Technical Team

 

Dr. Yi Chengxin (Breeding Team)
Dr. Yi Chengxin obtained his BSc., MSc. and PhD. in Plant Genetics and Breeding from Nanjing Agriculture University, China. He has over 20 years of experience in crop genetics & breeding, large scale plantation and popularizing agricultural technique. He also has plenty of experience in molecular marker assisted selection and transgenic breeding in cotton, rice as well as jatropha. In 2006, he registered and released a hybrid rice variety “wandao 185” which is bred based on molecular marker-assisted selection method. 
He joined Temask Lifesciences Laboratory, Singapore in August 2006 and later JOil (s) Pte Ltd in 2008. He was working on transgenic cotton breeding and jatropha genetics and breeding during this period. Being a crop genetics & breeding expert with strong knowledge and experience in agronomy and field trials, he is leading the JOil Breeding Team on jatropha genetics & breeding as well as agronomic research.
Dr. K. Chalapathy Reddy (Agronomist)
Dr. K. Chalapathy Reddy is a plant breeder and gained over 5 years’ of experience in large scale establishment of Jatropha plantation and its management in India and South East Asian countries. He was instrumental in developing region specific customized Jatropha Plantation Management Manual and Jatropha Hi-Tech Nursery Manual for producing quality planting materials. Currently looking after large scale production of quality planting materials of elite lines and conducting field trials of them in few countries.
He has done Ph D in Genetics and Plant Breeding, Post-Doctoral Experience in Plant Molecular Markers Application and worked in the areas of genetic improvement of Tomato, Soybean, Dolichos bean and Jatropha. He was a visiting Scientist to John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK for developing Plant Molecular Breeding Proposals for Dolichos Bean Improvement. Later he was selected as “Class of Fellow 2007” by BioVision.Nxt 2007 and participated in The World Life Sciences Forum BioVision in Lyon, France 2007. Team from Wall Street Journal have interviewed him about the Jatropha plantations and its importance in Biofuel Industry during August 2007. He has been selected and participated as delegate in “Asia Pacific Summit – Climate Change 11-13th July 2009” trained by The Hon Al Gore, Former Vice President of US in Melbourne, Australia.
Dr. Kins Varghese (Agronomist)
Dr. Kins Varghese is an Agronomist with over 10 years of experience in various crops. However he has gained extensive knowledge in Jatropha through development of multi-location and experimental trials across India. He was involved in the development of Package of Practice for Jatropha cultivation under various agro-climatic conditions.
He is a Doctorate Holder in Agronomy, and was involved in supervising 12 PG’s in various crops through the eligibility obtained by qualifying UGC-NET. He also holds an MBA from IGNOU through Distance education. He has 21 research papers, 11 popular articles and a Book on Seed Technology to his credit.
Dr. Ramesh Anbazhagan Vasudevan (Tissue Culture Team)
Theoretic and practical knowledge on plant tissue culture; assist production department in providing technical guidance to overseas operations
Organogenesis, somatic embryogenesis, Agrobacterium mediated transformation, haploid and double haploid production in Jatropha, Songhum and Rice.
Dr. Varisai Shamsudeen (Tissue Culture Team)
Dr. Varisai Mohamed obtained his Ph.D. from Bharathidasan University in 2000. He spent one and a half years as a Research Associate in Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. He carried out his Post-doctoral research at Taiwan Agricultural Research Institute (TARI) from 2002-2005. Following his post-doctoral research, he had been associated with one of the star venture biotech industry, Vitrosys Inc., South Korea as a scientist, to further his experience on functional mushrooms, Korean Mountain Ginseng using bioreactors. 
With a very strong foundation and publication record in the area of plant tissue culture, he has worked on many plant species on genetic transformation and tissue culture. He is the inventor of the Jatropha tissue culture propagation protocol and he is leading the JOil Production Team (Tissue Culture) both in Singapore and overseas.

Dr. Yi Chengxin (Breeding Team)

Dr. Yi Chengxin obtained his BSc., MSc. and PhD. in Plant Genetics and Breeding from Nanjing Agriculture University, China. He has over 20 years of experience in crop genetics & breeding, large scale plantation and popularizing agricultural technique. He also has plenty of experience in molecular marker assisted selection and transgenic breeding in cotton, rice as well as jatropha. In 2006, he registered and released a hybrid rice variety “wandao 185” which is bred based on molecular marker-assisted selection method. 

He joined Temask Lifesciences Laboratory, Singapore in August 2006 and later JOil (s) Pte Ltd in 2008. He was working on transgenic cotton breeding and jatropha genetics and breeding during this period. Being a crop genetics & breeding expert with strong knowledge and experience in agronomy and field trials, he is leading the JOil Breeding Team on jatropha genetics & breeding as well as agronomic research.


Dr. K. Chalapathy Reddy (Agronomist)

Dr. K. Chalapathy Reddy is a plant breeder and gained over 5 years’ of experience in large scale establishment of Jatropha plantation and its management in India and South East Asian countries. He was instrumental in developing region specific customized Jatropha Plantation Management Manual and Jatropha Hi-Tech Nursery Manual for producing quality planting materials. Currently looking after large scale production of quality planting materials of elite lines and conducting field trials of them in few countries.

He has done Ph D in Genetics and Plant Breeding, Post-Doctoral Experience in Plant Molecular Markers Application and worked in the areas of genetic improvement of Tomato, Soybean, Dolichos bean and Jatropha. He was a visiting Scientist to John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK for developing Plant Molecular Breeding Proposals for Dolichos Bean Improvement. Later he was selected as “Class of Fellow 2007” by BioVision.Nxt 2007 and participated in The World Life Sciences Forum BioVision in Lyon, France 2007. Team from Wall Street Journal have interviewed him about the Jatropha plantations and its importance in Biofuel Industry during August 2007. He has been selected and participated as delegate in “Asia Pacific Summit – Climate Change 11-13th July 2009” trained by The Hon Al Gore, Former Vice President of US in Melbourne, Australia.

Dr. Kins Varghese (Agronomist)

Dr. Kins Varghese is an Agronomist with over 10 years of experience in various crops. However, he has gained extensive knowledge in Jatropha through development of multi-location and experimental trials across India. He was involved in the development of Package of Practice for Jatropha cultivation under various agro-climatic conditions.

He is a Doctorate Holder in Agronomy, and was involved in supervising 12 PG’s in various crops through the eligibility obtained by qualifying UGC-NET. He also holds an MBA from IGNOU through Distance education. He has 21 research papers, 11 popular articles and a Book on Seed Technology to his credit.


Dr. Ramesh Anbazhagan Vasudevan (Tissue Culture Team)

Dr. V. Ramesh Anbazhagan received the Young Scientist Award in 1994, awarded by Bareilly College, India for the best paper presentation in biotechnology conference. 

He was a Senior Research Fellow- Council of Scientific Industrial Research from 1997-2000 and was awarded Doctor of philosophy ( Ph.D)  from Bharathidasan University in 2001 and worked for two years as a postdoctroral fellow.

From 2003-2005, he held the position of Post Doctoral (Senior Research  Fellow) in Chungbuk National University, Korea. He then worked as a Scientist - funded by Korea Research Foundation in Kangwon National University, Korea, from 2005-2007 and he moved on to Korea University as a Research Professor in 2007.

From End 2007- Mar 2009, he worked as Research officer in TLL, NUS, Singapore with a strong focus on vegetative propagation, organogenesis, somatic embryogenesis, Agrobacterium mediated transformation, haploid, double haploid production in Jatropha curcas, Sorghum and Rice.

Since joining JOil in Apr 2009, Dr Ramesh with a strong background and scientific publication in Plant tissue culture is leading the technical department in the production of new tissue culture lines and providing technical guidance to overseas programme.

 

Dr. Varisai Shamsudeen (Tissue Culture Team)

Dr. Varisai Mohamed obtained his Ph.D. from Bharathidasan University in 2000. He spent one and a half years as a Research Associate in Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. He carried out his Post-doctoral research at Taiwan Agricultural Research Institute (TARI) from 2002-2005. Following his post-doctoral research, he had been associated with one of the star venture biotech industry, Vitrosys Inc., South Korea as a scientist, to further his experience on functional mushrooms, Korean Mountain Ginseng using bioreactors. 

With a very strong foundation and publication record in the area of plant tissue culture, he has worked on many plant species on genetic transformation and tissue culture. He is the inventor of the Jatropha tissue culture propagation protocol and he is leading the JOil Production Team (Tissue Culture) both in Singapore and overseas.

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