Prof. Lital Alfonta
Biological and related sciences , Physical sciences, Bioelectrochemistry, Synthetic Biology, Chemical Biology
Agriculture, Biological and related sciences
Plant pathology, Tropical agriculture, Rural develoment, Inter- and transdisciplinary research
Plant Pathology
Research Management on Interdisciplinary Level, Leader Position in Management in Research and Education Institutions
Awards (year 2004) for – Projects in agricultural sciences to be specifically awarded – (Besonders förderungswürdige Projekte) of the Foundation for the German Science, through the German Research Foundation (DFG) for project – Integrated control of bacterial wilt of tomato by cultural measures, microbial antagonists and host plant resistance
Nominated as expert for the Committee on World Food Security, in the High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition, HLPE (December 2010)
Invited as expert by EU, and German Ministries BMBF, BMZ, BMU for definition of project calls, etc.
Evaluator for the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
Member of DAAD expert group
English, French, German, Spanish
for more information see:http://www.fh-erfurt.de/lgf/fileadmin/GB/Lehrende/Wydra/CV_Wydra_english_1-2015.pdf
Wydra, K. 2012: The One Health Concept in a Development Context. In: Kappas, M., Groß, U., Kelleher, D. (eds.) Global Health – A challenge for interdisciplinary research. Universitätverlag Göttingen, Germany 2012.
Wydra, K. 2012. The insurance function of agrobiodiversity and the importance of monitoring its conservation and use to cope with change. In: On farm conservation of neglected and underutilized species: status, trends and novel approaches to cope with climate change. Bioversity International.
Kurabachew, H., Stahl, F. and Wydra, K. 2013. Global gene expression of rhizobacteria-silicon mediated induced systemic resistance in tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) against Ralstonia solanacearum. Physiological and Molecular Plant Pathology 84, 44-52
Kiirika, L., Stahl, F. and Wydra, K. 2013. Phenotypic and molecular characterization of resistance induction by single and combined application of chitosan and silicon in tomato against Ralstonia solanacearum. Physiological and Molecular Plant Pathology 81, 1-12
Nabhan, S., De Boer, S., Maiss, E., Wydra, K., 2013. Pectobacterium aroidearum sp. nov., a soft rot pathogen with preference for monocotyledonous plants. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 63, 2520-2525
Sikirou, R., Wydra K. 2011. Multiplication and movement of Xanthomonas axonopodis pv. vignicola and seed contamination in cowpea (Vigna unguiculata) genotypes. Journal of Plant Diseases and Plant Protection 118, 93-101
Schacht, T., Unger, C., Pich, A., Wydra, K. 2011: Endo- and exopolygalacturonases of Ralstonia solanacearum are inhibited by polygalacturonase-inhibiting protein (PGIP) activity in tomato stem extracts. Plant Physiology and Biochemistry 49, 377-387
Ghareeb, H., Bozsó, Z., Ott, P.G., Repenning, C., Stahl, F., Wydra, K. 2011. Transcriptome of silicon-induced resistance against Ralstonia solanacearum in the silicon non accumulator tomato implicates priming effect. Physiol. Mol. Plant Pathol. 75, 83-89
Ayana, G., Fininsa, C. Seid Ahmed, S. Wydra, K. 2011. Effects of soil amendment on bacterial wilt caused by Ralstonia solanacerum and tomato yields in Ethiopia. Journal of Plant Protection Research 51, 71-75
Banito, A., Kpémoua, K.E., Bissang, B., Wydra, K. 2010: Assessment of cassava root and stem rots in ecozones of Togo and evaluation of the pathogen virulence. Botanica, Pak. J. Bot. 42, 2059-2068
Dahal, D., Pich, A., Braun, H.-P., Wydra, K. 2010. Analysis of cell wall proteins regulated in stems of susceptible and resistant tomato genotypes after inoculation with Ralstonia solanacearum: a proteomics approach. Plant Molecular Biology 73, 643-658
Project leader (German partner), research project (BMZ) – Mitigating the impact of climate change on rice disease resistance in East Africa – in collaboration with national and international institutitons (Africa Rice Centre; Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda), 2010-2015
Project leader in Federal Project on "Pests and diseases in asparagus", 2007-2011
Project leader (German partner) of research project – Selection of tomato genotypes with resistance against bacterial wilt – with Asian Vegetable Research and Development Centre (AVRDC), Taiwan, 2004-2008
Project leader of bilateral project – Integrated control methods in sustainable (biological) tomato production – with partner at Kasetsart University and Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand, 2000-2006
Coordinator of EU-INCO-DEV-project (IC18-CT-98-0306) – Development and implementation of integrated methods for the control of cassava bacterial blight –, ecozone/climate/environment interactions; with partners from France, Colombia, UK, Benin and Togo, 1998-2002
Elected coordinator of – Integrated pest management (IPM) in cassava – program at IITA, coordination of research of 19 IITA-scientists; IITA-representative at international strategic meetings and donors' organizations, 1995-1996
Project leader, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Plant Health Management Division, Substation, Biological Control, Republic of Benin (West-Africa), 1993-1999
Project – Ecologically sustainable cassava plant protection; Leader of project – Integrated control methods of crop disaeses, ecozone/environment interactions; leader of an international, interdisciplinary team of entomologists, plant breeders, agronomists, biochemists, with University of Göttingen, in collaboration with ORSTOM, France, PPS, Wageningen, Netherlands, CIAT, Colombia, and national Institutes in Benin, Ghana, Nigeria and Cameroon see: http://www.fh-erfurt.de/lgf/fileadmin/GB/Lehrende/Wydra/Forschungskooperationen.PDF
High Level Panel of Experts (HPLE) of the Committee of World Food Security (CFS)
Member of the expert group of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
Board member, Council for Agricultural Research in the Tropics and Subtropics e.V. (ATSAF) (2008-2011)
German Forum for Development Oriented Research (DFOR)
Representative of Institute of Plant Diseases and Plant Protection, University of Hannover (since 2002; DFOR is now part of ATSAF)
Deutsche Phytomedizinische Gesellschaft
American Phytopathological Society (abeyant)
http://www.fh-erfurt.de/lgf/fileadmin/GB/Lehrende/Wydra/Interview_NeFo.PDF
http://www.fh-erfurt.de/lgf/fileadmin/GB/Lehrende/Wydra/Reden-Schriften-Interviews-Wydra_2012-2014.PDF
Project Leader, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, in collaboration with University of Göttingen, 1993-1999
Project Leader, EU Project, Leibniz University of Hannnover, 1999-2003
Professor (apl.) in Phytopathology, Leibniz University of Hannover, 2007
Managing Director, Centre for Agriculture and Forestry in the Tropics, University of Göttingen, 2009
Professor for Plant Production and Climate Change, University of Applied Sciences, Erfurt, 2012
President of the University of Applied Sciences Erfurt, 2012
Experienced in project acquisition & research management; specialized in sustainable development, transdicispinary approaches in research & education institutions
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