New faces

Last changed: 19 December 2022

These are the people that recently have arrived to the Department of Forest Mycology and Plant Pathology.

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Virginia Gonzales is our new PhD-student from Bolivia. She will work with the interaction between soil bacteria and quinoa for increased abiotic stress tolerance. Her supervisors in Sweden are Mukesh, Dan and Magnus. She is sharing office with Elisa, Kat and Miguel.

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Maria Morente is a PhD-student from the University of Salamanca in Spain and she will be here for three months (until December). She will work on bioinformatics analyses of ethylene-biosynthetic genes in Trichoderma species, together with Edoardo, Mukesh and Magnus. She is sitting in the same room as Eula, Sidhant and Louis.

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George Sofianos is a guest PhD student, coming from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. He will work with Edoardo, Mukesh, Vahideh, Magnus and Georgios, studying interactions between Botrytis cinerea and Clonostachys rosea and analyzing RNA-sequence data as well. He sits in the library.

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Johannes Wiesenberg is a forestry student from Erfurt, he is making a research internship and BSc thesis with Matilda and Malin.