Name: Jackie Atim

Job Title: Research Officer- Pathologist

Qualifications: PhD (Entomology, Phenotyping and Genetics of whitefly Bemisia tabaci resistance on African and South America genotypes).

M.Sc. in Plant Biotechnology (Molecular Plant Breeding and Pathology) from the University of Wageningen in The Netherlands, 2010

BSS Vocational studies in Agriculture with Education 2005, Kyambogo University.

Expertise: Molecular plant breeding and pathology, Entomology, Biotechnology and biosafety.

Research/Areas Interests: Crop protections that includes molecular characterization and diagnostics, field epidemiology diseases, disease vectors such as whitefly and their effects on growth and yield of cassava. Resistance screening using phenotype and transcriptomic approach such as RNA-seq. Plant biotechnology and biosafety. Interest in value addition

Contact Details:
Jackie Atim, PhD
Research Officer- Pathologist
Telephone number(s): +256782741533
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