Chairperson: Gabrielle Carstensen

Kavani Sanasi - Ophiostomatoid fungi associated with pine-infesting bark beetles in Guatemala.

Riaan Swanepoel - Re-assembly of the Eucalyptus grandis transcriptome to identify novel transcripts and splice variants.
Marius Laubscher - Investigation of the role of Eucalyptus grandis transcription factors EgrNAC61 and EgrNAC26 in secondary cell wall biosynthesis.
Ronel Roberts - Resolving Rutaceous species through barcoding.