Martin Coetzee

Not to criticise colleagues, but when isolates (e.g. fungal) forms a polytomy with a reference strain, instead of a monophyletic group, it does not mean that they are the same species as the reference strain. Just a friendly reminder …

No way to escape global warming! #saspp2022 Prof Mark Liang is sharing shocking information regarding the climate crisis - it's real, it's here, and it is really really bad! #saspp2022

And now, "in front of a live studio audience" at #SASPP2022- Darryl Herron (@LTranslat3d) 🤩 How can we assess the risk of a pathogen if we don't have a standardized assay? It's difficult... So Darryl made one, nbd.. 🤯

If you can't get a keynote, deliver two talks back to back. @LandbouLisa presents two cool talks, back to back, on Sclerotinia sclerotiorum and its rising prevalence in SAs sunflower fields. #SASPP2022 @Fabiteam1 @FutureAfricaUP

Today was the first time in two years that I have given a lecture in-person at a conference. Thank you #SASPP2022 for the opportunity to share our story about hte fungi in the Botryosphaeriaceae that are associated with a native tree species in South Africa.

If there's something strange In your neighborhood Who you gonna call? #Mouldbusters ! Today @CobusVisagie2 and I were on a secret mission (🤐) on collecting some #indoorfungi! Stay tuned… But now you know who to call 😷😎

I signed the #weareoneocean petition calling on world leaders to protect and conserve the global ocean. Learn more and sign the petition today at weareoneocean.org

@Fabiteam1 is proud of Almuth Hammerbacher's publication hat-trick fabinet.up.ac.za/index.php/news… #fabinews @UPnasagric

@danielcroll @badet_thomas @NatureComms @UniNeuchatel Congratulations Daniel and team, FANTASTIC paper!

@DrAndiWilson No it is not you, struggled myself many times. Just keep on swimming!

Ready to pull my hair out. Surely uploading to TreeBase shouldn't be as difficult as I'm apparently making it????

@chasemayers Excellent and some humorous! 👏👏👏

Today for #FungiFriday, here are some miscellaneous fungus doodles. They're to add some character to paper bags we had the students pick up (no contact) to do some small lab activities at home. #FungusFriday

Our new interns in the SACTA/CPHB internship programme have a tour of our biocontrol facility. The programme will expose the interns to work and research in biocontrol, extension, diagnostics and resistance screening to grow capacity for South Africa #nextgeneration @CTHB_Tree

@kasson_wvu @FungaLoyd @forestmycology Stunning photo!

Finally our review paper is online: Fungal genomes enhance our understanding of the pathogens affecting trees cultivated in Southern Hemisphere plantations tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.298…

@danielcroll Todays session was EXCELLENT. Thank you so much for organising the meeting. My head is spinning from all the info. I am just really sorry to miss tomorrow’s session.

Me checking my MCMC runs

How can you not like fungi?!

Our most recent publication on Basidiomycota in South Africa: Poroid Hymenochaetaceae associated with trees showing wood-rot symptoms in the Garden Route National Park of South Africa tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

#FridayHumour Final.doc FinalFinal.doc RealFinal.doc and so on.....

Students @matt_jackson_sa and Phophi Nethonondo making the most of their field trip | African Maize Stalk Borer Field Collections - and some nice #proudlysouthafrican music too - Enjoy youtu.be/R6k_goL2yLk @Fabiteam1 @UPTuks