Chairperson: Katrin Fitza

Molly Molefo - The role of cysteine and serine proteases and their inhibitors in biotic and abiotic stress.

Kay Bophela - Effect of stress and predisposition of plant hosts to pathogen invasion.
Edohan Clasen - Horizontal gene transfer in eukaryotes: Reflecting on its role in symbiosis and methods of detection.
Catherine Tatham - Characterisation of the Teratosphaeria destructans genome.