New faces at the Department

Eva Kubove is a new PhD student who will be working on a project that aims to disentangle the roles of ectomycorrhizal and ericoid mycorrhizal fungi for tree seedling performance and for longer-term and larger-scale soil organic matter storage in boreal forest. A special aim will be to assess the importance of common mycelial networks between seedlings and trees. Eva will be working with Karina, Carles and Björn Lindahl as supervisors

Sajna Sunildas Mambarambath is a Master student in Infection Biology at Uppsala University, has joined the Agriculture Plant Pathology group for her master thesis work (45 Credits). She will investigate the role of RNA silencing, with a focus on the role of argonaut proteins, in fungal interaction relevant to biocontrol. Sajna will stay with us until the end of June.

Olof Westergren is a Master's student in Agronomy who has started his Master's thesis with Georgios Tzelepis. He will investigate the tolerance of variable commercial oilseed rape varieties to Verticillium longisporum.

Isaak Iliopoulos, a master student at SLU, has joined the Agriculture Plant pathology group at the beginning of November for a 10-week research training project. He will investigate the role of CFEM effector proteins in fungal biocontrol.

Vilda Lindberg has recently joined the forest microbiology team as an industry PhD student with Holmen Skog AB as part of S-fak’s new doctoral school WIFORCE (Wallenberg Initiatives in Forest Research). At our department Vilda is supervised by Judith, Marisol and Petra. She will investigate how ectomycorrhizal fungi in the Suillus genus can alleviate drought stress in pine seedlings. 

Cristiana Correira is a new post-doc in Magnus Karlsson's group. She will work with microbial communities and biological control of tomato diseases, in a project together with colleagues in South Africa, Kenya and Tanzania. She will work together with Magnus, Vahideh and Mukesh. She shares office with David Manyara.