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Alessio Bernasconi

Affiliation / Function

Activity areas

  • Research of post-harvest diseases
  • Research of phytopathological diseases with micro- and molecular biology and epidemiological study
  • Organic input evaluation of Italy and Sweden

Projects

Training / professional career

  • Since 2022 Scientific collaborator and project leader, FiBL Switzerland
  • 2018 - 2022 PhD at ETH Zurich
  • 2016 - 2017 Scientific collaborator, Syngenta
  • 2015 - 2016 Master of Science in Plant Science, University of Basel and Syngenta
  • 2011 - 2015 Bachelor of Science in Biology, Major in Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Basel

Publications

Publications in the Organic Eprints archive

Publications that are not in the Organic Eprints archive

  • Bernasconi A, Alassimone J, McDonald BA, Sánchez-Vallet A. (2022): Asexual reproductive potential trumps virulence as a predictor of competitive ability in mixed infections. Environ Microbiol. 24 (9), 4369-4381
  • Bernasconi A, Lorrain C, Flury P, Alassimone J, McDonald BA, Sánchez-Vallet A. Zymoseptoria tritici suppresses the host immune response and facilitates success of avirulent strains in mixed infections. In preparation.
  • Meile L, Garrido-Arandia M, Bernasconi Z, Peter J, Schneller A, Bernasconi A, Alassimone J, McDonald BA, Sánchez-Vallet A. Natural variation in an Avr gene generates a quantitative gene-for-gene phenotype. Submitted by New Phytologist.
  • McDonald BA, Suffert F, Bernasconi A, Mikaberidze A. (2022): How large and diverse are field populations of fungal plant pathogens? The case of Zymoseptoria tritici. Evol Appl. 15 (9), 1360-1373
  • Doktorarbeit: Bernasconi, A. (2022): Plant-fungal and fungal-fungal interaction dynamics in a major pathogen of wheat. ETH Zürich, Diss. Umwelt-Natw.