{{good article}} {{Short description|South African professor of forestry}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2023}}{{Use British English|date=August 2023}} {{Infobox scientist | name = | native_name = | native_name_lang = | birth_name = Michael John Wingfield | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1954|4|21|df=yes}} | birth_place = Durban, Natal, South Africa | citizenship = <!-- use only when necessary per WP:INFONAT --> | fields = {{Hlist|Forest protection|mycology|entomology|biotechnology}} | workplaces = {{ubl|FABI, University of Pretoria|IUFRO|Stellenbosch University|University of the Free State}} | alma_mater = | thesis_title = Ecology of the pine wood nematode, Bursaphelenchus xylophilus in the north-central United States | thesis_url = https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=2166900107270535970&hl=en&oi=scholarr | thesis_year = 1983 | education = {{ubl|University of Natal (BSC)|Stellenbosch University (MSc)|University of Minnesota (PhD)|Harvard Business School (AMP)}} | honorific_suffix = FAAS FRSSAf | honorific_prefix = Professor | spouse = Brenda Wingfield | doctoral_student = | known_for = | awards = {{ubli|Christiaan Hendrik Persoon Medal (1999)|Chancellor's Medal Award, University of Pretoria (2008)|Johanna Westerdijk Award (2012)|Kwame Nkrumah Award (2013)|Distinguished Leadership Award, University of Minnesota (2016)|John F.W. Herschel Medal (2017)|Friendship Award (China) (2017)|NSTF-South32 Award (2020)|Harry Oppenheimer Fellowship Award (2022)}} }}
'''Michael John Wingfield''' (born 21 April 1954) is a South African academic and scientist who studies plant pathology and biological control. He was the founding director of the Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute, University of Pretoria. Wingfield has authored or co-authored over 1,000 scientific publications and is considered a leading expert in the field of forest health and invasive species. He has received numerous awards and honours throughout his career, including Harry Oppenheimer Fellowship Award and John Herschel Medal, the highest accolade from the Royal Society of South Africa. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of South Africa and the African Academy of Sciences. Wingfield has had several fungi named after him.
== Life and career ==
=== Early life and education ===
Michael "Mike" John Wingfield<ref name=":4">{{Cite thesis |title=Some forest tree diseases in South Africa |url=https://scholar.sun.ac.za/handle/10019.1/68119 |publisher=Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University |date=1979 |language=en-ZA |first=M. J. (Michael John) |last=Wingfield |access-date=26 December 2022 |archive-date=26 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221226160239/https://scholar.sun.ac.za/handle/10019.1/68119 |url-status=dead }}</ref> was born on 21 April 1954 in Durban, South Africa.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Wingfield, Michael John (1954-....) |url=https://www.idref.fr/116589000 |website=Id Ref |access-date=26 December 2022 |archive-date=26 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221226130626/https://www.idref.fr/116589000 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=michael j. wingfield {{!}} fabi |url=https://www.fabinet.up.ac.za/people/1022/short_cv.pdf?636373ac293d6 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221226160232/https://www.google.com/interstitial?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.fabinet.up.ac.za%2Fpeople%2F1022%2Fshort_cv.pdf%3F5b0d73b43a7ec |archive-date=26 December 2022 |access-date=26 December 2022 |website=FABI}}</ref> He earned a Bachelor of Science in Botany from the University of Natal in 1976,<ref name=":5">{{Cite web |title=Michael J. Wingfield |url=https://www.apsnet.org/members/give-awards/awards/Fellows/Pages/MichaelJWingfield.aspx |access-date=26 December 2022 |website=Michael J. Wingfield |language=en-US |archive-date=26 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221226155905/https://www.apsnet.org/members/give-awards/awards/Fellows/Pages/MichaelJWingfield.aspx |url-status=live }}</ref> before completing a Master of Science in plant pathology while working for the Plant Protection Research Institute of Stellenbosch University, in 1979, graduating with distinction.<ref name=":4" /><ref name=":5" /> He earned his doctorate in entomology and plant pathology from the University of Minnesota in 1983.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Google Scholar |url=https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=2166900107270535970&hl=en&oi=scholarr |access-date=26 December 2022 |website=scholar.google.com |archive-date=26 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221226160234/https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=2166900107270535970&hl=en&oi=scholarr |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=":5" /> Wingfield also graduated from the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School in Boston, Massachusetts, in 2008.<ref name=":5" />
=== Career ===
While working at the Plant Protection Research Institute of Stellenbosch University, Wingfield started the country's first forest pathology research programme in 1978. After earning his PhD, he continued the program's expansion. In 1990, Wingfield was promoted to professor in the Department of Microbiology and Biochemistry at the University of the Free State after relocating there in 1988. Wingfield was named the Mondi Paper Co. Ltd. Chair in forest pathology in 1994.<ref name=":5" /> Wingfield was the founding director of the Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI), University of Pretoria, in until 2017.<ref name=":0" /> FABI was founded in 1998 due to Wingfield's work in 1990 to create the Tree Protection Co-operative Programme.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=Michael Wingfield {{!}} World Forestry Congress {{!}} Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations |url=https://www.fao.org/about/meetings/world-forestry-congress-xiv/speakers/michael-wingfield/en/ |access-date=26 December 2022 |website=www.fao.org |archive-date=26 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221226160237/https://www.fao.org/about/meetings/world-forestry-congress-xiv/speakers/michael-wingfield/en/ |url-status=live }}</ref> He continued as a professor at FABI and an advisor to the Executive Board of the University of Pretoria.<ref name=":0" /> Wingfield was the director of the Centre of Excellence in Tree Health Biotechnology, National Research Foundation, and the President of the International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO) between 2014 and 2019.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" /> His collaboration with Chinese academics led to the formation of the CERC/FABI Tree Protection Programme (CFTPP),<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |date=13 October 2017 |title=Prof Mike Wingfield receives Chinese Government Friendship Award {{!}} the University of Pretoria |url=https://www.up.ac.za/fabi/news/post_2578540-prof-mike-wingfield-receives-chinese-government-friendship-award |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221226153403/https://www.up.ac.za/fabi/news/post_2578540-prof-mike-wingfield-receives-chinese-government-friendship-award |archive-date=26 December 2022 |access-date=26 December 2022 |website=www.up.ac.za |language=en}}</ref> a joint venture between the FABI and the China Eucalyptus Research Centre (CERC), in 2015.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Memorandum of Understanding established between FABI and CERC |url=https://www.fabinet.up.ac.za/index.php/news-item?id=307 |access-date=10 August 2023 |website=FABI |language=en-gb}}</ref> CFTPP was renamed to RIFT-FABI Tree Protection Programme (RFTPP).<ref>{{Cite web |title=RIFT-FABI Tree Protection Programme |url=https://www.fabinet.up.ac.za/index.php/research-groups/cerc-fabi-tree-protection-programme |access-date=10 August 2023 |website=FABI}}</ref>
=== Personal life ===
Wingfield is married to Brenda D. Fairbairn,<ref name=":3" /> one of his main collaborators,<ref name=":5" /> a professor of genetics and previous Deputy Dean at the University of Pretoria, and an Associate Fellow of the African Academy of Sciences since 2016.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Wingfield Brenda D. {{!}} The AAS |url=https://www.aasciences.africa/fellow/wingfield-brenda-d |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221226130623/https://www.aasciences.africa/fellow/wingfield-brenda-d |archive-date=26 December 2022 |access-date=26 December 2022 |website=www.aasciences.africa}}</ref>
== Research ==
Wingfield's research focuses on forest protection<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Schoch |first1=Conrad L. |last2=Sung |first2=Gi-Ho |last3=López-Giráldez |first3=Francesc |last4=Townsend |first4=Jeffrey P. |last5=Miadlikowska |first5=Jolanta |last6=Hofstetter |first6=Valérie |last7=Robbertse |first7=Barbara |last8=Matheny |first8=P. Brandon |last9=Kauff |first9=Frank |last10=Wang |first10=Zheng |last11=Gueidan |first11=Cécile |last12=Andrie |first12=Rachael M. |last13=Trippe |first13=Kristin |last14=Ciufetti |first14=Linda M. |last15=Wynns |first15=Anja |display-authors=1 |date=1 April 2009 |title=The Ascomycota Tree of Life: A Phylum-wide Phylogeny Clarifies the Origin and Evolution of Fundamental Reproductive and Ecological Traits |journal=Systematic Biology |volume=58 |issue=2 |pages=224–239 |doi=10.1093/sysbio/syp020 |pmid=20525580 |doi-access=free |last16=Fraker |first16=Emily |last17=Hodkinson |first17=Brendan P. |last18=Bonito |first18=Gregory |last19=Groenewald |first19=Johannes Z. |last20=Arzanlou |first20=Mahdi |last21=Sybren De Hoog |first21=G. |last22=Crous |first22=Pedro W. |last23=Hewitt |first23=David |last24=Pfister |first24=Donald H. |last25=Peterson |first25=Kristin |last26=Gryzenhout |first26=Marieka |last27=Wingfield |first27=Michael J. |last28=Aptroot |first28=André |last29=Suh |first29=Sung-Oui |last30=Blackwell |first30=Meredith}}</ref> and health,<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Keane |first1=P. J. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PENpGhQ1qmgC&dq=%22Mike+Wingfield%22+-wikipedia&pg=PR22 |title=Diseases and Pathogens of Eucalypts |last2=Kile |first2=G. A. |last3=Podger |first3=F. D. |last4=Brown |first4=B. N. |date=25 October 2000 |publisher=Csiro Publishing |isbn=978-0-643-09884-8 |language=en |access-date=26 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230325224040/https://books.google.com/books?id=PENpGhQ1qmgC&dq=%22Mike+Wingfield%22+-wikipedia&pg=PR22 |archive-date=25 March 2023 |url-status=live}}</ref> mycology,<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Schoch |first1=Conrad L. |last2=Seifert |first2=Keith A. |last3=Huhndorf |first3=Sabine |last4=Robert |first4=Vincent |last5=Spouge |first5=John L. |last6=Levesque |first6=C. André |last7=Chen |first7=Wen |last10=Bolchacova |first10=Elena |last11=Voigt |first11=Kerstin |last12=Crous |first12=Pedro W. |last13=Miller |first13=Andrew N. |last14=Wingfield |first14=Michael J. |last15=Aime |first15=M. Catherine |date=17 April 2012 |title=Nuclear ribosomal internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region as a universal DNA barcode marker for Fungi |journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences |language=en |volume=109 |issue=16 |pages=6241–6246 |doi=10.1073/pnas.1117018109 |issn=0027-8424 |pmc=3341068 |pmid=22454494 |doi-access=free}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Stielow |first1=J.B. |last2=Lévesque |first2=C.A. |last3=Seifert |first3=K.A. |last4=Meyer |first4=W. |last5=Irinyi |first5=L. |last6=Smits |first6=D. |last7=Renfurm |first7=R. |last8=Verkley |first8=G.J.M. |last9=Groenewald |first9=M. |last10=Chaduli |first10=D. |last11=Lomascolo |first11=A. |last12=Welti |first12=S. |last13=Lesage-Meessen |first13=L. |last14=Favel |first14=A. |last15=Al-Hatmi |first15=A.M.S. |date=23 December 2015 |title=One fungus, which genes? Development and assessment of universal primers for potential secondary fungal DNA barcodes |journal=Persoonia - Molecular Phylogeny and Evolution of Fungi |volume=35 |issue=1 |pages=242–263 |doi=10.3767/003158515X689135 |pmc=4713107 |pmid=26823635 }}</ref> entomology,<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Pyšek |first1=Petr |last2=Hulme |first2=Philip E. |last3=Simberloff |first3=Dan |last4=Bacher |first4=Sven |last5=Blackburn |first5=Tim M. |last6=Carlton |first6=James T. |last7=Dawson |first7=Wayne |last8=Essl |first8=Franz |last9=Foxcroft |first9=Llewellyn C. |last10=Genovesi |first10=Piero |last11=Jeschke |first11=Jonathan M. |last12=Kühn |first12=Ingolf |last13=Liebhold |first13=Andrew M. |last14=Mandrak |first14=Nicholas E. |last15=Meyerson |first15=Laura A. |date=1 December 2020 |title=Scientists' warning on invasive alien species |journal=Biological Reviews |language=en |volume=95 |issue=6 |pages=1511–1534 |doi=10.1111/brv.12627 |issn=1464-7931 |pmc=7687187 |pmid=32588508}}</ref> and biotechnology.<ref name=":7">{{Cite web |title=The Oppenheimer Memorial Trust {{!}} 2021 – Mike Wingfield |url=https://www.omt.org.za/the-harry-oppenheimer-fellowship-award/past-fellows/2021-prof-mike-wingfield/ |access-date=10 August 2023 |website=Oppenheimer Memorial Trust}}</ref><ref name=":8">{{Cite web |title=Professor Michael Wingfield – ACGT |url=https://acgt.co.za/our-contributors/professor-michael-wingfield/ |access-date=10 August 2023 |website=acgt.co.za}}</ref> He has worked on several projects and partnerships studying diseases that affect pine, eucalyptus, and other significant plants.<ref name=":7" /><ref name=":8" /><ref>{{Cite news |date=24 May 2004 |title=Baobab disease puzzles scientists |language=en-GB |url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3743011.stm |url-status=live |access-date=26 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221226160231/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3743011.stm |archive-date=26 December 2022}}</ref> He, along with his students and collaborators worked on various pathogens, including ''Ceratocystis'', ''Ophiostoma'', ''Mycosphaerella'', ''Fusarium'', ''Cryphonectria'', and ''Armillaria'' species.<ref name=":8" /><ref>{{Cite web |date=6 April 2020 |title=Michael John Wingfield |url=https://theconversation.com/profiles/michael-john-wingfield-1022206 |access-date=10 August 2023 |website=The Conversation |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Richardson |first=David M. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QMRzXLmaXGMC&dq=%22Mike+Wingfield%22+-wikipedia&pg=PR9 |title=Fifty Years of Invasion Ecology: The Legacy of Charles Elton |date=23 February 2011 |publisher=John Wiley & Sons |isbn=978-1-4443-3000-7 |language=en |access-date=26 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230325224033/https://books.google.com/books?id=QMRzXLmaXGMC&dq=%22Mike+Wingfield%22+-wikipedia&pg=PR9 |archive-date=25 March 2023 |url-status=live}}</ref> His team has used traditional and molecular approaches to classify and distinguish infections, define a novel, sometimes cryptic species, and determine evolutionary connections.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fmAIo8AYshQC&dq=%22Mike+Wingfield%22+-wikipedia&pg=PA67 |title=Pest Risk Assessment of the Importation Into the United States of Unprocessed Eucalyptus Logs and Chips from South America |date=2001 |publisher=U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Forest Products Laboratory |language=en |access-date=26 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230325224106/https://books.google.com/books?id=fmAIo8AYshQC&dq=%22Mike+Wingfield%22+-wikipedia&pg=PA67 |archive-date=25 March 2023 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last1=Wylie |first1=F. R. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_yEiqm-G1x4C&dq=%22Mike+Wingfield%22+-wikipedia&pg=PA278 |title=Insect Pests in Tropical Forestry |last2=Speight |first2=Martin R. |date=2012 |publisher=CABI |isbn=978-1-84593-636-5 |language=en |access-date=26 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230325224107/https://books.google.com/books?id=_yEiqm-G1x4C&dq=%22Mike+Wingfield%22+-wikipedia&pg=PA278 |archive-date=25 March 2023 |url-status=live}}</ref> Wingfield is an expert on plants' health with an h-index of 120 and more than 69,000 citations as of August 2023,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Mike Wingfield |url=https://scholar.google.co.za/citations?user=wT4V7isAAAAJ&hl=en |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221226160237/https://scholar.google.co.za/citations?user=wT4V7isAAAAJ&hl=en |archive-date=26 December 2022 |access-date=26 December 2022 |website=scholar.google.co.za}}</ref> over 700 research papers and seven books.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Michael Wingfield {{!}} World Forestry Congress {{!}} Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura |url=https://www.fao.org/about/meetings/world-forestry-congress-xives/speakers/michael-wingfield/es/ |access-date=10 August 2023 |website=FAO}}</ref> He has been featured in the Web of Science list of the world's most-cited researchers since 2018.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Two UP professors make Web of Science's Highly Cited Researchers list for 2018 {{!}} University of Pretoria |url=https://www.up.ac.za/news/post_2738554-two-up-professors-make-web-of-sciences-highly-cited-researchers-list-for-2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220714195620/https://www.up.ac.za/news/post_2738554-two-up-professors-make-web-of-sciences-highly-cited-researchers-list-for-2018 |archive-date=14 July 2022 |access-date=26 December 2022 |website=www.up.ac.za |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Two UP professors named on 2019 Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher list {{!}} University of Pretoria |url=https://www.up.ac.za/news/post_2865238-two-up-professors-named-on-2019-web-of-science-highly-cited-researcher-list- |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201021025030/https://www.up.ac.za/news/post_2865238-two-up-professors-named-on-2019-web-of-science-highly-cited-researcher-list- |archive-date=21 October 2020 |access-date=26 December 2022 |website=www.up.ac.za |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Highly Cited Researchers |url=https://publons.com/wos-op/awards/highly-cited/2020/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230325224100/https://recognition.webofscience.com/awards/highly-cited/2020/ |archive-date=25 March 2023 |access-date=26 December 2022 |website=publons.com}}</ref>
== Awards and honours ==
Wingfield is a member of the Academy of Science of South Africa.<ref name=":0" /> He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of South Africa in 1998,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Current Fellows – Royal Society of South Africa |url=https://www.royalsocietysa.org.za/index.php/current-fellows/ |access-date=26 December 2022 |language=en-GB |archive-date=26 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221226164359/https://www.royalsocietysa.org.za/index.php/current-fellows/ |url-status=live }}</ref> and a Fellow of the African Academy of Sciences in 2016.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Wingfield Mike {{!}} The AAS |url=https://www.aasciences.africa/fellow/wingfield-mike |access-date=26 December 2022 |website=www.aasciences.africa |archive-date=26 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221226130625/https://www.aasciences.africa/fellow/wingfield-mike |url-status=live }}</ref> For his contributions and collaboration in the field of forestry, Wingfield was awarded the Christiaan Hendrik Persoon Medal by the Southern African Society for Plant Pathology Society (SASPPS) in 1999,<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Christiaan Hendrik Persoon Medal – Southern African Society for Plant Pathology |url=https://saspp.co.za/awards/saspp-society-awards-and-honours/the-christiaan-hendrik-persoon-medal/ |access-date=26 December 2022 |website=saspp.co.za |archive-date=26 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221226130625/https://saspp.co.za/awards/saspp-society-awards-and-honours/the-christiaan-hendrik-persoon-medal/ |url-status=live }}</ref> the Johanna Westerdijk Award from the CBS-KNAW Fungal Biodiversity Centre, Netherlands in 2012,<ref name=":6">{{Cite web |title=Prestigious AU award for Prof Mike Wingfield |url=https://www.up.ac.za/news/post_1647272-prestigious-au-award-for-prof-mike-wingfield |access-date=26 December 2022 |website=www.up.ac.za |language=en |archive-date=21 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201021130702/https://www.up.ac.za/news/post_1647272-prestigious-au-award-for-prof-mike-wingfield |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Hawksworth |first1=David L. |last2=Wingfield |first2=Michael J. |last3=Crous |first3=Pedro W. |date=1 June 2012 |title=Awards and Personalia |journal=IMA Fungus |language=en |volume=3 |issue=1 |pages=A24–A28 |doi=10.1007/BF03449329 |issn=2210-6359|doi-access=free }}</ref> the African Union Kwame Nkrumah Award for Scientific Excellence in 2013,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Award Ceremony for the AU Kwame Nkrumah Scientific Awards |url=https://au.int/sw/node/29135 |access-date=26 December 2022 |website=au.int |archive-date=26 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221226160247/https://au.int/sw/node/29135 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Prestigious African Union Science Award for Prof Mike Wingfield |url=https://www.up.ac.za/news/post_1647012-prestigious-african-union-science-award-for-prof-mike-wingfield |access-date=26 December 2022 |website=www.up.ac.za |language=en |archive-date=22 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201022071122/https://www.up.ac.za/news/post_1647012-prestigious-african-union-science-award-for-prof-mike-wingfield |url-status=live }}</ref> the University of Minnesota's Distinguished Leadership Award in 2016,<ref>{{Cite web |title=2016 : Wingfield : Distinguished Leadership Award : Global Programs and Strategy Alliance : University of Minnesota |url=https://global.umn.edu/awards/dlai/16_wingfield.html |access-date=26 December 2022 |website=global.umn.edu |archive-date=26 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221226160244/https://global.umn.edu/awards/dlai/16_wingfield.html |url-status=live }}</ref> John Herschel Medal, the highest accolade from the Royal Society of South Africa, in 2017,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Prof Mike Wingfield to receive the John FW Herschel Medal {{!}} University of Pretoria |url=https://www.up.ac.za/news/post_2371798-prof-mike-wingfield-to-receive-the-john-fw-herschel-medal |access-date=26 December 2022 |website=www.up.ac.za |language=en |archive-date=22 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201022074135/https://www.up.ac.za/news/post_2371798-prof-mike-wingfield-to-receive-the-john-fw-herschel-medal |url-status=live }}</ref> the Chinese Government's Friendship Award in 2017,<ref name=":2" /> National Science and Technology Forum-South32's Special Annual Theme Award: Plant Health on 30 July 2020,<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Mokgehle |first=Salmina |date=26 November 2020 |title=NSTF-South32 award for Plant Health: Honouring excellence and celebrating Professor Mike Wingfield |url=https://sajs.co.za/article/view/9010 |journal=South African Journal of Science |volume=116 |issue=11/12 |doi=10.17159/sajs.2020/9010 |s2cid=229402481 |issn=1996-7489 |doi-access=free |access-date=26 December 2022 |archive-date=26 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221226160235/https://sajs.co.za/article/view/9010 |url-status=live }}</ref> and Harry Oppenheimer Fellowship Award in 2022.<ref name=":3">{{Cite web |last=Madiba |first=Dimpho |title=University of Pretoria's Prof Michael Wingfield wins prestigious Harry Oppenheimer Fellowship Award |url=https://www.engineeringnews.co.za/article/university-of-pretorias-prof-michael-wingfield-wins-prestigious-harry-oppenheimer-fellowship-award-2022-07-15 |access-date=26 December 2022 |website=www.engineeringnews.co.za |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=UP's Prof Michael Wingfield wins Harry Oppenheimer Fellowship Award |url=https://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/196/474/229621.html |access-date=26 December 2022 |website=Bizcommunity |language=en |archive-date=26 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221226160234/https://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/196/474/229621.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Wingfield received an honorary doctorate of science (DSc) from the University of British Columbia in 2012,<ref name=":6" /> and the North Carolina State University in 2013.<ref name=":3" /> Wingfield has several fungi named in his honour: ''Sterigmatomyces wingfieldii'' {{au|Van der Walt, Y.Yamada & N.P.Ferreira (1987)}};<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Van der Walt |first1=J. P. |last2=Yamada |first2=Y. |last3=Ferreira |first3=N. P. |last4=Richards |first4=P. D. |date=1987 |title=New basidiomycetous yeasts from southern Africa. II. 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{{botanist|M.J.Wingf.}}
== References == <references />
== External links ==
{{Scholia}} * [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0t0acgyyog&ab_channel=NationalScienceandTechnologyForum%28NSTF%29 ''A global perspective on tree health: Celebrating the United Nations 2020 International Year of Plant Health'']. Innagural lecture by Prof. Mike Wingfield on 29 June 2021 at the National Science and Technology Forum on YouTube.
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