Ramadan Arafa
Researcher at Plant Pathology Research Inttitute, Agricultural Research Center.
Giza, Giza, EgyptWork Experience
ResearcherFull Time
Plant Pathology Research Inttitute, Agricultural Research Center.
Sep 2018 - Present -6 yrs, 10 months
Visiting scientestInternship
The Laboratory of Plant Genetics and Genomics, Kazusa DNA Research Institute, Japan
Feb 2016 - Feb 2018 -2 yrs
Assistant ResearcherFull Time
Vegetable Diseases Research Department, Plant Pathology Research Institute, Giza, Egypt.
Sep 2012 - Jan 2016 -3 yrs, 4 months
Research AssistantFull Time
Rice Diseases Research Department, Rice Research and Training Center, Kafrelsheikh, Egypt.
Jul 2008 - Sep 2012 -4 yrs, 2 months
Education
Doctorate Degree in Plant pathology
A joint supervision mission between Kazusa DNA Research Institute, Japan and Cairo University, EgyptJan 2018
Achievements
We received an award at Taiwan-Japan Plant Biology (TJPB 2017) conference for poster presentation under title “Next-generation sequencing technologies identify candidate genes for resistance to tomato late blight disease”, 2017. - Award of Research Excellence: from Plant Pathology Research Institute, Agricultural Research Center, 2015. MSc Scholarship Scientists of next generation (SNG) Grant program: from Academy of Scientific Research and Technology, Egypt, 2009 to 2011. - PhD Scholarship at Kazusa DNA Research Institute, Japan: from Egyptian government, 2016 to 2018.
Skills
- Agriculture
- TOT
- agribusiness
- Information Technology (IT)
- Supervising postgraduate students.
- plant disease diagnosis
- Isolation and identification of plant pathogen
- Morphological, microscopic and molecular characterization of plant pathogens
- Screening a large number of germplasm
- integrated disease management approaches
Languages
Arabic
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