Research interests
• Chemische Ökologie von tritrophischen Interaktionen• Biologische Kontrolle von Wurzelschädlingen
• Metabolomics
• Sequestrierung von pflanzlichen Sekundärstoffen
• Elektroantennogramme
• Pflanzenvolatile und deren Einfluss auf das Verhalten von Insekten
Project
PENTA-ResistResistance of sugar beet to the invasive γ-proteobacterium Candidatus Arsenophonus phytopathogenicus and its vector, the planthopper Pentastiridius leporinus. Chemical ecology and plant-vector-microbe interactions.
Publications
Spescha, A, Zwyssig, M, Hess Hermida, M, Moix, A, Bruno, P, Enkerli, J, Campos-Herrera, R, Grabenweger, G and Maurhofer, M (2023): When Competitors Join Forces: Consortia of Entomopathogenic Microorganisms Increase Killing Speed and Mortality in Leaf-and Root-Feeding Insect Hosts. Microbial Ecology , pp.1-14. doi: 10.1007/s00248-023-02191-0Bruno P, Arce CCM, Machado RAR, Besomi G, Spescha A, Glauser G, Jaccard C, Benrey B, Turlings TCJ (2022): Sequestration of cucurbitacins from cucumber plants by Diabrotica balteata larvae provides little protection against biological control agents. Journal of Pest Science. doi:10.1007/s10340-022-01568-3
Fallet P, De Gianni L, Machado RA, Bruno P, Bernal JS, Karangwa P, Kajuga J, Waweru B, Bazagwira D, Degen T, Toepfer S (2022): Comparative Screening of Mexican, Rwandan and Commercial Entomopathogenic Nematodes to Be Used against Invasive Fall Armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda. Insects 13(2):205. doi:10.3390/insects13020205
Jaccard C, Marguier N, Arce CCM, Bruno P, Glauser G, Turlings, TCJ, Benrey, B. (2022): The effect of squash domestication on a belowground tritrophic interaction. Plant-Environment Interactions 3(1), pp. 28-39. doi:10.1002/pei3.10071
Machado RAR, Bhat AH*, Abolafia J*, Müller A*, Bruno P, Fallet P, Arce CCM, Turlings TCJ, Bernal JS, Kajuga, J, Waweru, B, & Toepfer S (2021): Multi-locus phylogenetic analyses uncover species boundaries and revealed the occurrence of two new entomopathogenic nematode species, Heterorhabditis ruandica n. sp. and n. sp. * equally contributing authors. Journal of Nematology 53. doi:10.21307/jofnem-2021-089
La Forgia D, Bruno P, Campos-Herrera R, Turlings TCJ, & Verheggen, F (2021): The lure of hidden death: development of an attract-and-kill strategy against 3 wireworms combining semiochemicals and entomopathogenic nematodes. Turkish Journal of Zoology 45, pp.347-355.
doi:10.3906/zoo-2106-38
Bruno P, Machado RAR, Glauser G, Köhler, A, Campos-Herrera, R, Bernal, J, Toepfer, S, Erb, M, Robert, CAM, Arce, CCM and Turlings, TCJ (2020): Entomopathogenic nematodes from Mexico that can overcome the resistance mechanisms of the western corn rootworm. Scientific Reports 10(1), pp. 1-12. doi:10.1038/s41598-020-64945-x
Machado RAR, Bruno P, Arce CCM, Liechti N, Köhler, A, Bernal, J, Bruggmann, R and Turlings, TCJ (2019): Photorhabdus khanii subsp. guanajuatensis subsp. nov., isolated from Heterorhabditis atacamensis, and Photorhabdus luminescens subsp. mexicana subsp. nov., isolated from Heterorhabditis mexicana entomopathogenic nematodes. International journal of systematic and evolutionary microbiology 69(3), pp.652-661.
doi:10.1099/ijsem.0.003154
Curriculum vitae
| Seit2021 | Postdoc in der Agrarentomologie Göttingen |
| 2016-2021 | PhD in Chemical Ecology at the laboratory of Fundamental and Applied Research in Chemical Ecology (FARCE) Neuchâtel, Switzerland, under the supervision of Prof. Ted Turlings and Dr. Carla Marques Arce. Title: “Tritrophic interactions: Possible host-plants effects on the resistance of Diabrotica pests to natural enemies”. |
| 2015 - 2016 | M. Sc. Plant Biology, specialization in Plant Pathology. University of Poitiers, France |
| 2008 - 2014 | Agronomic Engineer (M. Sc. equivalent level), specialization in Viticulture and Enology. National University of Cuyo, Argentina |