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Abhaya M Dandekar
Summary
Dr Abhaya M. Dandekar is a Professor in the Plant Sciences Department at the University of California, Davis. He obtained a M.S and Ph.D. from the Department of Microbiology at the M.S. University of Baroda, India in 1974 and 1979 respectively. In 1979 he was awarded a John E. Forgarty Visiting Fellowship to conduct post doctoral research at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. After completing his post doctoral studies at NIH in 1982 he joined the faculty in the Plant Growth Laboratory at the University of California, Davis (UCD) as an Assistant Research Geneticist. In 1984 he was hired to work on the molecular biology of tree fruits as an Assistant Professor in the Dept of Pomology at UCD, obtaining tenure in 1990 and Professorship in 1997. In 2005 the Pomology Department was merged with 3 others to create the Plant Sciences Department. Current teaching focus is in the area of functional plant genomics, molecular biology and biotechnology. His research is aimed at deciphering the genes that regulate the function of phenotypic traits that impact quality (fruit quality/nutrition) and productivity (disease/pest resistance) in tree fruit crops using functional genomics and epigenetic approaches that are validated in transgenic plants and rootstocks.
Agricultural Science Biochemistry Biotechnology Genomics Microbiology Molecular Biology Plant Science