Chairperson: Alisa Postma

Jennifer Wayland - The optimisation of a high-throughput sequencing based diagnostic system for the detection of viruses of grapevines.
Dorah Mwangola - The development of homologous micro satellite markers for Chrysoporthe species. 
Tayo Adenigba - Gene complementation of Δppg1 mutant strains of Fusarium circinatum.

Lorraine Mhoswa - Genome-wide association study for Leptocybe invasa resistance and associated chemotytpes in Eucalyptus grandis.