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Meet the team

Steering committee

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Prof Jeremy D. Allison

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Director

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Prof Bernard Slippers

 

Committee

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"Precision pest management for insects and microorganisms that affect plant health"

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Prof Almuth Hammerbacher

 

Committee

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"Chemical interactions between trees, insects and fungi"

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Prof Christian W. W. Pirk

 

Committee

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Prof Yusuf Abdullahi Ahmed

 

Committee

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"Behaviour and chemical ecology of eusocial insects, integrated pest, pollinator and vector management"

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Prof Brett P. Hurley

 

Committee

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"Forest entomology, pest management, biological control"

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Dr Elisa Pal

 

Secretary

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"Pest management, IPM, Pentatomidae, honey bees"

Participating researchers

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Prof Francois Roets

 

"Biology, ecology, systematics and conservation of multi-organism-interactions"

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Prof Robin Crewe

 

"Understanding of thelytoky in Cape honey bees, reviewing nature of nineteenth century bee keeping in the Cape colony"

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Prof Catherine Sole

 

"Invertebrate biosystematics, conservation, and southern African biogeography with a focus on dung beetles and lacewings"

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Prof Adrian Shrader

 

"Olfaction in mammals and how mammalian herbivores utilise olfactory cues while foraging"

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Dr Gerda Fourie

 

"Pest and pathogen identity, disease cycle, epidemiology, pest biology, integrated management options in macadamia"

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Postdocs and students

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Dr Quentin Guignard

 

Postdoc

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Johannes Christoff Joubert

 

PhD Student

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Luki-Marie Sheepers

 

PhD Student

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