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3️⃣ PhD (Field Ecology & Plant Health in Diverse Communities) 🪴 🌾
Investigating ecological patterns of plant–pathogen interactions in the field to uncover the “underground rules” of community resilience. 🔗 Vacancy link www.wur.nl/nl/vacature/...

2️⃣ PhD (Mathematical Modelling of Plant Disease Dynamics) 🖥️ 🌻
Developing and testing models to derive general principles of how variation in host quality and community composition influence pathogen transmission.
🔗 Vacancy link: www.wur.nl/nl/vacature/...

1️⃣ Postdoc (Experimental Ecology & Plant–Fungal Interactions) 🌱 🍄
Exploring how plant diversity affects host quality and pathogen transmission in experimental systems.
🔗 Vacancy link: www.wur.nl/nl/vacature/...

We aim to better understand biodiversity-disease relationships by studying the role of root traits, plant community composition as well as the interaction with mycorrhizal fungi for pathogen dynamics in soil and roots, with a focus on grassland systems.

@joanabergmann.bsky.social, @colleeniversen.bsky.social and @fonsvanderplas.bsky.social, as well as many others (who are not on Bluesky).

This study is the result of a workshop series initiated by Alexandra Weigelt from @agwirthweigelt.bsky.social and Liesje Mommer, and was supported by the New Phytologist Foundation. Led by Kathryn Barry and myself, with a fantastic group effort from many collaborators and co-authors, including

However, our study also raises new questions about the role of a potential mismatch in above- and belowground abundance of plants and its role for trait coordination based on CWM traits.