Project description Transmission to new susseptible host is crucial for a pathogen, and the biological world is rife with examples of pathogens that manipulate host behavior to enhance host transmission.This mind-control can go beyound the infected host and for example exploit the mate-seeking behavior of healthy males that becomes significantly more attracted to infectious females than uninfected females. The project will use a newly established laboratory host-pathogen system of the fungal pathogen Entomophthora muscae and Dipteran insect hosts for exploring the pathogen induced alterations in host chemistry, including chemical analysis and electro-antennal responses to -volatile compounds and dual-transcriptomics of host and pathogen. The research is fundamental with considerable applied potential in attract-and-kill biological control strategies.
Please contact Assistant Professor Henrik H. De Fine Licht ([email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>, phone +45 35320097) for further enquiries and obtain more information and apply via this link: http://employment.ku.dk/phd/?show=145518 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Henrik Hjarvard de Fine Licht, Assistant Professor, PhD Section for Organismal Biology, Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences University of Copenhagen, Thorvaldsensvej 40, 1871 Frederiksberg C. Denmark Tel: +45 3532 0097 Email: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Homepage: http://plen.ku.dk/english/employees/?id=194704&vis=medarbejder
