Tasks

• Morphological and molecular assessment of nematode community structure in replant diseased soil
• Ecological assessment of nematodes as bioindicators for soil health / quality
• Interaction of nematodes and microbes affecting replant disease
• Identification of plant-parasitic nematodes by an integrative approach
• Bioinformatic and biometric analysis of DNA sequence data from High-Throughput-Amplicon-Sequencing
• Working at project “BonaRes-ORDIAmur-P12: Nematodes contributing to apple replant disease (ARD) and as indicators of soil quality”
  (JKI-supervisor: Dr. Heuer)
  BonaRes is the abbreviation for “Soil as a sustainable resource for the bioeconomy”. It is a funding programme of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) under the umbrella of the National Research Strategy BioEconomy 2030.