PhD candidates and their research

Below the 15 PhD candidates recruited for INSECT DOCTORS with the topic of their reseach projects and their affiliations within the programme.

WP 1: Pathogen-host interactions

Nudivirus replication mechanism

Wageningen University, IRBI (CNRS), and Tours University

Behavioural manipulation and co-evolutionary processes between fungi and flies

University of Copenhagen and University of Exeter

Interactions between pathogens infecting crickets: who paves the way for the other?Inhoud

University of Copenhagen and Wageningen University

Microsporidia infection and virulence at varying population densities

University of Exeter and University of Copenhagen

Impact of multiple biotic and abiotic stressors on pathogenesis in mealworms and wax moths

UKCEH, University of Leeds, and University of Copenhagen

Mechanisms behind covert infections: DNA viruses

Wageningen University and University of Valencia

Interaction between tsetse fly associated covert viruses and endosymbionts

Wageningen University, University of Exeter and FAO/IAEA

Covert infections with RNA viruses in the Mediterranean fruit fly

University of Valencia and Wageningen University

Virus discovery in reared insects

IRBI (CNRS), University of Tours, and University of Valencia

Exploring nutritional adaptation of host-specific and generalist insect-pathogenic fungi

University of Copenhagen, UK-CEH, and University of Leeds

The role of microbiota in host resistance against bacterial and fungal pathogens in wax moths

INRAE, AgrosParis Tech, and University of Copenhagen

Food and probiotics in insect health and pathogen resistance

INRAE, Agro Paris Tech and Wageningen University

Microbiota mediated food protection against lepidopteran pathogens

IRBI (CNRS), University of Tours, and University of Exeter

Experimental evolution of insect gut symbionts to improve fitness under SIT and transgenic mass release

University of Exeter and University of Wageningen