Vishwanath Sollapura
Agriculture and Agri-Food, Canada
Biography
Dr. Vishwanath Sollapura completed his PhD in plant molecular biology in 2013 from Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, where he identified and characterized three alcohol-forming fatty acyl-CoA reductases associated with suberin biopolymer. Prior to that, he worked in India for the plant biotech company Avesthagen Ltd on a project to generate Poly Unsaturated Fatty Acids (PUFAs) in Sunflower and Mustard oilseed plants using recombinant approaches. Currently, he is working as a NSERC visiting post-doctoral fellow at Agriculture and Agrifood Canada in Dr. Laurian Robert’s laboratory focusing on the molecular genetics of crop flower development.
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