Biography:
Dr. Pannaga Krishnamurthy studied Biotechnology at Mysore University, India, and graduated masters in 2001. She then joined the research group of Prof. MK Mathew at the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS-TIFR), Bangalore, India. After completing her PhD and a postdoctoral fellowship in the same institution she joined as a Research Fellow supervised by Prof. Prakash Kumar at the National University of Singapore in 2011. Currently she is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Sustainable Urban Farming at NUS.
Title : Salt tolerance in plants; lessons learnt from mangroves