Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL

Visit by Mireia Gomez

On Thursday, 28.3., Mireia Gomez-Gallego from France visited our group and gave a seminar “Understanding the emergence of the Sooty bark disease of sycamore maple, caused by Cryptostroma corticale, in Europe”. Mireia is a pathologist in the team “Ecology of Forest Pathogenic Fungi” of the unit Tree-Microbes Interactions (IAM) in INRAE Nancy, France. Her research focuses on forest emergent diseases. She investigates their causes, epidemiology, monitoring and impacts, using different pathosystems (Cryptostroma corticale, Diplodia sapinea, Phytophthora spp.). We enjoyed hosting Mireia and discussing the common topics and future research ideas with her.

Visit by Diana Marčiulynienė

This April, Phytopathology Group hosted Dr Diana Marčiulynienė in the scope of the COST Action «Urban Tree Guard» Short Term Scientific Mission. Diana is a senior researcher at the Lithuanian Research Centre for Agriculture and Forestry, where she works as a forest pathologist in the Institute of Forestry. During her three-week stay at WSL Diana worked on the tasks related to the Cost Action and gave a presentation introducing her institution and her previous and current work within the COST Action at a seminar. She also brought sweets and experienced how it is to work in our group.