Irrigation & Drainage Systems Engineering

Salme Timmusk

Salme Timmusk
Assistant Professor
University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala BioCenter Sweden, Sweden

Biography

Salme Timmusk  is Associate Professor  at Uppsala BioCenter Dept. of Forest Mycology and Plant Pathology.
She has received  PhD in Microbiology from Uppsala University, Institute of Cell and Molecular Biology, Sweden, in 1999-2003
She has completed her MS in Biochemistry in Tartu University, Estonia (1992)
She is serving as an editorial board member of reputed journals and reviewer of 7 journals.
Her research area is  biofilm forming plant stress tolerance enhancing bacteria  and mechanisms involved in stress tolerance enhancement. She focuses on metabolome/transcriptome/proteome response of a plant to the bacterial inoculation in  different stress  environments.

Research Interest

Characterization of microbial traits that directly contribute to biofilm formation and  plant growth promotion in the presence and absence of stress
-Construction and testing of mutants of various microbial traits
-Proteomics and metabolomics
-Quantitative PCR of selected microbial genes
-Compare traits from microbes from different geographical locations
Assess changes to soil microbial communities
-Following various stresses
-Following the addition of individual strains and combinations of strains