Dr Julia Meitz
Position
Postdoctoral Research Associate

Telephone
+27 (0)21 808 4121

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Educational
training
  • Diploma Biochemistry - Gene Technology and biotechnology College, Vienna, 1998
  • MSc Medical Molecular Biology - University of Westminster, UK, 2003
  • PhD Plant & Environmental Sciences, University of Warwick, UK, 2008
Modules lecturing
none

Research interests

  • Plant pathogenic oomycetes
  • Molecular detection of plant pathogens
  • Oomycete effector molecules
  • Fungicide resistance
  • Integrated disease control


Publication list of past 5 years

  1. Dunn, A.R., Milgroom, M.G., Meitz, J.C., McLeod, A., Fry, W.E., McGrath, M.T., Dillard, H.R. & Smart, C.D. 2010. Population structure and resistance to mefenoxam of Phytophthora capsici in New York State. Plant Disease 94: 1461-1468.
  2. Meitz, J.C., Linde, C.C., Thompson, A., Langenhoven, S. & McLeod, A. 2010. Phytophthora capsici on vegetable hosts in South Africa: distribution, host range and genetic diversity. Australasian Plant Pathology 39: 431-439.
  3. McLeod, A., Botha, W.J., Meitz, J.C., Spies, C.F.J., Tewoldemedhin, Y.T. & Mostert, L. 2009. Morphological and phylogenetic analyses of Pythium species in South Africa. Mycological Research 113: 933-951.
  4. Allen, R.L., Meitz, J.C., Baumber, R.E., Hall, S.A., Lee, S.C., Rose, L.E. and Beynon, J.L. 2008. Natural variation reveals key amino acids in a downy mildew effector that alters recognition specificity by an Arabidopsis resistance gene. Molecular Plant Pathology 9 (4): 511-523.

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