Call for two Postdoctoral researchers Diversity of Xylella fastidiosa..-UC Louvain, Belgium

The Earth & Life Institute, applied microbiology department, plant health lab at UC Louvain is offering two postdoctoral position in plant bacteriology to investigate the potential impact of Xylella fastidiosa present in understudied regions in the USA to forest and agricultural trees and shrubs, in the frame of a collaborative project funded by the European Food Safety Authority aiming at gathering a better understanding of the risk caused by X. fastidiosa in temperate climatic zones, with Rodrigo Almeida (University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA) and Boris Vinatzer (Virginia Tech, VA, USA). The candidates are expected to contribute to ground-breaking research in comparative genomics, microbial ecology and evolution, plant-microbe interactions, with direct impact on pest risk assessment.

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