On Wednesday 22nd of January 2020 at 09.00 in the room III (building B) a lecture and seminar by Prof. David B. Collinge (University of Copenhagen) will be presented:
“Endophyte communities in bread wheat (Triticum aestivum) as a source for potential biological control agents”.
Endophytes are microorganisms that colonise plant tissues without causing any visible symptoms. They have been associated with increased stress tolerance, enhanced growth and nutrition, and disease resistance. They can therefore represent a new source of biocontrol agents (Collinge et al. 2019). He will present analysis of the fungal communities in field studies and progress in developing potential biocontrol agents of fungi and studies into the mode of action.
We would like to invite all to participate in this lecture.
Prof. David B. Collinge is a leading expert in molecular plant pathology, specialising in plant interactions with pathogens and biological control agents at the Faculty of Science (University of Copenhagen). He has published approx. 100 peer reviewed papers (H index 38). Prof. D.B. Collinge is currently coordinator for approx. 40 PhD students and since 1991 regularly organised and taught on international (NOVA) and national PhD courses in plant pathology and biotech. He has supervised 31 PhDs of 9 nationalities and examined 40 PhD theses at 12 universities in 7 countries and is assoc. editor for two journals. He was coordinator of Marie S. Curie Horizon 2020 ETN “BestPass” (2015-2019) and played an important role in the project Marie S. Curie ETN “CerealPath”.