Currrent RI Fellows
| CHINA | |
| Dr Lun Guang YAO, Nanyang Normal University | |
Started in August 2007 for 12 months with Dr Jing-Jiang Zhou (Biological Chemistry Department). Project titled "Use of a high efficiency gene transfer and expression to study the insect odorant-binding proteins". |
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| Dr Chen LUO, Beijing Academy of Agriculture & Forestry Sciences | |
Started in December 2007 for 12 months with Dr Ian Denholm and Dr Kevin Gorman (Plant & Invertebrate Ecology Department). Project titled "Mechanisms and management of imidacloprid resistance in Bemisia tabaci". |
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| Dr Shengli GUO,
Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) |
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Started in January 2008 for 12 months with Professor Phil Brookes (Soil Science Department). Project titled "Increasing soil organic matter content in soils of the Chinese loess plateau - management practices and methods for quantification and verification". |
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| GHANA | |
| Dr Haruna BRAIMAH, CSIR-Crops Research Institute | |
Started in February 2008 for 12 months with Professor John Pickett and Dr Mike Birkett (Biological Chemistry Department). Project titled "Chemical ecology of the banana weevil: Identification, synthesis and testing of attractants for the banana weevil, Cosmopolites sordidus (Germar), in dead banana leaves". |
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| CUBA | |
| Professor Karel Ismar ACOSTA PEREZ, University Center Vladimir Ilyich Lenin |
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Started in March 2008 for 6 months with Prof John Lucas and Dr Yaima Arocha (Plant Pathology and Microbiology Department). Project titled "Bunchy Top Symptom (BTS): new insights for improving diagnosis and control in Cuba". |
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| SYRIA | |
| Zakaria KEHEL, ICARDA | |
Started in May 2008 for 6 months with Dr Dimah Habash (Plant Science Department) and Salvador Gezen (Biomathematics & Bioinformatics Deptartment). Project titled "Genetic dissection of yield stability in durum wheat under drought". |
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| CUBA | |
| Juan ALEMAN-MARTINEZ, National Centre for Animal & Plant Health (CENSA) | |
| Started in June 2008 for 6 months with Dr Judith Pell (Plant & Invertebrate Ecology Dept). Project titled "Natural enemy diversity and function; role of habitat complexity and manipulation". |  |
| INDIA | |
| Dr Maruthi VEGAPAREDDY, Central Research Institute for Dryland Agriculture (CRIDA) | |
| Started in June 2008 for 12 months with Dr Goetz Richter/ Prof Keith Goulding/Dr Jackie Barker (Soil Science & Plant Science Departments.). Project titled "Monitoring and modelling root growth and architecture of different crop genotypes with respect to optimising resource capture (water and nutrients) in dryland agriculture". |  |
