Ghent University / Ghent-based staff
Prof. Dr. Thomas Been
Computers and Internet, Plant Parasitic Nematodes, Integrated Control, Chemical Control, Geographical information systems, Modeling, Nematoda, Decision support systems, Risk assessment, Spatial distribution, Computer software, Nematicides, Nematology, Programming. Population dynamics, yield estimation, (partial) resistance, sampling methods and control measures combined into Decision Support Methods
Prof. Dr. Ron de Goede
Ron is visiting professor at MSc in Nematology, Faculty of Sciences, Department of Biology, University Gent.
E-mail: ron.degoede@wur.nl
He is a soil ecologist and did his PhD on a thesis entitled ‘Terrestrial Nematodes in a changing environment’. In this work the application of nematodes as bioindicators was investigated. During these days he was involved in the development of the nematode Maturity Index and related issues, like e.g. cp triangles and soil food-web diagnostics.
At the Department of Soil Quality his research focuses on biomonitoring of soil quality, on soil biodiversity, and on nutrient dynamics in agricultural soils. This research includes studies on the ecology of nematodes, mainly free-living terrestrial species, and their use as bioindicators. However, also other soil fauna, like earthworms and enchytraeids, are included. Among others, he participates in the Dutch Soil Quality Monitoring Programme.
Prof. Dr. Dirk De Waele
Professor Faculty of Bioscience Engineering at K.U. Leuven
visiting lecturer at MSc in Nematology, Faculty of Science, department Biology, UGent
Research topics: Plant-parasitic nematodes associated with tropical crops, Musa nematology, Evaluation of crop germplasm for nematode resistance, Endomycorrhizae-nematode interactions, sustainable nematode management for resource-poor farmers, Culturing of plant-parasitic nematodes, Cryopreservation of nematodes
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Prof. Dr. Annemie Elsen
E-mail: annemie.elsen@biw.kuleuven.be
visiting lecturer at MSc in Nematology, Faculty of Science, department Biology, UGent
lecturer at K.U. Leuven
Dr. Annemie Elsen obtained her PhD on ‘Study of the interaction between arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and plant-parasitic nematodes in Musa spp.’ (2002) at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (K.U.Leuven). Currently, she is a FWO post-doctoral fellow at the Laboratory of Tropical Crop Improvement, Division Crop Bio-engineering, at K.U.Leuven.
She is heading the Tropical Nematology research unit. This unit is focussing on sustainable and affordable management strategies to control plant-parasitic nematodes in the tropics, with a special emphasis on small scale farming systems. Training and education in nematology of researchers in the tropics is an important objective.
Dr. Elsen is specialised in the bioprotection of plants through the application of endophytes. She is and has been involved in research projects in the tropics financed by Flemish, Belgian and multilateral donors.
Prof. Dr. John Jones
E-mail: John.Jones@hutton.ac.uk
John Jones is a research scientist based at James Hutton Institute in Scotland. John is also a Guest Professor at Ghent university. John teaches Plant Nematology at the University of Dundee and also contributes to the "molecular aspects of plant-nematode relationships" module that is part of the PINC and EUMAINE MSc courses. John has over 15 years experience in working with plant parasitic nematodes. His main research interests are in molecular analysis of host parasite interactions of Globodera pallida (potato cyst nematode). John also has an interest in genomics of G. pallida and horizontal gene transfer in nematodes.
Further details can be found at http://www.hutton.ac.uk/staff/john-jones
Prof. Dr. Gerrit Karssen
E-mail: g.karssen@minlnv.nl
Prof. Dr. Roland Perry
Scientist at Rothamsted Research, Department of Plant Pathology andMicrobiology, Harpenden,UK.
E-mail: roland.perry@bbsrc.ac.uk
Professor Perry obtained a BSc (honours) degree in Zoology and a PhD in Nematology,both from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, England. After a year's post-doctoral research in Newcastle, he moved to the Dept of Biology at the University of Keele,England and for three years undertook research on aspects of nematode physiology andlectured to undergraduate students on parasitology, with an emphasis on plant-parasiticnematology. Subsequently, he was appointed as a research scientist to Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, England. His research interests have centred primarily on plant-parasitic nematodes, especially focusing on nematode hatching, sensory perception,behaviour and survival physiology. His research attracted considerable support from funding agencies, providing grants for PhD and post-doctoral students and facilitating productive collaborative research projects. Professor Perry has supervised 16 PhD students and several of his past PhD and post-doctoral students are currently involved innematology research.
He co-edited The Physiology and Biochemistry of Free-living andPlant-parasitic Nematodes and co-edited the student textbook, Plant Nematology. He is author or co-author of over 40 book chapters and refereed reviews and over 110 refereedresearch papers. He is Editor-in-Chief of Nematology and Chief Editor of the Russian Journal of Nematology and series co-editor of Nematode Monographs and Perspectives. In2001, he was elected Fellow of the Society of Nematologists (USA)
in recognition of hisresearch achievements. He is a Visiting Professor at the University of Ghent, Belgium, where he lectures on nematode biology, and also gives regular lectures to MSc courses atImperial College, London and Reading University, and has presented invited researchseminars to several Universities and Research Institutes worldwide.
Prof. Dr. Cornelia Schomaker
Prof. Dr. Sergei Subbotin
Associate Nematologist
Plant Pest Diagnostic Center
California Department of Food and Agriculture
3294 Meadowview Road
Sacramento, CA 95832-1448
Tel: (916) 262-1115
Associate Scientist
Department of Nematology
UC-Riverside
Chief Editor of Russian Journal of Nematology
E-mail: sergei.subbotin@ucr.edu or ssubbotin@cdfa.ca.gov
Our current research project strives to reconstruct the phylogeny of tylenchid nematodes using morphological and molecular approaches. We generate ribosomal RNA and other gene sequence data of broad taxon sampling of tylenchids and related clades and reconstruct evolution of tylenchids using different phylogenetic methods. One of major objectives is to compare traditional perspectives on the evolution of morphological characters with indications from the molecular phylogenies. The merging of molecular and traditional data into an increasingly consistent phylogeny will lead to a natural classification for the order Tylenchida.
My other research interests are concerned with the molecular phylogeny and systematics of plant parasitic nematodes from the families Heteroderidae, Longidoridae, Hoplolaimidae, Anguinidae, Pratylenchidae, Criconematidae as well as entomopathogenic nematodes from the families of Allantonematidae, Steinernematidae, Heterorhabditidae. In addition we are examining co-evolution of nematodes with plant-hosts and bacteria and develop molecular diagnostic tools using PCR-RFLP, PCR with specific primers, Real-time PCR , macroarray.
Prof. Dr. Aldo Zullini
E-mail: aldo.zullini@unimib.it
Professor at the University of Milano (Department of Biotechnology and Bioscience, Italy)
He is an authority on taxonomy and ecology of freshwater nematodes.
