16th JPIAMR transnational call for research projects - AMR diagnostics and surveillance 2023 (DISTOMOS)

General Information

• Type: Partner looking for project
• Organisation: University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn
• Country: (PL)
• Career stage: Other.

Research area

• Scientific area(s) of the call:
  1. Topic 1: to develop novel, or improve existing, diagnostics, including point of care diagnostics, that can rule out antimicrobial use or help identify the most effective antimicrobial treatment
• One Health Setting:
  Plants (incl. trees and crops)
  Environment (incl. natural and built)

• Keywords:

  Fusarium cereals crops fungicide resistance

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

  I am the head of the team involved in studies of plant pathogenic Fusarium species. We established a huge collection of field isolates of a geographically diverse set of Fusaria mainly associated with cereals. We are currently involved in characterizing genetic diversity of different strains/species using whole genome sequencing data. For more than 20 years, I worked on developing molecular tools for the detection and identification of Fusaria to the species or genotype level. I also conducted gene expression studies using qPCR to reveal the response of F. graminearum under sublethal levels of fungicides. Today, our major goal of the study focuses on population study of F. graminearum but we are willing to extend our research areas to other fungal pathogens.

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

  We are interested in collaborating on a project involving the characterization of genes or gene clusters responsible for fungicide resistance and study their genetic diversity and distribution of fungicide resistance across a wide range of fungal lineages. We are also interested in joining efforts enabling development of qPCR tools for specific quantification of fungicide resistant genotypes.

Tomasz Kulik

• Organisation: University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn
• Position: Researcher
• E-mail: tomaszkulik76@gmail.com
• Phone: 730101165
• Web: www.researchgate.net/profile/Tomasz-Kulik