Ms. Prajna Priyadarshini Das, PhD scholar (SRF) from the Department of Plant Sciences, School of Life Sciences of the University of Hyderabad was selected to take part in the “Summer Conference on Plant-Microbe Interactions for Early Career Researchers” organized by The Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich, United Kingdom which is being held from 15th – 26th July 2024. She has been selected along with the 20 early career researchers from different countries across the globe.
Prajna Priyadarshini Das
In this Summer conference (https://www.tsl.ac.uk/tsl-summer-conf-15th-26th-july-2024) there are a total of 20 international delegates, 8 Keynote Speakers and 10 local speakers discussing the latest plant health research techniques and advanced methodologies. To attend this conference Ms. Prajna was selected for the conference fee waiver. TSL is the premier research institute in the UK, renowned for its excellence. TSL (The Sainsbury Laboratory) Summer Conference is highly regarded, offering participants cutting-edge research updates, interactive sessions, lab exposure, and data workshops. This provides students with valuable knowledge and skills in the field of plant-microbe interactions.
Prajna works in Prof Irfan Ahmad Ghazi’s lab, Department of Plant Sciences, UoH. Her thesis is based on the identification of genes involved in Bacterial Leaf Blight (BLB) resistance in different cultivars of Rice (Oryza sativa). She presented her flash talk entitled “Integrative analysis of rice bacterial blight resistance mechanisms: Insights from genetic, bioinformatics, and metabolomic approaches”. She also presented a poster showcasing the genomics and metabolomics approaches to understand the role of R-genes in different cultivars of rice. You can visit her poster here https://app.gemoo.com/share/image-annotation/674298157286916096?codeId=MlaAdEX33b8La&origin=imageurlgenerator. Her thesis supervisor Prof. Irfan Ahmad Ghazi in collaboration with Dr. RM Sundaram and Dr GS Laha of ICAR-Indian Institute of Rice Research helped her conducting the field experiments at ICAR-IIRR), Hyderabad for which both Prof. Irfan and Ms. Prajna acknowledge their collaborators.
Prajna acknowledges the Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science and Technology, Govt. of India, New Delhi for supporting her travel and the Institution of Eminence, University of Hyderabad for supporting her stay at UK.