Curriculum vitae
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Manish N. Raizada received his B.Sc. (Genetics) from the University of Western Ontario in Canada and Ph.D. (Plant Molecular Genetics) from Stanford University. He held fellowship positions at CIMMYT in Mexico (Cereal Genomics) and at Caltech (Bacterial Directed Evolution with Nobel Laureate Frances Arnold). He is currently a Professor in the Department of Plant Agriculture at the University of Guelph, Canada's oldest and largest agricultural university.
The focus of the Raizada Lab is to discover, understand and evolve beneficial bacteria to help farmers sustainably grow corn (maize) and other crops including legumes, with a focus on reducing the need for synthetic nitrogen fertilizer. Dr. Raizada has a particular interest in indigenous farmers and uncovering their amazing contributions to evolving beneficial crop-microbe interactions over thousands of years, including across the Americas and Africa.
Dr. Raizada has been invited by the U.N. Food & Agricultural Organization to give global webinars on how crop microbes can reduce hunger. He is founder of SAKGlobal (SAKs, Sustainable Agriculture Kits), an effort to bring affordable $1 empowerment technologies to subsistence farmers who earn $1/day. SAK kits have thus far impacted 272,000 rural peoples, particularly women farmers, albeit modestly. Dr. Raizada is also the Founder and Editor of Farmpedia: The Encyclopedia for Small Scale Farmers (www.Farmpedia.org).
More information is available at Loop.
The focus of the Raizada Lab is to discover, understand and evolve beneficial bacteria to help farmers sustainably grow corn (maize) and other crops including legumes, with a focus on reducing the need for synthetic nitrogen fertilizer. Dr. Raizada has a particular interest in indigenous farmers and uncovering their amazing contributions to evolving beneficial crop-microbe interactions over thousands of years, including across the Americas and Africa.
Dr. Raizada has been invited by the U.N. Food & Agricultural Organization to give global webinars on how crop microbes can reduce hunger. He is founder of SAKGlobal (SAKs, Sustainable Agriculture Kits), an effort to bring affordable $1 empowerment technologies to subsistence farmers who earn $1/day. SAK kits have thus far impacted 272,000 rural peoples, particularly women farmers, albeit modestly. Dr. Raizada is also the Founder and Editor of Farmpedia: The Encyclopedia for Small Scale Farmers (www.Farmpedia.org).
More information is available at Loop.