FABIans Dr Neriman Yilmaz and Prof. Cobus Visagie recently visited Charles University and the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague, Czech Republic as part of the Mycobiomics project.
FABI is a research partner in the recently launched five-year project ‘Management of forest pests and diseases of forest crops in Ethiopia’.
FABIans celebrated the end of another successful year at the yearend function held at the Sanlam Conference Centre on the University of Pretoria’s Hatfield Campus.
FABI congratulates Prof. Mike Wingfield on being included on the Clarivate Web of Science Highly Cited Researchers 2024 for the eight consecutive year!
FABI is very proud of its four Mancom members (and one former member) that were recognised at the recent UP Academic Achievers’ Awards.
On 4 December, FABI hosted a visit by a group from Sappi’s Mpumalanga forestry operations.
FABI recently hosted a visit by Prof. Marc Stadler, and three of his PhD students from the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI) in Germany.
FABI congratulates Phrasia Mapfumo on the successful completion of her PhD degree.
FABI recently hosted the 2nd Annual Meeting of the Sporidesmin-Induced Liver Disease (SILD) Programme.
The Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI) fungal culture collection (CMW) and the CMW-IA culture collection in FABI have a new curator.
The RGE-FABI Tree Health Programme (THP) held its annual symposium in Indonesia.
The city of Tshwane hosted a public on-line symposium including three presentations, one of which was by FABI Professor Mike Wingfield.
FABI celebrated the completion of training of 18 mentorship students in the CPHB and TPCP.
FABI's Phytosanitation and Biosecurity interns attended a weeklong Phytosanitation course facilitated by Marianna Theyse from PhytoSolutions Consultancy.
Members of the TPCP joined forestry industry partners to investigate the cause of the sudden decline of Eucalyptus clones in Mpumalanga.
Three FABI PhD candidates are currently in Austria working with research partners as part of the EU-funded Mycobiomics project.
Three FABIans contributed chapters to the 6th edition of the AGRIOS Plant Pathology textbook.
Four members of the TPCP attended Wattle Field days in KZN where they gave updates to growers on two new Wattle pests and pathogens.
FABI congratulates Myriam Solís Garcia on the successful completion of her PhD and she becomes the 13th FABIan to do so this year.
The University of Pretoria hosted the joint South African Society for Bioinformatics and South African Genetics Society BIO2024 conference at the Future Africa campus.
FABI hosted a visited by the renown yeast scientist, Dr Andrey Yurkov.
Thirsty FABI students and interns made light work the annual seed packing for the National Maize Cultivar Trials for the 2024/2025 season.
Members of the Macadamia Protection Programme and the Forest Molecular Genetics research group participated in the recent Macadamias South Africa (SAMAC) Grower Symposium.
Drs Trudy Paap and Tanay Bose participated in the 11th Meeting of IUFRO Working Party 7.02.09: Phytophthora in Forests and Natural Ecosystems.
FABI attended four Grain SA organised Farmers' Days recently to educate farmers about the GRP pest and disease extensions and diagnostic clinic services.
FABI welcomes the renown fungal geneticist, Prof Fleißner, who joins FABI as an extraordinary Professor.
FABI researchers recently hosted a group of colleagues from around the world having a specific interest in fungi that potentially affect the health of animals and humans.
FABI is proud of the 19 graduates being capped at the University of Pretoria’s Spring Graduation Ceremony.
Four FABIans attended the 27th International Congress of Entomology in Kyoto, Japan.
Three FABIans presented at the recent IUFRO Division 7 Joint Meeting that took place in Japan.
Several FABIans attended the 12th International Mycological Congress (IMC12) that was held from 11-15 August in Maastricht, Netherlands.
Prof. Sanushka Naidoo and Dr Demissew Teshome recently attended and presented at the 2024 IUFRO Tree Biotechnology Conference in the USA.
WenWen Li presented her Prestige Seminar on 15 August as part of the requirements to complete her PhD degree.
Congratulations to Teresia Macharia on completing all requirements for her PhD degree.
FABI welcomed Afrifungi team members who presented on their operations that seeks to engage community mushroom growers and educate people on cultivating their own mushrooms.
Six FABI interns, funded through SACTA, had the opportunity to attend body's annual Information and Knowledge Sharing session.