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
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. Voorhoeve, L., IJsselmuiden, J., Dini-Andreote, F., de Boer, W., Raaijmakers, J.M. (2020). DiSCount: computer vision for automated quantification of Striga seed germination. Plant Methods, 16:60
Masteling, R., Lombard, R., de Boer, W., Raaijmakers, J.M., Dini-Andreote, F., (2019) Harnessing the microbiome to control plant parasitic weeds. Current Opinion in Microbiology, 49: 26-33
Masteling, R., 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