Research
Ongoing research projects
Associated partner in the collaborative project HORIZON-CL6-2024-FARM2FORK-02-3-two-stage – Tools to increase the effectiveness of EU import controls for plant health
senseApest – Portable air analysis device for on-site pest detection during plants import controls
Associated partner in the collaborative project HORIZON-CL6-2024-FARM2FORK-03-1 – Spotlight on plant priority pest: fall armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda)
EUFAWREADY – Enhancing Europe’s readiness for managing fall armyworm, an invasive pest threat
Associated partner in the collaborative project HORIZON-CL6-2021-FARM2FORK-01-04 Tackling outbreaks of plant pests
PURPEST – Plant pest prevention through technology-guided monitoring and site-specific control
Project partner in a project awarded to Sergio Rasmann as PI (Laboratory of Functional Ecology)
Solution-Oriented Research For Development – SOR4D
Biological control of the fall armyworm with entomopathogenic nematodes for enhanced food security in Africa
Recently ended research projects
SNSF project funding
Understanding and exploiting communication between cotton plants
Horizon 2020 ERC Advanced Grant
AGRISCENTS – Scents and sensibility in agriculture: exploiting specificity in herbivore- and pathogen-induced plant volatiles for real-time crop monitoring
