Chairperson: Stephanie van Wyk

Nam Pham - New species of Cylindrocladiella from plantation soils in South-East Asia.

Zorada Swart - The immune interactions between insects and parasitic nematodes.

Ariska van der Nest - The rising threat of novel pine needle pathogens from Central America under expanding global cultivation.

Robyn Smith - Terpene gene families in Pinus patula and Pinus tecunumanii.