Curriculum Vitae
Doctorate
Leiden University, The Netherlands
21 June 2005
Work experience
Period: April 2010 – present
NWO MEERVOUD personal grant. Group of Microbial Ecology, NIOO-CTE, KNAW
Project: “Bacterial interactions in soil: the role of volatiles as infochemical and competitive tools”.
Period: July 2006 – April 2010
Postdoctoral position within the group of Microbial Ecology, NIOO-CTE, KNAW
Project: “Suppression of plant-pathogenic fungi as a result of inter-specific bacterial interactions”. NWO VENI personal grant
Period: August 2005- June 2006
Postdoctoral position in the School of Biological Sciences, University of Aberdeen, UK (head of research group Prof. Dr. Jim Prosser) in collaboration with Dr. Liz Baggs.
Project: “Contribution of nitrifier denitrification to N2O and N2 emissions from soils”.
Period: August 2004- August 2005
Postdoctoral position within the EU project METACONTROL aimed to apply soil metagenomics to identify novel mechanisms of antagonism and antifungal activity. Microbial Ecology Group RUG (head: Prof. J.D. van Elsas).
Collaboration with the group of Dr. J.M. van der Wolf, in PRI-WUR, Wageningen, on a project: "Transmission of plant pathogen Xanthomonas campestris pv. campestris by insects".
Period: June 2000- August 2004
Ph.D. research “The significance of microbial diversity in agricultural soil for disease suppressiveness”.
This project was financed by NWO and was carried out in collaboration between NIOO-CTE (supervision of Prof. Dr. J. A. van Veen) and PRI, Wageningen (supervision of Prof. Dr. J. D. Van Elsas).
Period: April 1999- April 2000
Institute for Plant Protection (IPO-DLO) Wageningen Group of Plant Bacteriology.
Granted by the International Agricultural Centre (IAC) –The Netherlands.
Project: “Detection of endophytic bacteria in potato plants by applying molecular methods”
Editor for FEMS Microbiology Letters for subdivision Environmental Microbiology & Plant-Microbe Interactions
Ad hoc referee of the following scientific journals:
Biology and Fertility of Soil, Environmental Microbiology, FEMS Microbiology Ecology, FEMS Microbiology Letters, ISME Journal, Journal of Applied Microbiology, Journal of Microbiological Methods, Microbial Ecology, Plant and Soil and Ecology Letters
Scholarships and prizes
NWO, MEERVOUD personal grants obtained November 2009
NWO, VENI personal grant obtained in December 2005
IAC grant, The Netherlands April 1999- April 2000
Grant from Ministry of Agriculture, Belgium, direction scientific research East-West exchange 1993-96
Grant from Rotary Club for executing MSc thesis in Wageningen University in the period January 1992-June 1992.
Projects
Present projects:
“Suppression of plant-pathogenic fungi as a result of inter-specific bacterial interactions”
“Bacterial interactions in soil: the role of volatiles as infochemical and competitive tools”
Co-Operation
Selected Publications
P. Garbeva, O. Tyc, M. N.P. Remus-Emsermann, A. van der Wal, M. Vos, M. W. Silby and W. de Boer (2011) No apparent costs for facultative antibiotic production by the soil bacterium Pseudomonas fluorescens Pf0-1. PLoSOne in press
P. Garbeva, M. Silby, J. M. Raaijmakers, S. Levy & W. de Boer (2011) Transcriptional and antagonistic responses of Pseudomonas fluorescens Pf0-1 to phylogenetically different bacterial competitors. The ISME Journal, 5(6):973-985
P. Garbeva, A. J. Termorshuizen, G. Hol, G. A. Kowalchuk & Wietse de Boer (2011) Fungistasis and general soil biostasis - A new synthesis. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 43:469-477
P. Garbeva & W. de Boer (2009) Inter-specific interactions between carbon-limited soil bacteria affect behavior and gene expression. Microbial Ecology, 58: 36-46
P. Garbeva, J.D. van Elsas & J.A. van Veen (2008) Rhizosphere microbial community and its response to plant species and soil history. Plant and Soil, 302:1006-1015
P.Garbeva, EM Baggs EM & JM Prosser (2007) Phylogeny of nitrite reductase (nirK) and nitric oxide reductase (norB) genes from Nitrosospira species isolated from soil. FEMS Microbiology Letters, 266:83-89
S Jafra, J Przysowa, R Czajkowski, P Garbeva & JM Van der Wolf (2006) Detection and characterization of bacteria from the potato rhizosphere degrading N-acyl-homoserine lactone. Canadian Journal of Microbiology, 52:1006-1015
P. Garbeva, J. Postma, J.A. van Veen & J.D. van Elsas (2006) Effect of above-ground plant species composition on soil microbial community and diversity and it impact on suppression of Rhizoctonia solani AG3. Environmental Microbiology, 8: 233-246
P. Garbeva, J.A. van Veen & J.D. van Elsas (2004) Microbial diversity in soil: selection of microbial populations by plant and soil type and implications for soil suppressiveness. Ann. Rev. Phytopathol, 42: 243-270
P. Garbeva, K. Voesenek & J.D. van Elsas (2004) Quantitative detection and diversity of the pyrrolnitrin biosynthetic locus in soil under different treatments. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 36: 1453-1463
P. Garbeva, J.A. van Veen & J.D. van Elsas (2004) Assessment of the diversity, and antagonism towards Rhizoctonia solani AG3, of Pseudomonas species in soil from different agricultural regimes. FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 47: 51-64
P. Garbeva, J.A. van Veen & J.D. van Elsas (2003) Predominant Bacillus spp. in agricultural soil under different management regimes detected via PCR-DGGE. Microbial Ecology, 45: 302-316
J.D. van Elsas, P. Garbeva & J. Salles (2002) Effects of agronomical measures on the microbial diversity of soil as related to the soil suppression of soil-born plant pathogens. Biodegradation, 13: 29-40
P. Garbeva, L. Overbeek, D.J. van Elsas & J. van Vuurde (2001) Analysis of endophytic bacterial community of potato by plating and denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE) of the 16S rDNA based PCR fragments. Microbial Ecology, 41: 369-383.
S. Bobev, P. Garbeva, C. Crepel, M. Maes & L. Hauben (1999) Fire blight in Bulgaria- characteristics of E. amylovora isolates. Acta-Horticulture, 489: 121-126.
M. Maes, P. Garbeva & O. Kamoen (1996) Recognition and detection in seed of the Xanthomonas pathogens that cause cereal leaf streak using rDNA spacer sequences and the polymerase chain reaction. Phytopathology, 86: 63-69.
M. Maes, P.Garbeva & C. Crepel (1996) Identification and sensitive endophytic detection of the fire blight pathogen Erwinia amylovora with 23S ribosomal DNA sequences and the polymerase chain reaction. Plant Pathology, 45: 1139-1149.
M. Maes & P. Garbeva (1995) Development of a PCR-based detection method for Xanthomonas campesris pv. translucenc. Bulletin OEPP/EPPO Bulletin 25: 203-209.
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