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B N Sathyanarayana

B.N. Sathyanarayana, an accomplished Professor and Researcher in the field of Biotechnology, more specifically Plant Tissue Culture, is a distinguished faculty of the Division of Horticulture at the University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore. He has been serving the University over two and a half decades. Dr. Sathyanarayana, on an award of Commonwealth Staff Scholarship, obtained his Ph.D. degree from the prestigious University of London and is an alumnus of the well-known Imperial College, London. On his return from UK with a Ph.D. degree in the field of Plant Tissue Culture, he established a state of the art Plant Tissue Culture Laboratory during 1998, then considered one of the best in the country at the University level. He has guided nine Ph.D. students and as many M.Sc. students, and at present guiding three Ph.D. students. Apart from this, literally a few hundred students of postgraduate and undergraduate students of subjects such as Biotechnology, Botany, Microbiology and Biochemistry hailing from different States of the country have been trained in the field of Plant Tissue Culture under his guidance in the Laboratory. He has attended many International Seminars including VII World Conference on Plant Tissue Culture held at Amsterdam, Netherlands, during 1990. He has coauthored few books on the subject of horticulture. He has published many scientific papers on the subject of Plant Tissue Culture in peer reviewed National and International Journals of repute. Apart from being an executive member of many Scientific Societies, he had served on the technical expert panel in developing Biotechnology Centre of the Karnataka State Department of Horticulture.

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