News / Outreach

2023

• • 7 November - Derek Lundberg receives FORMAS Grant 2023-00465, "Value of bacteria naturally living in Norway spruce to control wood-rot fungi"

  • 6 November - Derek Lundberg receives VR Research Project Grant 2023-04076, "The role of plasmids in adapting bacteria of the genus Sphingomonas to life on plants."

  • 21 August - Katrin Fritschi (MPI for Biology, Germany) visits for 2 week research internship

  • 18 February - Dr. Nadjette Djemouai (University of Ghardaia, Algeria) visits for 2 week research internship

2022

• • 29 September - Postdoc Dr. Hugo Barajas joins, PhD student Ezgi Mehmetoglu Boz joins

  • 1 September - Postdoc Dr. Franziska Liesecke joins

  • 24 May - Blog post from SLU Grants Office about Derek's starting grant application process https://blogg.slu.se/news-and-views-from-the-slu-grants-office/2022/05/24/from-research-idea-to-grant-success-reflections-from-derek-lundberg/

  • 8 March - official start day at SLU. 

2021

• • Derek Lundberg named one of 27 Wallenberg Academy Fellows in 2021. This starting grant from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation comes with 5 years of salary and research support (https://kaw.wallenberg.org/en/derek-lundberg). Grant 2021.0102, "Revealing the secrets to success of Sphingomonas, a versatile bacterial genus with exceptional potential as a beneficial agricultural inoculant". Derek was also awarded (but declined both due to project overlap) a Novo Nordisk Emerging Investigator grant in Plant Science, Agriculture, and Food Biotechnology (https://researchleaderprogramme.com/recipients/derek-lundberg/) and an ERC Starting Grant. 

  • Pratchaya Pramoj and Derek Lundberg present work on host associated microbe PCR (hamPCR) in a Plantae.org short talk in the section: Plants and their Microbiome, hosted HERE on Youtube. 

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