Microbial community ecology and evolution

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

Basic and applied aspects of plant-bacteria interactions.

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.

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

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

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