专家：Keith Davies

工作单位：Module Leader Crop Protection，School of Life and Medical Sciences，University of Hertfordshire

Vision, Mission and Approach

Vision: Increasing global crop security through the control of plant pests and diseases.

   Mission: Understand the molecular mechanisms by which microorganisms initiate infections in parasitic nematodes through an understanding of innate immunity and exploit this knowledge to develop, integrated, environmentally benign, nematode management strategies.
Approach: I have over 30 years of experience in the field of interactions between microbes and parasitic nematodes both in the United Kingdom and overseas. Using insights gained from studying the interactions between nematodes, their hosts and microbial enemies, and by exploiting the new genomics data available in public databases, I am identifying the molecular susceptibilities of nematodes to reduce their damage to hosts and using this knowledge to develop novel and robust environmentally sustainable control strategies.

Session I：10月17日上午9：00-11：00

    a) Crop protection as environmental management: the context

    b) Introduction to nematodes

Session II：10月18日上午9：00-11：00

    c) Management of phytonematodes: the problems

    d) Management of phytonematodes: the solutions

Session III：10月19日上午9：00-11：00

    e) Biological control: principles and practice

    f) Biological control: Pasteuria

Session IV：10月20日上午9：00-11：00

    g) Model organisms: Caenorhabditis elegans, Bacillus and synthetic biology

    h) Integrated crop protection, environmental management and society

    地点：主楼西侧517，林学院会议室。

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