Journal of Palliative Medical Care & Research

Ranjana Bhattacharjee is Molecular Geneticist with specialization in Molecular Breeding at the Bioscience Center, IITA, Ibadan. She received his PH.D. In department of Plant Breeding from CCS Haryana Agricultural University while she was a Research student in the International Center for Research on Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Patancheru, Hyderabad, India. She was post-doctoral scientist at IITA, Center Biotechnology Laboratory, Ibadan, Nigeria. She has been involved in various collaborative projects between IITA, USDA-ARS, USAID, MARS and national programs in West and Central Africa for cocoa molecular breeding. She also participated in several conferences, workshops and presented the abstracts, oral presentations and she also published the several papers, articles in some of the publications.

Dr. Ranjana Bhattacharjee is also having membership in some of the societies such as Indian Society for Genetics and Plant Breeding, India, African Cocoa Breeders Working Group, Cocao Net and Genome India International (GII) Forum. For her contributions she was honored with some of the awards such as Qualified, the National Eligibility Test (NET) for Assistant Professorship in India (1997), ICRISAT Fellowship for doctoral research (1998-2000), ICAR fellowship for Graduate studies (1990-1994) and The Jawaharlal Nehru Award for Outstanding Postgraduate Agriculture Research for the Year -2002 in Plant Breeding. Presented by the Indian Council of Agriculture Research (ICAR), New Delhi, India, in July 2003.

• Plant Breeding
• Molecular Biology
• Statistical Genetics
• Effective breeding platforms for Crop Improvement
• Advanced knowledge of biostatistics and bioinformatics including cereals, legumes and clonally propagated crops
• MARS , Association mapping, functional genomics
• Gene Expression studies and Metabolics