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Dr Ravinesh Ram

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Head of Department for Fisheries, Fiji National University
Dr Ravinesh Ram is an Assistant Professor and the head of department for fisheries in Fiji National University. Dr Ram has more than 15 years of academic teaching experience and more than 10 years of research experience (field and laboratory). He has more than 20 research journal publications and technical reports. His research interests is more targeted in the field of marine science, aquaculture, climate change, post-harvest handling and processing, value addition to seafood, food nutrition and environmental and food microbiology.
Up to 3 students Topics of interest: Climate change and its impact on marine life; Optimization of nutrients of post-harvest processed food products; Aquaculture of marine products; Microbiological assessment of the environment and food; Natural product chemistry of marine products
Dr Ravinesh Ram has more than 15 years of teaching and research experience from the University of the South Pacific and Fiji National University and has collaborated with colleagues from Australian universities (University of the Sunshine Coast; University of Queensland; Southern Cross University; University of Adelaide and University of South Australia) on projects, research and publications.
Currently Principal Supervisor of 2 Masters students and Co-Supervisor of 1 Masters student.

Dr Carmel A. Pilotti

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Associate Scientist Coconut Genetic Resources
Dr Carmel Pilotti has a Ph.D. in Botany (Plant Pathology) and has worked on plant diseases of tree crops for over 25 years, specialising in mycological investigations. She has extensive practical experience in both conventional and molecular diagnosis and detection of fungal and bacterial (phytoplasma) diseases and familiar with the methods for molecular diagnosis of viruses. Carmel has authored and co-authored numerous publications including papers presented at conferences and book chapters. She continues to review articles for several prominent international scientific journals. Her interests include – diversity of Pacific crops, plant pathology, research and development in Agriculture; enhancing capacity in PICTs
Up to 3 students. Research topics of interest: Tree crops, field trials, molecular biology, plant pathology, tissue culture
Extensive experience in the agricultural sector in Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands; tree crops research and phytopathology; molecular diagnostics and bacterial and mycological research; training and supervision of fourth year undergraduate final year projects and Masters students (UNITECH PNG); reviewer of theses (UNITECH) and journal articles for peer reviewed journals such as Plant Pathology and Mycologia and others
Currently supervising 2 Masters students as Co-Supervisor

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