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THE BIOTECHNOLOGY CENTRE
The Academic Staff and Programmes of the Centre are: a. Prof. Rupika Delgoda, Professor of Biochemical Pharmacology and Pharma- cognosy, and the Director of the Natural Products Institute in the Faculty of Science and Technology, serves as the interim Director of the Biotechnology Centre. b. Prof. Marcia Roye, Professor of Molecular Virology, serves as the Director for the Office of Graduate Studies and Research, Mona campus leads the Geminivirus Research Group of the Centre. c. Professor Paula Tennant, Professor of Molecular Plant Pathology at the Life Sciences Department of the Faculty of Science & Technology, who also has served the Biotechnology Centre, who leads the Molecular Virology Research Group of the Centre. d. Dr. Sylvia Mitchell, FST, Senior Lecturer, coordinates the FST Foundation course, Foun1201 Science Medicine and Technology in Society and leads the Medicinal Plant Research Group at the Centre. e. Prof. Noureddine Benkeblia, Professor of Crop Science in the Department of Life Sciences, FST, leads the Tree Crops & Metabolomics Research Group. f. Mrs. Deiondra Tai, Assistant Lecturer and PhD candidate (Biotechnology) at the Biotechnology Centre. The team at the Biotechnology Centre collaborate with other researchers at UWI, locally and globally to drive the research agenda, the MPhil & PhD programmes of the Centre, train both Centre-registered MPhil & PhD candidates and graduate students from other departments including the departments of the Life Sciences, Basic Medical Sciences (Biochemistry Section) and the Natural Products Institute. Professor Roye, Dr Mitchell and Mrs Tai have teaching assignments at the under- graduate and graduate levels and are also Principal Investigators (PI) or Co-PI of several research and developmental projects. The Support Staff of the Centre in this period were: Mr. Carlton Barrows (Senior Laboratory Technologist), Ms. Karen Stewart (Senior Administrative Assistant II), Mr. Roy Dwyer (Handyman), and Ms. Shernette Banks-Ashman (Laboratory Attendant).
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STUDENTS OF THE CENTRE Seventeen (17) postgraduate students are enrolled in PhD or MPhil in Biotechnol- ogy degree programmes: Princess Bell, Lowen Williams, Fabian Miller, Nikolai
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