Akhtar AliProfessor (Dr.) Akhtar Ali, earned his PhD from the University of Adelaide, Australia, and received the STA fellowship from Japan Science and Technology Agency. His second postdoctoral fellowship was at the CSIRO, Adelaide, Australia. His third postdctoral fellowship at the Sam Robert Noble Research Institute, Ardmore Oklahoma, USA where he worked on plant virus evolution. He was awarded a US Fulbright Fellowship to the University of Okayama and worked on mycoviruses.

He is currently full Professor at the University Of Tulsa and His lab is now focused on the etiology, molecular characterization and evolution of viruses infecting important agricultural crops and fungi. He teaches courses Experimental Techniques in Molecular Biology and Introduction to Virology.

He also works as a Senior Editor or Guest Editor for international journals such as Plant Disease, PhytoFrontier, Pathogens, and Frontier in Microbiology. Read More Read Less