Chairperson: Darryl Herron

Elodie Ekoka - Functional characterization of transport and signaling-related plastid proteins influencing carbon partitioning during xylogenesis
Elrea Appelgryn - Genomics and mechanisms of seasonal persistence of Soybean blotchy mosaic virus
Miranda Erasmus - The taxonomic history and ecology of the Ophiostomatales

Arista Fourie - Host specificity and virulence of Ceratocystis fimbriata and C. manginecans