New faces at the Department

Fayez Altabbaa has joined Magnus Karlsson's group to do his research practice during the coming months, until the end of October. He will work on different projects together with Vahideh, Mukesh and others.

Jomal Rodrigues is a guest PhD student from Brazil, Federal University of Goiás, where he is working with genomic analyses of Trichoderma. He will be here for six months, focusing on evolution of alternative splicing in Trichoderma, mainly working together with Magnus and Mikael. He sits in room D-344 together with Sara and Marisel.

Evagelia Daskalaki joined us on 4 April for a ten-week course in ''Practical Research Training''. She will study the role of a novel effector protein in Magnaporthe oryzae.

Eliverta Hotaj recently finished her MSc at the University of Pisa, and is here for an internship working together with Magnus, Mukesh and Vahideh. Her work involves isolation, identification and characterization of maize ear rot pathogens including Fusarium and Aspergillus.

Francesca Sasso is here to do her MSc-thesis project together with Mukesh and Magnus. She will focus on functional characterization of a transcription factor in the biocontrol fungus Clonostachys rosea, by creating gene deletion mutants and screening for phenotypic effects on biocontrol and plant growth promotion.