Local Academic Collaborators:
| Prof Bernard Slippers | Dept of Biochemistry, Genetics and Microbiology, FABI, UP |
| Prof Emma Steenkamp | Dept of Biochemistry, Genetics and Microbiology, FABI, UP |
| Prof Brenda Wingfield | Dept of Biochemistry, Genetics and Microbiology, FABI, UP |
| Prof Mike Wingfield | Department of Plant Sciences, FABI, UP |
| Dr Almuth Hammerhacher | Dept of Zoology and Entomology, FABI, UP |
| Dr Noëlani van den Berg | Dept of Biochemistry, Genetics and Microbiology, FABI, UP |
| Dr Albe van der Merwe | Dept of Biochemistry, Genetics and Microbiology, FABI, UP |
| Prof Dave Berger | Dept of Plant and Soil Sciences, FABI, UP |
| Prof Fourie Joubert | Centre for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, UP |
| Prof Don Cowan | Dept of Biochemistry, Genetics and Microbiology, Centre for Microbial Ecology and Genomics (CMEG), UP |
Industry Collaborators:
| Dr Arlene Bayley | Sappi Technology Centre Innovation Hub, Pretoria |
| • Dr Anulf Kanzler | Sappi Forests, Shaw Research Centre, Howick, KZN |
| Dr Nicky Jones | Sappi Forests, Shaw Research Centre, Howick, KZN |
| • Dr Marius du Plessis | Mondi Ltd, Tree Improvement Research, Pietermaritzburg, KZN |
| • Mr Ben Pienaar | Mondi Ltd, Tree Improvement Research, Pietermaritzburg, KZN |
| • Dr Kitt Payn | Mondi Ltd, Tree Improvement Research, Hilton, KZN |
| • Mr Mmoledi Mphahlele | Mondi Ltd, Tree Improvement Research, Hilton, KZN |
International Collaborators:
| • Prof Shawn Mansfield | Canada Research Chair in Wood and Fibre Qualtiy, Department of Wood Science, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC |
| • Prof Carl Douglas | Department of Botany, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC |
| • Prof Dario Grattapaglia | EMBRAPA, Brasilia, Brazil |
| • Prof Rene Vaillancourt | School of Plant Science, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia |
| • Prof Steven Strauss | Department of Forest Ecosystems and Society, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA |
| • Prof Gerd Bossinger | School of Forest and Ecosystem Science, The University of Melobourne, Creswick, Victoria, Australia |
| • Dr Andrzej Killian | Diversity Arrays Technology Pty Ltd, Yarralumla, Australia |
| • Prof Bill Dvorak | Director CAMCORE, Department of Forestry, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA |
| • Dr Jerry Tuskan | Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN, USA |
| • Dr Tim Tshaplinski | Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN, USA |
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• Department of Energy - Joint Genome Institutes (JGI) |
Eucalyptus Genome Project - Principal Investigator (2007-2010)
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• The International Eucalyptus Genome Network |
(EUCAGEN, www.eucagen.org)
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| • Dr Jacqueline Grima-Pettenati | Centre National de la Recherche (CNRS), Université Paul Sabatier, Tolosan, France |
| • Prof Yves van de Peer | Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium |
| • Prof Pankaj Jaiswal | Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA |