Hosted projects
| Visitors | Photo | Nationality | Supervisor | Home institution | Topic | Requested support | Output | Status |
| Ms Contreras Nieto Elizabeth | ![]() |
Colombia |
Dr B Szurek |
CIAT, Colombia | Bacterial Blight Resistance | 1 month for transferring two constructs to rice cv. Nipponbare | PhD thesis | On going |
| Ms Magda Beneventi | Brazil |
Dr D Fernandez |
EMBRAPA, Brazil | Study of nematode virulence effectors in rice | 2 month for transferring RNAi and overexpressers constructs in rice | PhD thesis | Registered | |
| Mr Phong Vu NGUYEN | Vietnamese |
Dr D Fernandez |
Institute for Crop Protection, Hanoi, Vietnam | Study of nematode virulence effectors in rice | 2 month for transferring RNAi and overexpressers constructs in rice | PhD thesis | Registered | |
| Dr Mohsen Hanana | ![]() |
Tunisian | Centre de Biotech de Borj-Cedria, Tunisia | Abiotic stress tolerance in rice | 3 months for site directed mutagenesis and testing OX of variants of the vacuolar NHX gene in rice. | PhD thesis | Registered | |
| Ms Malika Ayadi | Tunisian |
Dr K. Masmoudi |
Centre de Biotechnologies De Sfax, Tunisia |
Abiotic stress tolerance in durum wheat | 3 month for transferring five constructs to rice cv. Nipponbare | PhD thesis | On going | |
| Dr Irena Villalta | ![]() |
Spanish |
Dr J. Quintero |
Instituto de Recursos Naturales y Agrobiología-CSIC, Seville | SOS1 caracterisation in rice | 1 month for transferring four constructs to rice cv. Nipponbare | Training | Completed |
| Ms Katharina Svyatyna | ![]() |
Ukrainian |
Dr M Riemann |
Botanical Institute I, KIT (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), Germany | Study of the Jasmonic Acid signalling pathway in rice | 1 month for transferring seven constructs to rice cv. Nipponbare | PhD thesis | Completed |
| Ms Meriem Daly | ![]() |
Maroccan |
Dr AA Very |
Université Hassan II-. Casablanca Morocco | Salt stress tolerance | 4 months for mutant complementation | PhD thesis | On going |
| Ms Liselotte Selter | Swiss |
Pr B. Keller |
Zurich U. Switzerland | Leaf rust resistance | 1 month for making crosses cumulating two mutations in the orthologs of Lr34 in rice | PhD thesis | On going | |
| Dr Tapash Dagupta | ![]() |
Indian |
Pr A. Price |
U. Aberdeen, UK | Aquaporins in rice |
3 months for preparing and transferring RNAi constructs in rice cv. Bala and Azucena | Training | Completed |
| Dr Sri Koernati | ![]() |
Indonesian | Bogor, Indonesia | Root development | 2 months for analyzing linkage between root alteration and T-DNA in selected GAL4 :GFP lines. | Training | Completed | |
| Mr Ali Sassi | ![]() |
Tunisian |
Dr AA Very |
BPMP, Montpellier | K+/Na+ transport in rice | 3 months for backcrosses of insertion mutant lines, Promoter: gusA and promoter:gfp analyses | PhD thesis | On going |
| Mr Imran Khan | ![]() |
Pakistanese |
Dr AA Very |
BPMP, Montpellier | Adaptation to salt stress | 3 months Growth and backcross of insertion lines. Production of RNAi plants. Analyses of promoter: gusA plants. | PhD thesis | On going |
| Dr Daiyun Qui | Chinese |
Dr J Masle |
ANU, Australia | Abiotic stress tolerance and development | 1 month for analyzing complementation, overexpressers in LRR-RLK ERECTA genes | Publication | On going | |
| Ms Rania Ben Saad | ![]() |
Tunisian |
Dr A. Hassairi |
CBS Sfax, Tunisia | Role of the Zn finger of the halophyte Aeluropus littoralis in drought and salt tolerance | Production of OX, promoter gusA fusion, genotyping of insertion lines | PhD thesis, Publication (PMB, Ref.; Trasngenic Res, Ref.) | Completed |
| Ms Laura Montesinos | ![]() |
Spanish |
Dr M. Coca |
CSIC, Barcelona | Expression of recombinant proteins in rice seeds | Production of transgenic plants | PhD thesis | Completed |
| Mr Thanh Duc N Guyen | ![]() |
Vietnamese |
Pr Do Nang Vinh |
National Key Laboratory for Plant Cell Biotechnology, Vietnam |
Virus resistance (RRSV, RGSV) analysi | 2 months for analyzing amiRNA plants | Training | Completed |
| Helen Parker (PhD student) | English |
Pr M. Bennett |
U. Nottingham, UK | Functional analysis of aux-1 and lax3 genes | Complementation, Analysis of promoter:gfp and promoter gusA fusions | PhD thesis, Publication | Completed | |
| Nampeung Anukul (PhD student) | ![]() |
Thai |
Pr M. Bennett |
U. Nottingham, UK | Functional analysis of folate biosynthesis gene | Genotyping of insertion lines | PhD thesis, Publication (Rice; Ref.) | Completed |
| Michela Osnato (PhD student) | ![]() |
Italia |
Pr L. Rossini |
U. Milano, Italy | Functional analysis of the regulators of Bkn3, whose mutation causes the hooded phenotype | Construction of RNAi / OX vectors | PhD thesis, Publication (Plant Phys, Ref.) | Completed |
| Mehdi Jabnoune (PhD student) | Tunisian |
Dr H Sentenac |
BBMP, Montpellier, France | Rice adaptation to salt stress | Growth of insertion lines and crossing | PhD thesis, Publication (Plant Phys, Ref.) | Completed |



















