Analysis of Viral and Bacterial and Expressed Transposable Element Sequences in Ensete ventricosum and Musa acuminata Maitham Al-Jalali is a researcher in plant genomics and bioinformatics with an academic background in Iraq and the UK. He is now a consultant in genomics at the Biotechnology Centre of Borj-Cédria (CBBC), Tunisia. His doctoral research in the…
Category: PhD students
PhD students current in 2012 in the Molecular Cytogenetics Research Group
Hess Ekkeh – Molecular Cytogenetics Group Member
The Nature and Organization of Repetitive DNA Landscapes in the Genomes of Capra hircus and Ovis aries Dr Hess Ekkeh is a geneticist and genomics researcher with academic roots in both Syria and the UK. His interests span genome organization, molecular cytogenetics, comparative genomics and bioinformatics. He is a Research Fellow and ECR Representative at…
Negar Karimi – Molecular Cytogenetics Group Member
Phylogeny and biodiversity of Elymus sensu lato using molecular and cytogenetic approaches Negar Karimi is a PhD student in Plant Biosystematics at the University of Isfahan, Iran. She obtained her MSc from the same university, where she studied the taxonomy and genetic diversity of Sorghum L. in Iran. Her current research focuses on the phylogeny…
Molecular cytogenetics research group October 2014
At our lab. meeting a couple of weeks ago, we were happy to welcome two new PhD students to the group. Here we all are in the lobby of our Adrian Building. We are from six countries, and work on a diverse range of molecular cytogenetics projects. From left to right, left of DNA molecule:…
Worku Mhiret: Biodiversity and its exploitation in Ethiopian Linseed
Worku Mhiret from the University of Gondar, Ethiopia and Pat Heslop-Harrison (University of Leicester, UK) are working on linseed or flax: measuring the diversity of accessions from Ethiopia and comparing this with varieties from Ireland, Canada and elsewhere. We are also making crosses between lines and between cultivars and wild species of Linum; these are…
Nouf Alsayied: PhD student with Saffron Crocus at the University of Leicester and faculty member Umm Al-Qura University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
My research focuses on understanding the origin and diversity of the genus Crocus (Iridaceae), with particular emphasis on a triploid sterile plant, Crocus sativus (2n=3x=24) that yields Saffron, one of the most expensive spices on earth. The saffron is the stigmas of the flowers, and nearly 200,000 must be collected to give 1kg of spice,…
The origin of saffron: Crocus sativus
Our research projects are studying the origins and diversity in several polyploid crops: banana, wheats, Brassica, Panicum millets, Nicotiana and the saffron crocus, Crocus sativus. The spice saffron is the stigmas of the flowers, and widely appreciated in Indian and Mediterranean cooking. Saffron crocus is a sterile triploid, with 2n=3x=24 chromosomes – that is, 3…
