Sanders Ian
Full Professor
Faculty of Biology and Medicine
University of Lausanne
Switzerland
Biography
Sanders Ian of the Master of Science in Medical Biology hosted by the University of Lausanne.Faculty of Biology and Medicine. Ludwig Lausanne Branch Function (s): Full Professor.
Research Interest
I am interested in the effects of symbiosis on the ecology and evolution of organisms. We concentrate on the symbiosis between fungi and plants, known as the mycorrhizal symbiosis because of its importance for plant phosphate nutrition and plant growth. All globally important crops form this symbiosis. The symbiosis could be an essential tool in the future for better managing the depleting global phosphate reserves and in helping to feed the rapidly growing human population – especially in tropical countries. My interests are in understanding how the genetics and molecular biology of the fungal partner contributes to the symbiotic effects on plants and then how to actually use this practically in the field to make agriculture more efficient in developing countries.
Publications
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Wyss T, Masclaux FG, Rosikiewicz P, Pagni M, Sanders IR. (2016). Population genomics reveals that within-fungus polymorphism is common and maintained in populations of the mycorrhizal fungus Rhizophagus irregularis. The ISME journal. 2016 Oct;10(10):2514.
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Ordoñez YM, Fernandez BR, Lara LS, Rodriguez A, Uribe-Vélez D, et al., (2016). Bacteria with phosphate solubilizing capacity alter mycorrhizal fungal growth both inside and outside the root and in the presence of native microbial communities. PloS one. 2016 Jun 2;11(6):e0154438.
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Rosikiewicz P, Bonvin J, Sanders IR. (2016). Cost-efficient production of in vitro Rhizophagus irregularis. Mycorrhiza. 2017 Feb 16:1-0.
