impact at the International 50th anniversary of ICPP
• Tree health specialists converge on the University of Pretoria for the 29th annual meeting of the TPCP 
• Fourteen FABIans capped at UP Spring Graduation
• Five FABI researchers receive top honours at UP's 2018 Academic Achievers Awards ceremony 
• FABIan makes it to the South African FameLab finals 
• CTHB Outreach Team participates in Career Week 2018
• FABIans recognised by the Southern African Institute of Forestry
• FABI excellence shines through at UP's Autumn Graduations 
• Osmond Mlonyeni becomes the first candidate at FABI to defend his PhD thesis publically 
• Melissa Simpson presents the seventh prestige seminar at FABI in 2018
• FABI celebrates eighth PhD degree success
• Celebrating 20 years of NSTF Awards
• Two FABI researchers receive prestigious awards at the International Mycological Congress
• Ten out of ten for FABI as Gaby Carstensen successfully defends her PhD thesis 
• The South African Women in Science Awards 2018 recognise the contribution of two FABIans
• Prof Brenda Wingfield awarded fellowship of the American Phytopathological Society
• FABIans receive prestigious awards at the International Mycological Congress
• FABIans take in spectacle of aloes in full bloom
• FABIans get a sneak peek of some of South Africa's brightest young scientists
• FABI initiative featured in Science magazine
• FABIans join the CTHB Outreach Team for Science Week at the Deutsche Internationale Schule in Pretoria

• CTHB Outreach Team returns to NSW 2018
• The CTHB celebrates flagship mentorship and outreach programmes at its annual lunch
• MRYE takes career guidance and motivation to learners in three provinces
• New GC-MS sysytem in FABI to boost chemical ecology
• FABIan attends an Insect Genetic Technologies Course in the USA
• FABIans participate in ICPP forest pathology fieldtrip
• FABIan on North American field trip to collect samples
• FABI and UP sign agreements with two major agricultural industry bodies
• The end of an era when reprints of scientific articles dominated research
• Visiting entomologist introduces FABIans to invasive exotic insect pests in the UK at a special seminar
• Eucalypt insect pest survey in Ghana and Sierra Leone
• Tree health experts inspect PSHB infestations in Johannesburg suburbs
• FABI team surveys Johannesburg gardens for PSHB infestation
• The impact of the Polyphagous Shothole Borer in SA explained in a public seminar at FABI
• Renowned French biologist casts spotlight on biodiversity at a special seminar in FABI
• The Conversation Editors visit FABI
• TPCP and the CTHB plan for the year ahead 
• FABI starts 2018 on a high note 
• FABI delegates attend SASM 2018
• Fabulous FABI 20th anniversary symposium
• FABIans attend Wild Orchid Conference
• FABI gears up for its 20th anniversary symposium
• Ambrosia beetle working group formed at FABI 
• FABI postdoctoral fellow conducts International Plant Sentinel Network workshops
• Botryosphaeriaceae associated with Coniodictyum chevalieri on Ziziphus mucronata at Buzzard Mountain Farm 
• Fungal species isolated from asymptomatic and symptomatic Berchemia discolor branches
• Hunting fungi in the Kruger National Park
• Sex continuum of baobabs
• Species overlap of the Botryosphaeriaceae on some tree species of the Anacardiaceae
• FABI's year of giving back
• The Science Superheroes of from Radford House Primary visit FABI
• Thirteen undergraduate students welcomed into the 2018 CTHB Mentorship Programme
• FABI celebrates first PhD for 2018
• Second PhD in one week 
• Third PhD degree for 2018 completed in FABI
• Fourth FABI PhD success for 2018
• FABIans celebrate two prestige seminars in one week

2017

• FABI celebrates two Associate Professor promotions
• FABI Director included in the Web of Science Most Highly Cited Researcher list 
• FABIan through to FameLab South Africa finals 
• FABIans celebrate another year of research excellence at 2017 year-end gala dinner and awards ceremony
• Prof Bernard Slippers appointed as the new Director of FABI
• Cape Citizen Science releases video about youth engagement in 2017
• A "sweet" tribute to three FABIans leaving the Institute
• Plant pathologists from UK and Singapore visit FABI
• Advanced Phylogenetics Workshop presented at FABI
• Assessing the security implications of genome editing technology
• FABI hosts Fungal Genome Annotation and Comparison Workshop
• FABIans attend an insect mass-rearing workshop
• Two FABIans attend the 7th International Barcode of Life Conference
• Insect pests of Eucalyptus in Rwanda
• Italian forest pathologist visits FABI
• Strong FABI delegation attends Southern African Society of Plant Pathology Congress
• 21 FABI students and postdocs take part in Speed Poster presentations at SASPP Congress
• FABI at the SASPP Congress: Day 2
• Two FABIans win major awards at SASPP
• TPCP/CTHB team members outline strategy for 2017
• FABIans gear up for 2017 at the first MMM and welcome breakfast
• The 28th annual TPCP symposium draws near
• Renovated Tooke memorial unveiled
• First FABI PhD awarded for 2017
• TPCP celebrates students' first publications
• FABIan receives Mathre Education Endowment award from the American Phytopathological Society
• FABI Director meets Minister of Forestry in Baden, Wurtthemberg, and sees ash dieback
• CTHB mentorship students welcomed to FABI
• FABI postdoctoral fellow hunting biocontrol agents Down Under
• FABI scores a second publication century in 2016
• FABIans attend international Phytophthora meeting
• FABIans celebrate the third prestige seminar of the year
• Four students bag cash prizes for original poster designs
• French collaborator visits FABI
• Growing collaborations between FABI and Japanese Forest and Forest Products Research Institute
• Isolation and culturing of the smut fungus Coniodictyum chevalieri
• Population genetic studies in Protea associated Sporothrix species
• Macadamia protection programme launched at FABI
• Prof Mary Barbercheck presents a special seminar at FABI
• The only one: One African baobab species
• World leading mycologist from Patagonia visits FABI
• Rhizobium researchers visit FABI 
• Tuks showcases international tree health research at the annual TPCP symposium
• FABI researcher elected as a fellow of the Next Einstein Forum
• FABI fungal genome first with a MinION
• An eggcellent Easter tea party to beat all others
• FABI puts UP on the mycological world map
• FABI flag flies high at SASSB Congress
• Andrea Wilson bags another award and makes FABI proud
• FABI hosts expert on insect genomes
• FABI director receives leadership award
• FABI students poster poster commended at SAASTA Young Science Communicators competition
• Jolanda Roux receives Havenga Prize
• FABIans attend the 2017 combined congress of the Entomological and Zoological Societies of Southern Africa
• FABIans break a record at 2017 TPCP/CTHB tree planting
• FABIans elected to provincial branch of the SAIF
• Mike Wingfield conferred the China Friendship Award
• Autumn graduation honours for FABI
• Centres of Excellence Directors Forum and Community Outreach
• CTHB Outreach Team participates in Career Guidance Week in Mpumalanga
• Lots of wild and outrageous science at SPOOF 2017
• More accolades for FABI researchers at UP 2017 Academic Achievers Awards
• Professor Mike Wingfield receives the Chinese government Friendship Award
• Research on indigenous tree health highlighted at 2017 annual meeting of the CTHB
• Sarawak Forestry group visits FABI
• The CTHB Outreach Team brings science fever to Mpumalanga
• The Department of Plant and Soil Sciences hosts Grade 11 learners from Woodhill College
• Undergraduate students visit FABI Biocontrol Centre
• FABI celebrates James Mehl's prestige seminar
• FABI has a presence at National Science Week in Khayelitsha
• FABI PhD student flies the UP and South African flags high
• FABI volleyball team face rivals at UP Spring Day tournament
• FABIan attends 2017 SAMAC research symposium
• FABIan engages youth from Philippi in research at Cape Point 
• FABIan participates in nomenclature section of the International Botanical Congress
• FABIans attend International Symposium on Biological Control
• FABIans contribute to the sustainability of a diverse forestry sector at the 7th Forestry Science Symposium
• FABIans host farewell braai for Drs Stuart Fraser and Birhan Abate
• FABIans shine in CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP 2017
• FABIans welcome spring in a kaleidoscope of colour

2016

• FABI publishes a record number of papers in 2015!
• FABIans attend joint SAAB and SASSB conference
• TPCP/CTHB team at FABI strategises for 2016
• FABIans help to clean up the campus
• FABIans inspired at first Monday Morning Meeting of 2016
• FABI embarks on a water collection drive in response to drought
• FABI supports Operation Hydrate
• FABI Professor appointed as the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) South African Ambassador
• Sixth annual ACGT Proteomics Workshop
• First fungal genomes from the fynbos
• The role of provisioning services in households’ response to vulnerability in the dry forests and woodlands of southern Africa with a focus on climate variability and change
• Variability amongst ‘Candidatus Liberibacter Africanus’ populations of citrus in South Africa
• Woody vegetation dynamics in African savanna communal lands
• CTHB Mentorship Programme kicks off for eleventh year
• Future plant doctors represent CTHB in UP with Science Winter Week
• Africa Science Leadership Programme: Second Round of Success
• Canadian Professor presents special seminar at FABI
• Colombian ambassador attends FABI prestige seminar
• Connecting the dots at FABI
• Dr Peter Thrall delivers special seminar
• Ceratocystis genome jamboree
• FABI excellence celebrated at UP’s Academic Achievers’ Awards function
• FABI shines at autumn graduation
• Prof Mike Wingfield receives prestigious award for leadership by a US university
• Six FABIans graduate
• FABI celebrates fourth prestige seminar of 2016
• Dr ShuaiFei Chen awarded funding by the Chinese National Science Fund for Excellent Young Scholars
• Professor Brenda Wingfield receives the Harry Oppenheimer Memorial Fellowship Award
• FABI celebrates sixth PhD in 2016
• TPCP Publication Celebration
• The 27th annual TPCP-CTHB Symposium draws near!
• 2016 International Fusarium Laboratory Workshop to be hosted by FABI
• FABI Professor joins International Network for Government Science Advice Workshop
• Building capacity in Africa: FABI hosts a workshop on the Biological Control of Eucalyptus insect pests
• Riding the Storm: Insights on Global Tree Health Issues the Focus of the 27th Annual TPCP Symposium
• TPCP CTHB annual meeting kicks off with symposium on indigenous tree health
• FABI researchers elected to the executive of the South African Genetics Society
• A major new global research initiative
• Centres of Excellences directors meet in Durban
• FABI Professor presents at IBWS
• FABIans attend International Entomological Congress in Orlando, USA
• Robert Bosch Stiftung funds the attendance of two FABIans at ESOF16
• FABIans urged to bring cheer and warmth this winter by contributing to the FABI Blanket Drive
• CTHB Mentorship Programme kicks off for eleventh year
• Future plant doctors represent CTHB in UP with Science Winter Week
• FABIans judge at the 2016 Northern Gauteng Senior Science Fair
• Science trumps magic at 2016 National Science Week!
• The CTHB Tree Disease Treasure Hunt
• FABIans blanket contributions to homeless people in Tshwane
• Real scientists in FABI start young
• FABIans provide guidance to learners at Junior Tukkie/PMA Agri-Food Career Fair
• Grade 12 learners job shadows at FABI
• SAPPI delegation visits FABI
• FABIans gear up for the annual FABI Blanket Drive
• MRYE members travel to four provinces to motivate learners at rural schools
• Species of Botryosphaeriaceae associated with Sclerocarya birrea trees in Tshikundamalema
• A special issue on biological invasions of insects includes seven FABI papers
• Fusarium laboratoty workshop hosted by FABI
• Argentinian tree growers visit FABI
• Mycology workshop in FABI a great success
• New bacterium discovered by FABI research team named after Kirstenbosch
• Exploring the Northern Woods
• Mycologists know how to have fun
• Bioinformatician from Denmark presents three-day workshop at FABI
• FABI hosts phylogenetics workshop
• FABI lecturer’s dedication to his students’ education makes the news
• FABI Professor chairs committee to make up lecture halls Wi-fi zones
• FABI restores biocontrol monument
• FABI students join ScienceisGlobal Twitter campaign
• FABIan joins NRF-DST delegation to Oman
• Linking ground-based monitoring and remote sensing techniques to assess local- and regional-scale phenology across southern Africa’s broad-leaved savannas
• Humans and elephants alter vegetation structure in savanna woodlands
• FABIans celebrate warmer and brighter days to come
• FABIans help to clean up the campus
• FABIans inspired at first Monday Morning Meeting of 2016
• FABIans visit the Biocontrol Facility
• FISNA meeting hosted by FABI
• Fusarium experts from Pennsylvania State University presents a special seminar
• Fusarium workshop drums up a storm
• NFC delegation visits FABI
• Prof Everett Hansen visits FABI
• Prof. Slippers leads postgraduate research seminar for students and supervisors
• Renowned plant pathologist presents a special visual seminar at FABI
• Science Olympiads battle it out at FAME Club seminar
• Superheroes and murderous plants come to life at SPOOF 2016
• The 2016 Social Club hosts its first FABI monthly tea
• The sod turned for Future Africa
• TPCP/CTHB team at FABI strategises for 2016
• USA and CTHB researchers visit scientists and students at the University of Venda
• Visiting collaborators host special seminars on Chinese tree health
• Visiting US student sparks debate on GMO research
• Attending an international congress: Perspectives from a FABI Postdoc
• FABIans celebrate PhD degree with Mesfin Gossa and his family
• Curator of the New York Botanical Garden visits FABI
• UK forest pathologists attend FABI workshop
• FABI researcher participates in National Geographic Wild Bird Trust project in Angola
• Sirex research in South Africa and Japan in the spotlight at a FABI mini-symposium
• FABI presents Advanced Phylogenetics Workshop
• FABI celebrates excellence at 2016 year-end function
• Students in the CTHB take part in the annual CTHB Roadshow
• Mycological musing at Melbourne Botanical Garden
• Exploring fungal biodiversity in eastern Australia

2015

• FABIans plant thousands of eucalyptus cuttings
• FABI celebrates 18th anniversary at the annual year-end gala dinner and awards ceremony
• FABIans visit Shizuoka University, Japan
• Canadian fungal molecular biologist presents special seminar at FABI
• Construction of a new semi-quarantine tunnel starts at the FABI Biocontrol Centre
• Plant pathologist from Washington State University presents a special seminar at FABI
• FABIans ‘floored’ at the first FAME Club seminars
• Memorandum of Understanding established between FABI and CERC
• Macadamia growers visit FABI
• CTHB marks a decade of mentorship programmes
• Canadian Forest Service scientists helps grow capacity in chemical ecology at FABI
• FABI tree health team visits colleagues at the China Eucalyptus Research Centre (CERC)
• FABI collaborates with researchers of Natural Resources Canada
• Two more biocontrol agents arrive at the FABI Biocontrol Centre
• Six Fabians participate in the 20th Australasian Plant Pathology Society Conference
• FABIan attends EMBO Conference in Spain
• FABI delegation attends International Tree Invasion Workshop
• 22nd Advanced Phylogenetics Workshop in FABI
• Plant science experts gather at UP for 2nd Annual Dupont Plant Breeding Symposium Africa
• FABIans sizzle at Scibraai Data Quest
• Two prestige seminar celebrations at FABI
• FABI celebrates ninth PhD degree pass for 2015
• TPCP researchers release biocontrol agent for the red gum lerp psyllid
• FABI participates in the South African Emergency Plant Pest Response Plan
• FABIans attend 48th Congress of the Brazilian Phytopathology Society
• FABI academics hit the airwaves
• FABIans participate in the National Science Week
• IUFRO President joins forestry students for the 2015 IFSA International Symposium in Manila
• FABI Postdoc attends Botany 2015 meeting in USA
• SAIF acknowledges members contributions to forestry at AGM in FABI
• FABI joins 110th anniversary of the SA National Collection of Fungi
• Celebrating the outrageous at SPOOF 2015
• FABIans make an impact at ICFR symposium
• FABI student attends the Linday Nobel Laureate Meeting in Germany
• Grade 9 learners doing work shadowing at FABI
• UP with Science participants in the CTHB present a research project
• FABIans attend the 16th Annual Fusarium Laboratory Workshop in Kansas
• FABI welcomes DTI delegation
• Three FABIans attend the FEMS Microbiology congress in the Netherlands
• FABI contributes 278 blankets to TuksFM Woolly Winter campaign
• International guests of the TPCP visit local forestry companies and research institutions
• Annual Symposia of the DST/NRF CTHB and the TPCP
• FABI director attends UNFF11 in New York
• Nine FABIans graduate at Spring Graduation Ceremony
• Charting the mycology path towards IMC Puerto Rico 2018
• IUFRO President Opens IFSA Workshop
• FABI Presents a World Café Session on Forest Health at the World Forestry Congress in Durban
• Youth Features Prominently at the WFC2015
• MRYE Article
• Determining the possible evolutionary pathway of Candidatus liberibacter africanus
• Promoting camel thorn growth and health
• Dispersal patterns of Protea
• When Science jumps out of textbook pages
• How does phosphate nutrition affect metabolism?
• FABIan awarded one of four SARChI chairs to be hosted at UP
• Ophiostoma splendens and Honeymoon
• Phylogenetic workshops facilitated by FABI team members at the University of Venda
• Dakalo spends time in the USA
• CTHB students visit ICIPE
• A visit to the ARC
• IUFRO assembles African forestry research leaders at WFC2015
• FABI student conducts outreach at Arbor Week Expo
• FABIans present research at Workshop on Genetics of Tree Parasite Interactions in France
• Invasion Biologist Visits FABI
• Nature publishing group visits UP to explore exciting opportunities for promoting science in Africa
• UP with Science introduces school children to hidden world of plant disease
• A global strategy needed for forest health and biosecurity
• FABIans act as judges at Northern Gauteng Senior Expo for Young Scientists
• MRYE Managerial Report 2015
• CTHB/TPCP staff and students continue to shine
• Prof Brenda Wingfield receives the Christiaan Hendrik Persoon medal
• FABI student wins the 2015 Grace Waterhouse Fellowship for research in the UK
• FABI fun at the TPCP/CTHB Team Building Event
• 10th Anniversary of the Centre of Excellence Programme
• CTHB celebrates 10 years of mentorship at FABI
• CTHB director and deputy director visit Stellenbosch team members
• Meet and greet kicks off 2015 mentorship program
• A focus on insect invasions
• Encouraging results in FABI TPCP Biocontrol Programme
• Fanfare in the Fynbos V&F
• Two Centres of Excellence join forces in research on La Reunion Island
• Graft transmission and symptomology of liberibacters from selected indigenous south african members of the Rutaceae
• Plant - mite mutualism in Coffea arabica: a comparison of mite diversity between coffee plantation and natural forest
• Of bugs, briers and bad hairdays: an overview of the indigenous tree health project in Venda
• Survey of insect pests and their natural enemies on some indigenous trees in Tshikundamalema, Limpopo Province
• Protea-associated Ophiostomatoid fungi in focus
• SASBi-SAGS 2014 at Kwalata Ranch
• The 14th International Congress of Acarology – Japan
• The 2nd International Conference on Advances in Plant Science (ICAPS)
• XIVth International Congress of Mycology and Eukaryotic Microbiology
• First phylogenomics workshop at FABI
• A busy year for the CMW culture collection
• AIDS research leaders visit FABI
• Back to school with FABI
• FABIans make an impact at the SASPP congress
• FABIans present talks at ICFR Field Day
• FABI launches partnership with CBS
• International research team on termite ecology and evolution visits FABI
• Population genetics guest lecture
• Recent Sirex collaborations

2014

• Congratulations to FABIans for amazing achievements in the 2nd semester of 2014
• FABI represented nobly at the 24th IUFRO World Congress
• 13th International Conference on Plant Pathogenic Bacteria
• FABIans at the 10th Internatonal Mycological Congress
• FABI at the New Age Business Briefing with the Minister of Science and Technology
• FABI leaders achieve a double A at the 2014 NRF Awards Ceremony
• Prof Brenda Wingfield wins NSTF Award
• FABI leaders shine at the UP Academic Achievers Awards
• Unusual adaptations for P nutrition
• Investigating soil microbial interactions of Portulacaria afra
• Malformations, malformations ... everywhere
• Grade 11 UP with Science programme 2014
• Grade 10 UP with Science day 2014
• My MRYE experiences
• National Science Week 2014
• Strengthening collaborations with UniVen
• FABI teamwork: Almost 1500 genes annotated in 5 hours
• FABI SPOOF 2014: The Circus Carnival
• Bark and ambrosia beetle academy May 2014
• Congratulations to CTHB/TPCP Students and Staff for achievements and awards during the first half of 2014
• 'Candidatus Liberibacter africanus' relatives amongst native Rutaceous hosts of Trioza erytreae in South Africa
• FABI and CTHB going the extra mile for science education: ACCESS HPW schools workshop
• Cross infection of latent pathogens among four native South African tree species
• Exchanged hitchhikers: The introduction of red turpentine beetles to China led to a major change in their fungal associates
• A FABIan's experience at Science Slam
• How does bark stripping for medicinal use impact on native trees?
• Infidelity revealed in insect-fungal mutualism after invasion
• Phytophthora diversity and hybrids from the Crocodile River in Gauteng
• An overview of the Botryosphaeriaceae
• Regulation of Phosphoenolpyruvate (PEP) metabolism via Phosphoenolpyruvate Carboxylase (PEPC) in P-deficient nodules of Virgilia divaricata
• South African rhizobia are unique and so are the origin of their abilities
• Seed beetles in Acacia pods
• Sex determinants in Leptographium procerum and Leptographium profanum
• Prof Jolanda Roux receives IUFRO Scientific Award

2013

• Prof Brenda Wingfield received A-rating from NRF
• Student conference in Conservation Science, theme: Biodiversity in Africa - Present State, Challenges and Prospects on its Conservation
• Congratulations to FABI students and staff for achievements and awards during the second half of 2013
• What benefits do early-leafing trees gain over facultative-leafers in an African savanna?
• Provisioning services in the Mopane Woodlands of Northern Venda
• Exchanges between a native and an invasive legume in the Cape Floristic Region
• FABI SPOOF 2013: "Friday the 13th"
• FABI welcomes other visitors during 2013
• FABIans attend a major forestry conference in Costa Rica
• Insights and knowledge gained from the International Symposium on the Biology and Ecology of Gall Inducing Arthropods and Related Endophytes
• 10th International Congress of Plant Pathology
• Ribosomal RNA Unit Evolution
• Farewell to Lydia Twala
• Tools to investigate an extraordinary Protea-Fungus-Mite Relationship
• Changes in MRYE and bid for additional sponsorship
• SCI(ENCE) – Kick Power of FABI @ National Science Week
• Taxi! Hitch a ride to Protea Valley?
• The CTHB Mentorship Programme
• Toyota Enviro Outreach
• Mighty bacteria in a Civilised World - UP with Science
• Visit of Prof Mario Rajchenberg to FABI
• XVII Congress of the Entomological Society of Southern Africa
• FABI Director elected as next IUFRO President
• Nutrient Dynamics: Linking herbivory and plant functional traits
• Preserving tree health-CFA newsletter
• Two UP professors elected to International Society for Plant Pathology
• Prof Wingfield elected to ASSAF council
• International Conference on Advances in Plant Sciences
• The 48th Conference of the South African Society for Plant Pathology
• Botryosphaeriaceae associated with Acacia karroo in South Africa
• Team building 2013
• Congratulations to students and staff in 2012 and 2013
• Diseased Euphorbia trees in South Africa harbours unexplored fungal and insect biodiversity
• Diversity in Eucalyptus susceptibility to the gall-forming wasp Leptocybe invasa
• DST/NRF Centres of Excellence Director's forum 2012
• Forest and Ornamental Plant and Phytosanitary Working Group
• Southern African Society for Systematic Biology 10th meeting
• The 38th Annual Conference of the South African Association of Botanists
• Ophiostomatoid fungi and their insect vectors on Eucalypt trees in Australia and South Africa
• Resolving species in the Grosmannia serpens complex
• UP shines at 48th SASPP congress
• The 6th International Legume Conference

2012

• ASSAf announces prestigious award to Young Scientist
• COP17: SAIF Newsletter
• FABI student meets US first lady
• Honorary doctorate for forestry expert
• IUFRO division 7 joint meeting of forest pathology and entomology research groups
• Sustainable utilization of Baobab in Venda
• Tukkies tree health expert rewarded for life's work
• UP researcher meets queen of England

2011

• 2011 Centre of Excellence day at FABI
• Analysis of indigenous members of the citrus-family (Rutacea) for bacteria of the "Candidatus liberibacter" genus
• Another accolade for the TPCP, the CTHB and the SA forestry industry
• Career orientation program at FABI
• Community project initiative at FABI 2009-2011
• Congratulations to CTHB/TPCP students and staff in 2011
• CTHB member plays a leading role in the Global Young Academy and the South African Young Academy of Science (SAYAS)
• CTHB mentorship programme 2011
• Discovery of three new fungal species from dying Baobab trees in South Africa and Madagascar
• FABI at the 2011 National Science Week
• FABI work in native pine forests in Guatemala
• Fun with fungi and fun with kids
• Large scale DIE-OFF of an iconic South African tree - Euphorbia ingens
• MRYE's bid to be recognized as an official community engagement project of the University of Pretoria
• Natural forests and woodlands symposium
• Notorious tree-killing fungus unravelled
• Pest hunting in Zululand
• Phylogenetic workshops 2010-2011
• Pythium-related mortality recorded in an emblematic fynbos biome genus
• Research visit to Poland
• Strong presence of TPCP / CTHB students and staff at National Entomology Congress
• Team building 2011
• The effect of frost/freeze events on Mopane trees
• The opening of a world-class biocontrol centre for forest pests at FABI
• TPCP/CTHB diagnostic clinic 2010
• Understanding pest and pathogen threats to pine under expanding global cultivation
• UP scientists unravel hidden plant pathogenic fungi
• Wood-borers on Acacia: a community perspective

2010

• 2nd International "Erwinia" workshop
• Building tree protection linkages with Mozambique: Report on a survey undertaken from 3-17 July 2010
• Changes to the MRYE programme in 2010 and successes for MRYE leaders and the team
• FABI and CTHB spread science fever at National Science Week
• Fun at Fusarium circinatum genome annotation jamboree
• Ganoderma in South Africa
• Gene to 'ome: scientific excellence at the Genetics congress
• Honours for FABIANS
• IUFRO 2010
• SPOOF 2010
• Successful FABI graduates
• The 9th International Mycological Congres (IMC 9)
• Uniting research labs across FABI

2009

• 10th Anniversary conference of the Southern African Society for Biosystematic Biology
• A gathering of graduandi
• A review of the DST/NRF centre of excellence in tree health biotechnology (CTHB)
• Annual meeting of the Mycological Society of America
• Climate change and mutualism
• Death among an unrecognized South African jewel, Euphorbia ingens
• Decline and death of iconic Northern Cape camel thorn trees investigated
• FABI exhibits at the South African Research Chairs initiative (SARCHi) awards ceremony
• Faculty's "Wingfields" soar yet again
• Feature article: Diversity and evolution of Fusarium species in the Gibberella fujikoroi complex
• Global climate dialogue
• International union of forestry research organisations (IUFRO) management meets in South Africa
• Oorsaak gesoek van kameeldoring vrektes
• Phoma sorghina, onyalai and indigenous trees: where is the link?
• SASSP Congress 2009
• St Albans visits FABI
• Summary of Professor Majozi's lecture: Research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing
• Team building day 2009
• The SPAR women's challenge
• Tragedy strikes the MRYE team
• UP with Science outreach successful

2008

• 2008 Team building day
• Achievements and milestones
• Conferences attended by CTHB/TPCP students and staff between October 2007 and January 2008
• CTHB/TPCP diagnostic clinic 2007
• FABI celebrates ten years of excellence
• FABI features at the 2007/8 NSTF awards ceremony
• FABIans attend ICPP in Torino, Italy, August 2008
• FABIans receive awards
• Forest entomology in South Africa showcased at FABI
• Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI)'s 10th anniversary celebrations
• Mpepu Rural Youth Encouragement (MRYE) outreach initiative
• My nine-year stay at FABI
• Phylogenetics methods made easier: Phylogenetic workshops under CTHB
• South African genetics society 2008 congress
• SPOOF 20080's
• The DST/NRF Centre of Excellence in Tree Health Biotechnology (CTHB) attracts two MSc students to work at the University of Pretoria
• The Royal Society visits FABI at the University of Pretoria
• University of Pretoria presents chancellor's medal award
• UP with science group at FABI win "Gold"
• Visit of a French exchange student to FABI
• We welcome Honours students to FABI

2007

• A taste of Hungary
• Back to our Pangean origins: An investigation of baobab diseases in Madagascar
• Baobab health survey in Botswana and Namibia
• Chasing Sirex in the Czech Republic
• DST/NRF Centre of Excellence in Tree Health Biotechnology (CTHB) mentorship programme
• Dying clove trees infected by a novel fungus
• FABIans attend the 15th International Conference on Nitrogen fixation
• Field research and extension at FABI in 2006
• Figuring life's jigsaw puzzle
• Flavours from indigenous fungi
• Fungal species on baobabs in Western Australia
• Fungi and CHIPS
• Fusarium laboratory workshop
• Keeping Jacaranda trees healthy
• Lunch with the NRF and the MRYE students
• Meeting of the board of the DST/NRF centre of excellence in Tree Health Biotechnology (CTHB) in 2007
• Michorrhiza mycology email list server - A contribution to tree health biotechnology in South Africa
• Mitochondrial genomes of selected Fusarium species
• Mpepu Rural Youth Encouragement (MRYE) outreach initiative 2006 - 2007
• Ophiostoma quercus in South Africa
• Participation in the 75th meeting of the Mycological Society of America
• SASOL SciFest 2007
• Services of CTHB and TPCP
• TPCP and CTHB women win awards
• Treehealthnet
• Using DNA sequence data to characterise fungal pathogens of trees
• Visit of a Chinese delegation to FABI
• Visit of Pedro Crous
• What do Koalas and fungi have in common in Pretoria?

2006

• Annual TPCP/CTHB research meeting in 2006
• Congratulations
• CTHB/TPCP team building day
• Diagnostic clinic 2006
• Exciting projects in the field of diseases of native trees
• Expanding frontiers on one of the world's largest sand islands
• FABI social club activities
• FABI wins THRIP excellence award
• Fungi @ FABI
• Fusarium species associated with waterberry (Syzygium cordatum) floral malformation
• Important visitor to FABI
• Indian delegation visits FABI
• Launch of the National Science Week 2006
• Mentorship programme 2006
• Mpepu Rural Youth Encouragement (MRYE) outreach initiative
• Norway-South Africa research project
• Phylogenetic workshops in 2006
• "SPOOF" 2006
• The 8th International Mycological Congress (IMC8)
• The CTHB offers opportunities for students to do their experiential training
• Welcome to the TPCP/CTHB