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Quotes from UP's Prof Michael Wingfield wins Harry Oppenheimer Fellowship Award — Mike Wingfield

born 1954 South Africa

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I hope to at least explore those opportunities and to get this process started.

UP's Prof Michael Wingfield wins Harry Oppenheimer Fellowship Award (2022)

This is mostly because we have a powerful plant pathology community and that most plant diseases are caused by fungi.

UP's Prof Michael Wingfield wins Harry Oppenheimer Fellowship Award (2022)

We need to know a lot more about the world around us in terms of microbes – where they are in the natural environment and what threats they pose to us.

UP's Prof Michael Wingfield wins Harry Oppenheimer Fellowship Award (2022)

This, we need to know more about – where are they? What are the long-term threats? Knowing such things prepares us for a more secure future.

UP's Prof Michael Wingfield wins Harry Oppenheimer Fellowship Award (2022)

This award has come to me in the latter part of my career. Maybe that is mostly the case for awards of this type that have huge prestige and likely would not go to early-career scientists.

UP's Prof Michael Wingfield wins Harry Oppenheimer Fellowship Award (2022)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Mike Wingfield (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.