Sílvia Maússe Sitoe completes her Masters Degree
This month Sílvia Maússe Sitoe, an MSc student from Mozambique, received the examiner’s reports for…
FABI News
Latest news, announcements and updates from the Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute
First Phylogenomics Workshop at FABI
A Phylogenenomics Workshop was presented at FABI from 17 to 21 November 2014. This was the first…
Sappi Executives visit FABI
The forestry research team (including members of the Tree Protection Co-operative Programme TPCP ),…
FMG Annual Research Meeting a great success
The Forest Molecular Genetics (FMG) Programme in FABI hosted members from the South African…
FABI Celebrates its 17th Anniversary at a Gala Dinner and Annual Awards Ceremony
A fabulous Highveld thunderstorm provided the perfect prelude to the 17th Annual FABI year end gala…
Japanese Phytobacteriologists visit FABI
FABI had the pleasure of hosting Prof. Yuichi Takikawa (Shizuoka University), Dr Kazutaka Kido…
10th Anniversary of the Centre of Excellence Programme
The Department of Science and Technology/National Research Foundation Centre of Excellence in Tree…
CTHB director and deputy director visit Stellenbosch team members
The Department of Science and Technology (DST)/ National Research Foundation (NRF) Centre of…
Forest entomologist from Czech Republic visits FABI
Dr Jirí Foit from Mendel University in Brno, Chech Republic recently completed a two-month visit to…
CTHB celebrates 10 years of mentorship at FABI
The annual lunch to celebrate the achievements of two of the outreach programmes of the DST/NRF…
International collaboration on the Sirex project
Sirex noctilio , also known as the European woodwasp, is one of the major pests on pine trees. The…
DuPont Plant Breeding Symposium a great success!
The first DuPont Plant Breeding Symposium to be held on African soil was recently hosted by the…
Prof Brian Steffenson visits FABI
Mike Wingfield, Director of FABI, had the special pleasure of hosting Prof. Brian Steffenson ,…
FABIans revise Ceratocystis, a genus of important tree pathogens
The genus Ceratocystis accommodates many important fungi, including serious plant pathogens,…
FABIans publish an important review on the Sirex woodwasp
This week a review paper by three FABIans, Bernard Slippers , Brett Hurley and Mike Wingfield , was…
TPCP-CTHB students break the tree planting record again!
Today, a large group of Honnours, Masters, and PhD students, and even three Postdoctoral fellows,…
Photographic competition won by FABI student
Over the past thirteen years the University of Pretoria Archives has been offering photographic…
FABIans organize Crop Genomics symposium at UP on 6 November 2014
A symposium with the topic “Genomics of crops and pathogens for molecular breeding” will be hosted…
FABI student contributes to NextGEN VOICES in Science
We congratulate Ritesh Mewalal , a PhD student in the FMG programme in FABI , whose essay was taken…
SASBi-SAGS 2014 at Kwalata Ranch
SASBi-SAGS 2014 at Kwalata Ranch The joint congress of the South African Society for Bioinformatics…