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Born in Germany.

Julia Kreiss lived in South Africa from 2005 to 2008 together with her mycologist husband, Wolfgang Mayer, while his was doing research on rust fungi in FABI as a postdoctoral fellow.

Prior to their time in South Africa, Julia received her formal training in Classical Art Restoration in Germany. However, after spending one year on restoring a one square meter roof painting in a gothic cathedral, her creative spirit became frustrated and she started teaching art to children. During her stay in South Africa, FABI commissioned her to create the artwork for three of FABI’s annual Seasonal Greeting cards on themes related to research projects in FABI. The works on display are the original works created for these cards.


Acacia karoo (2006) 


Blister beetle on rust gall (2006) 


King Protea (02/2007)


New Publications

Si H, Wang Y, Liu Y, Li S, Bose T, Chang RL. (2023) Fungal Diversity Associated with Thirty-Eight Lichen Species Revealed a New Genus of Endolichenic Fungi, Intumescentia gen. nov. (Teratosphaeriaceae). Journal of Fungi 9(4):423. 10.3390/jof9040423
Guignard Q, Johannes Spaethe, Bernard Slippers, Natasa Nikolic, Jeremy D. Allison. (2023) Eye morphology and colour preferences in a semi-field test of the pine pest, Sirex noctilio (Hymenoptera: Siricidae). African Entomology 31 10.17159/2254-8854/2023/a13406 PDF
Aylward J, Ngubane NP, Dreyer LL, Oberlander K, Wingfield MJ, Roets F. (2023) Convergent evolution unites the population genetics of Protea-associated ophiostomatoid fungi. Fungal Ecology 63:101242. 10.1016/j.funeco.2023.101242
Tarigan M, Pham NQ, Jami F, Oliveira LSS, Saha MA, Duran A, Wingfield MJ. (2023) Calonectria species diversity on eucalypts in Indonesia. Southern Forests: a Journal of Forest Science 10.2989/20702620.2023.2179441
Aylward J, Roets F, Dreyer LL, Wingfield MJ. (2023) Unseen fungal biodiversity and complex inter-organismal interactions in Protea flower heads. Fungal Biology Reviews 45:100317. 10.1016/j.fbr.2023.100317