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Professor Peter Geerthsen
Professor Geerthsen is a quantitative geneticist and plant and animal breeder with a long and distinguished research career. Although officially retired, he has been appointed as a research associate to the Tree improvement research group and provides technical guidance and mentorship on projects as well as peer review on research outputs. |
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Dr Steve Verryn
Dr Steve Verryn is a quantitative geneticist specialising in tree breeding. He is the founder of Creation Breeding innovations and is a CSIR associate scientist. He obtained his MSc (Cum laude) in 1985 and his PhD in 1994 for his work on improving Best Linear Prediction, and is a NRF C1 rated scientist and author and co-author of over 40 publications and conference papers. |
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Marianne Hettasch
Marianne Hettasch has a MSc degree in Genetics and a diploma in datametrics. Her MSc dissertation focussed on the applicability of BLUP for the selection of clones in Eucalyptus hybrid populations. She specialises in quantitative genetics and has a keen interest in biotechnology and cytogenetics. She has experience in vegetable and tree breeding. |
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Karen Eatwell
Karen Eatwell has an MSc (Agric) genetics degree and a computer science diploma. She is currently busy with a PhD in quantitative genetics looking at instability or collinearity in Best Linear Unbiased Prediction using data from two generations of open pollinated E. grandis planted in a series of trials.
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Nuveshen Naidoo
Nuveshen Naidoo has a BSc (Hons) in genetics and is presently working on his MSc that involves rooting in a new eucalypt hybrid. |
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Vuyisile Hobololo
Vuyisile has an MSc in Entomology and is currently completing a LLB. He is the Tree Improvement group's Commercialisation Representative.
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Brian Pierce
Brian Pierce is a research forester, involved mainly with general tree improvement of both pines and eucalypts, including the cold-tolerant eucalypt breeding programme, tropical eucalypts and hybrids, site-species matching and commercial and rural afforestation in southern Africa. Key areas of expertise include applied forest tree breeding, Eucalyptus species and hybrids. |
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Christopher Komakech
Prior to joining the CSIR, Chris Komakech spent a year with Sappi Research breeding pine and Cold Tolerant Eucalypts (CTEs). He joined ICFR in 1999 as a tree breeding technician mainly dealing with cold-tolerant eucalypts.
He also has experience with sub-tropical Eucalypts when employed by MondiBP before joining CSIR Tree Improvement programme based in Nelspruit. |
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Jantjie Nolonolo
Jantjie is a technical assistant with experience in pine and eucalypt breeding activities including trial assessment, planting and control pollinations. |
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Joseph Nyundu
Joseph Nyundu is a technical assistant with experience in pine and eucalypt breeding activities including trial assessment, planting and control pollinations. |
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Amith Sivlal
Amith Sivlal has a BSc (Hons) degree in seed biology and cellular biology (plant sciences). He has a keen interest in forestry and reproductive biology. |
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Derek Hohls
Derek Hohls has a wide range of experience in designing, developing and implementing information systems for environmental and natural resources management. He is currently working on the development of web-based platforms; the group's TreeBase system is his major focus. He is co-employed by the Meraka Institute in the emerging field of Sensor Web enablement.
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