
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
Jirka Manuel Petersen
Nudivirus replication mechanism

Wageningen University, IRBI (CNRS), and Tours University
Sam Edwards
Behavioural manipulation and co-evolutionary processes between fungi and flies

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

Edouard Bessette
Microsporidia infection and virulence at varying population densities

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

WP 2: Covert infections and pathogen detection
to be announced soon
Mechanisms behind covert infections: DNA viruses

Hanna-Isadora Huditz
Interaction between tsetse fly associated covert viruses and endosymbionts

Luis Hernández PelegrÃn
Covert infections with RNA viruses in the Mediterranean fruit fly

Robert Pienaar
Virus discovery in reared insects

WP 3: . Increasing insect resistance against pathogens
Anna Slowik
Exploring nutritional adaptation of host-specific and generalist insect-pathogenic fungi

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

Carlotta Savio
Food and probiotics in insect health and pathogen resistance

Loretta Mugo-Kamiri
Microbiota mediated food protection against lepidopteran pathogens

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