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New faces at the Department
Last changed: 01 June 2023
These are the people that recently have arrived to the Department of Forest Mycology and Plant Pathology.
Emil Bengtsson is a new industry PhD student at the department. He will work together with Audrius, Åke and Malin. His project is on emerging diseases in forest nurseries. The project is jointly financed by the SLU Forest Damage Centre and the Swedish plant producers association.
Alma Gustavsson Ruus is a new PhD student at the department. She is going to work together with Åke and Audrius on a project called Plants for Planting. This is a project within the SLU Forest Damage Centre and in collaboration with the company Stora Enso. The project deals with fungal effects on seedling health status during production, storage, transportation and planting.
Anton Govednik is a doctoral student from the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, and will be working with Sara and Chris in May and June. He will be performing soil microbial activity assays in the lab, as well as working with bioinformatic analyses of metagenomes, 16S and ITS data.
Binhong is a new postdoctoral fellow in the epidemiology group. He will be working on a project to understand the evolutionary consequences (fitness, pathogenicity and other functional traits) and mechanisms of fungicide resistance to the wheat pathogen Z. tritici using population genomic approaches. He will be with the department for two years and currently sits in D346.
Oliver Moore is the new postdoc in the Soil Microbiology group. He is from the UK and did his PhD at the University of Manchester. He will work together with Aurélien and Sara and look into the ecology of microorganisms involved Dissimilatory Nitrate Reduction to Ammonium (DNRA). The experimental work will be based on microcosm and greenhouse experiments. Oliver shares office with Mukesh in the A corridor.