Michal Kuchar
Bio-Protection Research Centre, New Zealand
Biography
Michal Kuchár has a BSc in Biology and MSc in Plant Physiology from the Charles University in Prague in Czech Republic. His PhD at the Bio-Protection Research centre is aligned to the Next-Generation Biopesticides programme, and is focusing on fungal endophytes in Brassica species and their potential use as bioprotection agents. Michal is isolating fungal endophytes from plants under different environmental and agricultural growth conditions, and assessing the factors that shape composition of fungal endophytic communities using next-generation sequencing techniques.