The Team
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- Michelle.Cleary@slu.se
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Michelle Cleary
Senior Lecturer in Forest Pathology
Associate Professor (Docent)
Vice Director of the Centre of Excellence Trees For Me
Expertise and Research Area:
- Biology, ecology, epidemiology and control of forest diseases;
- Â Mycobiome;
- Invasive species;
- Resistance biology of treesÂ
- Advanced tools for detection and monitoring forest pathogens
- Ash Dieback, root rot, foliar and stem diseases
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- Jonas.Ronnberg@slu.se
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Jonas Rönnberg
Director of SLU Forest Damage Centre (fungi, bacteria and viruses)Forest Damage Centre
Associate Professor (Docent)
Head, Secretariat of SNS (Nordic Forest Research)
Expertise and Research Area:
- Root rot; forest damage
- Biological control and silvicultural management of forest diseases
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- patrick.sherwood@slu.se
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Patrick Sherwood
Associate Senior Lecturer in Forest Pathology
Expertise and Research Area:
- Diplodia shoot and tip blight on pine;
- Biochemical mechanisms of resistance and pathogenicity;
- New methods and tools for pathogen detection and disease diagnostics;
- Rapid phenotyping methods for resistance screening.
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- Iryna.Matsiakh@slu.se
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Iryna Matsiakh
Researcher
Analyst for SLU Forest Damage Centre (fungi, bacteria and viruses)
Expertise and Research Area:
- Conifer needle diseases in nurseries and forests
- Phytophthora pathogens
- Invasive tree pathogens in urban and forest landscapes
- Rapid, portable detection using LAMPÂ
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- ida.nordstrom@slu.se
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Ida Nordström
Technologies for early detection and monitoring of new and emerging forest pathogens; VOCs, NGS, MinION nanopore sequencing
Post Docs
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- dusan.sadikovic@slu.se
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Expertise and Research Area:
- Pine needle diseases
- Forest mycology
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- donnie.peterson@slu.se
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Donnie Peterson
PhD, MCSA Fellow
Expertise and Research Area:
- Emerald ash borer and other invasive Buprestids on broadleaves
- eDNA technology for detection and monitoring of terrestrial populations
PhD Students
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- sezer.olivia.kaya@slu.se
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Sezer Kaya
Pests and diseases associated with birch, poplar, aspen and hybrid aspen
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- kinga.stolarek@slu.se
Kinga Stolarek
Tree seeds fungi Nursery diseases of birch
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- mimmi.blomquist@slu.se
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Mimmi Blomquist
Heterobasidion root rot and practical silvicultural management
Laboratory Personell
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- maja.brus@slu.se
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Maja Brus-Szkalej
Lab Manager
Plant Protection Biology
