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  • 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.

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