Mycology/Fungal Biology

• plant-fungal interactions
• plant microbiome
• non-pathogenic fungi living in plants
• endophytes

plant-microbe Interactions

plant-fungal symbiosis

Arbuscular Mycorrhizal symbiosis

signal transduction and endomembrane trafficking.

• biological and cultural control of disease in field, tree, and vegetable crops
• Phylogenetic analysis
• species concepts in fungi,
• secondary fungal metabolites
• environmental mycology
• biological and genetic aspects of Alternaria in relation to the development of allergenic rhinitis and asthma

• ecology and evolutionary biology of fungi
• evolutionary genomics of fungal secondary metabolism
• phylogenomics of zygomycete fungi
• systematics and population biology of ectomycorrhizae.

• mycology
• microbial genomics
• fungal symbiosis
• evolutionary biology