Control of subterranean pests (e.g. grape phylloxera, scarab, wireworm and weevil pests, western corn root worm) and ticks with mycoinsecticides such as Beauveria spp. and Metarhizium spp., plant diseases and biological pest control, production and formulation, risk assessment and registration, exploitation of metabolites from biocontrol agents, , structure elucidation of secondary metabolites, soil microbiology.