Akter Keya

Predoctoral Fellow-Genome editing, cutting-edge technology for a sustainable agriculture

I am a new plant mamma. In 2016, I graduated from Bangladesh Agricultural University with a Bachelor of Science in Agriculture. Then I have completed my Master’s degree in Crop Botany from same the same university in 2018. Following that, in 2020, I have joined as a faculty member in the department of Crop Botany at Khulna Agricultural University, Bangladesh. I started working in the lab of Prof. Dr. Frank Van Breusegem at the VIB-Ugent Center for Plant System Biology in Ghent in January 2025 as a predoctoral fellow. For grass peas with a reduced toxin level and a better potential yield, I will concentrate on genome editing. We will attempt to revel out the correlation of ODAP in tolerance to stress in Grass Pea.