Basic and applied aspects of plant-bacteria interactions.

Environmental Microbiology, Recycling Municipal and Agricultural Waste, Degradation of lignocellulose.

Microbial interactions in the rhizosphere, Biological control of plant pathogens, Mechanisms of bacterial stress responses.

Predatory bacteria, Bacteria-tephritid fruit flies symbioses, Molecular profiling of soil microbial populations.

Molecular mechanisms of fungal growth and development, cell wall biosynthesis, regulation of hyphal elongation and branching.

Plant microbiome gene function and inter-bacterial warfare.

Glucosinolate accumulation, Biological control of Botrytis cinerea.

Microbial community ecology and evolution.

Drug resistance in fungi, Genome instability and chromosome biology in fungal plant pathogens.

Using systems biology to study ecology and evolution of microbes.