I specialize mainly in molecular biology, plant biotechnology, microbiology, plant physiology and plant pathology. Over the past 10 years, I’ve honed my expertise in molecular biology techniques such as cloning, vector design and preparation, bacterial culture (E. coli, Agrobacterium tumefaciens), plasmid extraction, PCR (general PCR, qPCR, RT-PCR), and DNA/RNA extraction. I have extensive experience working with plant pathogens such as fungal and fungal-like pathogens, such as Fusarium graminearum, Phytophthora infestans, Alternaria solani and bacterial pathogens such as Streptomyces scabies. I am currently supervising soybean transformation to produce gene edited and genetically modified lines with higher photosynthetic efficiency and improve crop yield optimization.