Khorramdelazad Mahsa
Griffith University, Australia.
Biography
Mahsa is a doctoral student at Griffith University. Her PhD project is on “Identification of genes and molecular defence mechanisms of lentil (Lens culinaris) to Aschochyta lentis a necrotrophic fungus” in Professor Rebecca Ford’s research group. She has been doing various genomics, molecular and plant pathology related studies for the last 10 years. She has lots of experiences on DNA and RNA extraction, PCR and RT-qPCR, gel electrophoresis both on agarose and polyacrylamide gels, RNA and DNA sequencing, Molecular markers, planting and subculturing, disease severity scoring and running large experiments and bioassays. She is currently tutoring in Biological Systems labs at Griffith University along with running the very last PhD related experiments.