Saman AbeysingheProfessor Saman Abeysinghe received his B.Sc. (Hons) Degree in Botany from the University of Ruhuna in 1990 and M.Sc. in Crop Protection from Wageningen Agricultural University, The Netherlands in 1994 and PhD in Molecular Biology from Institute of Mlecular Biology & Biotechnology, Vrije University of Brussels (VUB), Belgium in 1998. Currently he is working as a Senior Professor in Plant Pathology & Microbiology at the Dept. of Botany, University of Ruhuna, Sri Lanka. He pursued post-doctoral positions at University of Nottingham, UK under a Commonwealth Academic Fellowship in 2010 and at University of Southern Queensland, Australia under an Australian Endeavour Research fellowship in 2015. He also served as an invited visiting research fellow at Department of Plant Science, University of Manitoba, Canada in 2007. He has also received a special training in Israel on IPM, viruses on cash crops at Shaoxing Academy of Agricultural Sciences in China and Electron Microscopy at Wageningen Agricultural University in The Netherlands. His research includes studies mainly on biological control of soil-borne fungal pathogens and molecular detection and phylogeny of phytoplasmas in which he directed postgraduate supervisions. He has published more than 75 research publications in reputed journals, at national and international conferences including three book chapters and also author of five text books. Read More Read Less