Miss Bliss Furtado a PhD student in the Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection was recently on a four month research visit to Aarhus University, Denmark and DLF Trifolium, Denmark (global seed company). The research work conducted by Bliss durinh her visit is part of her Ph.D. which is in the framework of the BestPass project ( http://bestpass.ku.dk/).
In Aarhus University, Denmark, she has worked in collaboration with Dr. Torben Asp, Chief Scientist, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University, Denmark and at DLF with Niels Roulund, Plant breeder, DLF Trifolium, Denmark.
Duration of research visit: 1st February – 16th May
Principal supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Katarzyna Hrynkiewicz, Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Torun, Poland, hrynk@umk.pl
PhD student: Bliss Ursula Furtado
Project funding: Boosting Plant-Endophyte Stability, Compatibility and Performance across scales (BestPass, http://bestpass.ku.dk/ ) is an International Training Network (ITN) funding by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 676480.
