FABI Director, Prof. Bernard Slippers attended the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Award Symposium as one of ten recipients of this prestigious Award in 2026
Members of the Kiwifruit protection Programme in FABI recently made site visits to orchards in Limpopo's and KwaZulu-Natal.
FABI was honoured to host a special seminar by Natural Resources Canada’s Dr Joey Tanney.
The FABI INSPIRE Open Air Laboratory was officially opened at a ceremony on 11 March.
The FABI mentorship programme continues its impressive trajectory, officially kicking off the 2026 cycle with a record-breaking 40 undergraduate students.
The first joint symposium of the TPCP and FMG-EPPI programme was hosted at the Future Africa campus.
FABI welcomed back research collaborators from the University of Agriculture in Krakow.
Professor Anna Lenart-Boroń of the University of Agriculture in Krakow, Poland presented a special seminar in FABI.
The 5th National Grain Research Platform (NGRP) Annual Research Meeting was held from 1-3 March 2026 at the University of Pretoria's Future Africa Campus
Professors Mike and Brenda Wingfield visited the Baviaanskloof area as guests of Living Lands and the Baviaanskloof Hartland Bewarea.
Three FABI Professors recently spent a week with APRIL Group colleagues in Indonesia.
FABI hosted a five-member delegation from Tanager for a focused workshop to explore opportunities for collaboration in grain and maize research, diagnostics, and farmer support systems
FABI Professors Mike and Brenda Wingfield were part of a recent "thinking tank" exercise hosted by the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences.
FABI welcomed five new candidates in the Centre for Plant Health Biotechnology (CPHB) Internship in Phytosanitation and Biosecurity programme
Love comes in many forms. In science, we love our plates, our plants, and our people!
Sixty FABI postgraduate students and researchers attended a one-day ‘introduction to forestry’ presented by a leader in the South African forestry industry, Dr Andrew Morris.
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.