Prof. Mike Wingfield receives an Honorary Doctorate from the University of the Free State
FABI Founding Director, Prof. Mike Wingfield was awarded an Honorary DSc degree from the University…
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Botswana University of Agriculture and Natural Resources delegation visits FABI
FABI and the Department of Animal Science at the University of Pretoria hosted a delegation of…
Bird's eye view to monitor the Eucalyptus snout beetle
Forest health surveillance forms a significant part of biosecurity monitoring and effective…
Easter tea at FABI
FABI ’s traditional monthly Tea party returned on 20 April after a 26-month COVID-induced hiatus.…
Pathogenicity trials season opens!
Four members of the Macadamia Protection Programme (MaPP) in FABI , PhD candidates Angel Maduke and…
GRP extension trips: where to from here?
The aim of the Grain Research Programme (GRP) extension is to aid in creating baseline knowledge…
Cobus Visagie visits Cranfield University and attends the 125th British Mycological Society meeting
Professor Cobus Visagie visited Prof. Naresh Magan and Dr Angel Medina-Vaya at the Cranfield Soil…
SASSB Webinar examines the ‘Dinosaurs of Darkness’
This month’s SASSB Webinar on 7 April had as the keynote speaker Prof. Jonah Choiniere of the…
The root fungus Ganoderma attracts the attention of young eyes
During an after-school walk, Luna Visagie (4,5 years old), daughter of FABI team members Dr Neriman…
Functional ecology of forest diseases discussed at the March FABI International Seminar
The guest presenter at the March FABI International Seminar on 31 March was Dr Jonas Oliva , a…
A FABI visit to Hexagon Bio
Professors Brenda Wingfield and Mike Wingfield had the opportunity to visit the facilities of…
Teamwork makes quick work of inoculations
We love seeing FABI teamwork excellence! Earlier this month, a wonderful team of FABIans helped us…
FABI at the Fusarium workshop
A number of FABI team members including Prof. Mike Wingfield , Prof. Brenda Wingfield and Dr…
Combined TPCP diagnostic clinic and field extension trip
The Tree Protection Co-operative Programme (TPCP) diagnostic clinic and field extension team spent…
FABIans attend the 31st Fungal Genetics Congress at Asilomar
A team of seven FABI researchers attended the 31 st Fungal Genetics Conference (FGC) , held from…
Students and staff learn from Cropwatch Africa
On 24 March, postgraduate students, postdoctoral fellows and staff from FABI , and an undergraduate…
Additional office space at the FABI Biocontrol Nursery and Insect Rearing facility
The number of postgraduate students and interns working in the different projects at the FABI…
Early easter egg hunt for the MadMacs
In February, PhD candidate Elisa Pal joined by her fellow comrades from the Macadamia Protection…
Survey of wattle pests and pathogens in Awi Zone, Ethiopia
Recently, the Ethiopian Environment and Forest Research Institute (EEFRI) in collaboration with the…
FABIans are two of the BSPP’s “40 Faces of Plant Pathology”
Two FABI ans, Proff. Dave Berger and Mike Wingfield , have been featured in the British Society for…