EPPI Team
Academic Staff and Research Leaders Total:1
Prof Sanushka NaidooProfessional Support Staff Total:2
Dr Ronishree Mangwanda
Ms Adri VealeBiochemistry, Genetics and Microbiology
Tissue culture and Plant Transformation Platform Manager
Postdoctoral Fellows Total:2
Dr Caryn Oates Oates 
Dr Erik VisserDoctoral Students Total:3
Ms Lorraine Mhoswa
Ms Myriam Solis
Mr Demissew TeshomeMasters Students Total:6
Ms Ruby May Ebbeling
Mr Lihan Esterhuizen
Ms Valencia Mogashoa
Mr Sean Schultze
Ms Shae Swanepoel
Ms Shannon WilsonInterns Total:1
Ms Cebeni LangaNew Publications
Pham NQ, Marincowitz S, Solís M, Duong TA, Wingfield BD, Barnes I, Slippers B, Muro Abad JI, Durán A, Wingfield MJ. (2021) Eucalyptus scab and shoot malformation: A new and serious foliar disease of Eucalyptus caused by Elsinoe necatrix sp. nov.. Plant Pathology
10.1111/ppa.13348 
Teshome DT, Zharare GE, Naidoo S. (2020) The threat of the combined effect of biotic and abiotic stress factors in forestry under a changing climate. Frontiers in Plant Science
10.3389/fpls.2020.601009
Oates C, Denby K, Myburg A, Slippers B, Naidoo S. (2020) Insect egg‐induced physiological changes and transcriptional reprogramming leading to gall formation. Plant, Cell & Environment
10.1111/pce.13930
Mhoswa L, O'Neill M, Makobatjatji MM, Oates CN, Payn KG, Slippers B, Myburg AA, Naidoo S. (2020) A Genome-Wide Association Study for resistance to the insect pest Leptocybe invasa in Eucalyptus grandis reveals genomic regions and positional candidate defence genes. Plant Cell & Physiology (pcaa057)
10.1093/pcp/pcaa057
McTaggart AR, du Plessis E, Roux J, Barnes I, Fraser S, Granados GM, Ho WWH, Shuey LS, Drenth A. (2020) Sexual reproduction in populations of Austropuccinia psidii. European Journal of Plant Pathology 156:537-545.
10.1007/s10658-019-01903-y