Rothamsted International

 

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".

Lun Guang Yao
 
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".

Chen Luo
 
Dr Shengli GUO, Institute of Soil and Water Conservation,
Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)

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".

Shengli Guo
 
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".

Haruna Braimah
 
CUBA  
Professor Karel Ismar ACOSTA PEREZ,
University Center Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

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".

Karel Acosta Perez
 
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".

Zakaria Kehel
   
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".
Juan Aleman-Martinez
   
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".
Maruthi Vegapareddy

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