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Front (L-R): Mrs. Corné Lombard (Course Administrator, ACGT), Akinola Popoola (Nigeria), Prof. Dave Berger (Course Leader, UP), Jendeka Mahasi (Kenya), Josephine Songa (Kenya), Anthony Pariyo (Uganda), Sumita Ramgareeb (SASRI, South Africa), Damian Njoku (Nigeria), Dibanzilua Nginamau (Angola)

Middle (L-R) : Jude Obidiegwu (Nigeria), Renee Prins (UFS and CenGen, South Africa), Koffi Kouassi (Cote d&#39Ivoire), Charles Mutengwa (Zimbabwe), Eric Magembe (Kenya), Elfadil Adam (Sudan), Roobavathie Naidoo (ACCI, South Africa), Maxwell Asante (Ghana), Trushar Shah (Bioinformatics Co-ordinator, BECA, Nairobi), Dr. Fourie Joubert (ACGT Bioinformatics Unit)

Top row (L-R): Dr. Zander Myburg (Guest Lecturer, Genetics Dept., FABI, UP), Prof. Jan-Peter Nap (Course Presenter, Wageninen University, Netherlands), Dr. Yoseph Beyene (Course Presenter, Botany Dept, FABI, UP), Shawn Berry (SASRI, South Africa), Solomon Woyessa (Ethiopia), John Derera (ACCI and Zimbabwe), Kwame Peasah (Ghana), Arnold Mushongi (Tanzania)

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