Axel Elling has joined the faculty of the Department of Plant Pathology at Washington State University (WSU) as an assistant professor of molecular nematology. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in genetics from Iowa State University, where he worked under the guidance of Thomas Baum in the Department of Plant Pathology. His doctoral research focused on secreted effector proteins and genomics of the soybean cyst nematode. Prior to joining WSU, Elling was a post-doctoral associate in Xing Wang Deng’s laboratory in the Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology at Yale University. Elling’s research interests include molecular interactions between nematodes and their host plants and the processes that lead to successful parasitism, as well as functional genomics of host-microbe interactions. He is currently investigating the molecular aspects of two different pathosystems: Columbia root-knot nematode (Meloidogyne chitwoodi) infection of potato and root-lesion nematode (Pratylenchus spp.) infection of wheat. His teaching responsibilities include a graduate level course in plant nematology and a team-taught course in the molecular genetics of plant and pathogen interactions.
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