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Nationality: Czech Republic
Duties and Responsibilities:
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Head of the Genetic Resources Unit since joining
ICARDA in 1989
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Participated in 18 collection missions, mostly for cereal wild relatives
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Curator of the cereal collection
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Involved in genetic diversity studies of plant natural
populations and ICARDA genebank collections and in wheat pre-breeding using wild
relatives
E-mail: J.Valkoun@cgiar.org
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Nationality: Moroccan
Duties and Responsibilities:
E-mail: A.Amri@cgiar.org
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Nationality: Polish
Duties and Responsibilities:
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Genetic resources documentation officer
Major tasks:
Development and management of the genetic resources databases:
(a) germplasm conserved in ICARDA genebank, (b) Global database of wheat wild
relatives maintained in major collections, (c) Global Barley Inventory, (d)
Biodiversity surveys of GEF project, etc.
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Assistance to NARS in design and implementation of efficient genetic resources
documentation systems
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SINGER coordinator
E-mail: J.Konopka@cgiar.org
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Nationality: Australian
Duties and Responsibilities:
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Curator of the food and forage legume collection. These
duties include the general maintenance of the medium and long term collections,
undertaking diversity studies and seeking to expand the collection with
materials from under represented areas.
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In addition to curating the food and forage legume collection he also coordinates most of GRUs
interests in Genetic Resource development in central Asia and the Caucasus which
includes organizing and participating in collections missions in the area. He also coordinates
various other PGR special projects run in
collaboration with Australian institutions and the N.I. Vavilov Research Institute of Plant Industry
(VIR), St. Petersburg, Russia.
E-mail: K.Street@cgiar.org
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Nationality: Algerian
Duties and Responsibilities: His work includes research on biodiversity. Part of the
research is to:
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Introduce molecular markers
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Evaluate the diversity in natural populations of
crop wild relatives
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Study the genetic diversity in
sub-sets of ICARDA’s ex situ collections (core and regional collections)
The research involves countries like Algeria,
Lebanon, Jordan, Libya, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey, Iraq , Morocco and recently
Central Asia
E-mail: C.Kamel@cgiar.org
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Nationality: Jordanian
Duties and Responsibility:
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Seed Bank Manager
- Seed conservation specialist
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Cereals specialist
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Assisting national programs to develop seed conservation
facilities
E-mail: B.Humeid@cgiar.org
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Nationality: Syrian
Duties and Responsibilities: Seed Pathologist/Research Associat, Seed Health Laboratory.
Responsibilities include:
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Supervising Seed Health Testing for seed-borne fungi, bacteria, nematodes and
parasitic weeds for incoming and outgoing seed
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Supervising field inspection for cereals and food/feed legumes crops
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Conducting researches for seed- borne diseases
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Conducting training of seed health aspects for individuals or for
group courses
E-mail: S.Asaad@cgiar.org
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