Basic and applied aspects of plant-bacteria interactions

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.

Glucosinolate accumulation, Biological control of Botrytis cinerea

Plant microbiome gene function and inter-bacterial warfare

Evolution and synthetic biology of bacterial biofilms

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.