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

0602486 Rao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研究中心，通过访问研究中心来发展研究合作，开始发展国际草-真菌-苍蝇社区，并探索研究中心之间学生交流的机会。 规划访问的研究重点将是Epichelium属的真菌病原体、Botanophila属的苍蝇以及易受Epichelium感染的本地和农艺草。 美国研究小组将拜访西班牙萨拉曼卡自然资源和农业生物学研究所的Inigo Zabalgogeazcoa博士、瑞士苏黎世联邦理工学院的Adrian Leuchtmann博士、荷兰生态研究所的Nicole货车Dam博士和Wim货车van der Putten博士，以及H.查尔斯·戈弗雷和迈克尔·克劳利在帝国理工学院，伦敦。 这些访问将有助于制定一个全球性的方法来了解真菌入侵对社区的影响。

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.