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Vidi grant for Mark Sterken
Mark Sterken will receive a Vidi grant from NWO. He may spend 850,000 euros in the coming years to develop his own innovative research line.
Mark will study the competition of micro-organisms around a plant root. He will focuss on microscopic roundworms (nematodes) who infect and parasitize plants. These nematodes need a plant root to survive and there can be many other nematodes competing for a spot. Which choices nematodes make and how do they compete? If he understands this, Sterken could develop strategies to play them off against each other.
A total of 102 researchers of Dutch universities received a Vidi grant this time. The Vidi grants are part of the Talent Program of research funder NWO. He also provides Veni and Vici grants, bearing in mind the famous statement of Julius Ceasar.