Plant Pathology and Crop Protection

Dr. Sebastian Kiewnick


Positions

Tasks and Research Areas at the Julius Kühn Institute (JKI)

  • Evaluation of cultivated plants for resistance against plant parasitic nematodes
  • Development and enhancement of bio- and greenhouse assays for the evaluation resistance and tolerance in plants against plant parasitic nematodes
  • Research on the effects of changes in cropping systems and climate on the development of plant parasitic nematode populations in field crops
  • Development of management strategies for the regulation/control of plant parasitic nematodes
  • Official testing of potato varieties for resistance against the potato cyst nematodes
  • Genome- and Transcriptomeresearch on plant parasitic nematodes

Publications

Refer to the OPEN AGRAR system

Teaching

Memberships

  • Deutsche Phytomedizinische Gesellschaft (DPG)
  • American Phytopathological Society (APS)
  • Society of Nematologists (SON)
  • European Society of Nematologists (ESN)
  • Fachreferenten Nematologie
  • European Journal of Plant Pathology Associate Editor
  • Phytopathology Associate Editor
  • Curator für Q-Bank/Nematodes (DNA-Barcoding von pflanzenparasitären Nematoden)

Curriculum vitae

  • Sebastian Kiewnick is a senior scientist at the Julius Kühn Institut in Braunschweig, Germany.

    He holds a diploma in agriculture and a PhD from the University of Bonn in Germany. Following a PostDoc at the Montana State University, he worked at The Prophyta Biologischer Pflanzenschutz Gmbh in Wismar (Germany) to develop biocontrol control products based on filamentous fungi. Between 2002 and 2006, he was an assistant Professor at the University of Bonn, Institute of Crop Science and Resource Conservation. From 2006 to 2017, he headed the National competence Center for Nematology at AGROSCOPE in Switzerland. Since 2017, he is responsible for research on integrated management of plant parasitic nematodes in field crops, including the official testing of varieties for resistance against potato cyst and sugar beet cyst nematodes in potatoes and intercrops.