Expertise offered by Unit

Research interests of Unit officeholders

Filippos Aravanopoulos

  (Contact)
  • evaluation
  • protection & utilization of forest genetic resources (FGR) & biodiversity
  • genetic monitoring of FGR
  • DNA conservation of forest genetic resources
  • forest genetic monitoring
  • genetics and genomics of forest trees
  • population and ecological genetics
  • DNA fingerprinting
  • barcoding & molecular diagnostics
  • response and adaptation of forest genetic resources to climatic change
  • breeding for biotic & abiotic stress resistance
  • breeding for biomass production & energy conversion
  • molecular breeding-QTL mapping

Modhumita Dasgupta

  (Contact)
  • population genomics
  • marker assisted selection
  • comparative genomics

Cristiano Vernesi

  (Contact)
  • conservation genetics