Tasks

• Research associate, AG Niehl
• Identification and characterization of plant factors interacting with viral proteins during infection by molecular interaction studies
• Localization of viral and plant proteins in vivo using confocal laser scanning microscopy
• Detection of viruses using ELISA, PCR techniques, and HTS
• Field and climate chamber experiments to characterize virus isolates
• Virus Move project: elucidation of the transmission mechanism of the soil-borne wheat mosaic virus (SBWMV) by its vector, Polymyxa graminis, and identification of new resistance factors in barley
• Project ChanGE: Characterization of new barley yellow mosaic virus variants and development of a variant-specific molecular test