Dr. Heiko Ziebell

Institute for Epidemiology and Pathogen Diagnostics

Contact

Address
Julius Kühn-Institut
Institute for Epidemiology and Pathogen Diagnostics
Messeweg 11/12
38104 Braunschweig

Tasks

Team Leader Virology (vegetables, legumes, rapeseed)

Head of animal husbandry facility in Quedlinburg
Development and optimisation of methods for isolation, propagation and purification of vegetable, legume and rapeseed viruses
Biological, morphological, serological and molecular characterisation of vegetable, legume and rapeseed viruses
Histological and cytological observations on virus-infected plants and viruliferous vectors
Development and optimisation of antibody- and nucleic acid based techniques for sensitive, specific and robust detection of vegetable, legume and rapeseed viruses from different matrices (plant, vector, soil, water)

National representative of the EPPO Panel on Diagnostics in Virology and Phytoplasmology
Editor for New Disease Reports
Guest Editor für Frontiers Research Topic: Innovative Approaches to Virus Diagnosis and Control
Ad-hoc reviewer for scientific journals
- International Journal of Molecular Science
- International Journal of Molecular Science
- European Journal of Plant Pathology
- Journal of Plant Pathology
- Current Opionion in Virology
- Viruses
- Plant Disease
- Nature Scientific Reports
- Plants
- Virus Research
- Plant Science
- Plant Pathology
- Phytopathologia Mediterranea
- Journal of Grapevine Research
- European Journal of Plant Pathology
Member of the German Phytomedical Society r. S. (DPG)
Member of the British Society for Plant pathology (BSPP)
Member of American Society for Virology (ASV)
Member of Gemeinschaft der Förderer und Freunde des Julius Kühn-Instituts (GFF)