With our work and impact growing rapidly from 2023, SUBG established an external Advisory Committee in late 2024 to ensure we stay on task as efficiently and effectively as possible. Our committee represents our most active academic partners within Stellenbosch University, and key external partners: Prof. Brockington as head of our partner garden Cambridge University Botanical Garden can provide key insights into everything from strategic work focus to funding mechanisms, while Domitilla Raimondo currently represents our key partnership with the South African and global Threatened Plant assessment and recovery programmes. We meet at least every three months to review progress, direction and strategy.
| Professor Sam Brockington
| Curator, Cambridge University Botanical Garden &
Associate Professor, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge
| CUBG link: Prof. Sam Brockington
https://www.botanic.cam.ac.uk/the-garden/botanic-garden-staff-def/dr-sam-brockington/
Cambridge University Department of Plant Sciences link
https://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/directory/samuel-brockington
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| Domitilla Raimondo
| Programme Manager Threatened Species Unit, South African National Biodiversity Institute.
IUCN SSC Plant Conservation Committee
| Head of South Africa's National Red Listing programme.
Founder of the Custodians of Rare and Endangered Wildflowers (CREW) citizen science threatened plant monitoring programme.
Co-chair of the global IUCN Species Survival Committee (SSC) Plant Conservation Committee.
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| Prof. Nox Makunga
| Professor, Department of Botany and Zoology, Stellenbosch University
| Expertise and research interests: Medicinal Plant Biology and metabolomics; tissue culture and biotechnology
https://www.sun.ac.za/english/faculty/science/botany-zoology/staff/academic-staff/nox-makunga
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| Dr. Paul Hills
| Senior Lecturer, Institute for Plant Biotechnology (IPBB), Department of Genetics, Stellenbosch University
| Expertise and research interests: tissue culture, growth and germination promotors; in-vitro culture; biotechnology.
https://genetics.sun.ac.za/staff/
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| Prof. Leanne Dreyer
| Professor,
| Plant taxonomy, systematics, plant biology; Oxalis specialist & owner of the SUBG Oxalis living collection; systematics of Pelargonium & Fabaceae.
https://researcherprofiles.sun.ac.za/1068-leanne-dreyer
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| Chairs:
Dr Donovan Kirkwood
Annerie Senekal
| Senior Curator, Stellenbosch University Botanical Garden
Asst. Curator, SUBG
| Curation and strategic leads for Stellenbosch University Botanical Garden.
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