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Enjoy the challenges and aspire to conquer them, but never let them drown you

Posted on March 08, 2021

Feature a scientist in Natural and Agricultural Sciences: Prof Lucy Moleleki - Associate Professor in Microbiology in the Department of Biochemistry, Genetics and Microbiology

Plant pathologists are excellent problem solvers

Posted on February 02, 2021

Plant pathologists are excellent problem solvers Scarce skills in Natural and Agricultural Sciences Focus on a plant pathologist: Dr Mahlane Godfrey Kgatle (Department of Plant and Soil Sciences) Postdoctoral fellow, FABI

Big year for forestry at UP

Posted on December 09, 2020

Not only did the Forestry Programme at the University of Pretoria (UP) celebrate ten years in 2020, but Prof Paxie Chirwa, the incumbent of the South African Forestry Companies Limited (SAFCOL) Forestry Chair, co-edited a book on the Miombo Woodlands.

Prof Bernard Slippers appointed as Director of FABI

Posted on November 17, 2017

Prof Bernard Slippers has officially been appointed as Professor and Director of the Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI) in the Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences at the University of Pretoria from 1 January 2018.

Prof Mike Wingfield receives Chinese Government Friendship Award

Posted on October 13, 2017

Prof Mike Wingfield, Director of the Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI) in the Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences and President of the International Union of Forest Research Organizations, recently received the Chinese Government Friendship Award for 2017.

Two more international accolades for Prof Brenda Wingfield

Posted on August 02, 2017

Prof Brenda Wingfield, holder of the SARChI Chair in Fungal Genomics in the Department of Genetics at the University of Pretoria, was recently honoured with two prestigious international awards.

Five NAS researchers elected as AAS Fellows

Posted on April 03, 2017

Five researchers from the Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences have been elected as Fellows of the African Academy of Sciences (AAS).

UP researchers unravel gene networks driving wood formation in trees

Posted on January 26, 2017

A team of researchers in the Department of Genetics at the University of Pretoria together with collaborators in Belgium, Canada and the USA, are reporting one of the first large-scale, integrated analyses of 10 000s of genes profiled in the developing wood of plantation trees.