News of the Laboratory of Nematology
You can find the Archive of News items of the Laboratory of Nematology on these pages. News items will automatically be added to the archive, which has been classified per period.
You can click on the year mentioned on the right-hand column to go to the News archive of the concerning period.
News
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Testimonial Lize Braat
- As a master Plant Sciences student, I specialised myself in plant phytopathology and entomology. I am fascinated by the interaction between plants and... -
Nematode in the picture: Pratylenchus penetrans
- Pratylenchus penetrans (Cobb, 1917) Filipjev & Schuurmans Stekhoven, 1941 is one of the most well-known members within the genus Pratylenchus... -
Wim van der Putten bij Knappe Koppen over bodemdiertjes
- Wat is het nut van ongedierte? En is dat wel een goede benaming? Hoogleraar bij Nematologie en NIOO-onderzoeker Wim van der Putten geeft antwoord in... -
Making medicine from parasite proteins
- Text: Albert Sikkema Parasitic worms use specific proteins to infect us. PhD candidate Kim van Noort used tobacco plants to replicate these proteins.... -
‘Make internships mandatory for PhDs’
- Text: Tessa Louwerens PhD candidate Kim van Noort spent one month of her PhD period in Oxford. This collaboration brought real benefits and she... -
Publication: Rhizosphere protists are key determinants of plant health (with video)
- The soil microbiome is of direct importance for plant health. This video summarizes the main findings of our recent study “Rhizosphere protists... -
Doing a PhD is just like a triathlon
- Text: Tessa Louwerens Writing is not her strongest point, Paula Harkes discovered when she was working on her PhD. But her experience as a triathlete... -
Workshop for the whole Wageningen University OS Team
- On February 4, Sven van den Elsen has given a one day 'refresher' course, including a small DNA workshop, to the whole Wageningen University OS team... -
Publication: Shifts in the Active Rhizobiome Paralleling Low Meloidogyne chitwoodi Densities in Fields Under Prolonged Organic Soil Management
- Plants manipulate their rhizosphere community in a species and even a plant life stage-dependent manner. Here, we investigated the long-term impact of... -
Plants control own root environment
- Crops and other plants actively manage the species of moulds, bacteria and nematodes in the soil. Organic farmers give them a helping hand.
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