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01/2018 - Present: PhD Candidate, Netherlands Insitute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), Wageningen, the Netherlands

Microbial disruption of the signalling between Sorghum and the parasitic weed Striga

Promotors: Prof. Jos Raaijmakers and Prof. Wietse de Boer

03/2017 - 08/2017: MSc Internship, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

Internship thesis at the Ané Lab titled - " The contribution of the soil microbiome to the crop rotation effect in a corn-soybean rotation".

Supervisor: Prof. Jean-Michel Ané

Daily Supervisor: Marian Lund, Ph.D. Candidate

2015 - 2017: MSc Plant Biotechnology, Wageningen University & Research, the Netherlands

Master thesis at the department of Phytopathology titled - "N-acetylglucosamine affects interactions between tomato xylem endophytes".

Supervisor: Prof. Reindert Nijland

08/2014 - 01/2015: Erasmus+ Grant, Umeå University, Sweden

Followed courses mainly focused on plant biotechnology and bacterial physiology.

2012 - 2015: BSc Biology, University of Porto, Portugal

Bachelor thesis where I studied the potential of several xenobiotics as elicitors of endocrine disruption and oxidative stress in the microcrustacean Daphnia magna.

Supervisor: Prof. Sara C Antunes 

 

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PROMISE (Promoting Root Microbes for Integrated Striga Eradication)

The overall goal of PROMISE is to engineer soil and plant microbiomes for enhanced crop productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa.

You can find more information on the PROMISE website.

 

Masteling, R.P., Castro, B.B., Antunes, S.C., Nunes, B.. (2016). Whole-organism and biomarker endpoints in Daphnia magna show uncoupling of oxidative stress and endocrine disruption in phenolic derivatives. Ecotoxicol. Environ. Saf., 134(1), 64-71

Masteling, R. (2019) Striga, Sorghum en micro-organismen, De Jonge Gewasbeschermer. Gewasbescherming. Jaargang 50, 2019(3), 86   (in Dutch) https://www.knpv.org/db/upload/documents/Gewasbescherming/2019gb50nr3.pdf