1 February marks the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, established by the UN General Assembly in 2015 to acknowledge women’s contributions to science and to emphasise the importance of gender equality in scientific fields
In January, three FABIan and colleagues from the ICFR travelled to Ethiopia for a research field trip
The 2025 cohort of interns from the CPHB Internship in Phytosanitation and Biosecurity programme celebrated the completion of their 12-month training programme
Dr Janneke Alyward and Dr Andi Wilson recently hosted a Genome Assembly Workshop in FABI.
A large group of FABIans participated in the 54th Biennial congress of the Southern African Society of Plant Pathology (SASPP).
FABI’s Prof. Mike Wingfield catalyzed a concerted effort to collect and characterize yeasts associated with the fungal human pathogen, Cryptococcus neoformans
A chance meeting between Dr Marta Kovač Prof Mike Wingfield marked the start of a new and exciting collaborative research project.
Host Pathogen Interactions and Bacterial Genomics Group (HPI) hosted a visit by SASA's Dr Motselisi Koetle
Phumlani Nzuza has ended the year on a high with the successful defence of his PhD at Ghent University in Belgium.
Members of the FMG-EPPI team at FABI conducted a field trip to Lochaber Farms in Mbombela
FABI celebrated the end of another successful year at its Year End Function
On Monday, 24 November, the FABI team gathered to bid farewell to colleague and friend Dr Nicky Creux
The Forest Molecular Genetics - Eucalyptus and Pine Pathogen Interactions research group hosted its annual research symposium
FABI Research Fellow Dr Gudrun Dittrich-Schröder attended the International Society for Biosafety Research Symposium in Ghent, Belgium
The 3rd Annual Meeting of the Sporidesmin-Induced Liver Disease (SILD) Programme was recently held at FABI
FABI is proud to announce that three of our researchers have been named on the 2025 Clarivate Highly Cited Researchers list.
A record cohort of 30 FABI undergraduate students celebrated the end of their year-long mentorship programme at the Institute.
FABI was honoured to host the Joint International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO) meeting of IUFRO working parties 7.03.13 and 7.03.16.
The African Centre for Chemical Ecology in FABI hosted the first chemical ecology practicum.
Prof. Sanushka Naidoo was an invited speaker and Prof. Mike Wingfield the moderator of the Marcus Wallenberg Prize Symposium 2025.
Members of the FMG-EPPI research group spent 11 days in the field for a mammoth inoculation trial
Dr Andrew Hayes of the University of the Sunshine Coast presented a special seminar at a recent FABI Monday Morning Meeting
FABI is proud of PhD candidate Aaron Harvey's runner-up placing in the 2025 Three-Minute Thesis (3MT) competition
Two FABians represented UP and FABI at the Sixth Meeting of Bergey’s International Society for Microbial Systematics (BISMiS), n Qingdao, China
FABI is proud of all the MANCOM members whose hard work and dedication was honoured at the University of Pretoria’s Academic Achievers’ Awards ceremony
An enthusiastic group of about 20 FABIans recently gathered in the FABI Auditorium to package more than 1.5 tons of maize seed
Members of the Macadamia Protection Programme had the opportunity to engage with world-renown plant pathologist, Dr André Drenth during his recent visit to FABI
Three FABians recently returned from Europe where they completed collaborative research visits and marking the conclusion of the Mycobiomics project
ABI recently celebrated the successful completion of Claudette Dewing’s PhD
FABI founding Director, Prof. Mike Wingfield was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU)
The curator of the CMW and CMW-IA in FABI, Nicole van Vuuren, presented at the recent joint Biobanks conference.
Three FABIans competed in the he University of Pretoria’s Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition.
FABI’s annual Spring Day event was celebrated with a Beach Party in the FABI courtyard
FABI was wel represented at the recent South African Macadamia industry's annual conference.
