A celebration was held at FABI on 6 February to mark the first publication in an ISI Rated Journal by five members of the TPCP research team. FABIANs Katrin Fitza, Angelica Marsberg de Villiers, Gabriella Carstensen, Siphatele Sibanda and Zander Human are all PhD candidates, and their first publications mark a significant achievement in the career of these young researchers. The cornerstone upon which FABI is built is research excellence, and publishing in ISI-rated journals is one measure of this excellence. Furthermore, learning to communicate your research findings to the international scientific community is an important step in the training of any post-graduate student.

Carstensen GD, Venter SN, Wingfield MJ, Coutinho TA. (2016) Two Ralstonia species associated with bacterial wilt of Eucalyptus. Plant Pathology 10.1111/ppa.12577

Fitza KNE, Tabata M, Kanzaki N, Kimura K, Garnas J, Slippers B. (2016) Host specificity and diversity of Amylostereum associated with Japanese siricids. Fungal Ecology 24(A):76-81. 10.1016/j.funeco.2016.08.005

Human ZR, Moon K, Bae M, De Beer ZW, Cha S, Wingfield MJ, Slippers B, Oh D-C, Venter SN. (2016) Antifungal Streptomyces spp. associated with the infructescences of Protea spp. in South Africa. Frontiers in Microbiology 7(1657)10.3389/fmicb.2016.01657

Marsberg A, Kemler M, Jami F, Nagel JH, Postma-Smidt A, Naidoo S, Wingfield MJ, Crous PW, Spatafora J, Hesse CN, Robbertse B, Slippers B. (2016) Botryosphaeria dothidea: A latent pathogen of global importance to woody plant health. Molecular Plant Pathology 10.1111/mpp.12495

Sibanda S, Theron J, Shyntum DY, Moleleki LN, Coutinho TA. (2016) Characterization of two LuxI/R homologs in Pantoea ananatis LMG 2665 T. Canadian Journal of Microbiology 10.1139/cjm-2016-0143