Tasks

• Use of nematodes as indicators to assess modern agricultural production systems
• Development of sustainable strategies for plant-parasitic nematode control with focus on crop rotations, antagonistic microbes and (induced) plant resistance
• Morphological and molecular diagnostics of plant-parasitic and free-living nematodes
• Biology and epidemiology of significant plant-parasitic nematodes
• Studies on ecosystem services provided by free-living nematodes
• professional assistance and advisory support in national and international committees
• Curator of the German nematode collection (literature, permanent slides, living collection)