Chairperson: Marike Palmer

Ariska van der Nest - Diversity and population structure of three economically important needle blight pathogens of Pinus species
Drew Behrens - The noncoding transcriptome of Eucalyptus grandis: adding resolution to the transcriptional regulation of xylogenesis
Danielle Roodt - The evolution of xylogenesis in non-coniferous gymnosperms
Dora Mwangola - Population genetics of Chrysoporthe austroafricana in Southern Africa