TPCP Team
Director of FABI
Prof Bernard Slippers Deputy Director Total:1
Prof Fanus VenterFounding Director Total:1
Prof Mike WingfieldAcademic Staff and Research Leaders Total:12
Dr Irene Barnes
Prof Martin Coetzee
Prof Wilhelm de Beer
Dr Tuan Duong
Dr Gerda Fourie
Dr Almuth Hammerbacher
Prof Brett Hurley
Prof Sanushka Naidoo
Prof Emma Steenkamp
Prof Noelani van den Berg
Dr Albe van der Merwe
Prof Brenda WingfieldBiochemistry, Genetics and Microbiology
DST / NRF SARChI Chair in Fungal Genomics
Research Fellows Total:5
Dr Marc Bouwer
Dr Lieschen De Vos
Dr Fahimeh Jami
Dr Trudy Paap
Dr Neriman YilmazExtraordinary Professors/Staff Total:10
Prof Jeremy Allison
Dr Wubetu Bihon
Prof Treena Burgess
Dr ShuaiFei Chen
Prof Pedro Crous
Dr Jeff Garnas
Prof Stefan Neser
Dr Carlos Rodas
Prof Jolanda Roux
Dr Magriet van der NestSupport and Technical Staff Total:16
Mr Morne Booij-Liewes
Ms Samantha Bush
Ms Helen Doman
Ms Onke Gayiya
Ms Sandisiwe Jali
Ms Pritty Khumalo
Dr Seonju Marincowitz
Ms Zandile Mngadi
Ms Eva Muller
Mr Celani Nkosi
Ms Valentina Nkosi
Ms Alisa Postma 
Ms Smeetha Singh
Ms Namhla Tshisela
Ms Lydia Twala
Ms Madelein van HeerdenPostdoctoral Fellows Total:19
Dr Janneke Aylward
Dr Chrizelle Beukes
Dr Tanay Bose
Dr Gabrielle Carstensen
Dr Gudrun Dittrich-Schroder
Dr Arista Fourie
Dr Felix Fru
Dr Mesfin Gossa
Dr Nicholas Kagimu
Dr Aquillah Kanzi
Dr FeiFei Liu
Dr Osmond Mlonyeni
Dr Esther Muema
Dr Caryn Oates
Dr Quentin Santana
Dr Michelle Schroder
Dr Melissa Simpson
Dr Hiroyuki Suzuki
Dr Markus WilkenDoctoral Students Total:34
Ms Omotayo Adegeye
Ms Juanita Avontuur
Mr Felipe Balocchi
Ms Khumbuzile Bophela
Ms Annie Chan
Ms Firehiwot Eshetu
Ms Katrin Fitza
Mr Quentin Guignard
Ms Minette Havenga
Mr Darryl Herron
Mr Joey Hulbert
Ms Agil Katumanyane
Ms JieQiong Li
Mr GuoQing Li
Ms QianLi Liu
Ms Ginna M. Granados
Mr Privilege Makunde
Mr Mkhululi Maphosa
Ms Angelica Marsberg-De Villiers
Ms Mandy Messal
Mr James Michel Tchotet Tchoumi
Ms Rachel Mkandawire
Mr Jan Nagel
Ms Wilma Nel
Mr Nam Pham
Ms Mmatshepho Phasha
Ms Josephine Queffelec
Mr Mohammad Sayari
Ms Gina Shin
Ms Benedicta Swalarsk-Parry
Mr Renaan Thompson
Ms Stephanie van Wyk
Ms Ariska van der Nest
Ms Andi WilsonMasters Students Total:30
Ms Lizzy Ramela
Ms Leandri Bezuidenhoudt
Mr Johnathan Bredenkamp
Mr Johannes Christoff Joubert
Mr Ricu Claassens
Ms Claudette Dewing
Ms Caitlin Gevers
Mr Allan Gonzalez
Ms Granny Hlongwane
Ms Lomile Khoete
Ms Frances Lane
Ms Teboho Letsoalo
Ms Kira Lynn
Ms Pozisa Majaja
Ms Sophie Makua
Ms Modjadji Makwela
Ms Keamogetswe Maswanganyi
Mr Lazarus Mavima
Mr Seamus Morgan
Ms Fezile Mthunzi
Ms Kayla Noeth
Ms Emeldah Rikhotso
Ms Luki-Marie Scheepers
Ms Lebone Sebapu
Mr Sydney Sithole
Ms Nicole Soal
Mr Hannes Strydom
Ms Zorada Swart
Ms Taponeswa TasiyaHonours Students Total:1
Ms Vinolia DankiMentorship Students Total:1
Ms Khomotso MarediNew Publications
Visagie CM, Yilmaz N, Vanderwolf K, Renaud JB, Sumarah MW, Houbraken J, Assebgui R, Seifert KA, Malloch D. (2020) Penicillium diversity in Canadian bat caves, including a new species, P. speluncae. Fungal Systematics and Evolution 5:1-15.
10.3114/fuse.2020.05.01
Messal M, Slippers B, Naidoo S, Bezuidt O, Kemler M. (2019) Active fungal communities in asymptomatic Eucalyptus grandis stems differ between a susceptible and resistant clone. Microorganisms 7(10):375.
10.3390/microorganisms7100375
Visser EA, Wegrzyn JL, Steenkamp ET, Myburg AA, Naidoo S. (2019) Dual RNA-Seq Analysis of the Pine-Fusarium circinatum Interaction in Resistant (Pinus tecunumanii) and Susceptible (Pinus patula) Hosts. Microorganisms 7:315.
10.3390/microorganisms7090315 
Tchotet Tchoumi JM, Coetzee MPA, Rajchenberg M, Roux J. (2019) Taxonomy and species diversity of Ganoderma species in the Garden Route National Park of South Africa inferred from morphology and multilocus phylogenies. Mycologia
10.1080/00275514.2019.1635387
van Wyk S, Harrison CH, Wingfield BD, De Vos L, van der Merwe NA, Steenkamp ET. (2019) The RIPper, a web-based tool for genome-wide quantification of Repeat-Induced Point (RIP) mutations. PeerJ 7:e7447.
10.7717/peerj.7447