Community of Practice for African Scientists
Advancing Plant Transformation in Africa
The Community of Practice for African Scientists is a collection of resources for PlantGENE members working in Africa. Below are resources curated to support the African plant transformation community.
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Transformation collaborators are individuals who provide transformation services based on collaborations rather than fee-for service. |
Learn about upcoming events and view recordings of past workshops |
A collection of resources and organizations |
Contribute and grow available resources |
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Transformation Collaborators Directory
Transformation collaborators are individuals who provide transformation services based on collaborations rather than fee-for service. Use this directory to find scientists open to collaboration.
Below is a list of collaborators working in Africa. Collaborators working in other locations can be found in the full directory.
PlantGENE Members who provide transformation services and are interested in adding their information to this directory can apply here.
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Collaborator |
Information |
Species |
Open to work with: |
Areas of Interest |
 Gerezgiher Mekonen Associate Researcher Addis Ababa, Ethiopia |
Program: Biodiversity conservation and management/Field crop characterization and evaluation Description: I am an Associate Researcher in Ethiopian biodiversity institute on crop biodiversity directorate with characterization and evaluation as main responsibilities. |
Chickpea, field pea, faba bean, open to requests for additional species |
Government |
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 Filate Fiche Simano PhD student in Plant biotechnology Hawassa University Hawassa, Ethiopia |
I am PhD student in plant biotechnology at Hawassa University. |
Ensete ventricosum. Open to requests for additional species |
Non-profit |
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 Tileye Feyissa Senbeta Professor of Plant Biotechnology Institute of Biotechnology, Addis Ababa University Addis Ababa, Ethiopia |
Tileye Feyissa is a Professor of Plant Biotechnology with experience in Plant Tissue Culture, Genetic Transformation and Molecular Breeding. He has been teaching graduate students in the area of Plant Biotechnology since 2006 after obtaining his PhD from Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Alnarp, Sweden. He is one of the three founders of Biotechnology Program Unit (Currently Institute of Biotechnology) at Addis Ababa University. He is also the founding member of Ethiopian Youth Academy of Sciences and a fellow of Ethiopian Academy of Sciences. In addition he is a member of professional societies in the area of plant biotechnology and Associate Editor of Ethiopian Journal of Biological Sciences. Currently, Professor Tileye Feyissa is the Dean of College of Natural and Computational Sciences of Addis Ababa University. |
Brassica carinata, Open to requests for additional species |
Academia Please include the following information
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Genetic transformation, genome editing and Genome Wide Association Mapping |
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Genet Atsbeha Fiseha Instructor Adama, Oromia, Ethiopia
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I'm Genet Atsbeha Fiseha from the Ethiopian Adama Science and Technology University. I work as a lecturer and researcher for Adama Science and Technology University in the School of Applied Natural Science, in the applied biology program. |
Wheat, Open to requests for additional species |
Academia |
Fungal disease of wheat such as rusts |
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