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