Agricultural production under uncertainty (applications to insurance), Technological change in agriculture, Non-parametric methods in economics.

Basic and applied aspects of plant-bacteria interactions.

Drug resistance in fungi, Genome instability and chromosome biology in fungal plant pathogens.

Environmental economics, health economics, development economics and economic demography.

Microbial community ecology and evolution.

Automorphic representations; Mathematics

Microbial interactions in the rhizosphere, Biological control of plant pathogens, Mechanisms of bacterial stress responses.

Predatory bacteria, Bacteria-tephritid fruit flies symbioses, Molecular profiling of soil microbial populations.

Environmental and natural resource economics, land-use modeling, water and waste management, political economics.

Using systems biology to study ecology and evolution of microbes.

The economics of family farms; Public policy in agriculture, labor markets, education and aging. Structural changes in the farm sector; Farmers' time allocation, exit and retirement decisions; Intergenerational transfers and farm succession.

Plant microbiome gene function and inter-bacterial warfare.

Glucosinolate accumulation, Biological control of Botrytis cinerea.

Environmental modeling, ecohydrology, soil degradation, desertification.

Ecological and evolutionary genetics, insect-plant and insect-environment interactions.