• Oct-2016-Present-Project leader-Promoting ROot Microbiome for Striga Eradication (PROMISE) (Netherlands institute of ecology (NIOO-KNAW). 
  • Jul-2014-Oct-2016 Postdoctoral researcher-Rhizobacteria-mediated modulation of plant metabolome (Netherlands institute of ecology (NIOO-KNAW).

  • Jan-2014- Jan-2015 Postdoctoral researcher-Application of Laser Ablation Electrospray Ionization (LAESI) technology in plant researches. Laboratory of plant physiology, Wageningen University, Wageningen, the Netherlands.

  • Nov-2012-Jan-2013-Postdoctoral researcher-Small scale (local) metabolomics in plant microbe interaction. Plant Research International, Wageningen, the Netherlands.

  • Nov-2008-Nov-2012-PhD- An Integrated Approach Involving Metabolomics and Transcriptomics for a System-Wide Understanding of the Interaction between Tomato and Cladosporium fulvum. Laboratory of plant physiology and laboratory of phytopathology, Wageningen University, Wageningen, the Netherlands.

  • Aug-2006-Aug-2008-MSc-Plant sciences –Wageningen University and Research Center, Wageningen, the Netherlands.

    • Systemic Distribution of Wound induced Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS) in Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana)

    • Dynamics of Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS) and Reactive Nitrogen Species (RNS) during Plant-Pathogen Interaction

  • ​2002-2005-BSc-Horticulture-Jimma University, Ethiopia
    • ​The Role of 2, 4-D (2,4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic acid) in Promoting the Rooting Potential of Rose Cuttings (Rosa hybrida) 

Publications

  • Etalo, D., Jeon, J-S., & Raaijmakers, J. M. (2018). Modulation of plant chemistry by beneficial root microbiota. Natural Product Reports. doi:10.1039/C7NP00057J. 

  • Etalo DW, Díez-Simón C, Vos RC, Hall RD (2018). Laser Ablation Electrospray Ionization-Mass Spectrometry Imaging (LAESI-MS) for Spatially Resolved Plant Metabolomics. Plant Metabolomics, 253-267. DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-7819-9_18

  • Carrion, V. J., Cordovez, V., Tyc, O., Etalo, D. W., De Bruijn, I., de Jager, V. C. L.,... Raaijmakers, J. M. (2018). Involvement of Burkholderiaceae and sulfurous volatiles in disease suppressive soils. ISME Journal, doi.org/10.1038/s41396-018-0186-x.

  • Cheng, X., Etalo, D. W., van de Mortel, J. E., Dekkers, E., Nguyen, L., Medema, M. H., & Raaijmakers, J. M. (2017). Genome-wide analysis of bacterial determinants of plant growth promotion and induced systemic resistance by Pseudomonas fluorescens. Environmental Microbiology, 19(11), 4638-4656. doi:10.1111/1462-2920.13927

  • Cheng X, Cordovez V, Etalo DW, van der Voort M and Raaijmakers JM (2016) Role of the GacS Sensor Kinase in the Regulation of Volatile Production by Plant Growth-Promoting Pseudomonas fluorescens SBW25. Front. Plant Sci. 7:1706. 

  • Schmidt R, Etalo DW, de Jager V, Gerards S, Zweers H, De Boer W, Garbeva P (2016) Microbial small talk: volatiles in fungal-bacterial interactions. Front. Microbiology 6

  • Etalo D.W, Ric C.H. De Vos, Matthieu H.A.J. Joosten, Robert D.Hall (2015) Spatially-resolved plant metabolomics: some potentials and limitations of Laser-Ablation Electrospray Ionization (LAESI) Mass Spectrometry metabolite imaging. Plant Physiol. 69(3):1424-35

  • Cordovez V, Carrion VJJ, Etalo DW, Mumm R, Zhu H, Van Wezel GP, Raaijmakers JM (2015) Diversity and functions of volatile organic compounds produced by Streptomyces from a disease-suppressive soil. Fron.  Microbiology 6
  • Mesarich CH, Griffiths SA, van der Burgt A, Okmen B, Beenen HG, Etalo DW, Joosten MH, de Wit PJ (2014) Transcriptome sequencing uncovers the Avr5 avirulence gene of the tomato leaf mold pathogen Cladosporium fulvum. Mol Plant Microbe Interact 27: 846-857
  • Etalo D.W, Stulemeijer IJE, Peter van Esse H, de Vos RCH, Bouwmeester HJ, Joosten MHAJ (2013) System-Wide Hypersensitive Response-Associated Transcriptome and Metabolome Reprogramming in Tomato. Plant Physiol. 162: 1599-1617
  • Ökmen B., Etalo D.W, Joosten M. H.A.J.,  Bouwmeester H. J., De Vos R. C.H, Collemare J. and de Wit P.J.G.M (2013). Detoxification of tomatine by Cladosporium fulvum is required for full virulence on tomato. New Phytologist. 198: 1203-1214
  • Etalo, D.W., Harbinson, J. and van Meeteren, U. (2009). Could Wound-induced Xylem Peroxide Contribute to the Hydraulic Conductivity in Stems? Acta Hort. (ISHS) 847:287-294.

 

Raaijmakers Group
The overall goal of our research program is to unravel 1) mechanisms involved in the assembly of plant microbiomes. The functions of microbiomes we study in...Read more
Deciphering the microbiome of fish eggs to mitigate emerging diseases in aquaculture
In aquaculture, diseases caused by the fungal-like oomycete Saprolegnia, but also ectoparasites are causing significant declines in fish and crayfish populations. To date, these diseases are controlled in aquaculture mainly by formalin treatment. However, the use of formalin will be banned in the...Read more
Genomic and functional characterization of beneficial bacteria from natural disease suppressive soils
Disease-suppressive soils are ecosystems in which crop plants suffer less from specific diseases than expected owing to the activities of antagonistic soil microorganisms. For most disease-suppressive soils the beneficial microbes and mechanisms involved in pathogen control are unknown. Members of...Read more
Volatile affairs in the rhizosphere
Volatile compounds play important roles in rhizosphere interactions. The goal of this project is to understand the molecular mechanisms underlying volatile-mediated communication between plants, bacteria and fungi. To achieve that, we couple volatile profiling, plant transcriptomics and...Read more