U.S.-Europe Planning Visit: Multinational Research on an Invasive Pathogen in a Community Context

这个为期12个月的奖项将允许一个由PI领导的五人团队访问四个欧洲地点，通过访问研究地点来开展研究合作，开始发展一个国际草菌苍蝇社区，并探索研究地点之间的学生交流机会。计划访问的研究重点将是表观属的真菌病原体、嗜植物性苍蝇属的苍蝇，以及易受表观属感染的本地和农艺牧草。美国代表团将访问西班牙萨拉曼卡自然与农业生物研究所的Inigo Zabalgogeazcoa博士、瑞士苏黎世理工学院的禤浩焯博士、荷兰生态研究所的Nicole van Dam博士和Wim van der Putten博士以及伦敦帝国学院的H.Charles Godfray博士和Michael J.Crawley博士。这些访问将有助于制定一种全球方法，在社区范围内了解真菌入侵的影响。

0602486RaoThis twelve-month award will allow a five-person team, headed by the PI, to visit four European sites to develop research collaborations by visiting research sites, to begin developing an international grass-fungus-fly community, and explore opportunities for student exchanges among the research sites. The research focus of the planning visits will be fungal pathogens in the genus Epichloe, flies in the genus Botanophila, and native and agronomic grasses that are susceptible to Epichloe infections. The US team will visit Dr. Inigo Zabalgogeazcoa at the Instituto de Recursos Naturales y Agrobiologia in Salamanca, Spain; Dr. Adrian Leuchtmann at ETH-Zurich in Switzerland; Drs. Nicole van Dam and Wim van der Putten at The Netherlands Institute of Ecology, and Dr. H. Charles Godfray and Michael J. Crawley at Imperial College, London. These visits will contribute to the development of a global approach to understanding the impact of a fungal invasion within a community context.