Research Scientists

Alam Zeb

Research Scientist

Research Interests: carotenoids, analytical chemistry, biochemistry, plant secondary metabolites

Amin Elshorbagy

Research Scientist

Anamika Rawat

Research Scientist

Research Interests: plant stress biology, plant microbe interaction, signal transduction

Andrea Zuccolo

Research Scientist

Research Interests: plant comparative genomics, bioinformatics, transposable elements, directed evolution, genome sequencing

Arsheed H. Sheikh

Research Scientist

Research Interests: plant immunity, epitranscriptome, epigenetics, plant signalling

Elodie Rey

Research Scientist

Research Interests: crops, genomics, transcriptomics, polyploidy, domestication, stress resilience

Guotai Yu

Research Scientist

Haroon Butt

Research Scientist

Research Interests: genome engineering, directed evolution, RNA splicing

Ibrahim Salah Ibrahim Elbasyoni

Research Scientist

Research Interests: quantitative genetics, functional phenomics, biostatistics, plant breeding

Juan Camilo Moreno Beltran

Research Scientist

Research Interests: carotenoids, apocarotenoids, plant hormones, photosynthesis, receptors, signaling molecules, beta carotene

Julian Hunt

Research Scientist

Kaoru Kakinuma

Research Scientist

Research Interests: climate extreme impact, food and water security, population migration, social-ecological system, sustainability

Maged Saad

Senior Research Scientist

Research Interests: abiotic stress, nitrogen use efficiency, plant physiology, root architecture, root development, soil physics & chemistry, soil microbial community, salinity tolerance

Michael Abrouk

Research Scientist

Research Interests: bioinformatics, plant genetics, sequencing, comparative analysis, evolution

Michael G. Miess

Research Scientist

Mohamed Abd Allah Salem

Research Scientist

Research Interests: metabolomics, LC-MS analytical methods, plant hormones, primary & secondary metabolites

Muhammad Jamil

Research Scientist

Research Interests: plant physiology, agronomy, weed biology and ecology, plant signalling and parasite-interactions

Rashid Aman

Research Scientist

Research Interests: synthetic biology, plant tissue culture (tobacco and rice), virus based plant genome engineering

Reshmita Nath

Research Scientist

Vanessa Melino

Research Scientist

Research Interests: plant physiology, plant nutrition, salinity tolerance, root architecture, ion transport, nitrogen use efficiency