Flash Talk: Dr Sebastian Eves-van den Akker, The Crop Science Centre, University of Cambridge 

Dr Sebastian Eves-van den Akker is Head of the Plant-Parasite Interactions Group
The Crop Sciences Centre, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge
Plant-parasitic nematodes are a major, and In some cases a dominant, threat to food security around the world. A finely tuned molecular dialogue between the plant and animal kingdoms, in this case, gives rise to the pathology and ultimately the crop losses. The research group of Dr Sebastian Eves-van den Akker aims to understand the nature of this dialogue in sufficient detail to identify sustainable routes to control. The group tackles this question largely from a genetic and molecular perspective: defining the genes involved in the inter-kingdom communication between plants and their parasitic nematodes.
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Filmed at the Gatsby Plant Science Summer School, 2023.
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