Visiting scientists 
Lo Persson (Lund University, Lund, Sweden)
Olle Heby (Umea and Lund Universities, Sweden)
Eric Marechal (CNRS, Grenoble, France)
Fabrice Rebeille (CNRS, Grenoble, France)
Carsten Wrenger (Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany)
Paul Sims (University of Manchester Institute for Science and Technology, UK)
John Hyde (University of Manchester Institute for Science and Technology, UK)
Yongyuth Yuthavong National Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Thailand
Richard Haynes (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and North West University)
Kiaran Kirk (Australian National University, Australia)
Manuel Llinás (Princeton University, USA)

Exchange students 
Amy Clark (Glasgow University, Glasgow, Scotland; Aug – Dec 2007)
Julia Knoeckel (Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine; Aug – Oct 2008)
Janina Sprenger (Lund University, Lund, Sweden; Sept 2009, Aug 2010)
Ingrid Muller  (Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany)
Oriana Kreutzveld (University of Wurzburg, Germany; Aug 2012)
Lizette Grobler (North-west University)
Liezl Ebersohn (Department of Botany, University of Pretoria)
Taryn Lee Venter (Department of Pharmacology, University of Pretoria)