JPIAMR 14th Call Partner Search Tool

General Information

• Type: Partner looking for project
• Organisation: Universitat de Girona
• Country: Spain (ES)

Research area

• Scientific area(s) of the call:
  1. Improvement of drug/plant protection agent efficacy and/or specificity through chemical modifications (including hit to lead optimisation)
  2. Optimisation of drug/plant protection agent combinations, alone or with adjunct therapies (including therapeutic vaccines)
  3. Design and implementation of new strategies (including optimisation of drug doses) for improved application, efficacy and delivery of single or combinations of antimicrobials
• One Health Setting:

  Plants (including trees and crops)

• Type of studies/experimental approaches:

  studies in crop/plant settings, including field studies

• Keywords:

  functional peptides antimicrobial plant defense elicitor bacterial plant pathogens

• Brief description of your expertise / expertise you are looking for:

  Full Professor of Plant Pathology and Microbiology at the University of Girona. His area of research and development is focused on Plant Pathology (epidemiology and biological control), in the field of biopesticides (beneficial microorganisms and antimicrobial and plant defence elicitor peptides), for the control of plant quarantine bacteria of economical importance. He is author of up to 120 scientific papers in SCI Journals (H-index 33) and editor/contributor in several books. He contributed to the development of novel biopesticides with proven efficacy against several fungal and bacterial plant diseases, and some of them are under exploitation. He is inventor in several patents. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4455-8332

• Brief description of your project / the project you would like to join:

  I would like, together with my team, to a project involving novel biopesticides for plant disease control, mainly of quarantine diseases in the EU (caused by Xylella fastidiosa, Erwinia amylovora, etc.). The prefered novel biopesticides are beneficial bacterial secondary metabolites (e.g. peptides) and synthetic multifunctional peptides.

Emilio Montesinos

• Organisation: Universitat de Girona
• Position: Full Professor
• E-mail: emilio.montesinos@udg.edu
• Phone: +34 639763764
• Web: epsapps.udg.edu/cidsav/