Vilas Parkhi

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Lab: Laboratory for Crop Transformation Phone: 979-847-9592 Fax: 979-862-4790 Email: vparkhi@tamu.edu

University of Pune, Pune, India, PhD. Environmental Science

Nagpur University, Nagpur, India, M.S., Biochemistry (1999)

Nagpur University, Nagpur, India, B.S., Biochemistry, Chemistry, Microbiology (1997)

Genetically engineer cotton to confer resistance to fungal diseases and to eliminate gossypol from the seed. This project involves isolation of genes and promoters, construction of binary vectors, tissue culture/transformation of cotton, and characterization of transgenic plants.