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). He is currently a Professor in the Department of Plant Agriculture at the University of Guelph, Canada.
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. Dr. Raizada has a particular interest in indigenous farmers and the beneficial bacteria they evolved, including across the Americas and Africa.
Dr. Raizada 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 260,000 rural peoples, particularly women farmers. Dr. Raizada is also the Founder and Editor of Farmpedia: The Encyclopedia for Small Scale Farmers (www.Farmpedia.org). He has been invited by the U.N. Food & Agricultural Organization to give global webinars on how microbes can reduce hunger.
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. Dr. Raizada has a particular interest in indigenous farmers and the beneficial bacteria they evolved, including across the Americas and Africa.
Dr. Raizada 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 260,000 rural peoples, particularly women farmers. Dr. Raizada is also the Founder and Editor of Farmpedia: The Encyclopedia for Small Scale Farmers (www.Farmpedia.org). He has been invited by the U.N. Food & Agricultural Organization to give global webinars on how microbes can reduce hunger.